It's beginning to look more like Christmas!

Who's not ready for it yet?????? I'm almost there.....hahahaha

What a weekend! I am glad that I am at work so I can recuperate!

We picked up Taco Bell Friday for dinner...we usually get 2 of the 10 tacos for $6.99 and 4 orders of Nacho's...I love it...plus it feeds all 5 of us for $20..Then we dug out all the Christmas decorations...I preceded to sort thru them all...Where did we get all this stuff from??? And as always... I buy more each year! This year I started with the lighted houses...people, trees and all...looks absolutly wonderful! We managed to at least sit down to watch "Enterprise" (yes....Mike and I are "trekkies") then washed and folded more laundry so I could at least keep up with it....(I miss one day and it's over flowing)

Saturday found us up bright and early...Mike was taking Glen to the Santa's workshop that our hospital sponsors...they have a breakfast buffet and then you can do crafts and meet Santa...So Wesley, Hayley and I took ourselves off to Dunkin Donuts for some Peppermint, White Chocolate Rasberry Latte's (YUMMY), donuts and breakfast sandwiches...Got done with that, so we vacumned out my car and made a quick stop at Home Depot for some nails and then made our way to the Dollar Tree for wrapping paper and other knicknacks...

When we all congregated back at home, made sure we had everything we needed to take the kids Christmas shopping....We give them money (That they do chores for) and they in turn buy gifts for each other and other family members...Now Hayley had been bugging me for a while to go to Sawgrass Mills Outlet Mall in Sunrise Florida...It's huge...I think every conceivable store is in there...So off we went....40 minutes to get there...It took us about an hour to just walk from one end to the other...Our game plan was to walk the mall, look at the stores, get some ideas...then hit the food court at the opposite end and formulate a game plan....WEEEEELLL.....That's not exactly how it worked out....But all in all it worked out...but by the end of the day...Mike and I were hurting and tired and snapping at the kids...The kids were wound up and needed to be snapped at....and we just wanted to go home and pass out...but all the kids managed to find all the gifts they wanted to get...plus they had brought any money they themselves had so that was burning a hole in thier pocket as well...Got all the kids settled down watching "Lord of the Rings " (Glen wants to be a hobbit now) And Mike and I curled up in bed to watch some TV until the kids went to bed....Mike lasted about 10 minutes as I heard him snoring almost as soon as he hit the pillow...I somehow managed to stay up til 12am watching the Discovery Channel...(I think it was the Discovery Channel) Watching a Special on Rameses the Great and his son...they think they found the remain of the first born Son...the one from the Moses story of Exodus...Don't ask me to pronouce his name, let alone spell his name! hahaha....but it was interesting...Then at 11pm they had another special on Cleopatra and did she really kill herself or was she murdered...Another interesting show as they concluded that there was no way she would have killed herself...This was a Queen who had grown up the most dysfunctional family around...it was as they put it in the show "Kill or be killed" who fought for everything she got so she just gave up and killed herself??? When they looked at what had been written down thru the ages...They did this from investigative forensic standpoint...They concluded that she had not killed herself but she had to have been murdered by Octavian...I just love these types of shows!!!!!

Okay got off track here..Sunday we again were up with the Sun...Cooked a big breakfast and then off to get a tree!!!!!! We found an wonderfully flocked one...I love Trees that have the flocking on them....makes them look amazing once the lights and decorations are up....And that's what we did Sunday....Decorated the tree and the rest of the house....We didn't sit back down until suppertime....UGH! But it was well worth it...

Now we just have to keep the kitten away from it! Asha doesn't touch the tree ususally but I know the kitten will...She was mildly curious about it....We are keeping her in Hayley's room during the day....We'll spring her when we get home....Should be interesting!

Now we just have to finish the shopping and we have that pegged for Thursday....then we should be all set....

As my Son says....."I'll speak words with you later!"