Christmas is a comin!

I am currently baking turtle cookies, drinking egg nog, watchin Elf (love that movie)...Let me ask you...Could life get any better!?!?!

I am so excited for Christmas...Jason arrives in the evening on the 22nd, I only have a half day of work on the 23rd, then we are off to Alma to spend the night with my brother and do our "Christmas" with them and then we head to Bruce Mines the morning of Christmas Eve...it's going to be a busy week, but I am ready for it...I get to see the love of my life, my dad, most of my siblings, nieces and nephews and friends...Then Jason and I come back to K-W on the 27th, spend some time with Justine and Sean (and possibly other friends), so Jason can meet his niece Alexis FINALLY and then we are off to NY, he has to go back to work and I get to spend time with the rest of my family...I think we are pretty lucky to see so much family around the holidays this year, it doesn't always work out that way for us...

I got up early this morning and went shopping and managed to get about 85% done, I just have a couple more gifts to get but I know what I am getting, so I am not shopping blind and it should only take an hour one night this week after work to complete it! The big success for the day was getting all of my baking ingredients, so that means baking went in to full swing today...short bread, sugar cookies, ginger bread, turtle cookies, lemon squares and maybe some candy cane brownies...What can I say I love being in the kitchen :-)

Well I should get back to my baking, got lots to finish up before bed...I will post again soon, but if I fail and I don't get back before Christmas...I wish you and your families a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Winter Wonderland!

Well winter finally came to town and so did my Christmas Spirit!

We had a little bit of snow, but nothing that made it feel like December...Well that all changed as of yesterday...we got a heck of storm...ice and snow everywhere! I love snow, I love when it's snowing, I love walking threw it on the ground, hell I even love to play in it (yep kid at heart)! But I hate, let me repeat that HATE cleaning off my car...This lovely storm had placed a nice layer of ice on my car, topped by an inch of snow, then an inch of ice and then an inch or more of nice fluffy snow! It took me 25 minutes to clean off my car this morning and the whole time I am standing outside freezing my butt off cursing out Rob and Sandy cause I know their cars are nice and warm and clean in their garage!!! I know I should have been happy for them, but it was Monday morning and I was running late before I had to clean my car off!!! The roads were pretty terrible today...very slippery! I watched a moving truck slide right past the street it was trying to turn down, which made me very thankful for my winter tires as I didn't slide once when trying to stop or start!!! So although I felt safe driving, I didn't feel too safe about the crazy people who don't know how to drive in snow and ice that were all around me...I hate driving in the city during bad weather...grrr...Anyways, the lovely snow on the ground has made me happy and made me feel like it's December...

I have been battling a cold/sore throat for over a week now, so my Christmas Spirit was dwindling , honestly my energy for anything was dwindling...I decided that it was one of those situations where I had to start doing "Christmasie" things or Christmas wasn't going to come this year...so yesterday I put up my tree, it looks so cute! I also set up all my house decorations which include Christmas candles, my nativity scene, stocking and Christmas ball center piece...So my house is officially Christmast! Jason and I also watched Nestor the Christmas Donkey and Frosty the Snowman, so that definitely helped my spirit! Today I went to the dollar store and got a bunch of decorations for my desk at work, cause the place I need the Christmas Spirit most is at work!

This is the little tree I got for my desk:


I think it's so cute...

Now that all my decorating is done I can focus on the shopping! I am a terrible procrastinator when it comes to present shopping and not just for Christmas...I have bought some gifts, but nothing major, mainly stocking stuffers for Jason and my dad...If anyone has any suggestions on how to make me a non procrastinating present buyer, I will take it!