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Random midnight thoughts!
Announcing a winner of Christmas ornaments here and then hop over to A Baby Changes Everything and winner of more ornaments….plus some tree pictures.
1. Have seen no mice this week
2. Need a Celestone Shot
3. Thankful for the Most Wonderful Elves that will do WHATEVER!
4. the week ahead is Daunting. By this time Next Sunday we will (by Faith) have done 8 mantles, 9 staircases, 20 trees as in some very large ones, set out all decorations at
6 houses, Set dining tables, Decorate, 5 chandeliers and I am sure I am forgetting something.
5. I am not seeing my little’s enough…
6. Along with the elves I decked Amanda's halls this week and we got some pictures hung. So we helped out my girl.
7. I have approximately 3000 ornaments in different bins in my den and living room and have been walking around them for a week. It is getting old.
That’s all the Random I have. I have a sinus headache and I think that diminishes Brain cells
The Winner of the HOLIDAY ORNANMENTS…is Life Blessings
I hope I can stay awake long enough to type this. FOUR more days to get in the ORNAMENT GIVEAWAY.
So comment again and you will get another chance.
We have just finished up a marathon few days in another town…
As in you would not believe all we did in 48 hours. Just Terri and I travel.
We had the weekend all mapped out….Get a little rest and sleep in on Sat and leave in time to get to the first house around lunch.
This happens to be the sweetest gal, a girl my sons age and someone we love spending time with.
We had already planned our slumber party.
Tree decorating, wine and LSU football. She threw in some great EATS. I will even share two new recipes with you that were the BEST. (next post)
We were almost to her house and I called her only to find out her 2 year old had burned her leg on the stove and she was gone to get a script filled.
(her husband was 10 hours away), but is a doctor and knew what Sage needed.
We arrive at her house, start unpacking ornament boxes, trees, garland, ready to go full speed.
I pulled open a black trash bag with a tree in it AND things changed.
Out jumped a Mouse/Rat! It did not matter to us what you called it.
It hit the floor running and sounded like it weighed 50 pounds. (probably weighed 3)
I had no idea that mice were Amberly’s greatest phobia….mine would be snakes, but none of us were interested in seeing the MOUSE and I do not mean MICKEY.
You will have to just imagine this….This is a HUGE GORGEOUS house….
I ran in the laundry room and jumped on the washer, Terri ran outside and was standing on the car in the garage and Amberly holding Sage jumped on the kitchen counter (bruising her ankle) all of us screaming. It was a reality show at its best. NOW WHAT?
We had no clue where it went. Her pest control man just had a message machine.
We then called 1_800 Terminex and they said call back Monday….that would not work.
We had the broom, flashlights, alternating between laughing and feeling like crying….
There was no way I was sticking my hand down in my stuff because it had all been in open containers and the “creature could be in one of the boxes”!
Amberly could not get to her
phone so I finally came out of the laundry room and rescued her phone…while Terri was going door to door in this very prestigious neighborhood trying to find a man to help us.
Amberly called everyone she knew..no one home. Terri found one man home and he said he could not help us as he had an abscess tooth. Remember that excuse if someone ever wants you to help catch a RAT! At this point we still thought it was.
Finally she decided to call her husbands partner and see if he could get him to come help us.
Ran him down and he agreed…By this time we are 3 hours late getting started on the decorating. Terri and I decided to start on the tree by standing on the stairs where we could at least have a good view if the “rat” was near us…
All of a sudden we hear this scream and heard Amberly say “He is running straight for me”!
Now we knew he was at least in the master bedroom and headed either for the closets or the bathroom….
So one of us stood guard to make sure it did not try to exit before her friend arrived…
In the meantime her dogs got out…It was getting funnier by the minute. Our hero arrives, gets on his hands and knees and crawls all over the area we think it is in…NOTHING….Looks like Hampton Inn hear we come.
If the animal was not caught we were not sleeping there.
At this point we are starving and looking for the WINE.
Getting more behind by the minute…FINALLY, I hear “HE FOUND IT”!
Guess where ….in the toilet paper holder in the master bathroom…and it was not huge…but it was a MOUSE.
So the ordeal was over and we proceeded to the wine and decorating and it was a LONG LATE night. LSU got a win….and we were mouse free!
We finished the next day and then headed to the next house. Came home yesterday tired beyond words…
But we did it and at our age that it a BIG DEAL. This is Amberly and Sage.
So that’s our story of the weekend….Tree decorating really is full of funny stories.
Ok, get your comments in and have an extra chance to win the ornaments..
**** Well it is now 5 PM so you can see I did not get this posted last night….a little boy came down the hall with bed head and was just needing his Grammy to hold him…
Its almost 3 AM and the day is winding down. Trees everywhere, more ornaments than my house can hold, ideas running rampant in my head, scheduling problems that always happen, looking for energy boosters, Band-Aids on several fingers, stuck a piece of wire in my thumb and that has been so sore today, nails need filled in, white as a sheet (meaning I need to spray tan), my shop looks like a tornado went through it and we are only into the third week of decorating.
Plus this is the week that my head elf and I travel and work on houses in another town.
Stacks of paperwork (which I hate the most) are piled up, the house is less than clean, I have not changed out our closets from summer to fall (that means I wear pretty much the same thing everyday)! That’s my life right now…
How I would love a night to read blogs.
Instead tonight Parker and Jack spent the night and I let everything GO and just hung out with them.
It makes my “to do” list longer for tomorrow, but it was sure great fun tonight. No pictures…Neither was interested in pictures.
Parker and I had a long talk about bullying and what it meant and who did it.
His school had addressed it several times and he shared with me what he had learned. I was so impressed that he got it…Bullying is not cool!
Jack and I watched the same movie twice. Only a grandmother would do that. When the credits rolled the first time, he laughed and said “Let’s watch it again”, and we did.
We do have some pictures and some new ideas and I plan to post on the holiday blog Thurs.…maybe some ideas you can use….that’s on my list.
Since I have so many ornaments right now, it will be a good time to give away a basket of ornaments. I have some neat cross ornaments that I will include in it. All you have to do is leave a comment and this blog and the holiday blog (so I will know there are still readers over there)!
Also tell me if you would like to share some of your holiday traditions and do a guest post on A Baby Changes Everything.
I know if you are like me you feel like your problems are HUGE!!!!
Here are two blogger friends that desperately need prayer.
Paige and I only know each other through blogging, but I feel like I know her so well. Her husband has pancreatic cancer. It’s a vicious battle…He had to be admitted to the hospital this afternoon. My heart hurts for her.
I don’t know this lady but all I can say is she is superhuman….Praying for Tripp and a word of encouragement would probably make her day.
If you want to read a fun blog read about this family Hope in a Boys World. She is an excellent writer and the neatest family.
If you want to think, read my friend Amy at Snoodlings…she makes me think…This is a gal I know and love.
If you want to hear a real story teller, do not miss this special lady at Cow Patty Surprise.
Ok, that’s enough reading for you…Leave a comment and get in on the ornament giveaway…
Post it on your blog and then let me know and I will have a special drawing just for you for another ornament group. I love to give ornaments away.
Check the holiday blog and you will see some neat ideas….Give me about a day…to get them up.
I am doing the 30 days of Thankfulness of November on Facebook, so will try and include my list on the blog too.
Day 1 For Hope in a Dark World
Day 2 For My Family
Have a good week!!!!!
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