Getting into the Christmas Spirit

[karen547]

Having a fun day decorating a little bit and looking up cookie recipes! Yay for the Holidays!!!

I wish I had gotten in the secret santa but was late!!

[kitkatz]

Bah Humbug!   

[Jean]

Kit, I am with you. Christmas should be just a quiet and lovely day with your family and a nice meal to go with it. A day to remember the reason for the season, not all this gobblydegook that goes along with it. All the rushing around and the baking and the shopping is too much for me and I am beginning to resent it. We might go all out this year tho and put up our nativity scene in the bay window.

[karen547]

oh come on people lol! I love christmas time! Just let it happen

[okarol]

Today I will put wreaths on the windows and get the lights on the balcony, I hope. I love Christmas decorations.
 

[dwcrawford]

Let's all do it!   I got the tree (it ain't real) out of the closet and bottom part standing.  Whew!  It was harder than last year.  Was it 7 months of dialysis, too much or too little Epogen, or perhaps, another year older?  No, people! Last year's turkey wasn't in there. 

Red lights on back patio (show thru living room) and white everywhere else... What you think?

I'm excited and amazed at how many on my street already have outside lights up.  It's going to be a good Christmas.

[Poppylicious]

oh come on people lol! I love christmas time! Just let it happen

Absolutely!  I love Christmas ... everything about it never fails to make me feel like a child again.

 

[MIbarra]

I've already taken out some of the Christmas decorations... just not the tree yet. That will happen next weekend probably. Don't get me wrong, I'm all about remembering the purpose for the holiday and lessening the commericialization of it, but I don't think decorations and the tree are gobblydeegook.

I think they enhance the season and family get togethers. I'll always remember one of our family get togethers when my hubby's sort of adopted son and his wife and their then 2 year old daughter came to our house. She was fascinated with our beautiful lighted tree and her dad and her spent at least a 1/2 hour cuddled up in our recliner just gazing at all the ornaments and lights. I had debated on whether or not I should put up the tree and do all the decorating because I was feeling pretty grinchy that year (very tired due to dialysis and still having to work..) but I'm so glad I did.

I'm with you, Karen! I'm ready for the festivities!

[okarol]

Bah Humbug!   

Kit, I still remember your decorations you posted photos of here last year, they were great!

[karen547]

Baked some Short-Bread cookies and omg are they sooooo good!!

[Maker]

Yea Karen!  I love Christmas 

I put my decorations up last week even before Thanksgiving.  I figured I better climb up on that roof while it was still (sort of) warm...  I have had the Christmas station playing on my radio for almost 2 weeks now 

I pray my family will have as blessed of a get together as we just had for Thanksgiving!  ...and that all of you will have a very special time with family & friends celebrating Jesus' birth.

[dwcrawford]

Manhattan's and/or Egg Nog (spiked) usually do it for me.  What is the Renal ramifications?  Better tell me quick before its too late.

[Maker]

Manhattan's and/or Egg Nog (spiked) usually do it for me.  What is the Renal ramifications?  Better tell me quick before its too late.

Hmmm...I'm pretty sure egg nog is out, but I love it too!  Just go heavy on the rum, light on the cream, and take some extra binders 

What's a Manhattan?

[dwcrawford]

Basically bourbon with red vermouth... cherries for extra nourishment.

[galvo]

Well, Karen, I'm getting in early and wishing you the happiest Christmas possible!

[Marsh]

We put our outside lights up on Thanksgiving.  I have boxes all over the living room for the inside, just haven't got them up yet.

[del]

I'm decorating slowly. I have a poinsetta and I have my snowmen but on my steps. Sometime next week I will put my village set on my fireplace and put up my wreaths, etc.  Just have to talk hubby into doing the outdoor lights. I did most of them myself last year!!!  My tree won't go up until the week before Christmas because I have a real one!!  Let's post pics of our decorations like we did last year!!  I enjoy Christmas at school.  I always have a day and get parent volunteers to come in and help make Christmas decorations for our tree and some Christmas crafts.  The students always love it. Think I will make some cookies with them this year too seeing I only have 12 students. I'll probably put up the tree at school next week so that they will be able to put their ornaments on it when they are made. 

[kitkatz]

Bah Humbug!   

Kit, I still remember your decorations you posted photos of here last year, they were great!

Shhhh! Not happening this year.

[pamster42000]

I have started decorating.......just waiting for the Christmas tree to be delivered that I ordered. Then the real fun starts! I have always enjoyed decorating for Christmas.

[dwcrawford]

Tree is up... all of it and lights are working.  All but very top branches are "fluffed" out.  I have to go to garage and get the ladder.  Tomorrow night I'll have to make something good to drink and get neighbors over to put on ornaments.

I'm not even tired.  But not doing anything else tonight.  It is so cold here it feels like Christmas and the weather man said it could snow Thursday or Friday.  Well, he said possible but not probable.  This is Texas after all.  I heard it snowed in El Paso last night..... Kelly?  Who else is from El Paso?

[MIbarra]

It did snow in El Paso!  El Paso is my hometown! I miss it so! It snows just about every year at least once during winter and it is so beautiful when the Franklin Mountains are covered in snow dust! It's nice to see something different than dirt and rocks which is what you normally see in El Paso. 

[dwcrawford]

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere we go.

We need a little Christmas, just a little Christmas now.

[Jean]

Oh, Okay, all you jolly people have gotten me into the spirit. And its growing too!!! Tomorrow I am going to make gingerbread people, after I go and get some ginger that is.

[fc2821]

 Last year I wore a Santa hat to dialysis around Christmas.  If I can find it, will do so this year.  I'm easily amused.

[okarol]

Got this in my email today 

Read the story before looking at the picture!!

Well, there is good news and bad news about my Christmas decorations this year.

Good news is that I truly out did myself this year with my Christmas decorations. The bad news is that I had to take him down after 2 days. I had more people come screaming up to my house than ever. Great stories. But two things made me take it down. First, the cops advised me that it would cause traffic accidents as they almost wrecked when they drove by. Second, a 55 year old lady grabbed the 75 pound ladder almost killed herself putting it against my house and didn't realize it was fake until she climbed to the top (she was not happy). By the way, she was one of many people who attempted to do that. My yard couldn't take it either. I have more than a few tire tracks where people literally drove up my yard.

Kind of feel like I gave in to the  man by taking him down but my neighbor did confirm to near miss accidents on the busy street next to my house. I think I made him too real this time

So it was fun while it lasted ....