One of my favorite parts of Christmas is the tree, but this year I kind of slacked off and only put up the tree. There are only 2 ornaments on it. And one of them was in the box with the tree so…
But this has always been one of my favorites 🙂 No, really, it IS safe to say that they are all my favorites.
Today, finishing up some baking – cookies that have been properly refrigerated so that they turn out perfect! My cranberry noels from the first day and these Chewy Brown Sugar cookies from Sally’s Baking Addiction! I’m also going to bake Ina Garten’s Pound Cake. The weather is not at all conducive to trying out the Divinity again so that might have to wait until after Christmas!
I made a kind of last minute decision to go to my Dad’s for Christmas so can bring some of these down to him. I feel like Christmas just came way too fast this year so not as much baking, decorating or shipping off packages of goodies took place.
But there’s always New Year’s, right?!
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We spent Thanksgiving week at WDW, then Space Coast Half, then head colds. So, no outside lights or cards this year, but we did get our tree and snowy village up.
I got the tree up, barely. 🙂 But now that I think of it, I’ve only been home 3 weekends since Thanksgiving, and one of those I had company and spent a day in NYC so …
I feel ya…my tree’s upper 3rd lights dont’ work, and haven’t fixed it. Cards, got them half done….now I have some to send out late. It DID sneak up this year!
I think one year in my entire life did I ever send out Christmas cards on time, if at all!! And I thought most of my lights weren’t working but then I plugged them in and…voila!! 😉