heatherwith3
Earning My Ears
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- Jan 17, 2015
Happy Thanksgiving to your family, too!
I love your tree skirt! It's adorable! We also have an artificial tree and I've never washed our tree skirt, so yours should hold up just fine.
At one point in time you shared a quick and easy meal idea to use the bagged coleslaw or salad mix, stir fry it, add use that as a base for meals. I'm so glad you shared that -- I've been doing that for breakfasts lately, adding compliant sausage, and it's so good, and quick and easy.
I love being with our family for the holidays, even though it does tend to get loud and crazy...and there is always some kind of drama with one particular person. But it's so wonderful to be able to be together. It is definitely loud here, but I love it.
Up until the time I was 13 years old my father would drag our family off to his parents house 300 miles away. There would always be lots of cousins to play with and so many people that there were tables set up in three different rooms. All of us except my mom really enjoyed the Thanksgiving trip. We stopped traveling for Thanksgiving by the time I was in high school. Then we started our own tradition at home with just our family and a couple of my mother's widowed aunts. It just wasn't the same but it was nice not to travel.
I have a beautiful skirt that has embroidery that I never use. I also have a cheap, quilted one that my mom bought me that I use every year. I throw in it the washer and dryer every year to get out the dusty smell. The skirt is mostly invisible under the tree anyway, so it doesn't matter.
I have to put up the outside light this weekend. With a trip to Disney the weekend after Thanksgiving and a trip to Colorado to see our daughter the weekend before Christmas, we only have the weekend of Dec 10th to do everything else.
Love the tree skirt. Can't wait to see the tree when you finish it.
I wasn't that behind! Yay me!
I kept looking at both pictures of the wall and wondering if the one Josh is in is the missing piece his brother is in? If not i would lie and say yes. Make a cool story even better! LOL
The tree skirt came out really really cute! Can't wait to see your all new home turned into Christmas FUN!!
It was fun reading about your get away! Sometimes even a 1 night trip can make it seem almost like a vacation. I'm sure your nephew really appreciated you coming so far to his game. The wall - what a coincidence! The skirt looks great! Can't say I've ever washed a tree skirt. Love the truck and trailer - cute!
How fun to get away for the weekend and see Matt play. It was great you missed any snow. We only got about an inch but after the rain it was a little slippery. I had started putting up my outdoor decorations on a beautiful day without a coat last week. Then it snowed and I put off finishing until yesterday. It wasn't too bad but now I was in my winter coat. I wanted to get it done before this next snow.
I have a handmade tree skirt and I've never washed it. I'm afraid the red will turn the white pink. I also have an artificial tree and it doesn't really get dirty. Of course after I start putting presents under it you can't really see it. I always put them in the back first, but with 3 grandchildren it doesn't take long to cover up.
We go to my husband's sister's house for Thanksgiving now. We used to alternate having Christmas and Thanksgiving. Now they have Thanksgiving every year and we have Easter dinner as we are both so busy at Christmas. It's worked out great for us and I like to do an egg hunt so I've just kept Easter. And they live only 10 miles away. One year there was a fairly heavy snow, but the main roads were ok. I like not having to drive far though. I hope you are still able to have your own Thanksgiving. I really miss leftovers!
You are inspiring me to get out the Christmas stuff. I usually don't do much at home because we usually go see my parents in FL for Christmas (South FL, unfortunately nowhere near WDW lol) But anyway...so our Xmas stuff is all down there. But this year we are going so late (Dec 23) that I think I may have to try to make things a little festive at home as well. I love your tree skirt!! So cute. I know I have said this before, but I'm really in awe of you and people like you who are so crafty and can make something from nothing! WISH I could do it!
The skirt looks great. I can't wait to see it under a decorated tree.
Today I got rid of my old car. It's a little strange not having my old car anymore. It was my first car and I had it for 12 years.
I also got some Christmas shopping done today. It's so nice with everything that is done. Also it's wise to get the Christmas gift shopping done as early as possible while the shops still has the items I want to buy in store. The shops don't order more items to the store when they get close to Christmas because they want to have as few items in the store as possible when the new year comes and they have to count every item in the store and report it.
Today Tromsø got a new snow record. Actually it's a record of the lack of snow. The last record of this sort was set on 21st November 1944 which was the last day of no snow in Tromsø that year.
There is no snow in site on the weather forecast so this record can go on for a while.
I'm glad for every day I can practice driving without a lot of snow outside. The roads are very narrow at some places here in Tromsø without the snow. When the snow comes it will get even more narrow. So it's best that I get as much practice as possible now so I'm as best prepared as possible when the snow arrives.
Thank you D!The roads have gotten much better in the past few hours so the drive home should go pretty smoothly
Wishing you and your family a Happy Thanksgiving as well
And I love how the tree skirt turned out - super cute. The font of the letters really adds something special!
So glad that you and Josh had a nice weekend away. Glad you made it back safely with the weather. We had a good dusting of snow here again and the temperature has definitely dropped. UGH!!!
Looks like you had a nice time at Universal. Sorry you both were not feeling well. Glad Cindy was able to give you a ride.
LOVE that tree skirt and the old fashioned truck and camper. Just too cute!!
On a side note, my mom had a follow up appointment with her specialist for her kidneys. Her numbers improved significantly and told her to continue doing what she is doing. We are so thankful. She will follow up again in a few months and then we will decide on the next plan of action of removing her kidney stones.
Wishing you and your family a Blessed Thanksgiving!!!
I was pretty behind, but now all caught up. Loved the photos of the Berlin wall and the brothers.
I don't know where to begin on the trip report, because I was so far behind. I wasn't overly impressed with Soarin' either. I wish the transitions would have been a little different.
We so want to try Universal again. Last we went, only the Islands portion of Harry Potter was complete. Plus, we would love to try out some of the rides we did enjoy back then. From what I can remember, Universal seemed so much hotter than our WDW days. Not sure what it was. I am glad V liked the area and got to experience it.
Update from Japan and Marissa. Well, she has been really homesick. She was tempted to take a flight home for a 4 day weekend. I told her that wouldn't be a very wise decision, especially with the flight times and the 10 hour layover in LA. This week, she is missing mashed potatoes. She did feel the earth quakes and was concerned about tsunami. However, that passed. I think she is getting a tad more used to the constant earthquakes, but it alarms her when her host family or her teachers seem alarmed, because that is when she knows it is a bad one. She went to DisneySea and I tried to share the photos on FB. She loved that one, even though she went with a "friend". That friend didn't show up on time and they arrived an hour after park opening. Then the person she went with (no longer friends at this point), didn't want to ride any of the rides and was already wanting to go home. Marissa told her to go home and tried to enjoy the rest of the day. She loved this park so much. She wasn't impressed with the Gaston though, Styrofoam muscles. On our first trip to WDW, she met Gaston and went to feel his bicep and gasped and said "It's real!" Well, Gaston had a hey day with this. So, this has been her pose ever since. So, to have fake muscles was a disappointment. Pretty sure she could have beat him to a push up match up (and she can't do one). She is planning to go to Tokyo Disneyland tomorrow on Thanksgiving, to try to cheer herself up. Her host mom is pregnant and her host family is moving to a bigger place, so she will be placed with a new host family and she is stressed about that. She had just kind of gotten used to them and to finding her way around where she lived. The new place could be up to an hour away, so she is worried.
On Sunday, Jacob, Chelsea and I were sitting around talking about summer plans. The dance studio was planning a trip to New York City, and I always have wanted to go. However, they are planning it before Marissa comes home. Plus, it is only 3 days and 2 nights. It would cost about $6,000 for the three of to go and we didn't really think we wanted to go in those circumstances. I had also read that Pandora is opening in Summer of 2017, so as of now, we will be going back to WDW in 2017. Haven't been since 2014. I am trying to figure out resorts and timing. Trying to figure out if Chelsea (almost 14 by then) can fit on the murphy type bed at Port Orleans Riverside. Otherwise, we might do 2 rooms at Pop Century. Last time we did Pop Century, Jacob didn't want to share with anyone, so slept on the floor for the 9 nights. No one really wants to share with him either. So, the rooms with only 2 beds don't work for us. AND, I have less than a year to plan.
Anyway, that is about all. We are driving 4 hours for Thanksgiving dinner to eat and come back home the same day. Chelsea has a dance performance on Saturday. A girl in her dance classes dislocated her knee on Monday, so Chelsea's classes get to meet on Friday to re-choreograph the numbers. This girl has not made it to Nutcracker the last 2 years, so I was kind of expecting this.
Hope you have a great Thanksgiving!
I'm glad you and your husband had a nice weekend away! I'm sure your nephew loved having you two at his hockey games.
I love your tree skirt. We have a tree skirt that we've used for many years and I've never washed it for fear the beading will come off. We also have an artificial tree so I don't have water and sap to worry about.
I hope you and your family have a Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving to your family, too!
I hope you have a great Thanksgiving, too. My sister is having Thanksgiving at her place for the first time ever and I am off the hook for the first time in 20 years.
Just dropping by to say Happy Thanksgiving!
otherwise the dogs will have to have different food for the remainder of the weekend - which I don't like to do.
Glad you had time for an update! Your house/tree look great - you're making me feel lazy. Need to get to work on mine before time gets away from me. Our first grandchild arrived Tues. 3 weeks early so I've been preoccupied I especially love the nativity scene - it looks so pretty inside the lantern. You and your DD's are so creative. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Sounds like you had a great Thanksgiving.
Your Black Friday shopping sounds nice.
Your Christmas decorations looks great. My mother always decorates their tree in red and gold.
I hope you got the dog food you needed today.
I still have some cleaning of the house left to do before I can start on my Christmas Lego that I want to display. The plan is to get Ulf to help med clean because I get exhausted and my back really hurts after a short while. I can't wait until the cleaning is done
We don't celebrate Thanksgiving in Norway so my week has been normal. I didn't go shopping on Black Friday. Firstly there isn't many great deals out there. Secondly they said on the news that they expected thousands of people shopping for very bad deals. I had to go to the grocery store though for some food, but I chose to go to a smaller shop than I normally go to because the smaller shop isn't at a shopping mall. So I thought that there wasn't going to be so many people there and I was right.
Hope you got lucky with that dog food. I get my dog's food at the vet too and they never have it in stock - I always have to place an order...and remember to do so a good 3-4 days before I actually run out. This is always a challenge and Snickers often ends up with too much people food when I run out! Not good!
First of all, your decorations look great. I need to muster up the courage to decorate around here. I wish you could help me, since you have the eye for decorating, also I ordered a few of the Alex & Ani bracelets as my Christmas gift and I really love them.
Your tree is beautiful. My tree is only 6 foot tall, too. It'm thinking of putting it on the old tv stand that I'm using as a table right now. One of my friends crocheted a tree skirt for me last year. I'll be using that one. My niece would love the rv and truck you have on yours. She actually owns a rv like that.
I'm still debating about putting up the outside lights. Most nights I get home after 8, so they wouldn't be on much.
I hope you can find the flocked tree you're looking for.
Enjoy your weekend
Liz
Your tree is beautiful and I love how you are displaying the nativity set! Such a treasured heirloom. I've decided I want a really nice nativity set to display on the back of my piano so I'll be watching the after Christmas sales for that.
I didn't go out Black Friday shopping this year...first time ever! The deals weren't that great and my mom and sister were here and they didn't feel a need to go, either. We did a lot online. I have a few more gifts to get but I'm in good shape on that.
The house is quiet again as all the company has left. True to form, one of my nieces left some damage behind - she gouged and carved on one of our banisters....not good since this house is a rental. *sigh*
We saw Moana on Friday - loved it!!
I understand - I think Black Friday is an American thing? Since it follows our Thanksgiving... However - I am sure it is sort of a "bench mark" for other countries?
Your Christmas kitchen looks great.
Yes Black Friday is an American thing, but as everything else the shops has imported it to Norway so they can earn some extra money.
What a great start on day 4 of your trip. Sounds like you had a nice relaxed start to your day.
Today Tromsø woke up covered in snow. We got almost 8 inches of snow during the night. It's still snowing outside, but according to the news paper we won't have this snow for long. Already on Tuesday we are getting temperature right above freezing point and rain. On Wednesday the temperature is going below freezing point again so then everything will turn into ice I hate when the weather changes like this because the result is always ice everywhere.
Love all the Christmas pics you posted on FB. Your house just looks so warm and cozy and inviting. Love it. I posted our Christmas decorations on FB as we always spend Black Friday weekend decorating. It really changes the feel of everything and I just love it.
I really wish I could post a pic on here but I just can't figure it out with my phone - anyway you saw them yesterday!
Nice start to your day off! We have an ADR at The Wave in February and I cannot wait! It will be our first time there.
That pic of Josh's 'twin' is hilarious!! It really does look like him.
Enjoy the rest of your Sunday!
Joining in very late, but very excited to read the rest of your report! I love your Christmas decorations, everything looks so beautiful!
Sounds like ya'll had a wonderful Thanksgiving D - chiming in late but was thinking of you. No leftovers this year? We usually go to my sister in law's on Thanksgiving day, then I make a full meal on Friday for just us. I love the leftovers, probably too much. Tyler and Ariece were able to make it by late lunch on Friday. Were you able to see your Dad?
Your Christmas decorations are so creative; love them all. This will be an interesting Christmas for our house with a kitten on board; I am going to have think twice about what I put out. He is so sweet but definitely a high energy kitten. I haven't been able to put out my Nativity for a while now; I am afraid to with the cats. My mother in law gave it to me when we were first married and it has very limited pieces and I haven't been able to find additional pieces any where. You are so lucky to have some help from Allison and Victoria.
Loved the trip update; your Wave breakfast made me so hungry just now. I can eat breakfast food any time, any where. Did ya'll have a buffet breakfast there?
Have a wonderful week D! Sending a huge hug.
Sounds yummy especially since you had extra crust.I took V to church in the morning, and then after we stopped at the grocery store... Josh offered to make me anything I wanted for dinner... I was seriously in the mood for home-made chicken pot pie, something I don't normally eat or crave due to the crust... but we had an extra crust in the fridge from V's Thanksgiving pie making - so this was the perfect opportunity to have some good comfort food.
Your valance looks amazing!I came home and I whipped up the valance for above the sink... I debated on making something a bit more elaborate, but in the end - this fabric is a bit more woven than anything I have on hand, so I just chose to go simple and enjoy the fact that it's still Christmas-y.