Thanksgiving....check! Christmas.....almost here!

Our Thanksgiving was very low key and stress free. That is not usually the case. I don't know how I managed to have such an easy day but I did and I am thankful that all went well. The girls and I spent Friday doing lots of nothing. We started decorating and continued to decorate a little here and there over the weekend. Needless to say it is now Monday and we still have boxes everywhere and decorating to finish. I just need to shape the tree (after a horrible experience of trying to find a place to put the tree this year) and get it decorated. Once that is done the boxes will be gone and everything will be in its place. I have 4 gold bells and some garland that needs to be hung but that is Gary's job. He is the only one that can reach to put it up there. I debate every year on whether or not to put the Christmas throw pillows on the couch. My family will just squish them down and sit on them and mess up my pretty arrangement on the couch. How dare them expect to sit on the furniture! I put them out along with my Santa Claus throw and they survive year after year. Hopefully this year will be no different. I have to finish the decorating this week because if I don't it will drive me crazy and it wont get done until after Nutcracker which is just totally unacceptable to me.

Speaking of Nutcracker, this is our final week of in-studio rehearsals and then the craziness of production week sets in and I am sent into a crazy woman tizzy!! I love the Nutcracker and all the joy it brings but man is it nuts!!! Funny, huh? Anyway, with working a full time job, teaching dance at night, being in the Nutcracker and also having two daughters in the production as well makes for one crazy week....all during the stupid COGAT testing. I apologize to all you teachers out there but just how accurate is a test given to a kid who is about to go on Christmas break and all they can think about are presents and being out of school???? Really????!!!!

Enough of my rambling....I could go on forever but who cares to read it. I will sign off for now and hope that you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and are gearing up for a Merry Merry Christmas!