December 14

Happy Tuesday to you all! It’s been a busy morning so far. The contractor was here early to put another coat of primer on the walls. As he got here, I left to go get a pedicure. I know it sounds very spoiled and selfish of me to do this, but our family all suffers from psoriasis. My grandmother had it terribly bad and all of  my siblings have it. Since moving back to the Midwest, mine has gotten worse. My feet get so dry that right now I have cracks and they bleed, no matter how much lotion I put on them. It’s frustrating. So once every six weeks or so I treat myself to a pedicure and it makes a huge difference.

Afterwards I stopped at the grocery store and picked up ham and the things I will need for Christmas dinner. It looks like Christmas day will just be Dennis and I, as mom is going to our niece and nephews house for dinner. Mandy and her family are going to her in-laws. We will get together with them on the 26th. Honestly, we’re used to being by ourselves for holidays and I don’t ever want to cause problems with my kids and their other families.

My Advent today was candy and the snowman is another snow globe from the dollar tree. This one says snow, which we haven’t had much of yet. According to the weather forecast, we could have 60 mile an hour winds tomorrow afternoon and severe thunderstorms as a front goes through. Omaha and eastern Iowa is right in the middle of the bull’s-eye for severe storms. The weatherman said it looks like it could have even stronger storms than the ones that hit Kentucky the other night. I certainly hope he is are wrong.

On our way home from taking Lizzie back to Mandy and Piper last night, we drove through a neighborhood that had some beautiful lights. Here is just one of them and I’m sharing this picture with you because it has a Olaf! I just love Olaf from the Frozen movies. He is my favorite character.

Of course pictures don’t even begin to do the beautiful lighting justice on any of these places.

This is the under the TV console that Mandy has her nativity scene set up on along with photos of Piper with Santa over the years

Here is their mantle beautifully decorated with lights and the stocking that I made for Piper hanging, just waiting for Santa to come fill it. I made matching stockings for Brad and Mandy but she doesn’t have them hanging up yet.

One hat completed yesterday and I started another one.

The ornament I’m sharing with you today is a star that was made by Dennis‘s cousin Curt. He made this star for us long, long ago. They have a matching one on their tree. We had dinner with them on Saturday night at their home. As I’ve mentioned before, Dennis and I went on our very first date with them. It is nice, rekindling the friendships of our younger days.

And here were our two girls, Lizzie and Zoey after a hard day of play yesterday. They love sleeping next to each other with limbs all entangled.

This afternoon I have the very last of the presents to wrap and will hopefully do some more knitting on the next  hat. I also want to take Zoey for a nice, long walk while the weather is so nice. I’ll see you all tomorrow. I hope you’re having a lovely December and remembering the reason that we celebrate this season.

Blessings and love,

Betsy