It's time to officially get ready. While Thanksgiving is its own holiday it does get short shrift being right next to Christmas. Christmas has been out since before Halloween and by now, it's full force no holds barred.
And we, too, are at the starting line waiting for the starting gun. This week is our kick off. I made 6 different cookies that now live in the freezer till the weekend the kids come for our Christmas. Yesterday we went to get our tree. We tried a different tree farm, one closer to home, smaller and new to us.
PH was on the hunt. What a pleasant experience this farm was! We really only had to pick one out and point to it and one of the guys working came with a chain saw, cut it for us, offered us a ride back in his golf cart thingy but we opted to drag it back ourselves and walk. We may LOOK old but we are not giving in but it was kind to have the offer of a ride. There were families, kids each calling out their favorite tree, photos being taken, the weather was incredible. What a happy morning!
We have one of those tree stands that has a spike in the middle that you push the tree down onto. But a hole needs to be drilled in the bottom of the tree for that to happen. Since we've had this kind of tree stand we haven't once had to tie the tree to the ceiling or curtain rods or come home to find it lying on the floor. We love it. PH said as long as he is alive we will have a real tree. We brought ours home, put it in the stand with water, I put the lights on and we now wait for the girls to come Wednesday to decorate it.
Today was noodle making day. We had a couple of changes. Elizabeth isn't here for noodles so Adelaide invited her boyfriend to come be the extra set of arms. He was a quick study and did very well.
She WAS with us, though.
I was official noodle hanger when I took a break from cranking the machine.
And so it begins.
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