Week before Christmas stuff....

With Christmas coming on so quickly, and entertaining time here, my fridge decided to go on the fritz...as did my Bunn coffee pot. Luckily the Keurig still works...at the mo anyway.  And my Shug and I have been looking for a fridge for quite some time, as we could hear it cracking and popping in the night.  We finally found one.  We didn't want a huge fridge for our basement room. And we didn't want to pay huge money for one, as we will be buying another one, hopefully this year, for upstsairs.  And they delivered it on Sunday morning.  What a mess.

The fridge actually looks the same, except for the front.  It's smooth, like when I was a kid.  Now here's a funny story.  When I was a kid, Mom decided she wanted a brown fridge.  Well it was the 60's.  Brown was in.  So she painted the white refrigerator with brown paint!  Yup, with a can of paint and a paint brush.  When I was bored, I would stand by the fridge and peel the paint off of it.  Because that's what the paint did.  It peeled off.  But not all the way.  Kind of like nail polish when it looks like shit and you don't have any remover!  So when we got our smooth front fridge, I called Mom and asked her if she wanted to paint it!  

(I know.  I said the "s" word.  But here's the thing.  It really did look like shit!)

I use my fridge for a family photo gallery.

I quickly got stuff all put away,  in time to leave for

 one of my niece's dance recital.  And as I was snapping pictures on my phone, of the only dance she was in, my phone displayed something like, "you have no more photo storage.....blah, blah, and blah."  I'm trying to figure out why, on her only dance, when Vickie (my cousin) leans over and says, "Look!" as my niece was on top of a stack of dancers, which I did not get a picture of.  Why did I run out of storage space?

 Because my nieces take TONS of pictures of themselves, when they are around, every time I do not have my phone in my possession.  Next time they will be going on Instagram!

 I did get one of us after the recital.  I love her sparkly top.

I also thought it was very cool the way they fixed their hair!

On  Monday I got up and finished decorating.

I only drug out a couple of boxes and I did not take everything down the way I usually do.

I did not have time to do full blown decorating because I had these lovely ladies over for Breakfast Tuesday morning. One of them couldn't make it because her 92 year old Mother was having knee replacement surgery.

 

Quick!  Look in the background.  Our room is clean!  It's decorated!  It's ready for Christmas!  I'm spending the next few days getting ready for Christmas Eve.

Everything always works out.  It does. 

My Advent Calendar gifts the last few days...

Starbucks Gift Card and mints.

and this.....

Peace,
Cindy Bee

Christmas decorating

 Before the tree incident, I had a post ready to go.

 I had the tree up and partially decorated Tuesday evening....

and as the week went on I added more decorations as I found them, until yesterday.  Yesterday is when the tree fell over.  We got it back up. I cleaned things up and now everything is back in order.  Only two broken bulbs. But there are a few special bulbs I didn't put back on the tree. 

The trunk on this tree is crooked.  How we didn't see it when we went shopping....who knows.  But apparently one of the bolts in the Christmas tree stand bent and that's how it fell.

Ok - so here's the post I had ready to go.

My Shug said we have no room in our house for a real Christmas tree, so I put this big, artificial one up, to prove to him that we do have the room for a tree.  Must us women always have to prove everything?

So, the day after Thanksgiving, we got a tree.

We had to find a skinny one though.

but if I had to settle for skinny, I wanted tall.

We found it!

My Shug helps with the lights, and I add the ornaments and other such stuff.

Our ornaments are old glass ones that I've collected over the years at garage sales and antique stores.

And a few were given to me.  I am still missing a box with a very special ornament in it.  It's around here somewhere.

This is one end of our room.

 And this is the other end.  

I got the place decorated in time for my friends I used to work with at Purdue to come over for a brunch.

 Good friends, good times.

Cindy Bee