From Halloween to Thanksgiving to Christmas, many different decorations were happening in the house in November! Plus Olive and computer adventures. Read on...
This is one of my favorite Christmas movies on Great American Family Channel, and it happened to be on the day that I took down the Halloween decorations and put out the Thanksgiving ones.
The male and female lead actors are members of the church, too!
I miss Romeo, my sister's cat who lived with me for several months. He went back to stay with them for awhile, and now I've got Olive, my mom's cat who doesn't mix well with Romeo and my sister's dog Clyde. Olive isn't nearly as affectionate as Romeo, and she's pretty old, but she's a cute little thing and we've grown on each other. She liked this cat toy I put out for her to play with.
My trusty old desktop computer finally bit the dust. I held onto it for as long as I could, but I finally had to accept that while it had worked very well for me for many years, it could no longer do a good job, or even a mediocre one. So I transferred everything over to my laptop (which wasn't nearly as hard as I thought it would be), and then I wiped the hard drive clean and said goodbye. The monitor and hard drive are now sitting in my garage waiting for one of those green recycling days when you can drop off for your old tech for a fee.
Thank you for your service to my life, desktop! I miss working on your nice big screen with the roses backdrop. But the laptop is working great, and I like my new set-up a lot more than I thought I would.
Sam and I put up the tree and decorated it the Saturday before Thanksgiving. One of the perks of having a fake tree is that you can put it up whenever you want. I still prefer a real one overall, but there are certain conveniences of a fake one that are hard to beat. This year I stood it up on a storage container covered by the tree skirt since it's a shorter tree than I expected. It makes a nice difference!
These are my new nutcracker candlestick holders. Aren't they cute?! I found them for $12 at Consigning Women on the Cape. I didn't have to pay for them because the balance in my account from consigning things took care of that. Win, win!
I decorated for Christmas the day after Thanksgiving and took pictures of the things I tweaked from last year for my reference album; here are a couple of them.
I'm in the market for a new Christmas tablecloth. The one I'd been using for years had gotten a little too faded. So this year it's just placemats and a runner on the table. (And the new-to-me candlesticks!)
I even wrapped the presents I'd already gotten and put some of them under the tree. The Christmas season was off to a good and productive start!
