It's a Blur

When I look back at this past week, it's pretty much of a blur...shopping, phone calls, all the kids and their families arriving, eating, more shopping, more eating, playing with grandchildren, warm weather, twinkling Christmas tree lights, playing hide the comb, watching videos, turkey, bacon on the turkey, bacon disappearing from off the turkey, 5 kinds of stuffing, lots of yummy potatoes (2 kinds) and tasty green beans, 5 different pies, candy, hula hooping, lots of picture taking, playing hide the pickle, funny socks, haircuts, opening doors to let some cool air in, sleeping with 4 grandchildren in our room, Roger making egg McMuffins, cribbage, toys scattered throughout the house, violin concert, dance performances, chatting, laughing, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree.
It's a blur, but a memorable one.

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

Busy week beginning with Chrissy celebrating her birthday( Happy Birthday, Chrissy!) and then all of a sudden realizing that November is more than halfway gone. What is a girl to do? We solve that problem by bringing up the old Christmas tree, (actually I didn't have a hand in that...Roger got help bringing it up the stairs cuz it's so big), setting it up and then decorating it. To tell the truth, Greta actually came down with Lily and Joey to help with the trimming of the tree. Lily, Greta and I put on the ornaments, and then Greta added her signature ribbon and beads to transform a good looking tree into something out of House Beautiful. Once the tree was beautifully adorned, along came Joey to remove the aforementioned ornaments and ribbon, which Greta then patiently restored to their rightful place.

Once the tree was up, Greta headed for the dining room swag and the piano decorations. Soon the house was aglow with Christmas. After she left, I began tackling one box after another until the whole house was brimming with holiday festiveness (is that even a word?)

Then it was deer hunting for Roger and time for me to visit Heidi and Eric and the kids in Baraboo. What a fun weekend. We went shopping for Heidi's birthday, had lunch at the infamous Monk's bar and grille (new restaurant up scaled from the Main Street Monk's in the Dells that Roger and I used to patronize), and hung our with five grandchildren...Lara, Jason, Max, Lily and Joey. Whew!!!! What a group!!! We all had a great time with each other and Heidi and Eric did a terrific job of parenting five children and putting me up for the weekend.

Roger didn't get his deer (he didn't see so much as a squirrel or even a bird this trip), Greta's trip to Brazil was cut short, but all is well that ends well. I got to hang out with the grand kids and my daughter and her husband, Greta and Adam enjoyed their free time together and came home with lots of shopping bags, and Roger had a nice time reading a book in the woods.

Chrissy's weekend ended with a good movie, and I'll find out this week how Roger and Brittany fared on their house.

For me and my house, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!!

Around the Corner

I was looking over my old posts and discovered that when I wrote about going to visit Chrissy in Minnesota, I neglected one very important aspect of the weekend. That would be our trip to Austin, Minnesota, home of the Spam Museum. That's right, the Spam Museum. Roger loves Spam, so he was in his element. He actually purchased a Spam hat, T-shirt, refrigerator magnet, a few cans of Spam, and some other memorabilia from said museum. So, you might say, how could I forget such a major part of our Minnesota experience? Hmmmm. What can I say? I guess it "slipped" my mind.

Now for the latest update at the Klumb home. Except for putting in fence posts that will eventually hold up our snow fence, our major projects are just about over. Roger and I canned 20 quarts of sauerkraut. We have a plethora of canned things, and I really don't want to see another thing that might need to be canned.

I've put away the fall things and cleaned the house. Guess what that means? It means that now we have lots of room for my very favorite time of year...Christmas! The Christmas night lights are all aglow, and Roger even got down the new outdoor lights that will look totally different from years past. White lights are gone, multicolored ones are here...along with blue (which I thought were white LED) but it's okay. We're trying for a new look outside, and we're going to get it. With the mild November weather that we're enjoying, we'll take advantage of it and put them up tomorrow. Should be fun.

Autumn is fading into the sunset, and that means only one thing. Christmas is not far behind...in fact, it's just around the corner!!!!

November? Where did October go?

Whew! I'm worn out. It's already November 6 and I can't figure out where October went. During this past five weeks Roger and I have enjoyed dinner out with friends, trunk or treating for the first time ever, surplus candy after Halloween (usually it's all gone and we have to close up shop), shopping and lunch in Milwaukee, showing off our newly decorated home to family and friends (Heidi and Eric and Chrissy and Jeff are in for a big surprise), shopping and lunch with granddaughters from Kewaskum, snarfing up donuts at a wonderful bakery we discovered in Sheboygan, making sauerkraut that stinks up the whole house, snarfing up more donuts with daughter and granddaughter, talking on the phone to all the kids and grandchildren, and actually shopping in stores for Christmas (as opposed to the Internet as in the past two years). Hmm, I see where the time went.

The Halloween decorations are down, and I'm beginning to get a few things up to signal the start of the Christmas season. Let the decorating begin!!!!!