Dec 13 2008
Big idea’s Quickly Flying out the Frosty Window.
I had big plans for this holiday season. I made a Yule Log centerpiece for my table (affectionately called our Yule stump), I made an Advent type spiral (instead of a calendar) to countdown the days to Christmas, and I made up this nice long list of festive things to do each day of Advent.
Sure we’ve done a few things. The cinnamon and applesauce ornaments turned out quite nice, but not as smelly as I expected. We set up our ceramic Christmas village with quilting batting for snow. The tree got up and decorated last night. We thought it would be special to set it up on the night of the full moon and after the birthday’s (mine, my son’s, my father’s, and my friend’s daughter) But that’s just the usual getting ready stuff to do.
We still need to do our family photo by the tree, we need to make some birdseed ornaments for the backyard friends, we need to go see the Christmas lights downtown, we need to go see the gingerbread house display at the local museum and maybe be inspired to make our own. The list goes on and on.
So what’s my excuse for not doing all that I planned? Sickness, snow, laziness, procrastination…
Ah, I know I shouldn’t be too bothered with it not getting done when I planned it. We can still do some after the big day has passed. Can’t let all the fun come to an abrupt end, right?
