Well...it has been a long time since my last post. I apologize! Let's see...we have married off Kenny's brother, survived the ten day trip there and back, life, Halloween, HOOPLA, life, trip to the apple orchard, homeschooling stuff, more life, seen gas drop back to $2.25, and still an occasional slap upside the head from my youngest. haha Oh and lest we forget...our nation voted in the the craziest choice for President. So that about sums up life since my last blog. Sad that I can do that in one paragraph!
I am getting geared up for the "holidays". And by holidays I do not mean that I am not saying Christmas. I mean Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Years. This is my favorite time of year. I love the decorating and the baking! It is so much fun for me. The only thing that could make it better is if I had someone to clean up after me. :D So to my earlier point about Christmas...I make it a point to always say Merry Christmas! People say happy holidays to me and I reply to them with Merry Christmas. The girls and I usually make candy canes with the story of the candy cane on it and give them out to everyone. The girls take turns giving them away. (ie-fight over whose turn it is.) It really is fun though. People don't usually expect to be given a treat when you go thru the grocery line or the bank drive thru. I got the idea from a lady that came and talked at Festival of Holidays a few years ago. I loved it and so we have made it a tradition.
Now to another tradition. I should have started with Thanksgiving first, since it is next. We go every year and get our tree at a tree farm in Leicester called Sandy Hollar Farms. We go the day after Thanksgiving usually. The girls love it! They have a hay ride up to where the trees are and you get to pick out your own tree. They will cut it down for you (which they didn't used to do) and string it up and send it back down the mountain for you to pick up. They also sell wreaths and garlan there, which they make on sight. Love it! Oh and they have hot chocolate and snacks. It is so much fun. I will have to find a picture from last year and post it. So much fun! I have been going to the same farm since I was a little girl. That family is the nicest! They used to be in a different place though, this one is bigger. It is way fun if you have a bunch of people to go. Then we bring it home and decorate it that night. Sometimes it takes me the whole weekend though to get the house just right. :D Again...favorite time of year!
For many reasons this is my favorite time. The first and foremost is that Christmas celebrates the birth of our savior Jesus Christ! (Which we do have cake and sing for.) The second is the excuse to visit with familiy a little longer than normal, to have friends over for dessert and good conversation, and to have a tree sitting in my living room with pretty lights on it. :D Last but not least...ELVIS PRESSLEY CHRISTMAS MUSIC! I love it! Christmas ain't Christmas without ELVIS! Maybe I should add that one to my facebook quotes. haha
Well I am going to end here for now! I have to go get my hair did. I promise to blog again soon.
Oh...please check out "Laura's blog", over in the left hand column. That is my sister. She moved to Arkansas and is living on the family farm. That is my dad's place and where I spent a lot of summers. I love that place! Anyway, she blogs about the farm so check it out.
