Christmas, Here We Come

We had a great Thanksgiving, but now that it's over it seems that we all have permission to step right into Christmas, and rightfully so since it's a month away. So I've had shopping and baking and decorating on my mind - I think the snow we got on Thanksgiving helped.

I felt motivated to get a jump on some holiday gift-making, so I attempted to go to JoAnn's Fabrics later Friday morning; my only foray into "Black Friday." Big mistake. I went in and immediately grabbed a number for the fabric counter. They were on number 25. My slip said 02, which translated to 102. Only 77 more people to go before I could get my fabric! Back home I went. I went back today and actually got the same sale price for one of my cuts, and I had a 40% coupon for the other. The extra 10% off I would have gotten on Friday was not worth the hours I would have spent in line.

I decided not to haul out the Christmas decorations until next weekend, so actually the remainder of this long weekend was quite leisurely. We saw a couple of movies; "The Mist" in the theater with Husband (some interesting concepts, but not really that great), and "Are We Done Yet?" as a family movie at home with Brandon. We also had a nice surprise this weekend. My cousin Kristi had a 3-hour layover in Minneapolis on her trip back to Iowa from the D.C. area, so we picked her up at the airport and we all had dinner together. It was so great to see her, especially since we won't be seeing her for Christmas this year.

Aside from that, we caught up on housework and laundry, and I am currently catching up on some of my saved episodes of "Heroes" on the DVR. Tonight, maybe baking some banana bread and getting started on a craft project. Tomorrow, back to business as usual!