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It sure does feel good to sit. I haven't done much of that for the last 5 days. I baked, cooked and cleaned for Thanksgiving all day Tuesday and Wednesday, of course MORE cooking for dinner on Thanksgiving, and again on Friday for our second Thanksgiving celebration. Friday evening, after dinner, after the family left, DNK and I went out and did a bunch of our Black Friday shopping. I was surprised how much the two of us were able to get done in about 2.5 hours! Finally, DNK, Jay and I spent almost the WHOLE day today putting up Christmas trees. The 2 large living room trees are up, lit, decorated and are just beautiful, if I do say so myself. I'm actually sitting in the living room tonight instead of my scrap room because of how festive and gorgeous the trees are. I've been looking forward to decorating for Christmas this year ever since I painted the house and had the new carpeting put in back in Feb. Why does it seem like it wasn't that long ago, yet in actuality, February was FOREVER ago!

Anyway, tomorrow I'm a door greeter at church, and hopefully after church we'll go out to eat somewhere that DOESN'T serve turkey or dressing, and when we get home, Jay will be up on the roof hanging the Christmas lights, while I put out the rest of the decorations and DNK and I decorate the remaining 3 smaller Christmas trees. I wish I had some pictures to post for you tonight, but that would entail me having to actually GET UP, go to the office, get the memory card, etc etc etc.... and right now, it's all I have in me to just be able to hold my head up. Yep, I'm a tired woman. But a happy woman. I'm loving the peace and quiet, sitting here blogging by the light of the Christmas trees...