Dang, and I thought last weekend was busy......

Unfortunately, my "to-do" list is a mile long, so the rest of the week isn't looking any less busy.

Friday:
1. Cleaned house
2. Went shopping with my Mother-in-Law. Went to Kohl's, bought me a pretty, red Christmas top, a pair of brown suede Sketchers (boots), and found my Father-in-Law his Christmas present.
3. Went to Target to look animated light-up deer and snowmen, but thought we'd seen them elsewhere cheaper, so didn't buy any. My Mother-in-Law bought the kids their Christmas outfits.
4. Went next door to the new Chinese restaurant...it was excellent. She had no idea I like Chinese. I guess it's because we never get to go there when Michael's with us since he doesn't care for it too much.
5. Walked clear across the parking lot to Kroger to see how much their deer cost.
6. Walked back across the parking lot to Home Depot only to find they were closing, so we went home.

Saturday:
1. Was supposed to meet my friend Amanda and her mother-in-law at the Southaven Goodwill at 10:30 a.m. I looked around and found Travis a brand new-looking pair of black church shoes, a pair of dress pants, and me some shoes and a set of Christmas dishes. They never showed up 'til 11:15, and Amanda found me and said they were going to be next door at Big Lots since her mother-in-law didn't want to look around in the Goodwill, although she had told Amanda earlier that she had wanted to check it out. ::sigh:: So I paid for my stuff and we went over to Big Lots where I bought my Christmas bows and wrapping paper...stuff like that. Oh yeah, and one of those white spiral trees that light up...for the yard.

2. We broke for lunch and went to Wendy's across the street. Then we tried to hint to Amanda's mother-in-law that we wanted to go to K-mart WITHOUT HER. It was impossible to look at ANYTHING WE wanted to while she was around. Amanda just kind of said "If you're tired and want to go rest or whatever, we can take Zech (Amanda's little boy) to the house, and me and Candy and Destiney (her daughter...and I only had Jacob with me...Travis went with Michael to get a haircut) can go make a few stops that we want to make." Surprisingly enough, Amanda's mother-in-law offered to take Zech to the house, so we ended up not having to go there first. In K-mart, I bought some outdoor lights, 12 plastic candy canes that you stick in the ground, an inflatable outdoor Winnie the Pooh in a Santa Clause suit and he sits on a "Hunny" pot. We already have the white icicle lights to hang on the house, but we needed to get some other stuff to make it really fun for the kids. Once we ditched Amanda's mother-in-law, we had a blast, just walking around K-mart, looking at stuff. Now Michael says that I've had my "shopping fix" for the year.

3. Michael and I went out on a much-needed date. We dropped the kids off at his parents' house, ate at Steak N Shake, and then went to see a sneak preview of "Christmas With the Kranks". It's based off of John Grisham's book, "Skipping Christmas". The movie had Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis and Dan Akroyd in it. It's hilarious. Go see it. Between that movie and buying Christmas decorations, I was ready to come home and decorate the house, lol.

Sunday:
1. Went to church, did the usual playing piano and organ in church.

2. Ate lunch at CiCi's. Best AND cheapest place to go on a Sunday afternoon. Makes everyone happy. Pizza, pasta, breadsticks, salads, desserts, for $3.99/person...can't beat that with a stick.

3. Went to Schnucks to buy stuff to make cookies for the Thanksgiving Meal at church tonight.

4. Came home, made cookies, and stuck holographic snow flake window clings in the kitchen windows...very pretty. And it's the only snow we'll probably ever get around here, lol.

5. Went back to church for our special Thanksgiving service. It was great. We ate a lot of food...there were 2 deepfried turkeys and one smoked turkey....yummm. We had songs (I had to play a little bity keyboard on a stand since we had it in the fellowship hall.) and the teenagers sang a song called "Thank You, Lord". Then we had a time of testimony where anyone who wanted to could tell what they are thankful for.

6. After church, we went to my sister-in-law's house to pick up the steam cleaner so I can clean my nasty crudded-over carpet.

Tomorrow:
1. Clean carpet.
2. Do the regular house cleaning
3. Laundry (if time permits)
4. Begin dragging out decorations for inside, minus the tree. That takes "man strength", or so I'm told.

I want to start working on the OUTSIDE, but Michael needs to trim the yard ONE MORE TIME so that it'll look good when I get the lights outside on the house. And that can't be done 'til SATURDAY because by the time he gets home from work during the week, it's dark. I threatened to get out the lawn mower and do it myself. I'm the type person that I want stuff done NOW and I don't want to have to wait for other people to help me, so I take it upon myself to do it.

My feet are so tired and sore. I can barely hold my eyes open. I'm going to bed! Hope this update will hold everyone over for awhile....goodness knows when I'll be able to update again! TTFN!