All the Stockings Were Hung...NOT!

All the stockings were hung by the chimney with care...NOT!

I think this is the first time ever I've gotten all of my Christmas stuff down in the first week of January.

And well...ahem...I thought it was high time to take down the snowman display that had been up for 395+ days.  Yes, I'm not kidding.  But now it is replaced with Build a Bears.  I'm fine with them there at least they are off the floor.

I was HUGELY productive today!

Not only did I get the Christmas stuff put away, but I went through each of the Christmas boxes, cleaned them out and marked them in order of importance.  So next year my box #1 will get in first.  If I feel like more decorating I'll move on to #2 etc.  I'm also tickled that I was able to take the Christmas tree down and keep the lights on them.  I tried to wrap them around so I could do that this year.  It was super easy peasy to take apart! Maybe I'll never have to worry about putting them on again! Let's all do the No burned out bulbs! No burned out bulbs dance.

I've been a cleaning machine today too!  Boy I wish I felt like this everyday.  I've got my last load of laundry running now.  I've been keeping it going all day. Foyer, Family Room, Living Room and toilets are all cleaned as well.  The Kitchen still has a lot of work.  BUT...I'm looking at and working on a clean table.  I'm running my 3rd load of dishes.  Can you tell I hate to do them?  I still have handwashing to do which is the worst!  I won't be doing that tonight.

Tonight's dinner was delicious.  However, I knew the kids wouldn't like it so I tried to make one thing each would like at least as a side dish.  I made them taste everything on their plate.  Ashley actually liked the spicy mesquite chicken. YAY!  The boys not so much, but for them I made macaroni and cheese to compensate.  You would have thought I was the meanest Mom in the world when I made Aussie taste the applesauce.  He said that teensy eensy little taste ruined his whole appetite.  He said he wished Dad was home.  I told him if Dad was home he would still have to taste it.  He asked is it going to be like this every night?  I said, "YEP!"

Tomorrow I go to the dentist. Booooo!  I broke my tooth about 3 weeks ago.  We have been waiting until the new year to have enough money to fix it.  Our FSA is fully funded again.  I'm not looking forward to going, but I know I need to.

I know I've been blogging a lot lately.  I'm sure that will die down soon.  But I wanted to say that I am making it a goal this year to blog weekly.  So if I have something to say or want to share something I will probably blog more, but I'm going to try to do it at least once a week.

I also have a goal of creating something once a month.  I know just what I'm going to create next month.  It's something for Valentine's Day and it is on my Pinterest board.

What's Pinterest?  Where have you been?  That's the latest and greatest thing since sliced bread.  You can see my boards here... http://pinterest.com/chellegreene/