Two days in a row.......

.....that I blogged. See, I told you I would try harder :0)


Today was spent "un-Christmasing" our house. The Christmas tree was taken down, the stockings put away for another year and the Christmas cookies "finished up" (meaning my husband polished them off!). Yup, we are officially "un-Christmased". I just hate this time. The holiday let down. UGH!!


Anyhow, I did get some card making done yesterday and today. I made my new niece, Adrianna's baptismal invitations. I really liked the way they came out. Simple, but I added some glitter for that "TA-DA" and that is what it did, gave it that "TA-DA". I hope my sister liked them.


We also rearranged the furniture in our living room. Our house isn't all that big but moving the furniture around gives the illusion that it is. The dogs and cats are a little out of sorts. They seem a little confused. The way the furniture is, the cats are now fighting over who gets to lay in front of the heat duct.


I also received a call today from my friend Patty. Patty and I met at the Montessori school I work at. She was one of the team teachers in Upper Elementary when I started. Patty and I became fast friends and have been friends for 9 years now. I only got to work with her one year because she had an opportunity become available in Traverse City so she moved there and has been teaching there ever since.


Last year she started taking about doing some overseas work. First she was talking Afghanistan and I "expressed" to her that she shouldn't go. She listened, but said she was going to go and do this work. She has had strong feelings for this. She found a place that could use her help and is going overdseas tomorrow. She is using the group http://www.safepassage.com/ to do her work.

She leaves tomorrow bright and early on a plane to Guatemala City for 2 months. How, I will miss our phone calls and our finding answers to all the worlds problems. I was a little "verclumped" this afternoon. She promised to email me and update her blog. Here is the link to her blog http://www.patguat.blogspot.com/ in case you may want to follow along. If you would, please send good thoughts and prayers her way.


I also made a pot of split pea soup. Not my favorite, but my husband loves it. I do have to say my house smells good! I am going to share some of the soup with my parents. Funny, how all of the sudden I have the urge to cook. Gosh, what does that mean????

I thought I would share one picture with you this evening......maybe, just maybe there will be a few more tomorrow!

This was from the Christmas Cookie Exchange.

Until next time...................