A Thanksgiving Day Change of Plans

Happy Thanksgiving to All!

I woke this morning to a change in the days plans...originally I was not hosting Thanksgiving at my house...and now I am.  I'm putting on my roller skates and away I go to cook, prepare, and clean the house!

I'm hoping no one will laugh at me when I go to the grocery store to buy a Turkey ON Thanksgiving ;-/

It's going to be a great day.  Hoping your day is a good one too.

New Etsy Items

I'm really excited to show you some new Etsy items I have for sale.  Visit my Etsy shop to see more about these great backpacks.

TREE DOWN!!!!

At 2am last night, my husband and I awoke to glass breaking.  My first thought was a window breaking and a burglar crawling into a window, but I just wasn't sure.  My husband grabbed his flash light and walked thru the house not finding any windows broken or anything else askew.  So while he was checking on the girls...I still had my head out our bedroom window listening for the burglar...I then spotted someone in our backyard with a flashlight and my heart just about stopped.  I yelled at the person..."what's going on, and why are you in my yard?"  He replied, "it's your neighbor and my tree fell in your yard".  I was relieved, but felt like crying because I had no idea what damage had been done.

This is the sidewalk going into our back yard.

Bryan took this picture from the top of the roof looking down into the back yard.

So this morning we went out to assess the damage. Thank the Lord we have very little damage to the house or anything else. As you can see in the upper left corner, the beautiful swing set that my father made has been folded up to a small heap, but may be able to be fixed.  The glass we heard breaking was a dish that was hanging on the wall in the dining room...the dish fell and broke when the tree fell.  The very corner of the house at the roof line will also have to be fixed.

 We are calling the mess "the monster", because in the dark it looks like a dead monster laying in our yard with it's long tentacles sprawling all over the yard. 

The sad part is...it was a healthy tree that just decided to split in half so we are responsible for covering the damage to our yard...but despite having to pay for a tree mess to be fixed that wasn't mine...we are thankful that no one was hurt and we will end up with lots of firewood.

Up at 5:15am!!!

The Craft Faire I hosted was a complete success!  Vendors sold lots and we had many, many customers.

Now that the Faire is over I have been tying in to complete my 'to do list'.  And it is long...

The first thing I did was paint my sewing room...please check back with me and I will post some before and after shots. :)

In order to get the time to start accomplishing the tasks on my to do list I've decided to rise a bit earlier in the morning.  5:15 to be exact.

For 16 years now, as long as I've been married, I've gotten up at 6:15 to make my husband's lunch and then start my day.  And it seems I don't really get my day started and work done until the girls are out of the house by 9.  So I've committed to getting up earlier to get my day started and get tasks done before husband and children need me. 

Let me say this is no easy task for me...I would be fine sleeping until at least 8 every day.

I was very inspired by reading Jane Kirkpatrick's book "Homestead"...I highly recommend reading it.  She committed to getting up every morning at 4 so she could write her books.  Wow!  That's commitment.  I'm so inspired.  I don't know if I every will be able to get up at 4, but I will ease into it it I find 5:15 isn't working.

I must say...the last two days of getting up earlier has been wonderful!  Yesterday, I quilted a quilt by 9am!