December Decorating Dittys & Watermelon Does Not Go with Meat

I'm getting my decorating done a" little" at a time. By little I mean I still have a long way to go. I went to start pulling out my decorations from the garage and got sidetracked as I often do when I go to start a project. It was finally time to deal with our rat's nest of stuff in our garage. Since my dh was coming home early from work, due to a cold, I decided to take advantage and use this opportunity to fill the van with donations to the Salvation Arm. After loading the van and dropping off our donations I went my Big Lots and actually resisted the urge to buy anything. So at the end of that day all I managed to bring the boxes of decoations into the living room. I've also rearranged the furniture in my living room to allow the tree to be in front window. At this time I should mention I really want a prelit slim tree, however, my regular prelit tree is only 2 years old so I do not plan to replace it this year. It just bugs me that I can't just be content with my perfectly fine almost new tree. I'm sure that once it is up I'll love it again. I bought a new set of matching stockings for the whole family on sale after Christmas. Now I'm bummed that they all "match" (Are you noticing a trend here?). I'd love to get them monogramed but instead to personalize them I'm in search of little gold frames and I plan to place a photo of each family member on their stockings.

Watermelon Does Not Go with Meat
Yesterday I went to go pick up my vacuum. It was finally finished after 2 months. At least this time there was no charge. Yeah! It was still under warantee. Before going out I spent at least an hour in what I call pre-shopping cyber style. This is when I go online to the store's website and get my shopping list together. The kids have been bugging me to put up outdoor decorations. Of course there is also the peer pressure seeing most our neighbors having thier lights and decorations up already. So I went to Home Depot. I decided to go with all white. I found the cutest mini white spiral trees that come 6 in a set. These go along the front of our couryard wall. Then I bought white lights to wrap the trunks of our palm trees. And finally, 2 strings of twinkling snowflakes to go around our courtyard patio. I rushed home and built the little trees and wrapped the palms (Before and while making dinner). Now to get my dh to hang those snowflakes this weekend and we'll have our own mini winter wonderland. Oh, Matthew said the funnniest thing yesterday on the way home. He knew we were having macaroni and beef casserole (okay it's really hamburger helper) and Maverick wanted a piece of watermelon flavored gum. Matthew informs Maverick, "Be sure to take your gum out before you eat because watermelon does not go with meat." So how is that for a word of wisdom? LOL. I need to take some photos of my decorations to post. The other activity around my house these days is a zipline. It starts at the top of my stairs ends in our living room. What started as only GI Joe Sigma 6 characters has led to countless other items whizzing down the line. Oh joys of boys. (Photos to follow). Hope your December has already started with your own flurry of activities.