It's HOW long before Christmas???

I'd imagine that jolly old St. Nick is probably starting to get ready to load up the sleigh and make his way to our chimney. At least the kid in me thinks so! It's hard to believe Christmas will be here in just a matter of weeks. Weeks! Can you believe it? I am, however, ready. As I'm going to be. My Christmas cards may not be out yet (grrrr....I usually have them mailed by yesterday!), but my shopping is done (except for those little last minute things that always seem to make their way into breaking the budget) and I just have to get motivated to wrap everything. You'd think that would be the fun part, but for me, not really. It just takes sooooo long. But I do like to sit back and look at the completed job once it's finished. Kind of like looking back at a masterpiece of sorts. I do that too, when I've finished decorating the tree. I like to turn off all the lights and just have the tree lights on......it's mezmerizing and I could stare at it for hours and hours.

Renovations 101

Well we finished Benjamin's room! I'm really proud of the job we did; I want to move into it myself. It's just such a fun room and Ben loves it; he's always talks about his "big boy room".

I know it might seem like there is too much blue in the room, but there really isn't. It's a very inviting shade. The room just needs drapes and I've been having a hard time finding navy blue ones to tie in with the comforter. But I will perservere.......... On the days when I crawl into bed with Ben for a morning snuggle, I like to just look around at our handywork.

This lamp was my sweet find on ebay! Had to have the plane to go with the border.

The bathroom reno's are coming along at a slow and steady pace. Greg has been working very hard on it; he comes home from work and puts in a couple hours and then puts in a couple more right after dinner. Then on the weekends he goes and goes like the Energizer bunny. But, alas, even though he's been at it so hard, it doesn't look like we'll have it done before Christmas. There just doesn't seem to be enough hours available to complete it, especially with the holiday season upon us. I'm hoping to be able to do some priming this weekend and maybe paint early next week, depending if the last of the sanding has been done. The new bathtub has been in for a few weeks and Greg might be able to install the tub liner in the next couple days. I sure hope so, it would be nice to restore some sort of order as far as baths and showers go. Ben has been such a trooper - he's been bathing in the kitchen sink, which he kind of likes even though he can't quite get both legs in the water. And I'll be happy to no longer haul my basket of toiletries up and down the stairs for showers!

That's a new window and frame - yippee!!!

Miscellaneous fun

And we wonder where Benjamin gets his ideas to move the furniture all over the place?

Ben got to hang out with Officer Steve! Such fun!

A little bit of fun in the snow