A Little Bit of Everything

Good morning y'all. It's cold in these here parts. I know all my friends up north are laughing at us wimpy Texans. It hits 35 degrees and you'd think we are were all on the brink of freezing to death. But seriously, this is far from typical November weather, and I'm hoping it's not a sign that we're in for a really cold winter.

Since it's miserably cold, and the ridiculously high winds and rain are keeping Andrew from playing outside my husband is setting up a tent in the middle of the living room. We're not talking about a small indoor tent. We're talking about a full sized, camping tent that sleeps five. Insanity? Yes, I do believe so.

Andrew's out of school for the next week, and it's supposed to be cold and wet through Tuesday so maybe the tent will keep him entertained for a few days.

I colored my hair for the first time in over a year on Thursday. My sister does hair for a living, but I almost never get it done. I have trouble finding time to fit it in my schedule, but I was getting tired of pulling out gray hair so I colored it. I used to put blonde in my hair, but I finally realized that I don't look my best as a blonde. I have dark hair naturally, and blonde washes me out. It only took me a few years to realize this. We did a dark base with red/violet streaks. My hair has a lot of red in it so it picks up red really easily. It took five tubes of color and over an hour and a half to get it all done. Now you know why I don't color it very often.

 

I tried to do a "selfie" to capture the color. Can we just talk about how hard it is to take a picture of yourself with an iPhone? Not to mention that you hope no one picks up your phone and sees that you've been taking pictures of yourself in the bathroom. This is as good as it gets folks!

 

I put up all of my indoor Christmas decorations last weekend. It takes a lot of work to get it all up, and I want to relax and enjoy it for a while. Anyway, I usually don't leave it all up much past Christmas, and there's less than a month between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year so it had to go up early. At least that's my justification.

 

 

Here's a little sneak peak at the decorations. The only thing new this year is the ribbon on the tree and of course, the poinsettias. Other than that I've been a good girl in the Christmas decoration shopping department. We'll see if that lasts all season. :)

 

Andrew's Thanksgiving party was on Thursday afternoon. It was a lot of fun, but I had forgotten how busy kids that age are. It's been a few years since I taught pre-k, and most of that year is a blur of craziness anyway. Even with the noise and chaos the party was fun!

 

And speaking of Thanksgiving . . . it's almost Thanksgiving y'all. And in the midst of all the eating and running from place to place, I have so much for which to be thankful. I could never thank God enough for all my blessings.

 

In case I'm not on here between now and next Thursday, I hope everyone has a wonderful, safe, and blessed Thanksgiving!