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Every single year, I take pictures of the girls and purchase Christmas cards in the beginning of December. Every single year, I don't send them on time. Like really... Every. Single. Year. In fact, when we moved out to the farmhouse, I literally kept three prints from the last several years' of cards and threw the rest away. 😫
And in mid-December, I mailed some!
I mailed a whole SIX cards, in fact! I also handed out some cards at church and even gave some to a few of our family members! That is a definite improvement from years past. However, come January 31st, the rest of them were still in a pile in my office...ready to be mailed out. So I set a goal for myself to mail them by Valentine's Day. And this morning, I am dropping them off to the post office. I didn't order as many cards as I did in the past and didn't even get to some of the people on my Christmas card list...so I still wouldn't call it a success. But it was an adequate effort. Maybe 2018 will be the year that I get my Christmas card life together. We'll see. Merry Valentine's Day from the Farmhouse, friends. 'Tis the Season! ❤️🎁🏡🎄❤️
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In another way, this year IS different.
This will be our first holiday season in the farmhouse. Finding a new place for the holiday decorations. Hosting dinners since we have more room in this house. A new way of purchasing gifts for the girls this year for Christmas (more on that later). I always like to divide up my holiday planning and kind of challenge myself to complete certain aspects of it each week...and I thought it might be fun for my online friends to join me. If you'd like to join me, just join my Facebook group here. We'll be starting some weekly & daily challenges on Sunday, October 22nd! See you there! ❤️🏡❤️ Labor Day Weekend marks the unofficial beginning of my very favorite season. For the last few years, it has become a tradition to put out all my fall decorations on Labor Day. This year was no different. Wait, yes it was. This year was very different. This year, I spent Labor Day getting the last of the "back to school madness" organized and ready for the bulk of the school year that is upon us. This year, I was planning to have time to search the garage to find the fall decorations. And I didn't have time. So when I went to Dollar General to grab a foil pan for Matthew to put the brisket in that he was making for supper tonight, I spent $10 and bought a few fall items.
I spent yesterday afternoon cleaning house to prepare for the decorating process, but didn't get finished. Sunday evening, I changed all the Scentsy in my house to fall scents and this morning, I lit my fall candles. I drank my coffee in the quiet this morning and prepared for a long day of transforming the farmhouse to a peaceful fall sanctuary. Mr. Farmhouse was off work too, so he started smoking a brisket early this morning and he and my brother got to work bringing some more of our outside belongings from the old house. By 11:30, I realized that all of the fall decorations might not be coming out today. I had made a huge dent in the laundry, finished up the dishes, and done a quick run-through of the rest of the downstairs. I hung some pictures in our bedroom and in the living room that I had been putting off and made some notes about the week coming up.
I worked on some school plans for this week and edited a few photography sessions.
I enjoyed some more coffee about mid-afternoon. I organized Mattie's room and contemplated hanging some of her wall art, even though we'll be redoing the sheetrock in a month or two. Decided against it, lol. Now, I'm drinking coffee again and listening to Matthew & the girls play outside while I grade some papers. This is the life. Whether I live in a fully-decorated fall farmhouse or not. ❤️🍂🏡🍁❤️ |
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