Our fake Christmas tree

The tv corner is looking festive.

My fake tree. The picture really doesn't show off how cute it is.

How it looked this morning.

How it looked yesterday with the snow blowing hard.

Matthew watching all the moving singing snowmen we have. He loves them!


After about 3 hours of work I finally had our Christmas tree decorated. I decided to make a fabric tree since I'm sure Matthew would tear apart a real fake tree. I think it turned out kind of cool. I think if we keep it, I'll sew all the parts on. And add something to make it stiffer. Starch just didn't cut it.

Matthew and I had a super busy day running errands and going to the doctor's. After about 2 weeks of messing with my eye I decided that it probably wasn't pink eye after all. And I wasn't sure it was allergies either. The doctor told me it was a bacterial infection (go figure, that's all the army doc's say), but then he actually looked closely at my eye (instead of glancing at it) and announced maybe I was right and it wasn't an infection. Duh, I knew that much. He thought maybe it is a clogged tear duct and is sending me to the eye doctor. Until then I can't wear my contacts. Of course. I don't really like wearing my glasses, but I guess I'll live. I just wish I'd gotten new ones like I was suppose to last spring!

Yesterday it was the first snowfall of the season. (I don't count flakes in the air.) It is mostly gone today. A year ago today, well a year ago from last night around 9pm, was the worst ice storm since I was a toddler. It knocked the hectic out of our trees. From 10 pm on we heard nothing except loud pops and thuds as tree limbs fell. It rained all night. I still find sticks driven straight into the ground from the storm. Anyway, a year ago around 9am this morning was the first minute of what proved to be 7 days of no power of any kind. We did have heat and running water. The water was just ice cold. We made out better then many people. I just hope we don't have anything like that again soon!