Busy Bees

Well today it was just us girls again, as Chuck is working a 10am shift today, which means he gets off at 10pm. He works the same thing tomorrow and then he's off for a day. Which is good, b/c we have his work Christmas Party on Saturday and that is always fun to go to.
We actually got worried we weren't going to be able to go b/c we couldn't find a sitter for Allison. We don't have any sitters b/c we've never had to have one! But it turned out that Chuck's dad and step mom are able to sit for us. So a big WHEW there.

So today was my cleaning day and laundry day. I can't believe how many dirty clothes 2 adults (one who wears a work uniform 3 or 4 days a week) and a 1 year old! I am currently on my 5th load of laundry today. Crazy. I also got the major cleaning done, except mopping (i hate mopping) and managed to bake about 65 Christmas Sugar Cookies. Don't ask me why I baked them, maybe just to have them around, but then I remembered we have to take something to our party this weekend, so guess what we are taking?!?!?! COOKIES! So hopefully I won't eat too many tomorrow! ( i set a few aside for us)

I've also been itching to start sewing. I bought Cousin Kristi's old sewing machine, which isn't old at all....a year maybe? So I've been looking and looking for things to do. I realized that I've been wanting heavy curtain panels in our living room...currently we only have blinds on the windows. With all this cold weather we can feel a draft coming through the windows and I know that the landlords aren't planning on replacing the windows just for us, so I'm now looking for patterns for curtains and some nice heavy fabric...that's isn't extremely expensive.

Sounds like we are going to get about 3 to 4 inches of snow this weekend....they say 100% chance we'll get it Saturday. Now just to find some snow boots for Allison! We haven't been out to play yet (we had snow, it's now melted) So I'm kind of looking foward to the snow this weekend.

Anyway, not much else happening here in Missouri. We didn't lost power like a lot of Missouri residents did, so very happy that we didn't have to go through that. A lot of them still don't have power!!! My heart goes out to them and their families. Hope everyone is surviving the cold!