Happy Saturday, Chickies!

I'm enjoying my hot coffee on this frosty morning before heading out for groceries. We're taking the grandchildren to a Christmas party later today, and baking cookies and probably making our gingerbread houses afterwards. I should probably buy a big jar of pickles to nibble on so I won't be tempted by the sweets!

ZEFF, if you can't find fishing line for your garland, try dental floss!

Good morning! I see Cottage's egg is lit so she'll probably beat me at being first to post! We do lead lives of simple pleasures!

The back deck looks dusted with icing sugar this morning and we are expecting snow over the next week so I guess winter is officially here despite the calendar date. I am going to try very hard not to grumble about the weather this year.

Last evening my neighbours were in for a glass of wine and to see the wee pup who just charmed them. They brought along their crabby little Yorkie who was very intimidated by my two and their constant play invitations. Poor little guy came from a puppy mill and is a canine curmudgeon. I hate puppy mills and their owners should be sent to jail! OK - off the !

Today will be a quiet day - no "musts" except a cake for Church and the niggles are just going to wait. I have a new sewing machine that I bought in August and we are just now getting acquainted. I thought we'd spend some quality time together.

I hope your Saturday is as relaxed and peaceful as mine is going to be.

Smarty Pants!

Good Saturday Morning everyone! Grab a cup of coffee, and a chair, and tell us whats on your mind today!

The past week I've been exhausted so have not had the energy at night to clean, so today will be catching up on that, going shopping and walking dogs. I know, I live a most exciting life. I am buying tickets for my sis and niece to see the nutcracker either today or tomorrow. She hasn't answered which day she wants to go. Cody was five days accident free yesterday, till my son forgot to take him outside and he went inside. Not sure if letting Joe help helps or not! lol

So whats on your agenda?

RUTH, That's a shame about your friend's puppy. Have you heard of New Holland, PA? It's been in the news as the "puppy mill capital" of PA, and not too far from us. Thankfully, authorities have been cracking down and shutting those places down. Very, very tragic though.

Morning!

Linda I am going to get the girls a gingerbread house to assemble this year. They had so much fun with it last year. I have got to drag some Christmas stuff out of the attic today.

Ruth Yeah! Sounds like the perfect day for you.

Loriann My older daughter calls it the "Knuckle Cracker"-it makes me laugh so hard every time she says it.

Abigail wound up sick and at the doctor yesterday. The were worried that she might have had pnemonia, but fortunately it is just a virus. This has been a strange week for my normally healthy girlies.

I have stayed 100% on plan since Monday and am feeling great. I worked out everyday with the expection of yesterday. Today's plan is to hit the gym, then home for cleaning and possibly putting up the tree. We have a family Christmas party this evening, we will probably only go for a bit pending how the girls feel.

Have a super day all!

Good morning Chicks

Cottage Sounds like a lovely family day Dental floss is great. Years ago when I wanted to learn to work with seed beads I used dental floss!

Ruth - A new sewing machine sounds like fun - hope you two enjoy your special time together

Lori - Cleaning seems to be on my list every weekend too. Congrats to you and Cody.

Kiko- Hope the girls are back to themselves this weekend for all the family fun.

I'm off in a few to the co-op and winter farmer's market. I'm hoping for spinach and pears! I just put a pot of soup with the Bob's Red Mill bean soup mix in the crockpot for dinner. I'm not always fond of the mixes but this one looked good. Yesterday I found really cheap cranberry beans so need to investigate recipes to use them in. Other than errands it's the usual weekend list - chores, chores & exercise. We do have King Fu Panda for later so that should be fun

Have a good weekend day all

Good morning ladies...I am a return to this group...today will be the same for me as for all of you...chores with a few fun things....I have m y work holiday party this evening and I am looking forward to that. I should clean too, but that is always on the bottom of the list. I do look forward to taking a nap (if Ican sneak it in) before I go out later....the sun shines in my room on my bed and I stretch out like a cat in the puddle of sun and snooze. I try to imagine I am on the beach somewhere....my eating has been so far off of south beach that I must be off in the northern mountains somewhere. I am hoping you ladies inspire me to head back to the water....wishing you all a great day!!!! - Suzyq

Good morning! What a weekend we have planned! We are off to see Santa this afternoon, then a few hours visiting with my parents. My mom wanted to make some Christmas cookies!! EEK! I ate too many last night! I need to resist today. I haven't worked out all week and I feel like a slacker!
Tomorrow we are going to a Santa breakfast. Somehow I need to squeeze in 10 hours of work this weekend. Working from home during the holiday season is too tough!! I can't play catch up on weekends as easily!
Woke to 2 inches of snow on the ground today. VERY cold out there too!
Enjoy your day.

Good morning Chickies,

Cottage- sounds like you are going to have a fun day today

Ruth - hope you two enjoy your special time together

Lori - Cleaning is on my agenda for today as well.

Kiko- Hope you have a good weekend. Good for you staying onplan.

Cyndi- I still haven't seen Kung Fu Panda but it is on my list to see.

Suzy- welcome back to the group.

Jenskihere- Wow you have a busy weekend planned have fun.

Well, had no dsl last night or this morning until the AT&T repairman came but we are up and running again- don't realize how depend you are now on the internet until it is gone. LOL But I did get my morning workout in already so was happy about that.

OMG- I just caught the Kitten going up the middle of the Christmas- had to pull him out of the middle of the tree. Great he just did again- he is laying on the branches, you ever heard of that. I have DD2 trying to distract him.

Have a great day off to clean the house.

Oh my....I just woke up...DH left early this morning for the LSAT and DS woke up and fell back asleep in our bed shortly after. After DH left, I figured I would join DS...boy, did we sleep late! I guess our bodies really needed the rest from being sick!

We got our tree in the stand and ready to be decorated. I need a new tree skirt, the one I have is too small and looks silly with the big tree.

I guess on to my daily tasks until I hear from DH. I have a load of laundry to do, dishes and just some general decluttering around the house. It's amazing how quickly the house gets cluttered when you have children.

ETA: I'm so sick of having a sick kid! Snotty noses...eew.

Pearl - We have a white teacup hook attached to the ceiling above our tree and we fasten the top of the tree to the hook. It's stopped the tree from getting knocked over by cats climbing it. I don't thinki our two tend to do it much but the last ones we had sure did. The bottom branches are bent down because they loved to lay on them.

Kiko - Sorry to hear Abigail has been sick. Hopefully she will be back to normal soon. The gingerbread house sounds like fun.

Hi to everyone else. I'm out of time as usual again.

I designed our Christmas newsletter but it looks like I need to go get a new color cartridge. I didn't mention the divorce but just included pictures and news from Brian and I. I think I'm going to pick Brian up a sautering iron for Christmas. I ordered his large origami paper yesterday. Today we need to get the last of the decorations up.

Pearl, too funny about the cat up the tree..hhmmm, bring in a natural climbing device and expect him not to climb? :scratchhead:

OK... after a month of Chicken Soup for the dog lover's soul, Jade's had nothing but flakes, her fur is not as nice as it used to be and Cody's been itching! So, I am going to try Taste of the Wild... it's formulated for all life stages so I need only buy one bag. reviews, consumers are saying their dogs like the taste... here's crossing my fingers!

now off to figure out my menu plan for the week!

Pearl, my daughter had problems with her cats in her tree until she started scattering strips of orange and lemon peelings around the base of the tree. Something about the citrus scent keeps the kitties away.

Kiko, thank goodness Abby didn't have pneumonia! I hope both the girls are well enough to enjoy the party and decorating the tree. We always use the gingerbread house kits, too. They have everything you need and look just as nice as the ones made from scratch. I'll be thinking of you and your girls as we're working on ours!

Big puffy and fluffy snow is falling! I went out to get some Skor pieces for the cake, decided the roads were too bad to drive to the next town so changed my recipe, got dragged into the diner for lunch (half a quesadilla) and am now home to two very excited dogs. This is their first major snowfall and they are very excited! Jazz seems to think he needs to eat it all.

Can you smell sour cream coffee cake with pecans and cranberries? Definitely food porn!

Good news about Abby, Kiko. Cottage, I've often been tempted by those gingerbread kits - they sure save a lot of work! Barb, sounds like you are doing exactly the right thing for your Christmas letter. Zeph, sorry about the sickies - wanna trade lives and be nearly 70 for a while?

to the rest of the Beachers. Now I am going to go and bond with my new sewing machine for a while. Maybe we'll have a nap together.

Don't tempt me, Ruthie

Still haven't heard from DH....worried....