After I planned my menus for the coming week, I placed my grocery order before I went to bed on Thursday. It was ready by 9AM the next day, so I had a quick breakfast then went to pick it up. I filled the car with gas then did another errand and went home. I made a big batch of tomato soup for my lunches during the week, made a grilled cheese sandwich for lunch and then packed the Christmas presents into their gift bags, calculated all the shipping costs, printed the labels and then drove to the post office to drop them off. Back at home I did all the laundry, folded it; changed the sheets on the bed, cleaned up the kitchen and made dinner and ran the dishwasher.
I switched out the pink pillows and quilt for the Holiday Boxes quilt and silver pillows, hung the Happy Holidays quilt and switched out Millie's summer tent for the winter version. As you can see Millie wasted no time in covering it with her furs. I'll put up the Christmas decorations a little at a time over the next few days.
I still have to clean off the dining room table and cover it with the Christmas table cover, pay a few bills and move some garden tools to the shed. It's snowing as I write this, and although it won't stick around, it does mean the end of the garden season, so it's beyond time to put the garden tools away and bring out the snow shovels.
I've got a few more bags to make too.
My mother was so funny. She saw the bags I made for my son, DIL and DGG and said, "So Lynne, where is MY bag? Am I going to get one...?"
7 comments:
Well, that was certainly uber-productive time for you! Love the presents quilt. I took my Christmas tree quilt, put it on the couch, and a cat appeared on it just like Millie did. Guess you have some more bags to make.
What a morning, so busy. Your Mum will just have to wait a little longer.
I think people who live in warmer places don't understand how much time we New Englanders spend closing down for winter, and then opening back up in the spring. Every time I think I'm done, I find something else that needs to be done.
With you energy and productivity, you put the rest of us to shame. ;)
I agree with Janet! What you describe would take me, now, at least a week! One main chore a day seems to be IT!
That yellow bag is going to be glorious!
Now that's what I call brilliant organisation! I think I need to take a leaf out of your book and I would achieve far more. The yellow Odile fabric is fantastic, I bought a one yard piece when it first came out but I haven't yet dared to cut into it!
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