Christmas at Home - Part 2 - Gingerbread Houses

Everyone gets set up with house pieces.

Steady, Liz. Naomi got a book with some new patterns. Liz did one of them.

Philip's house is ready for rain. ; )

Katie's was an impecible pink house.

I didn't take pictures of the rest of the process. I was too busy running some sugar out of hyper kids. : ) Then we were cleaning up. If I get the rest of the pictures from some one, I'll uplaod them.

Christmas at Home - Part 1 - The Tree

Here's our tree, trying to get in. It had been waiting for a few weeks already!

Finally in... Now to get it in place.

The stand is flat on the tree. The tree is flat on the floor....
I think we have a problem! : )

After some hard work and tears, the tree stands about a foot shorter....

but *it stands.*

This is a present from the best girl in the Cassidy family!

Isn't she a great painter?!

Election Night Fun

I was invited to no Election Party, so I had one on my own... Not the usual assortment of party activities, but the results were nice.

See how clean & shiney it all is?

Then the bedroom too. (The bed is waiting for clean sheets.)

No dust. Anywhere.

Then there was me. Having a private Election Cleaning Party on your own is tiring! Don't you wish you were there?!