IF I AM STILL ON PLANET EARTH NEXT OCTOBER, I will definitely start CHRISTMAS CHEER during the month of October and give myself permission to be okay with it and forget about it. Some cookies such as chocolate chip, peanut butter and especially sugar cookies will be baked and stashed in the freezer. I think the homemade peppermint patties would keep until Christmas. At any rate, I'd have some of the Holiday Baking out of the way making way for other activities. This getting sick with a head cold less than 2 weeks before CHRISTMAS has me reeling with regrets.
I believe it is for the best to make plans early on about special events and work at getting the details taken care of before rushing around to accomplish the end results. Planning matters and so does actually getting things done. That pace it takes to get there will be easier on me nerves than not having things done because health issues got in the road of everything. I don't like panicking, but deep down inside, I am starting to panic.
Deep cleaning about the house for the Christmas HOLIDAYS will be started in November? Better make that OCTOBER. Deep cleaning needs to continue for the cold weather coming. Some lights and garland will be located for the out-of-doors and the decorating will begin. The Christmas cards will be made out in November ready to go. I missed my mark this year. The days clipped along.
I believe I will place garland about the door trim with twinkle lights already worked into the garland along with garland running along the top of the porch and the railings. The CHRISTMAS BOBBLES will not be placed on the garland until later.
NEXT YEAR, I'd like to enter the CHRISTMAS house and lawn decorating contest and I don't want to let the cat out of the bag before the Judging starts so this means the final touches on the house/lawn wouldn't take place until the night before and during the day of when the lights would be turned on for the actual night of the judging. Sounds like a great plan.
It'll be like adding the frosting on the cake the day before the judging and then WHAALAH! The JUDGES will get to see the presentation and then the public as well. This is a pipe dream, huh?
The decorating inside of the house will start in November. Each day as the month passes, I will add some glam. I'm admiring those that get things done early on so there's no rushing.
I know that if I have everything already ready to go then I will be miles ahead. If possible. This year, there have been too many doctor's appointments, physical ailments and now this rotten head cold. HUBBY and I both are down and out. I don't want to give up, but I really do feel like giving up. Bah Humbug. How do you spell Bah Humbug? With no energy or enthusiasm. B. A. H. h.u.m. b. u. g.
It is incredibly difficult to get anything at all accomplished with this head cold. I am miserable. It has to run its course. NYQUIL. DAYQUIL. Liquids. CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP. REST. REST. REST. Sneeze. Cough. Wipe the nose. Blow the nose. Cough. Cough. ETC. This is awful.
Day 4 of this. Perhaps I am over the hump.
Each time I walk past the dining room table, I try to deal with something on it. A new box has been set aside for thrifting stuff to go into so I can take it away in a few days when I am, LORD WILLING, better. I am further along than the day before. The thought of I have so much more to do comes crashing down on me and I am not fun to be around when sick. bah humbug. cough. cough.
The middle of the week and I'm so out of commission. It's times like this that I have thoughts of how to be more sanitized about the Homefront. I am thankful this illness will pass and I am not sicker than I am.
I think I will eat chicken noodle soup the entire day.
Breakfast, lunch and supper.
The PERFECT GIFT for someone ill with a head cold could be big cans of chicken noodle soup, crackers or croutons, boxes of Kleenex, NyQuil, DayQuil, Emergen-C, Vick's Vapor Rub, cough drops and teas. A quiet environment to rest in. Amen, amen, amen, amen.
This is an opportunity to speak out scripture, pray, think about taking better care of loved ones and one's self. No Bah Humbugs in this.
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