Hoping everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Now on to Christmas. Started decorating the house for Christmas on Friday. I decorate almost every room of the house with the exception of the laundry room. We have 4 full size fake trees and get 1 real one each year for the living room. Most rooms have at least a small tree and creche in them as seen in the photo from our bedroom. Next up is the baking and gift buying.
We kicked off our holiday season by attending the tree lighting ceremony in downtown Grayslake. It's always fun to watch the kids' reactions to seeing Santa pull up on the fire truck and then light the tree. We follow that with shopping in the stores and having dinner. This year we decided to eat at Something's Brewing. We enjoyed their Buffalo chicken salads followed by samples of the delicious toffee from Uniquely Sweet.
This will be our last week of class. As the holidays approach, the girls just get too busy. Julia made great progress on her round neck blouse and Lauren is nearly finished with her robe.
Anna is almost done with her sport blouse, Izzy was absent due to going to visit family, Meghan is getting so close to finishing her banded top and Katie is working really hard on the nightshirt for her mom.
I am working an a duvet cover being fashioned from a quilt that a client made while also ordering hardware and fabric for other clients. There will be some beautiful homes this Christmas.
My hubby and I have been part of a program, Elite Body Composition, to lose weight that started in September. We have 2 more weeks left in the program and we both have managed to reach our goals even with two Thanksgiving celebrations. We both want to lose a few more pounds still but were very happy to have gotten this far. Many thanks to Matt and the coaches at TFP for pushing us all. The Sunday afternoon bike rides haven't always been the most pleasant but we survived.
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