Adventures of Two Sisters, One Brother, and a Mom: Getting Ready For The Holidays...

Well, I've been slack about writing again. This week has just been too busy-- I have been trying to get things ready for the Holidays, and work has been pretty busy as well. Too much to do and not enough time! Last weekend I finally got the tree decorated and the lights put on the house-- it has been very warm here this week-- I was working in the yard in shorts! Sunday I had Big A out helping me clear the leaves (again!) and pulling weeds. She, of course, complained that her hands would get dirty, so she needed gloves. I told her that that is why they have soap and water!

The girls got a Christmas surprise from Nana on Saturday. They each got two Christmas ornaments, a Christmas cup, and a book to share. Below is a picture of them displaying their ornaments.

Two Excited Sisters

A Surprise From Nana!

This week I have been trying to get the house in some type of order. Sometimes it seems that the more I clean, the messier the house gets. While I am cleaning one room, the girls will be in another room destroying it!! It seems like a never ending battle sometimes. My goal is to get everything nice, clean and organized for the Holidays. I would like everything neat and dust free for Christmas-- just in time for the girls to destroy the house with toys and gift wrap!

Theresa moved back to Miami over the weekend. She was there one day when she called to say how much she hates it down there! :) I think she is going to try to talk her Mom into moving up to Georgia. We will see how that goes... Unfortunately, she will not be here for Christmas or Big A's birthday.

I have also had a bit of bad luck this week with one of my dogs. Clifford (my Chihuahua/corgi mix) woke up Saturday morning without the ability to walk on his hind legs. Somehow he had managed to blow a disc in his back. I was really worried that he would require surgery, but the steroids I have been giving him this week have really helped. He is able to walk much better now-- he's only slightly ataxic now. So hopefully with strict cage rest for 4-6weeks we can avoid surgery. The bad thing is that he is only 3 years old, so recurrence is very likely--surgery may still be in his future. Poor little guy has not had the best luck medically-- I got him when he as 4 months old and he had a chicken "wishbone" stuck in his esophagus. His owner could not afford endoscopy to remove it and was going to have to put him to sleep. So.. I had her sign him over to me and removed it myself. That is how little "Clifford" came to be an Osborne...

Below are some pictures of our Christmas decorations. The pictures did not come out well at all. The house actually looks pretty--although, possibly a bit tacky. But the girls love it, and that is all that counts! Big A helped me decorate the tree-- some of Theresa's OCD may have worn off on her, because she wanted to organize parts of the tree by theme. For instance, she wanted to group all of the icicle ornaments together -- in the "icicle section", etc. I tried to explain that the tree would look better if the ornaments were dispersed throughout the tree--she wasn't convinced. We compromised-- there is still an icicle section, but she allowed me to spread the Santa ornaments and nutcracker ornaments out on the tree.