Thinking About Christmas in August...and more!

 Every year I have all these ideas of things I want to make everyone for Christmas and by the time I get started I am rushing.  Every single year I tell myself at Christmas "next" year I will start making these things in the summer.  Well I am actually going to do it this year.  I am surfing the web for pictures of crafts to jump start my imagination.  I rarely ever find anything I actually make exact.  I always change it up and make it my own.  Makes it more fun!   I like to try to make all handmade gifts for parents, siblings, aunts uncles and save the cash I would have spent to put towards those Christmas lists that will be tacked on my fridge like a week before Christmas.  They change their minds a million times before then.  lol.   I don't like to buy to early for the kids because I just know what they wanted in Sept. is not what they will want in December.

Looking around at my living room wondering what happened.  I got up at 7 and started cleaning and you know how you feel like you have accomplished something when you get a certain amount of stuff done then you do a little more and you start to feel like your gaining.  Well I was at that point and then The Country Music Awards came on and I decided to watch and that was all it took.  I stopped moving for awhile and everyone else kept moving.  Now I am looking at what I woke up at 7 and seen and I wonder why did I work all day to be in the same place at night.  lol    A day in the life!!

Thinking about what will be for dinner tomorrow so I know whether I need to sit something out tonight.  Often times I will decide I am in the mood for chili and I didn't soak the beans so I try to make a point to think about it the night before.   Chili does sound good so I probably should soak me some kidney beans.  I will wake up feeling prepared which isn't always the case but it will be tomorrow.  I will probably pair with a loaf of homemade bread from the breadmaker of which I have 3.  I pick them up occasionally at garage sales so I can run all three on the dough cycle and freeze the dough for pizza or fried bread (delish) on days I have no time.  You can find them at garage sales for 5 bucks alot of the time.  Good investment!!  Only takes a minute to through the ingredients in and turn it on and walk away for a couple three hours.  I taped the recipe on the inside of my cupboard door so I never have to look for it.  I just open the cupboard.  I have a homemade egg noodle one there and a pizza dough also.

Well off to bed so I can be alert and ready to start some homemade gifts tomorrow!  Nite all!!