Settling in for Christmas!

 

We unloaded our stuff into the middle of the house and it seemed to
expand to fill the place. I'm not sure how we fit it all into the van.
The Meyers didn't have room for all their furniture and so they left a
couch, chairs, and their kitchen table for us to use. We slipped our
table into the back room here until we need it.

 

There was a deer to watch over us in the master bedroom, which we
relocated to the backroom. It was a little unnerving to be watched
over by the guardian...

 

It snowed a foot. Simon tried to shovel and made it about three
quarters of the way down the driveway...in a single shovel width. This
led to our decision, after getting plowed out, to acquire a
snowblower! See the next post for details about our Wee-Beastie!

 

CHRISTMAS TIME!

 

 

Pre-tree present pile/ decorations.

We set up our Christmas presents and finally got a tree 3-4 days
before Christmas. Consequently, we got a lovely nice sized tree
usually priced at $50 for $27 and then a $3 tree stand. It smelled
amazing and is beautiful!

The day was the warmest we'd had in a while...and consequently the
packed snow in our driveway turned to slush causing us to not make it
up our driveway, again- So we pulled the tree out and hauled it up the
drive to the house and Simon shoveled some slush out.

 

 

BOY MEETS RAZOR

 

What is this...?

How does it fit together?

 

OOOOh!!!!

It's a man-shaver!

I spent a couple hours researching and reading reviews on razors and found the perfect one online and ordered it from Target...and then 3 days later I got an email saying that one wasn't in stock and was no longer being sold. This was a tragedy like no other and when Simon came home I cried because we were about to move and I thought I had taken care of getting him a present and now I didn't have it anymore. So, as I'd spoiled any element of surprise, I showed him which razor I'd planned to get him and explained why so he could be happy about it even if he didn't get that one.

His solution was a good one and we went to Target (armed with a gift card that still has money from when we got married :-) )--he went to explore the store and I sat in front of the razors...and had no reviews to go by...so i called my mom and had her look up reviews for a couple that seemed pretty good prospects. I chose one and hid it as I purchased it and he didn't see it till Christmas, but was pretty excited about it then and is still enjoying it. It is a Norelco Aquatec razor: This means you can shave dry or wet and he can even take it into the shower with him. He says it does a good job.

 After reading the instruction manual Simon says he knows it's a man-tool because in the directions and warnings for cleaning it it says: "Do not use compressed air, abrasives, scourers or agressive liquids such as gasoline or acetone to clean the razor." 

 Yay! A drill!

Testing it out! I knew he'd enjoy opening it on Christmas. His mean wife made him wait! :-D
He saw it advertised and it was a good deal and so we went to Harbor Freight and bought it. He got in the car and was ready to tear right into it and jokingly suggested "This is one of my Christmas presents! ha ha.  I should save this till Christmas, ha ha," and I decided that was a good idea and took it away from him.

So many beautiful sweaters and a lovely scarf! They all fit quite nicely! Thank you to my Horrocks family!
We love the measuring cups, hot pads, pizza stone (which we will test out shortly)...


Someone was VERY excited for the Mr. Chicken shirts. He now says "MR. CHICKEN!!!" often and at random moments, particularly when wearing it (2+ times since Christmas), as well as whenever he sees his or my shirt around. Probably one of his favorite gifts!

So excited he even put up with his wife taking ANOTHER picture.

And runner up as second favorite gift is the "DOGBONE!"

 *a wrench

 

It was a fabulous Christmas and we enjoyed our second Christmas together with just the two of us. My family went out of town for Christmas and so we went to visit them over New Years and went skiing. It was a quick trip to return the van and see them. Simon worked his first day on the last day of December and had to be back to work the 2nd of January.