dec 1?? oh my

Monday morning had early wake up from Lola at 3:43 for a outside break but then when up for real at 8 saw it was -14, yahoo. Britt was slow at getting off to school this day :-) I touched up the chair and flipped the vanity over to do the bottom. I posted a free giveaway (this rustic Christmas trio) for all my friends, family and 1300+ Creative Moments followers. Stop by and enter

Amanda dropped the kids off around 9:30 and was off to a dental appointment in the city. As we were having a great time, some of eating marshmallows, jelly bellys and popcorn, after all it is Auntie Nan's, that is my job :-) Britt and Grady arrived around 11 for their school break. Asher quite enjoyed playing safari yum with Grady while Britt did homework and cooked us all pizza for lunch.

Ada loves her Coco and Weenie ;-)

my new jumbo neb in action

Amanda picked up the kids around 1 with Britt and Grady heading back to school around 130. I ask if they actually ever go to school :-) I was back out distressing the vanity and dark waxing. While waiting for dry time I made 2 banana breads and cakes. And since I have a diet of chips and beer for 2 weeks of the month and this would be dessert I took the dogs out for a walk while they baked. It was getting dusk and hit the high of -7, the snow along the west trees was fairly deep but we all trudged thru even little legs Coco.

Back to the toasty house that smelled heavenly, it was supper for all the puppies even though a bit early. The usual cleaning duties took up some time, baking always has that down side as does my super cool paint sprayer but they got to be done as well as blog updating ;)

But a bit more work on the vanity, this time on handles, I tried this sanded waxed look but opted to repaint and go with solid purple, they are so sweet all hand carved.

Britt was home just after 9 from work and checked cat food situation and took the crying Ralph back to what Britt calls the "meat locker" due to the temperature, however I remind her they all have huge fur coats and since only -12 they would sweat in the plus 18 garage. She made some eggs and had banana bread before hitting the hay. I did one more puppy potty break before I went to bed and found Britt actually put Ralph in the garage! Outside he went.