Grinch no more!

I love Christmas!!! I know that can be likened to saying... "I love puppies." or "I love biscuits." I mean honestly... who in their right mind does not love these things??

But this past week, I was feeling pretty down... pretty bummed. So, Thursday night I decided to take a breather. I went out and shopped for my little tree, humble as it may be. I spent Friday and Saturday decorating my apartment (and tree), baking for the craft/bake sale at the church (Sunday), and listening to copious tracks of Christmas music.

This was just what I needed to get out of my funk. Can anything brighten your spirits quite like Christmas music? I think not. (A little humor helps too... I also spent Saturday watching some of my favorites including Ernest Saves Christmas and National Lampoon's Christmas vacation.)


So here are some pictures of the fruitful weekend that I had. I think my little tree came out quite nice... (and I had an extra strand of lights, so I had to decorate around the kitchen too.) These are my little mini-loaves for the church. (Bonus! They actually managed to make about $1500 for the church's mission fund!)


I also made chocolate truffles with some ladies from work on Sunday. This is a ton of fun, if you are every feeling industrious. I will have to get some photos posted of the fun truffle-making extravaganza. All I know is that I came home with more truffles than I know what to do with... and I have no idea what flavors are what. This was definitely not a project that I ever could have accomplished on my own... given my ADD. I think I would have rolled about 10 truffles and called it a day. But it was nice to hang out and chat and eat lunch (and have others do all the really hard work). This weekend was kind of tiring, but in a good, fun way, not in the previous stressed-out, depressive way that the week was tiring. Now, I can say that I am ready for the holidays! Bring on the shopping! Bring on the snow! Bring on Christmas!