Hello PLU’s…

i took a hint from Paige K….but it took awhile to get there….

i sent her an email that looked a little like this…

“hey…

is there a faster way to blog?  this takes forever……..xoxoxoxox”

(yeah i know maybe if i didn’t use so many dots then it would go much faster, right?)

her response:

basically – paraphrasing  “nope” or “what do you mean? xoxoxo”

ok so this (c-r-a-p) blogging stuff takes forever…really it does…salute whomever blogs often with a comment or two because rest assured while we all blog because we love it, it is done for an audience for whatever reason for most….and it is an act of congress and love….that is the first time i have ever complained truly so please offer grace….

BUT….i took a hint from Paige today….even though she didn’t tell me then…she confessed….she has drafts…lots of ‘em….in her blogger dashboard thingy!!  AHHHHHAAAA!!!  perfect….stock up for when i don’t have time and publish whenever…hmmm

so this makes 3- different topics different blog posts….aha!!  i’m going to try this for awhile…or a day….

would welcome any suggestions for quicker….

anyway….

THE PROJECT!!

CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS FOUND ON PINTEREST WITH MY OWN TWIST FOR THE STORE…

i am a “enjoy the turkey, don’t decorate early kindof girl”, but retail bucks that idea i have gathered….hmmm and once again my rebellious spirit kicks up some well-thought-out reasons why i should decorate whenever but it really boils down to i had better start early if i was going to make them…plus all this work better yield more than 3 weeks in one of our 16 windows….they at least have to be up long enough to glow until i forget what a pain they were…what is it with me and building trees anyway?  BBTN girls don’t laugh…i’m over it now…no more trees!!

so….follow…here are the steps to certain insanity!!

1.  take your youngest to lowe’s while in a great mood with a huge bag of highly processed cheesy popcorn- and make sure that you don’t wash their hair if they have pink polka-dots in it from the school fair because you will certainly see everyone you know

2.  tell her we get to pick out heavy objects and paint

3. leave her in the isle because you can’t drive the cart

4. take pictures because if you weren’t crazy …you are now (“sitting” like that was her idea…i SO understand that child)

5. get your 5 YO to measure (even though she doesn’t read super well yet)…because they will certainly be straight (she probably did better than i would have….truth be told..

6. use a circular saw without your husband there…for the first time

7. fail to take a hint, that if your daughter hides when you turn the saw on…it might not be safe

8. if you buy the cheapest wood they have at lowe’s …it might destroy a few drill bits while trying to make a hole so a NAIL will go through it….

#hardestwoodeverrrrrrrr (the saw didn’t like it either)

9.  it takes 10 pieces of wood to make 4 trees….nice

10. it takes a REALLY long time to make 4 trees that are almost 5 feet tall each

11. it takes a REALLY long time to spray paint 4 trees that are almost 5 feet tall each

12.  i don’t want to do this project again…it makes me tired typing about it…

13.  so 14 strands of lights, 10 pieces of wood, 2 cans of spray paint, my sanity, and 4 boxes of glitter ornaments later we are decorated….for Christmas…please come over….and help clean up….

THE END…of me

all of my love….if i had any left at all……….

xoxoxo