Tonight after work Mom stopped in with some more things for the party on Saturday. We all had a list on what we were supposed to bring and for some reason she’s not following it very good 🙂 She’s bringing her things along with a ton of other stuff.  Oh well, it just shows that we’re going to have one heck of a party!!!
As for me? Well I started the task of  putting up Christmas lights outside. OK, I know it’s a little late, but shoot last year I was still adding to them the week of Christmas so this isn’t so bad. But I sure have trouble with the lights from year to year. I mean I seriously take really good care of them and then BAM! the next year they don’t work. So this year is the same old story. When I take them out of the plastic container that has each level of lights separated with newspaper, I take a good look at them and it’s almost a look of ‘you better work or else’ and then plug them in. And guess what? Well some do work which I find myself giving them a little smirky smile but there are some that don’t. I take them and give them the stink eye (like this is going to help or something) and put them on a pile on the floor. But I do give them a second chance at the end of my process of checking to see what lights work or what doesn’t. And to be honest I haven’t had any that came back and worked again so I have absolutely no clue why I do give them a second chance. Then I pick the whole bunch up and throw them away. Yup, I throw them away. I know that you can look at the fuses and check each light bulb to try to make them work…. but I throw them away. Now is this a cost effective way to handle them? Probably not. But is a very good way to handle this situation around Christmas time when you’ve got other things to do? Absolutely! I’ll got some other things to do in town tomorrow and I’ll add a whole lot of lights to my list.
So we’re still getting ready for Mom’s Christmas and St. Nick’s day tomorrow and how can you have Christmas without some homemade candy? Once I got up all the lights that I could, I spent some time in the kitchen making the caramel for the turtle candy. I usually only make candy around the Christmas time and I’m thinking that this is a good thing. It smells so good when it’s cooking and when something looks like this 
 you just know that it’s going to also taste good. I’m not sure what happened, but for some reason when I was pouring it into the next pan to cool, well there was a stirring spoon full of the caramel that just didn’t make it to the pan. Yup on my lips and then to my hips!! Whooo Hooo let the Christmas Season begin !!