I am so loving the Christmas season already. Last year I kind of missed out. I was entering my third trimester pregnant with the twins and I was huge and miserable with horrible back pain. I could barely move or stand for any length of time so I didn't do any baking at all. Plus, we were staying at a friends house while we waited for our house to be built and he doesn't decorate and all of our stuff was in storage. So no tree, no lights, no baking. Luckily Paul's mom did lots of baking and sent plenty of cookies our way so at least we got our Christmas cookie fix! Anway, I'm really looking forward to making up for it this year. We already have our tree up and the house decorated (except outside) and I've already watched "Christmas Vacation" and "Serendipity" (not technically a Christmas movie but it has Christmas-y scenes). I can't wait to start baking but it's hard to find time during the day now that the twins are eating three meals a day plus several bottles and trying to get a walk in every afternoon. I'll get to it, though. And I'm going all out. I have several new recipes to try. Fun!
It's time for this week's Show Us Your Life, brought to you by Kelly's Korner , and this week it's dining rooms. We have a very open floorplan, so when you walk in our front door the dining room is to the right and the living room to the left, with the fireplace straight ahead. It's basically all one big room. I bought the table and sideboard at Dania when I bought my first condo back in 2002. It looked great in that condo, but for this house I wish I had black dining room furniture. The table and sideboard are the same color as the trim, and then with the white walls (although we finally got one wall painted) it's just so blah. And like most other rooms in the house, we have yet to hang curtains (not that we're going to hang them in every room, but we have yet to hang any). Looking in from the kitchen. Need curtains! Looking in from the living room. Notice the plastic protector underneath, for when the kids throw their sp...
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