Rainy Day Activities

It was raining before I got up yesterday morning and it continued most of the day. I could have written up  my Mile-long list of things I need to get done between now and Christmas Eve. I could have wrapped up the Advent calendar gifts that I have already bought for the kids. I could have started my hand-made gifts that I plan to craft for Christmas. Heck, I could even have got some housework done since I couldn't go outside to work. But I didn't do any of those things. I just frittered away the whole day. I stayed on my butt in front of the computer and vegetated.

So today, after I talked with "Dee" on Facebook Messenger, I got busy. I  wrote out a birthday card for my daughter whose birthday falls on Saturday this year. I made three more Thanksgiving Day cards and a Halloween card that I will send to my mother. The young kids will get "spooky" cards, but I made a "cute" one for my mom.

I sorted all of the little Advent gifts in the appropriate bags after I wrote in my Xmas book what I have bought already for each child, and was pleasantly surprised to find I have 16 gifts already for each of them. I am more than half way there. I carry the book with me in my purse so that when I am out, I know what I have and what is left to get.

After lunch, the rains stopped again and the sun came out. I walked to the post office to mail my daughter's card and picked up another Amazon order. I then walked over to a friend's house to drop off my Avon order for this month. They are small stocking stuffers that will be mailed out. When I got back home I washed my dining room window, inside and out, with the same diligence and detail that I have used on all the windows so far. But then I decided I would wash the back exterior steel door and the screened back door as well. I must have spent at least two hours on cleaning those doors. I finally quit at 5:30 and made my supper of salmon and greens (spinach, green beans, broccoli and brussel sprouts) covered in Pepper Jack cheese. I think I earned my keep today.