2 Weeks

I have two weeks before T's parents and my dad come up for Thanksgiving.  *I am thankful for T's and my dad driving to us for Thanksgiving*  There - I jumped on the bandwagon of "Thankful November" for just one moment.  Usually I try to make Thanksgiving low key, no stress, and have nothing set in stone.  The past few years our parents come up Wednesday afternoon and we all go out to dinner get back and relax (aka. until my dad passes out in the floor) then we head to bed.  Thursday is full of looking at the Black Friday ads and cooking.... I could honestly skip the cooking part this year.  I don't know why I'm just not feeling all the food (I know - WEIRD).  Friday my dad usually gets up and goes to the crazy sales (You know the ones at like 3am?)  he usually buys one thing and then just people watches.  Then the rest of us get out.... is it just me or do the stores not have the "good" deals they used to have?  I think its just a tradition now more than anything.  Side note: I will have tools on my Black Friday list, we have projects that we want to do and no tools to complete them.

So in two weeks.....

                            oh no..... I just did it again, lol.

I want to:

• FINALLY paint the guest bedroom, we've had the paint for over a month now, goodness. 
• Hang the lights on the back deck (We got two strands on clearance and we're going for a French Bistro feel on the back deck)
• Get the house decorated for Christmas (If we don't do it now our parents don't see it)
• I need to make/find at least 20-40 more ornaments so that my new colored tree comes together (I want to use a paint sharpie on some bulbs, find some other ornaments that aren't round to tie the tree together)
• Spray paint some decor (Re-purposing some cheap decor I had - it's kinda starting to beg for a makeover anyhow)
• Get 3 yards of burlap
• Wrap what few Christmas presents we have thus far
• Address Christmas cards (Yes, We've had our Christmas cards for a little over two weeks already)
• Have some copies of some pictures made to go in frames
• Hang the curtains in our bedroom - and if they don't work - take them back and quickly find something that does lol. 
• Clean up our laundry area (So nothing falls on anyone while they are here)
• Hang a tv? (A girl can hope right?)

Of course there are other little things that will pop up along the way... like upkeep cleaning, maybe finding the impossible hinges for the guest bathroom, and depending on how our motivation goes we might be able to walk into our third bedroom (please don't hold your breath on that one).

So let me share how we started prepping tonight... 

 Hint:  I have been collecting yellow paint chips for over three months.

 After a screwdriver fell on me last week, T is organizing :)

Yes, those are moose on his pj's and slippers

Some people in the family didn't get the two weeks off to a productive start... smh.