This is the ghost of December 27th....

Here's a post I wrote on December 27th. Our internet has been spotty this week (much like my health) and my attempts to upload photos failed every time....better late than never? So here it is - with edits)
Now go back in time and pretend it's December 27th

It's been a busy and fun few days!

Christmas was very quiet and relaxing - it's just me and my fella and since we didn't exchange gifts this year 

(except for a book I bought him before we agreed to not buy gifts. I got a great deal on it so it seemed silly to return it....) 

so we had a nice breakfast, he read his book, I read a magazine that I got a couple of weeks ago, we napped, snacked and made a big turkey dinner with all of our favorite fixin's.

We used my mother's china, which my Dad gave me when he sold his house this summer. Actually, my sister has been carting it in her carryon bag everytime she flies up from Halifax. 

(That's love. Or just the resolve that she won't store it in her basement along with all of the other stuff that came out of my father's house. )

It was nice. I don't think it's been used since the year my mom died so it makes me happy to think it would make her happy that it's being used.

No, I don't have any pictures. I know. That makes all this much more boring. But I'm still sharing. 

There you go.

I do have a few photos of other Christmassy things....

I could not, for the life of me, decide on how I wanted to decorate the front of the house.

I know urns are popular but I don't have any and I wanted something different. I just couldn't figure out what that was. Truth be told, our front entrance is a bit awkward. There's not a lot of room to put urns or the like out there because then it's hard for people to get in the front door so I haven't put anything out there. 

Yes, it's plain but at least nobody trips on anything trying to get in.

Safety first!

We were going to decorate the tree out front like this:

but we didn't have enough lights and I refused to pay $20 per strand of lights.

(that reminds me - I have to go to Canadian tire and buy lights on sale if there are any left...)

So we ended up with something simple but I thought it looked pretty. Especially with the snow...

Here's another:

I baked so much stuff this year!

I made these guys

plus:

brownies

nanaimo bars (which some people told me were the best they ever had! It was my first time making them so I was thrilled)

lemon bars

almond roca bars

candy cane bark

chocolate covered peanut butter balls

hello dolly squares

(they don't look like much in the photo but they are deeeelicious!)

The downside? There's still lots left.

Bad for my waistline

but they were oh-so-fun to make! I discovered that I really like baking and I can't wait to try some new recipes this year.

I've also decided that I need to come up with some menu ideas so we can have people over for dinner and not just order pizza like we usually do. If anyone has any ideas, please share....

I got these cute little wreaths at the Bay. They were 40% off!

This one's a little bit bigger. I hung it in the kitchen.

(you can see my old beloved coffee maker in this photo.)

Chester is not put off by the snow....

There are some other ones I'll post later.

For some reason blogger hates a few of my photos and won't upload them.

I'll retake the photos and post....

Now I have to go buy a stock pot to boil the turkey carcass in.

Ew, I know.

Fella promised to do it since I'm about 5 steps away from vegetarianism.

It's a bit much for me!