It's a Christmas Miracle

I don't know what happened, but our hot water is back! Hooray!!!

Now, about those other things...

What Next?

My toilet tank has a hairline crack and it is dripping.

My water heater isn't heating the water.

My vacuum has no suction.

The string on a set of blinds broke and now they won't go up and down.

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

Don't mind the cheesy title. I couldn't think of anything else. Christmas Decorations? Outdoor Decor? Anyway, I finally got all of our outdoor decorations up, bought extra extension cords, and got almost all of the kinks worked out. Man, Christmas lights can be a pain! They work when you test them inside and then you take them out and put them up and they don't work anymore! (Can you see where I still have a problem?) I am so excited to buy more decorations at the after-Christmas clearance sales this year. I was pretty much maxed out at our old house but now I have so many more places to decorate! I'm still working on the inside. More pictures to come later.


Ignore the fact that I still have no window covering of any kind on my living room windows.

By day...
and by night. Next year I will have lights on the bushes in the front. I just didn't feel like dealing with even more lights, extension cords, and timers this year.
I cut up a bouquet of fake poinsettias and stuck them under those potted trees, where I just pulled out some annuals a few weeks ago. It's probably a little trailer park to use fake flowers outside but I think it looks pretty!

Today is Dec. 1

...and this is what Audrey's advent calendar looks like.