Trying to maintain my Christmas spirit around here- it’s hard when the house is turned upside down.\u00a0 The painters were fired last week by my contractor and now new painters are starting.\u00a0 Today is prep day.\u00a0 I spent the morning tearing down the prep work that the old painters did since the new painters said it looked like an idiot did it.\u00a0 Well that isn’t the word he used but….\u00a0 There is paint over-spray everywhere-\u00a0 I got the biggest one up that was right in the middle of my new family room, lots more to do.\u00a0 There is a part of me that feels bad for the old painter- he has 6 kids, 10 and under.\u00a0 But on the flip side I look around at the mess, knowing that they started the week of Thanksgiving and well, I just want my house back.\u00a0 And now that it is almost Christmas and we are starting all over.\u00a0 I am supposed to attend a cookie exchange tonight but I have no cookies, since I have given up my kitchen to painters again, and I am tired.\u00a0 I was actually productive though- got a lot of stuff moved into the new studio- which I would show but the floor is still concrete and probably will be concrete for a while.\u00a0 Too many things on my husbands to do list- studio is low on the list.<\/p>\n
Oh and did I mention that our 15 year old dog knocked down the Christmas tree today?\u00a0 Poor guy is deaf and sorta blind.\u00a0 I had a heck of a time getting it back up, I’m sure you can picture the battle.\u00a0 It would be funny if he didn’t pee all over the floor too. Sigh.<\/p>\n
So let’s talk Christmas songs.<\/p>\n
Andy made us a good mix the winter that I was pregnant with Cole, every year he seems to find a few more good ones but here are my favorites.<\/p>\n
It must have been Ol Santa Claus-\u00a0 Harry Conick Jr.<\/p>\n
I saw 3 ships-\u00a0 Sting<\/p>\n
Do they know it’s Christmas- Band Aid<\/p>\n
Frosty the Snowman-\u00a0 Cocteau Twins<\/p>\n
Silver Bells-\u00a0 Sugar Ray and Rosie<\/p>\n
Baby Please come home-\u00a0 U2<\/p>\n
So this is Christmas-\u00a0 John Lennon<\/p>\n
Oh Holy Night-\u00a0 Jewel<\/p>\n
Feels like Christmas-\u00a0 Cyndi Lauper<\/p>\n
That’s it for now, off to figure out why Blake is covered in a rash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Trying to maintain my Christmas spirit around here- it’s hard when the house is turned upside down.\u00a0 The painters were fired last week by my contractor and now new painters are starting.\u00a0 Today is prep day.\u00a0 I spent the morning tearing down the prep work that the old painters did since the new painters said it looked like an idiot did it.\u00a0 Well that isn’t the word he used but….\u00a0 There is paint over-spray everywhere-\u00a0 I got the biggest one up that was right in the middle of my new family room, lots more to do.\u00a0 There is a part of me that feels bad for the old painter- he has 6 kids, 10 and under.\u00a0 But on the flip side I look around at the mess, knowing that they started the week of Thanksgiving and well, I just want my house back.\u00a0 And now that it is almost Christmas and we are starting all over.\u00a0 I am supposed to attend a cookie exchange tonight but I have no cookies, since I have given up my kitchen to painters again, and I am tired.\u00a0 I was actually productive though- got a lot of stuff moved into the new studio- which I would show but the floor is still concrete and probably will be concrete for a while.\u00a0 Too many things on my husbands to do list- studio is low on the list. Oh and did I mention that our 15 year old dog knocked down the Christmas tree today?\u00a0 Poor guy is deaf and sorta blind.\u00a0 I had a heck of a time getting it back up, I’m sure you can picture the battle.\u00a0 It would be funny if he didn’t pee all over the floor too. Sigh. So let’s talk Christmas songs. Andy made us a good mix the winter that I was pregnant with Cole, every year he seems to find a few more good ones but here are my favorites. It must have been Ol Santa Claus-\u00a0 Harry Conick Jr. I saw 3 ships-\u00a0 Sting Do they know it’s Christmas- Band Aid Frosty the Snowman-\u00a0 Cocteau Twins Silver Bells-\u00a0 Sugar Ray and Rosie Baby Please come home-\u00a0 U2 So this is Christmas-\u00a0 John Lennon Oh Holy Night-\u00a0 Jewel Feels like Christmas-\u00a0 Cyndi Lauper That’s it for now, off to figure out why Blake is covered in a rash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elisalou"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}