Break Continued

Break was very busy last week. I flew back to Ohio on Wed. for an Invisalign course on Thursday. I then drove back to Chicago Thursday night. Friday I worked out in the morning, then we spent Friday evening with one of Art's co-workers and his family. We had an awesome time. Saturday was spent shopping at the mall. Sunday was spent watching football with our other friends here. Now it's back to just cleaning the house, doing laundry, finishing the Christmas shopping, working out, and watching netflix for me. As promised here are some pictures of my Christmas tree project.

 The glitter, glue, ornaments, ribbon and rhinestones I bought at Michaels and Target grand total around 20$.

 

The tree topper in progress

 The finished tree topper I put together

 Some of the finished ornaments

The finished tree with lights and all.

Free Time

The best decision I made was to take my National Board exam before Thanksgiving. What it means now is that I have a lot, and I mean a lot, of free time on my hands. Art still has to work during the week so I am basically like a stay at home wife, not mom because we don't have kids. I decided that I needed to start some projects because I would go crazy just sitting at home all day long, I mean you can only work out so much. So day one yesterday was a success at what I call "being domestic". I drove to Michael's and spent almost an hour searching for craft supplies. Then I went to Target to finish collecting supplies. My project is to make most of the decorations for our very first Christmas tree. So far I have made the tree topper and started on decorating all the ornaments. I like the way it is going so far...so get excited for pictures to come! I have also cleaned the apartment, and plan to do some more today, and baked some treats for Art to take to his co-workers. Treats made so far include: peanut butter cookies with Hershey's kisses in the middle and dark chocolate pretzel bark. I would say day one was a complete success. Any idea's for good time killers let me know because I have about 3 more weeks to fill:)