Changes are a'Brewin'

Packing the Tent

The final pack of the tent. We've spent two weeks now at relatives' houses, and it feels a bit odd that our tenting days are over. We celebrated mightily the final takedown. NS was especially excited at the thought of ditching the tent lifestyle.

Pennsylvania Tree

West Virginia Tree

In our two weeks with relatives, we've gotten to decorate a few houses for Christmas, which was fantastic. We haven't spent any time with relatives other than my parents in so many years, this was truly a delight for me to spend time with family seeing what they do for their traditions. And because I do still miss some of our traditions, we went ahead and made some of our favorite cookies, along with a couple recipes of Chex Mix.

Stockings

I've also gotten to spend a little bit of time preparing for Christmas in our trailer. The kids and I have been working on their stockings, and they're almost all finished. I still have to sew up NS' and then get to work on Bill's, but I think they're beginning to shape up nicely. Bill's mom went out with me to get some ornaments for our 18" artificial tree. We have a bunch of battery operated mini LEDs. I got candles that will hopefully make our trailer smell like Christmas, not just perfumey.

Hard at Work

Saint Nick brought us a train set for our trailer. Bill grew up with trains at Christmas time, and we've always enjoyed setting ours up, so it was great to get a set for the tree in the trailer. It's Lego, so the kids have enjoyed putting it together. And Aunt Rita oohed and aahed over it, which made the kids feel good. She's such a good aunt!

And now, the most exciting news of all. Our trailer is READY!!!! We got an email with pictures, and they said they'd see us Thursday. We had thought it would be ready Friday, so this is the best stinkin' news EVER!!!! So today we leave Pennsylvania to park ourselves in a hotel overnight in New York, in order to make the trip to the RV center in Ontario super short. They said we could arrive right after lunch, so that's the plan. YEAH!!!!!!

Finished Outside

The Inside

The Floor