I have put up our outdoor decorations three times this Christmas season. The first go around, the used LED lights on the porch. But I realized that they give off a white, almost blueish, glow. My candles, however, put out a soft yellow light. The combo of the two was hideous. So, I unplugged them and tried again.
I purchased new lights and the next weekend I finally got around to stringing them up. As I was wrapping the lights around the railings, I realized that they were multi-colored lights. I meant to buy clear lights, but somehow purchased several boxes of colored lights. I went ahead and put them up thinking whatever, I tried. I then noticed that none of my candles were working. When I purchased new candles for all of my windows, I thought I had bought the ones with automatic timers. That was not the case, though. All of the batteries had died since originally install them since they never turned off.
I was very disappointed with the way the outside looked. But the inside looked amazing, so I thought again, whatever. I couldn't spend the time and money one more time to try to get it right.
But, me being me, I also couldn't just let it look ugly.
So, yesterday, I purchased five more boxes of clear lights. I had Alex and Eva with me so I had each of them double check I was buying the right ones. Then I bought more candles and again had the kids double check that they were the automatic timer ones.
In the drizzle yesterday after school, I hung our outdoor decorations for the last time.
The third time really is a charm!
For our second day of Christmas activity, we baked some cookies! I totally cheated and bought cookie mixes instead of going from scratch. But I do not care. It was much quicker and less messy this way. And the kids really did do the majority of the work! We have several more batches to make, but several more days worth of activities.
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