Gearing Up

Welcome to my Holidailies posts. Starting today, I will try really hard to update Raspberry World every day between now and January 6. Hope you'll come along with me through December. And hey, some of my other favorite bloggers are playing, too! Jul of the Day and Painted Turtle.


This year, the holidays are pretty low-key for us. I'm 8 months pregnant (as of today!) and I just didn't feel like going anywhere or having any houseguests. So we'll be sticking close to home and doing things around here, mostly just the two of us. Marty has a week off between Christmas and New Year, and we're planning to get the baby's room ready then. We'll need it sometime in January or February, so I really feel like it's time.


However, one thing I did do is decorate our tree. Since we live in such a small space, I am using a little artificial tree I bought while we were living in Germany. I know someday we'll be in a bigger house again and I can have a big tree and use all my ornaments, but for now this one fits our lifestyle. The best part was when I sprung my birds from captivity after a long year wrapped in tissue paper.

Since we have an artificial tree, I splurged on a pretty wreath made of real greenery. It smells so good! I'll have to take a picture of it, too.

And now it's time for breakfast.

Coming up in the next few days of holidailies posts, I'll write about making divinity candy, feeding the birds, taking insulin shots, and my new pregnancy/baby blog. So stay tuned.

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