NINJABREADMEN COME TO LIFE.....

Sometime about September or October, I found ninjabreadman cookie cutters at Target.  I got them right away.  Why wouldn't I?  They are awesome.  Here are the results.

By the way, Christmas was pretty great. 

Mucho mejor

Now this is much better than this was.  Much more festive :)

This will not do

I have Tuesdays off until I start school the end of January--this is not always a good thing because today I saw this:

and I said to myself, "self, this simply will not do--clearly it is December, Christmas is in 18 days and the ground outside our house cannot be covered with leaves."
And herein lies my dilema-- this boy:

who I love so much-- is away at school in Idaho (where it is very cold by the way).  And typically in the past he has taken care of my leaf problem.  So I had to find the rake and do this:

by myself.  Steve told me he'd put them in the garbage cans when he got home, which is a big relief.  All that raking is a lot of work!


And while I was raking, I saw this:

which is not a festive front porch like this.  But tonight maybe I will do something about that!