2021 Christmas tree -

My husband and I discussed which tree to put up and he preferred the big white one.  

So I put it up and did minimal fluffing to it. 

I looked at the 3 tubs of ornaments and assorted doodads.  I got out my 4 mugs, the nativity set I bought 41 years ago and the 2 Santa’s for the grandchildren to play with.  

As I said before,  I just don’t enjoy putting all the ornaments on a tree and this giant tree would need a LOT of ornaments. 

I thought “what would my grandchildren like?”  Well, they like candy so I decided to do a candy cane decorated tree.  

It’s a prelite  tree and the lights can be white or multicolor 

The topper is a Santa hat I’ve had for years.  

Most of the candy canes are traditional peppermint but I got a few specialty ones.

I’ll keep this picture in case any candy cane eaters are trying to choose which cane to eat and wondering what flavor it might be.  

I had fun doing this tree and I think my grands will all be impressed 

But I’m sure it won’t be featured in Pinterest highlights either 😂

❤️🎄 Rhonda 

Pantry clean up and problem, commenting problem and which tree should I do?

Hello everyone,  

I was home all afternoon yesterday and all day today and I made quite a bit of progress on my to do list.

The floors all got cleaned yesterday and did they ever need it! 

The first job I did today was clean  and reorganize our pantry.  

This is before ——

And after 

I made a new batch of taco seasoning - it’s a tried and true recipe and I’ve blogged about it multiple times.  

A triple batch fills a quart jar - I’ve put this in small jars for Christmas gifts and everyone liked it 

Just a caution about pantry filling - I had 2 unopened boxes of Aldi brand “Velveeta”

 They were out of date by a few months (but I don’t rely strictly on dates)

I opened one for a recipe I cooked yesterday and that shelf stable cheese was dry and brown.  

So I opened the second one and it was the same.  

I threw it away.  

when I bought more,  I only bought one and I spent extra for the name brand.  

I don’t know what happened with the Aldi product 

I’m thinking about how to decorate for Christmas.  I looked on my old blog posts to remember what we did other years .

I still haven’t decided. 

This white tree is very tall and I could decorate it like a snowman again or put an assortment of ornaments on it.

Or I could use the short green one.  It’s a nice tree and a small tree would be easier. 

I think my grands would love the tall one though 

   

How do you all vote?  

Also, Blog authors,  if your blog is in my sidebar,  I read your blog.  And I’ve been trying to comment recently but my comments seem to just disappear when I hit publish- with no message about my comment needing to be approved.  

I’m sure it’s a blogger bug and I’m hoping to figure it out.  

But please know I’m not ignoring you all 

❤️ Rhonda