Yesterday was the day when I ventured into the garage, rearranged some stuff and pulled out the Christmas boxes.
Time to put away the pumpkins, turkeys and pilgrims and get out the snowmen, candy canes, wreaths, lights and ornaments.
We ran to Home Depot, where we get our tree every year, after school and picked out a 5 ft Noble Fir. We stick our tree on a little table to keep it off the floor and reduce temptation for our four-legged family members and one questionable 3.75 year old. Hopefully next year we can {try} a normal sized tree. But our “table top tree” has sort of become tradition….although we have lots more ornaments than we do branches to hang them on.
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As I decked the halls, I thought it’d be nice to have a roast in the crock pot so that’s what was for dinner:
{courtesy of my cousin, Gia}
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I added lots of veggies to mine…halved baby carrots, sliced onion, cubed potato {from the start} and frozen peas and cut green beans {at about the last 30-45 minutes}.
I served with one of my favorite bagged salads from Costco…The Grand Parisian. Comes in a salad kit with cranberries, feta, frosted almonds and this dressing:
{White Balsamic}
Sooooo good. Perfect to feed the holiday troops!
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