My life. Take it, or leave it!: What have I been up to today

Yesterday night my sis and her family came over. I tried to clean the place up as much as I could in hurry, as I was expecting them to come late today. So I just had time to do a quick hide the christmas gifts and make it look clean -cleaning. Also I did their beds and baked some christmas pastries.

Today we then started the day by vacuuming and taking the mats out. Of course my niece took all the credit about this cleaning adventure. Then she decided that she wanted to go out. Which is not bad, don't get me wrong, but she is coming down with the flue so she should take it easy. Especially now that she has been traveling the whole day and was here after midnight... Oh well, I did try to make her stay by saying that we would bake (which usually works), but this time she was adamant that she wanted to go out. So out we went.

So after a while I came in as I had started to bake another batch of xmas pastries (she was still out with her dad). While me and my sis were doing that I decided that I am going to bake some xmas associated cookies as well. Shortening a long story: when my sis and her hubby went to eat their wedding day lunch (few weeks later after the date), my niece started to ask how she could help me... I tried to be hard first and told her that she had said that she hadn't wanted to help me when I had asked for it. But in the end I caved and let her help me. Of course I had to allow my nephew to help me too... Which was more let me slam this little piece of badder to the table and lean over my sis to see what she is doing and really not helping at all. But at least he was happy about it.

After we had baked everything, we started to decorate my place. This is because my niece told me that my place was ok, all it needed was the xmas decorations and the xmas tree... So first we put all the decorations that I had bought yesterday in their own places. (As I usually do not have any decorations, I had to buy stuff for this xmas.) So I asked my niece and nephew where the stuff should go and we put them in their places. The only thing that I had put few hours before with my sis was the lights in the kitchen window. After we had done this my niece looked at me and said "now this almost perfect. Only thing missing is the Xmas tree!" ...

So when my sisters hubby said that he was going for last minute shopping, I was going with him. As you can see from the pic below, I bought a xmas tree... There is a plant behind it so that's why it looks funny. Pics are all from my phone, so quality is what it is. The decorations stuff that you see is all new. The day old decorations stuff pics didn't upload at all... Basically there are elfs and angels in my walls and windows.