Twelve Days Of Christmas!

 And we're OFF!!  It's December 2nd and Santa will be coming around the moon and through the fog in no time at all.  If you haven't bought any of those must-have Christmas presents, you better get on the ball.  Time is running out faster than Rudolph's nose can light up.

Having been otherwise occupied for the last few days, and no sign of that slowing down for a week or two, I had to get in some play time with Cooper.  He's definitely a ball fanatic and will return it every single time.  Of course he may not GIVE it to you, but he will return it.  Eventually he rolls it to you with his nose so the game will continue.  I love this kid!!

Lucky for me, I got a reprieve yesterday morning.  Accounting free for an entire four hours.  Just to be sure I could keep my fingers moving, I worked on this quilt a little more.  It's not all sewn together yet, but it's getting there.  The top row is done, I just can't reach that high to stick it up there.  I think this is one of the prettiest patterns I've made.  

But wait ... it's far from done.  Not only do I have to sew it together, but there are FOUR borders that have to be cut and sewn on.  It will take even longer to finish since this quilt is too big for my machine.  It will spend a month at the quilt shop where they will quilt it on their mega machine.  

Then it was back to work, typing and calculating my fingers to the bone.  It's end of the year tax time, which always brings about a flurry of finding all those records and helping people stay out of the black fingers of the IRS.

It's also DECEMBER ... which means it's time for the Twelve Days of Christmas.  You know, like the song ... On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree.  Yeah, you're going to be singing that all day long!!

Well the King and his lovely Queen Deb (we do seem to have a lot of Debs, yes?) or Debbie as I call her, have come up with a great idea to get together with friends.  For the next twelve days, skipping over bingo nights of course, everyone is invited to a different eating establishment for some Christmas cheer.  Everyone drinks the same thing.  

Take this Rudolph Martini for example.  Who would ever order this unless it was a crazy group of people singing the Twelve Days of Christmas.

The next night, at the next location, maybe it will be a cranberry something or other.  There are any number of cranberry drinks this time of year.  Luckily one night will be at the Elks Lodge so the drinks will be affordable.  This fancy restaurant stuff comes with a hefty price tag.

Two years ago when the flu was going on, they did this in their garage with only three people.  You can imagine all the leftover booze.  It's probably on the menu this year.  This chocolate martini would be on my list.

How about a s'mores glass of chocolate alcohol and toasted marshmallows?  Yummmm ... I would have to be sure and not miss THIS night!!  

The problem is, I'm not a drinker.  One of these would probably knock me on my butt!  Maybe they can make a LIGHT version, or just leave the alcohol out ... replace it with hot cocoa!!

At any rate, what a great way to celebrate the season.  You might even start a new tradition and do this with your friends.  It would be fun to play bartender and fix them at your house too.  Just be sure the smoke alarms are working if you are toasting marshmallows!!

I'll be back to the numbers game today .... maybe I'll have another cup-o-joe so I can stay awake.  It's all worth it in the end because I get PAID!!!!