Christmas Readiness

It was in the 60's on Sunday, so it felt weird to be getting ready for Christmas - but it was the perfect day to put up the outside lights!! We are now ready for the holidays…and hoping for a better Christmas season than we had Thanksgiving season!

Putting the star on top!

And, some much needed good news!! The dishwasher broke nearly a week ago and Steve took the whole thing apart - so there were tools and dishwasher pieces all over the kitchen (and dirty dishes!) But, the part he thought he needed came yesterday, so he could finally finish it off!! Apparently there was some controversy about whether that was, indeed, the problem, so he was very nervous this was all for nothing. He clanked around in there for about an hour and then we crossed our fingers and started to run it. A leak. Not good. More clanking. We ran it again. SUCCESS!!! Steve found the correct burnt out part, fixed it, fixed the leak, and now the dishwasher is once again running!! YAY!!!! I cleaned the whole kitchen yesterday evening after Steve was done and it looks normal again. We needed a win!  And now that I know Steve is capable of doing these things, I told him he has to fix the finicky kitchen light next. 

While we were making bags of bean soup mix at church, Wm's table ran out of beans and Wm yelled to me, "We're out of beans!!! HASHTAG MORE BEANS!"