Puzzle-mania!

The time has come...

Puzzle Season!  You can laugh if you want to, but my family is serious about holiday puzzles.  We went to get my big square coffee table out of my mom's garage today, and on the way, I told B we were going to get it so we could start doing puzzles.

He got excited, especially when I told him Nana had a few puzzles I wasn't sure we had done before.  "Can we take one with us?!" he asked?  "Sure, but they might be really hard.  I think Nana said they were all snow scenes." I said.  This kid...  "That's okay, I have a really smart brain for puzzles."

For puzzles.  Not for other things, mind you, but give the boy a puzzle and he's all over it.

Last year, towards the end of the holiday season, I bought a "variety pack" of Christmas puzzles.  There are 10 of them, ranging in size from 100 pieces to 500 pieces.  I let B pick the puzzle we started with, and he chose one of the 10.  So, we're currently working on "Christmas Mischief" and by "we" I actually mean me.  While N showered, B and I separated the pieces into the border and the middle.  When N finished, we put the border together, and I promised them I'd work on it after they went to bed.

They're so lucky to have such an over-achiever as a mom...  I'm almost finished with the whole thing, you know, just to make sure all of the pieces are there.  I'm contemplating taking it apart in sections so they can put it together.  Or maybe we'll just pick another puzzle and do that tomorrow afternoon. 

Aside from that, I spent the morning/afternoon trying to find the perfect shoes/belt for this party this weekend.  I thought I had found them in this cute pair of cobalt blue heels with a t-strap, but when I got home and put them on with the dress, I wasn't a huge fan.  Once the boys got home, we went to Grapevine Mills where I found some super-great purple shoes and a belt for less than the cost of the cobalt pair.  I "heart" Grapevine Mills...yes, it takes time to go through it, but the good deals are there.  Sometimes.  Usually.  Maybe.

Tomorrow, I get to go and return the other items I bought today, and I'm hoping that we'll be able to start decorating for Christmas.  I have garland on the mantel and our stockings are hung by the chimney with care, but everything else is just kind of piled up below the stockings.  I have exactly one present wrapped, and four more that I need to wrap so once our tree is up, there will be colorful packages under the tree!

Now, I have about 20 pieces left of this puzzle, so I'm going to finish it before I destroy it.  Sounds perfectly logical, don't you think?

Aubs