It's Only December 1st and My Mind Is Frazzled

It's that time of year when your brain goes to mush as you busy yourself for the holidays. Well at least I feel that my mind has. Case in point: I ordered pictured Christmas cards of the whole family. I did it online mainly because I was too lazy to get get dress and do it in the store because I could do it while watching my cutie of a granddaughter. I tried this before and ended up having to go to the store and ordering them from the kiosks. I didn't like how that bunch turned out because I couldn't figure out how to make it say it was from us and hubby had an angel's elbow sticking him in the ear. Oh well, hence the need to do the second order, from home, with a different store (the first set was safe to send out any way, I just wanted more). I picked a store I had used many times before for my pictures and was happy with the selection that I could choose from. I found one that the picture I wanted to use could work, had a nice semi-religious saying on it, ordered it with a 50% off coupon.

I was proud of myself.

Went later that day to pick them up. The girl behind the counter knew me and greeted me as soon as she saw me. I told her I was there to pick up my order and she promptly retrieved them for me. I checked out the 8X10 photo that I ordered of the granddaughter, way too cute, then I checked out the wallet size pictures of her that I needed for a special ornament that I had. The young girl just stood there waiting for me to look at the Christmas cards. I open the envelope and smiled at how well they turned out. That's when the nice girl gently told me,

"Did you mean to have it say that you are the Taylor family?"

I looked at her funny, she pointed to the bottom of the card where it said,

The Taylor Family

I laughed hard, so did the youngest son, but not hubby.

I thought it would be great to send them out anyway with the name Taylor crossed out and our name written above it. Or do nothing at all and see how many of the family and friends would notice.

Hubby said no.

He didn't think that would be funny or appropriate.

I told him he was a kill joy.

The young girl told me if I wanted to I could reorder the cards and have the correct name put on it. Hubby told me he liked that idea best of all. Home I went to correct my mistake online because this was the only way to do it.

Today we put the outside lights out. It was a comedy of errors with strains of lights that didn't work, hubby putting the strains that go the whole length of the house on backwards, lights were put on the roof only to not work when plugged in (yes we did check it first), spending several hours trying to get a strain to work only for it to end up in the garbage can.  Oh I could go on and on...........

Instead I'll leave you with this picture of part of the finish look:

Well it's really not finish. There is something wrong in this picture, can you tell what it is? Hubby has promise to correct it tomorrow while I'm at work.