Thanksgiving Weekend Activities

This is an odd year --

there's a whole week of November left after Thanksgiving

before December

Husband Jim has decided that

"The Magical City of Scott"

will go up this weekend

And until it comes down,

the breakfast room

holds this magical village

and all of our meals 

are taken in the dining room!

(But until we added the breakfast room,

we ate all of our meals in the dining room for our

first 20 years here!)

A look at how

"The Magical City of Scott"

comes to be:

Chairs are moved out and tables moved in

It's not "smoke and mirrors"

but rather

"toilet paper and mirrors"

We found that toilet paper makes a sturdy base for the tiers

And those door mirrors that are cheap at WalMart make perfect tiers!

I'm a "take it out of the box and put it somewhere" person

Jim is a "gotta see it all before I decide where to put it" person

And so the houses are placed on the dining table so he can pick and choose

(The good news is that the boxes get carried back down to the basement

sooner!)

Photos from last year help with placement

(although he changes things a bit every year)

And once it is all put out

And accessorized

It truly is a Magical City!

Although the city will be built this weekend,

other Christmas rites will wait until December . . . 

like getting out the Christmas china

(the first Sunday in Advent)

Decorating the tree

(after December 5)