"Not Me!" Monday

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and so many others have not been doing this week!

Wow...we did not have a busy week! {Don't I always say that? It feels that way!} I did not get enough to eat at Thanksgiving {really!} I was not busy stuffing myself all week with pumpkin cookies {mmmmm!} because I did not make enough for an army! That is not my traditional contribution to the Thanksgiving feast...because I have never cooked a turkey before {really!}

We were not busy decking the halls and making some fun little Christmas trees to hang in the windows. {Not a great picture, but during the day, the beads catch the light and they are really pretty!}


I have not been busy shooing Whiskers out of the Christmas tree daily...and finding ornaments under couches and fake pepperberries scattered around the house!

We have not been busy cleaning out our basement...whew! There have not been tons of garbage bags going to the dump and to the Goodwill and sawdust flying, and plastic bin filling going on down in the dungeon! Here is glimpse...



{I know...so not pretty...yet! But we could not even see the floor at all before this! Really! We have big plans to finish the bigger space for a media room and keep the finished side for the kids to play in and still have a little bit of storage...I know...big plans...lots of time...some day! But such a good start for us!}

I was absolutely not busy trying to be crafty and practically super glue all my fingers together! I did not find an old lamp shade and broken base while cleaning out our basement and decide to make this by gluing some old napkins I had to the shade and gluing the shade to the base...



{...but I was able to seperate all my fingers and will try to glue some ribbon around the edges for trim...not too bad for some junk in the basement!}

Dan and Alex did not go to Grandpa's to borrow a circular saw this weekend...and come home with not just one of these...


...but two!


{I'm not sure who was more excited...Dan or Alex! Good grief...does anyone even remember these? We are so lucky to inherit these back! hee hee!}

Emily did not make it to the I ♥ Faces photo collage! I was not so surprised to see her little scrunched-up face! {How fun!}


And because we were not so busy enjoying Thanksgiving and inhaling sawdust this weekend...I did not forget to post my Moment again over at Pam's! So I am not taking this opportunity to do double-duty on this post!

I am so going to miss cooking and baking with Alex and Emily. We had so much fun measuring, stirring and tasting the batter when making our pumpkin cookies for Thanksgiving!



Alex even helped me make cheesy garlic bread one night and set the table for dinner! I will sure miss the fun memories we are making right now hanging out around the kitchen table and baking some fun treats! Pretty soon they will just be grabbing a cookie on their way out the door with their friends.

How about you? What have you not been doing or what will you miss someday?

Happy Monday!