Christmas Tidings

When I left for work this morning, our front door looked like this:

When I returned home, it looked like this:

And no, this was not a 'Welcome home, Honey' surprise.

I knew about it.

I absolutely loved our old door. It had so much character and really fit the house perfectly. I loved the arch. I loved the window. I.loved.the.door. But it had a gap along the entire door jamb that you could literally look through and see directly outside. And the window was not fool proof. I think a strong wind may have been able to blow it in, leaving access to our house available to everyone. And it was so bowed in the middle that unless you put all your weight behind it while attempting to close and lock it, you would be left with a door ajar, and the public staring. (We barely know our new neighbors. We figure there's no sense in pissing them off.) So, for safety and energy efficiency reasons, we replaced our front door. It was our first major home improvement project. Major as in we had to hire outside help to do it. (Tom, this is not a degradation to your extreme handyman help that you have provided us thus far. It has been fantastic, and we sincerely appreciate it!) I believe our new door going to be painted that same hunter green color tomorrow, and even though I loved our old door, I am already enjoying the new look! Plus, the feeling of safety that accompanies knowing that no one will easily be able to get in is worth it.

In other news, we decided decorate our Christmas tree tonight. We put a bell around Jack's neck so we had that holiday jingle in the air, turned on some Christmas music, and danced our way around the tree as we placed all our ornaments and candy canes. Christmas is truly a magical time of the year!


And last but certainly not least, we also Elfed ourselves! If you've never 'Elfed' yourself before, you must! Ridiculousness at its finest! Click the link for a good laugh! Whoever decided to give everyone the opportunity to upload their human head on to silly dancing elves was a genius. Genius!

I wish I could dance like that in real life.

Happy Holidays!