Now Playing: More Scottish Christmas music
Things have finally gotten active in Pleasantville again after a long period of playing here and there, we are actually able to play more now.

Yesterday John enforced all of his laws and inspections of houses, and five people got sent to the jail for various things like not walking or feeding their pets, not eating, or not having laundry boxes.

Kaya, Suzanna, Mei Mei, Antonio and Heather Heaven all had to stay in jail for  a night and then pick a chore from the chore box that they had to do.  Suzi got "walking the Parkington's pets" which is the most dreaded of the chores to do, so she had to drag all the cats around the town and then put up with Snowball, who is like the Houdini of dogs and always manages to wiggle out of his leash somehow and make a beeline to Kaya's cave, which his favorite place to hang out!

The Parkingtons have torn apart their upper floor in order to do some wallpaper work in Rebecca's bedroom and Samantha's room before they take everything down to start putting up their Christmas decorations.  I just had Rebecca's wallpaper push-pinned to the walls until now, and I want to glue it and put in some wood and new curtains like we did to the green parlour and the music room.

Our house is starting to be secretive.  lol  because all the dolls are starting their Christmas presents for each other, there is a lot of "don't come in here!" and "you can't look over here!" going on, as well as a lot of whispering between present conspirators.

We're watching the Nutcracker DVD again and I wish we could do the Nutcracker again.  I'm so glad we taped it and got it on DVD though, since we don't have enough time to do the full production anymore.  And I forgot about all the behind-the-scenes features that are so funny!  Especially the blooper reel.  It helps me remember what it was like to put that on every year, which was really fun.  

There is frost at the Larsons' cabin right now.  Pretty soon they are going to get their first snowfall.  And from there -  here we go!!

:-)
Have a great day!
Greta