Trying

I'm trying to remember and follow the directions left by Kimmy but the picture thing isn't working for me at this time. I'm not giving up but right now it's a pain in the butt or something like that. I can't remember what her words are trying to make me remember. It can't be that hard. Christmas things are back in the box as of this afternoon. That's what I call an early put away. I'm moving on to the next thing which I think is the fabric shop. Got a Christmas quilt top picked out for my bed. Fabric is 75% off so I think it's now or never. It's a sunny bright day...snow on the ground and more to come tomorrow. It's great to have the carpet swept and the house looks a bit orderly. Kimmy...I'll keep on this.

Less to do

Wonderful. There is less to do or at least I feel like that. Gifts are wrapped. Pasties are made for day after Christmas Meal. First time I made them and the only thing I can say is that it's hard to make a small pasty. Finished everything up at church for Christmas Eve services yesterday morning. I attended the evening rehearsal for the service the children are doing and guess what...needed to sew another costume. I wish I had the sizes to sew ahead of time. It was a pure guess. The costume needed to be made for an 8 yr. old and they told me an older kid. There's a difference as you well know. So...off to the fabric store once again and the rest of the evening I finished another costume. This morning I'm working on the desk at church. It should be quiet. I'll take my knitting. Tomorrow morning is Soup Kitchen and then around 4 we should head to church for all three Christmas Eve services. It's home by 12;30 I hope. We'll see Jared and Kimmy Christmas afternoon and we'll open presents Sat with Eric and Kat and ALL the little kids...Yahoo.

Finally

I think all my outside committments have been taken care of...Woo, Woo. This has really gotten to me more this year than ever. I just finished ordering the last thing for the grandchildren on Amazon. Wrapping has started and I've even found an easy way to do that. Just put everything for the person in one big box. Wrap the box and it's finished. Well, that's what's happening with the 4 biggest kids. We've passed out gifts to B and B folks the last two Thursdays and there have been so many thank yous. Church folks filled 100 bags at our Advent festival. About 80 bags were filled with a hat I knitted during the year. It's probably the only gift many of our lunch bunch of men will get. They also received a pr. of socks and some toiletries and a bag of candy. All the candles for church are in place including 12 more that I bought for the Advent Wreath for Christmas Eve yesterday. The drafts in the sanctuary are murder on the candles. Costumes for the early children's Christmas service are finished. And all my sewing is finished. That's been fun.

So...now I'm hoping that wrapping will go quickly and I'd love to bake some pasties for Christmas Day. And...it's only the 18th. I'm stopping over at the Patty H. house today for an open house. We took Doris Douglas out to lunch Wed. for her 89th birthday which is Sunday.

I went to see Doc. McSoley today to take another look at my Thyroid. It's in pretty good shape so it will be another year till a visit happens with him. So...it's time to take it easy and forget about what needs to be done because it's DONE! It's me time.