An INteresting?? Xmas.

Without to much trouble Xmas 2014 will be better.  It's been an interesting one to say the least.  The weekend before Xmas we had a huge, huge rain storm and the lower level flooded again.  Uck.  Not as bad this time but it was wet.  The attention to spouting helped somewhat but not enough so...the house has been a mess.  First the smell and moisture which really hit us after coming home from church.  Sears came on Monday to dry the room.  Fan's running humidifier running...of course...no one works on Christmas Eve so all that continued through till Thurs. afternoon.  Currently the family room stuff.  Doug's really is in the livingroom, dining room so the house is currently a total mess.  See...2014 will be better.  Went to Christmas Eve services...All three because of worship responsibilities particularily at the second service.  Noah and Andrew sang at the first and of course we sang at the third.  In bed by 1 am...awake at 5 am...sick by 7 am which continued throughout the day.  Slept a lot.  So...See...2014 will be better.  Today, Thurs. soup kitchen in the morning and this afternoon the carpet has been cleaned and the machines are all gone.  Need to wait on moving everything back another day.  Mess, mess.  Visual person that I am it has not been plesant to look at!  Christmas 2014 has got to be better.  I've missed the kids terribly.  Eric/Kat etc. in California on vacation and Jared/Kimmy in Mich.  We will be together in January.   Continue to sew bags going through all the fabric again to find fabric pieces big enough for bags.  I'm working on things for the Kenya Carnival the first of March. 

Need to think of putting decorations away at church.  It's got to happen soon but the Sunday afternoon I was going to have folks help now has been canceled because of a program that afternoon.  So it looks at this point that it will be a solo job on my part.  Guess I need to think that slow and easy gets the job done.  That was the case with preparation but I started mid Oct. Gravity will be in my favor getting things down. 

Sleepy Sat.

It's a sleepy Sat. with the snow coming down wet and heavy.  We were to have around 4 inches but it's warm and the snow is really wet so it's packed itself and should not be a problem for us.  There's a good covering.  Made two aprons  for the Kenya bazaar coming first of March.  I should have a good bit of stuff for the market place.  I'm ready to empty the sewing room.  Church stuff is finished for a while with the exception of picking up at the green house Poinsettia each week.  This week is pink and the flowers are beautiful.  Next Friday I need to pick up 12...6 red and 6 white for Xmas Eve.  I'm starting to do a bit of decorating here with wonderful Holly from Georgia.  Don't think I'll do a tree this year.  Lights don't work and the kids are not coming home till New Years so I'm happy not to need to set up stuff that just needs to come down.  We can use the room where the tree would go.  I might be looking for a new tree for next year...smaller and thinner although our tree is not very big.  Maybe even a table tree.  I'll need to think about that.  Made scones today.  Yum, yum.  They don't last.  This time...bacon added.  Not much going on.  That's probably a blessing that I need to record as a blessing.  It's a good afternoon for sleeping and I'm doing that.  Should have done more last night.     

Dec. is here

Georgia trip is over.  I drove both ways stopping every 2 hr. for a stretch for Doug.  I love that kind of traveling.  We left at 5 and arrived in Conyers around 3 pm.  That was Tues.  The rest of the folks got there on Wed. So...those first quiet hrs were wonderful to say the least after a busy, busy weekend of Church stuff.  The rest of the gang arrived from Mi, Tenn, and Texas.  Rick and Dee and I went grocery shopping and did real damage to Rick's C Card.  Woo...thanks to Rick we ate like there would be no food coming.  But come it did.  We managed to put away 9 apple pies, Turkey, S. Joes, Beef Stew, Left over turkey meal thrown into the C Pot.  and more.  Tenn. folks left on Sat. after all of them have recovered from being sick.  Mi. folks left Sun. Tex. also left Sun. and we had another quiet evening leaving Monday morning early.  Again I drove the whole way with Doug sitting in the navigator seat. 
He had a heart doc. appointment Fri.  Stents are doing well but another blockage is appearing now at 50%.  I didn't go with him because I also have a horrendous head infection.  I will go to his next appointment with questions which is in about 4 weeks.   So...I was off to the doc also on Fri.  Started in Georgia with a sore throat as well!  So...it's more pills for me.  This is getting old to say the least.  Snow arrived yesterday.  Not much but all is white.  Today I'm feeling well enough to head to church to finish up all the decorating that wasn't done last Sun.  I'm feeling now like it's finished and looking good.  Of course no one would not have thought it wasn't finished before.  Now it's quiet time until we're off to Panera around 8:00.  I'm lovin my chair and blanket with hot coffee.