It's Almost Time!

2 Sleepies till we head down to my Dad's house for our Christmas traditions to start. Fred (hubby), Jeremiah (son), and me head down to stay overnight with my Dad and Step Mom for the night before the night before. We watch movies together with National Lampoon Christmas Vacation a requirement. Christmas Eve we do presents with them in the morning. Then about noon we head over to my Dad's parents house to help load up all the goodies. My family has grown so large we rent a community building for our Christmas celebration. We go setup and help carry all the food in. 2pm the rest of the family shows up and we laugh and eat food together. The kiddos all get presents and make a lot of noise haha. My mom's family is now past but we used to eat the evening meal with them. Now though after the Elshire side is done celebrating we head home to fight sleep for the final night of sleeping till the big day.

We still believe in the magic of Christmas so the presents are put out after everyone is asleep. (Thanks Santa!) So Christmas morning when we come downstairs we are always amazed at the sight. Jeremiah's eyes are my favorite thing to see that morning. He just lights up with excitement. It's time! I love that Christmas feeling.

Tomorrow we are going as a family to gather some last minute groceries, eating lunch out, and relaxing together so I figured I better pop in today with an update before the Christmas excitement is full on. It's IHSW (International Hermit Stitch Weekend) starting today. I got all the stuff I needed to get done done yesterday so today I'm going to curl up with my stitching and watch movies/TV all day. Tomorrow I will probably get more time in the afternoon. Sunday will be busy busy so no stitching then.

So what am I working on now that I finished up the Durene Jones Calendar...

This pattern is from Rovaris -- Please Santa Stop Here. I have 2 Days of progress into it now...

The fabric I'm using is 18ct Polished Brass Gold Aida from Zweigart for this one and I love how it's turning out.

I hope everyone reading this has a very Merry Christmas! or Happy Holidays! whatever you may celebrate. Thanks for being a reader on my little blog. I enjoy posting here so much but the comments make it worth it. The friendships I have made on this blog are very special ones indeed.