Monday After Christmas

 I think it's Monday. I have no idea haha. I know we had an amazing Christmas. But first on the 23rd I finished the August Fairy finally...

I just love this one of course. It's ocean related. Finished it just in time to get everything ready and head down to the cabin...

We met with Dad and Bev and my Dad's Uncle and his wife for dinner. Then just the 4 of us went to our cabin for the night. We watched a movie together and tried to sleep. We woke up had breakfast and Dad and Bev came back over for presents together and to watch National Lampoon Christmas Vacation our Christmas tradition. My Dad's side of the family had a small gathering at Grandma's house. The few of us had a nice meal and the extended family popped in after for a quick distant hi and bye to pick up presents. It was a lovely get together even in these weird times. We went back to the cabin to gather Izzy and our things and headed home. 

Bed was calling by like 9pm haha. I ended up waking up ready to go at 5am which never happens for me. So needless to say I was excited about Christmas. I woke up everyone and get got started on our day. It was wonderful. We all loved everything. Jeremiah was spoiled rotten of course. No worries there. He got 5 new Xbox games. Fred got some games for his laptop. Mom got a new Snoopy blanket that she fell in love with. I got some fun stickers and notebooks for record keeping. Plus 3 new stitching patterns from my hubby. He did great!!

Bloody Mary, Dark Beer and Moonshine Dragons from Paine Free Crafts. I'm in love with them all. I quickly gathered my floss to see what I needed for these guys. 180 threads between the 3 patterns I needed 18. So Saturday hubby offered to take me get the ones I needed. How sweet. My 18 ended up being 50 haha of course. Plus made waiting in line worth it. Oh my everyone shops here day after Christmas I guess. I got started on Bloody Mary Dragon right away...

My dark dark 1,000 stitch blob haha. Using 32ct lambswool evenweave. 1 thread over 1. Starting in upper left corner so a lot of boring ahead of me. Goes pretty fast though. I did this in just little over 7 hours Saturday and Sunday.

I'm working on my year recap and I'll try to share some of what we received as gifts. Today I finally cleaned up a bit. I moved everything from the floor to Jeremiah's couch. Then from his couch to my computer desk. Today I finally put some things away. Slowly buy surely haha.

Have a great week ahead. Love yourself. Hope we all find time for those beautiful X's.