Christmas is coming

We spent this weekend getting ready for Christmas. We put up the rest of the decorations and started cleaning up in preparation for our guests. This will be the first time we have hosted Christmas and we are excited to do so. The only thing left to put up is my stocking.

I got this wild hare idea that I'd like to make all of our Christmas stockings. I started on January 2, 2006. I have been needlepointing it and I started out with mine in case I messed it up. I really didn't care if mine looked kinda bad but I want Libby and Mike's to look good. Well, long story made short... I am just now finishing it after almost 11 months! I thought I'd have at least 2 of the 3 done by Christmas and it turns out that having Libby slowed me down more than I thought it would. Mine will be done this week and can join our other temporary stockings on the wall very soon. I feel very accomplished though and it looks much better than I expected.

TLA