Deck the Halls!

Christmas is such a great time of year, I love it. The crowds, I could do without, but the rest of it...I wished I could bottle it up and make it last all year long. I went out to the city to get my Christmas shopping done over the weekend. It was crazy busy, but as I was leaving the city and all its rush, I saw the Christmas lights twinkling on the trees of yards and office buildings and it took me back to my life when all my kids were young. We would take an evening in December and drive around town or the city (wherever it was that we lived at the time) and look at all the Christmas lights that others had so carefully put up in their yards, on their homes and around the trees. Some were elaborate, some very simple, but it was so fun to hear the kids squeal from the back seat when they saw some they liked. "Mom, look over there, did you see that one?" and so on and so on. Those were great years and are wonderful memories. 

I have been busy making our family Christmas socks.

 I started making them last year and just never had

 the time to finish them. So I pulled them out this year and set out to get them done. I wanted to make one for everyone in the family and have socks for each of the kids, married ones also. And then as the married kids have families 

of their own, I will make 

socks for my grandkids to match their parents socks ( I know, cheesy, but its fun). Santa won't fill the socks for the married kids, but I think it will be neat to have them all hanging up together, kind of reminding me of when they were all little. Anyway... I finished them all and got them all hung up.