Wordless Wednesday...

I'm OBSESSED...

With the QUEEN ANNE'S LACE SCARF...

Keeping Busy...

We've been busy with our Hoiiday Events...


Gingerbread Houses with Friends...

Classroom Christmas ("HOLIDAY") Crafting...

Visiting with "SANTA" (or as Lilley-Kate told me "Mom... he's not the REAL SANTA")...

And the 2nd grade HOLIDAY concert...

We still have to make cookies for the neighbors (and ourselves)...

and Go look at the neighborhood Christmas lights...

Tomorrow is the last day of school before WINTER BREAK...

And the snow continues to fall...

THIS Hot Mess...

Is at the TOP of my "TO DO" List...

Hem Hawing...

Well... it's COLD... 17* this morning... THAT is COLD...

I've been staying busy... doing a lot of things that I'm not really a FAN of doing... (this is NOT my favorite time of the year if I may offer a confession)... you know... all the HOLLY JOLLY HOLIDAY STUFF... I've been visiting LOTS of blogs and am just in AWE of all the neat crafty things people are doing for this holiday season... I think (ok... I pretty much KNOW) I was born "sans" the "I LOVE CHRISTMAS" gene... inherited (or I guess NOT inherited) from my FATHER'S side of the family tree... I mean... I don't DESPISE the whole season... just the "rush" of getting things done... having (OK.. not REALLY having... but being made to FEEL like "HAVING TO") to DO... when I don't REALLY want to... I'll get through it... but I am looking forward to Jan. 2nd already... is that WRONG???

One of the things I've been doing is HEMMING... HEMMING... HEMMING and more hemming... I don't MIND it... but I am NOT a FAN of this particular sewing "talent"... especially when the hem differs by about 1/2" on each leg (you know... the whole one leg longer than the other thing... really... I AM NORMAL)... I measure TWICE... and then TWICE more... and then one more time before I make the cut... I would like to know WHO the heck has legs as LONG as manufaturers make these pants??? (Peggy... betcha NEVER have to hem right???) So the HEMMING has come to an end for the moment... all pants/jeans/skirts DONE... something I had been wanting to mark off "THE LIST" since FALL...

On to the next thing...