I'm back

Our computer was down for like....too long. I never thought I would miss my blog, but I did. It was something about a corrupt operating system...yada, yada, yada...it was sent away to the computer ER and now it's back and better than ever.

So much stuff has happened since the last blog, where do I begin?

Well, all of the Christmas shopping is officially done. OK, not true. I have one more thing to buy, and I was going to do that today, but Navarre started fussing in the car. I thought I shouldn't press my luck, so I took her home. I am going to get that last one thing today though. I only have a couple of things left to wrap, so I'm doing well there. The stocking for Navarre has hit a snag. I needed embroidery hoops to do the embroidery on it ( I knew that; I don't know what I was thinking). So, I haven't done that yet. I'm going to give it a few practice runs before I do hers, because if momma messes it up, well then she's going to have a messed up stocking.

We've had a Christmas card kafuffle with the computer crash. We also took baby girl to get her picture with Santa. She wasn't too impressed. The jingling bells and adults acting like jackasses didn't seem to amuse her either. See for yourself...

She didn't cry and claw his eyes out with her fingernails that I forget to keep trimmed, so it was a successful picture in our proud parent eyes.

On a more serious note, I'm sad I won't be home this Christmas. The family has had a rough year, with my cousin Cleve passing away and Paw-Paw moving to a nursing home. Things are good now with Paw-Paw, but it was a rough time getting here. I wish I could be there with the family on Christmas Eve, but I will see them very soon after in January. I plan to take Navarre to Cleve's grave and "introduce" the two and tell her about her cousin. Hopefully, she and Caden, Cleve's son, can play together lots while we're home. There are actually 3 babies in the family this year.

So, I've been shopping, wrapping, baking, but not blogging. I've also thought the blog topics need to be a bit more exciting, so if you're a reader and you have some ideas...send them my way.