Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. I know I did. Having tried to squeeze so much into way too little time, and sleeping about 3 hours a night for weeks in a vain attempt to accomplish it all, made me a little schitzy, though. For example, I had found small bottles of Mexican vanilla to put in my daughters' and DIL's stockings. They were sitting on the island in my kitchen, and I noticed Guppyman snooping around them. I was afraid he would tell PresentStorm, so I took them out of the kitchen & hid them. Trouble was, on Christmas Eve I had no idea where I hid those bottles. I ransacked the house (which was pretty well ransacked even before I started) but could not find those bottles. So at dinner on Christmas Day, I told the girls about their missing bottles of Mexican vanilla, and assured them I would eventually find them. As we were opening presents, Stormii said "Oh look, there's a bottle of Mexican vanilla hidden in my stocking." All the bottles were in their proper place, but even now I have no memory of putting them there.

Unfotunately, today I did this same memory trick with my glasses. They are either in the dressing room at Foley's, or in the ski glove section of Academy, or possibly somewhere in my house where I never put them. I have searched all 3 places, and left my name & number at the stores, but I think tomorrow I will go get a new pair of glasses. Apparently I still have too much on my mind.

Yesterday we drove to Austin to deliver Christmas presents to the Professor's son & family. The little one was sick on Christmas Eve, so they couldn't be with us. We will be gone over New Year's weekend, and they will be gone the next two weekends, so it was now or never. We only got to stay about 40 minutes (which, considering the impossible mood the baby was in, was actually a lo-o-o-ong time) because we had to be in Lake Jackson for the Professor's grandson's birthday that evening. We drove about 500 miles yesterday, but, you know, after the marathon days I've been putting in, it was like a day of total rest.


This is the present I made for Dolphin.
11,897 pieces of yarn -- but who's counting.
She loved it, and that's what mattered. If it had been anyone else, I'm not sure I could have parted with it. She came by her love of nutcrackers honestly.








I did a little shopping today, tomorrow I have to clear up a bunch of paperwork that I sort of ignored before Christmas, plus I have customers calling and emailing even though we're "officially" not working between Christmas & New Year's. On Thursday I will have to take down all the decorations that I just finished putting up, and on Friday we're leaving for Switzerland to ski. We'll be back on the 4th; on the 10th I have to go to Baltimore, and on the 17th, to New Orleans, so it doesn't look like things will be slowing down anytime soon. Anyone know how to keep your memory working when your brain gets so overloaded?

I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and will have a wonderful New Year.