Christmas countdown

Hi folks,

First of all I want to thank you for the supportive comments.

I mean it about a book. I want to write a sort of self-help book for sewers and I am going to do it. I have eight months of full-time work left and that will be my percolating time.

Stay tuned.

I also want to say I need some time to grab to answer the interesting comments that have been left for me, but it is nuts, with Christmas stuff and work things going on.

So what I have to share tonight are flypaper thoughts:

• One week to go
• The secret is to lower expectations
• For yourself first and other people second
• All the good things in a family and a life can't be expected to come together on one day of the year
• I have multiple decades of personal experience backing this one up
• They must sell a ton of super bulky yarn the week before Christmas
• My son-in-law had not serious but highly uncomfortable surgery yesterday
• The kids have colds
• The son arrives late the night before Christmas with the fiancee
• Things shaping up as normal
• Just fuse a small piece of knit interfacing where they tell you to stay stitch at the clip
• Who need to pick those stay stitches out at midnight?
• Do you think a Sirarcha and honey cookie will be too weird?
• Who would even ask that?
• Will report tomorrow
• Fluffy slippers are excellent
• One year I had four minutes between the time the last one went to sleep and the first one got up
• Am most disturbed that the early spring patterns are all for waisted full skirted dresses
• Waists move around in fashion but where yours should be is the worst place
• Miss Heidi has taken this lump of coal thing to heart
• Walking around in stubby legs muttering "that time I screamed at my family I was a baby. I am going to be good now I am a big girl"
• Makes me feel bad that I told her about Melvin Clark
• The kid I actually know who once got a lump of coal
• Parents pulled those stunts in the old days
• It appears grandparents pull them now
• She is already stressed enough for three
• And not just because of the sneaky looking Elf on the Shelf
• Like about racoons
• I told her about the time I found a racoon hand under the cushion on the couch
• Must have fallen off someone in the backyard
• Birdie brought it in for a present
• I live in Nova Scotia after all
• One more story and I am going to be put on grandmother probation
• She would rather stand than sit on the couch
• Much like her father
• These things happen
• Why would my husband think I wanted a car that can talk to me?
• I get into the car for peace and quiet
• We have traded back
• If kids can't spill juice in it then it's not for me
• My neighbourhood is famous for Christmas lights
• We have tour buses drive slowly all night
• Makes you run downstairs to throw the switch on while wearing your fuzzy slippers
• The last thing we were famous for was the Bird House gang
• Bunch of gangsters were going into yards at night and switching around the bird houses
• Giving the senior men fits
• Only their wives laughed
• It's a tough neighbourhood
• Do they still sell red and green Rice Krispies?
• In case the Sirarcha cookies bomb
• As if that's going to happen