What a week!

Amanda finished quilting her quilt last week. I'm hoping for a picture soon to add here. She promised she would give me one so I could say something like 'here is the picture of my oldest daughter's first quilt' (maybe a wee bit jealous that her younger sister got her picture on the blog first...)

In the past week, we've bought a tree, gotten it decorated, and attempted to get the rest of the house decorated. I've made 13 baskets for the goodies for all the teachers and therapists, but somehow I managed to miscount and still need to make one more....also had to add two more stockings to the line up as my dad and step mom are going to be able to come up for Christmas after all!

It is strange, it only took a couple of hours to make these two, when I put in over 30 hours on the 10... not sure why these went so much faster, but they are now added to the mix. (now I just have to get all the stocking stuffers ready for all them!

I also finished a QOV this week. I will definitely NOT have a picture of that here. I did a feather meander sort of thingy. I'm not 100% happy with the result, but everyone else seems to think it looks great. It really upsets me that I still cannot get what is in my mind to translate to the quilt. At least I didn't change midstream to a completely different pattern, which is what usually happens. I work on a pattern or fill that I want to use and once I turn on the machine, it becomes a completely different pattern or fill.

We took the kids to do their Christmas shopping this afternoon. It was really cute watching them try to think if things to get for the family members with their limited budget! They actually came up with some good ideas, and a few I'm not so sure about! (Brianna wanted to get Michael some play money since he doesn't have a job and isn't actually looking very hard for one!)

Well, it is almost Taco time! Rex always gets Tacos after Church services on Sunday night. I stayed home with the kids tonight and he should be here with the Tacos in just a few minutes. We have Alyssa still this evening, her Momma is sick and hopefully she is using this time as a much needed rest for her.

Taco! Taco! Taco!


Nini