Marshmall-ho-ho-ho

Some would call this an impulse buy, others would say I was simply providing Santa with a home. 

Making the Most of It

Here's the weekend update since I didn't get to spend the weekend with my newest niece and nephew and my favorite brother and his wife. Sadly, you will have to wait another 3 weeks until I can share the little craft project that I completed as a gift for my niece and nephew that I alluded to here.

After moping on Friday night and spending 3 hours Saturday morning on the couch watching 90210 reruns I finally decided to get up and get stuff done! If I wasn't going to be cuddling my niece and nephew all day I was going to be productive.

I had already finished the 8 Christmas stockings that I was planning to take to San Antonio. But now since I had some extra time I put a few extra touches on them. I'm not going to share what those were here, but I promise I will share once my sister-in-law hangs them up in her house. I also started 2 more stockings for Marc and I. These ones are a slightly different style then the ones above and I think they are going to turn out really cute. Unfortunately I cut them so the toes point to the left, so they won't match the rest of the stockings at Christmas, but I guess Aquilas like to be unique.

The best part of the weekend was spending an hour on facetime chatting away with my brother and his family in San Antonio. I got to see each of the twins, go outside with Jaeger while he barked at squirrels, help my brother hang a picture in his living room, and learn how to swaddle the babies nice and tight. I also got to see how they have rearranged the furniture in their living room and some of the fun gifts they have received for the babies. I am so thankful that they took the time to make it feel like I was hanging out with them even though I was 1300 miles away.

All in all, even though it started out as a very sad weekend I was able to make it into a very productive weekend. I just hope the next 3 weeks pass very quickly.

20 days to go . . .

Should vs Am

What I should be doing right now is putting the final touches on the 8 Christmas stockings I made to take with me to San Antonio tomorrow to hang up at my brother's house. What I should be doing is putting all the items I neatly laid out on the bed into a suitcase and zipping it shut. What I should be doing is wrapping my sister-in-law's birthday present and putting it in my luggage. What I should be doing is going to bed so that when my alarm goes off at 6am tomorrow morning I am rested and ready to help out with my niece and nephew and give their dear parents a break.

What I am doing, is taking a penicillin and going to bed early. Hoping that the strep throat that has cancelled my trip will resolve itself and Christmas will get here sooner so I can FINALLY meet my brother's twins.

22 days to go . . .

Crafting

After thanksgiving I returned to our home in San Diego while Marc headed off on a business trip to Brazil and Argentina. With 10 days until he returns I decided to take advantage of my extra free time and get some crafting done.

Since I will be going to visit my brand new niece and nephew this weekend the first craft project was a little gift for each of them. The gift includes one of each of the fabrics from the pictures above but you will have to wait until this weekend to find out which one! Hopefully I will be able to take a picture of the babes with their presents and then share the super simple and fun project I completed.

The next project I have to work on is making Christmas stockings. I spent an hour at the fabric store last night picking out coordinating fabrics for each of the 8 stockings I am making. Then, with the inspiration I found on Diary of a Quilter today I started assembling my stockings.

I started out by cutting stocking shapes out of each of the fabrics I bought last night. I was planning ahead when I did this during my lunch break at work and boy am I glad I did. The cutting was definitely not the most exciting part of the project! Then, this evening I started sewing everything together. I finished two of the eight and right now it looks like I am right on track to have them all done to take to San Antonio this weekend.

Hockey

On Saturday night Marc and I joined Marc's Sister Effie and her husband Lukasz for a hockey game in Boston. It was my first time ever watching the Boston Bruins play and boy did we have a good time. I didn't realize how much I have missed watching live hockey as Marc and I haven't been to a game since the Capitols back in Washington DC. We were also close enough to the ice to be able to see all the action, including the aggressive checks and taunting between players. There was even a player on the Winnipeg Jets who played hockey at Dartmouth when Marc was in graduate school there. 

I'm sad that there isn't any hockey we can go watch in San Diego, but I am hopeful that in the future we can make live hockey a part of our lives again. Until then I guess I'll have to settle with watching it on TV.