my Christmas....

The box is gorgeous!! What a fantastic gift to receive. Don't feel bad at all, there is no reason to feel bad. I still have christmas cards in my purse to mail. LOL! There wasn't enough time this year to get everything done, I agree. Sounds like you had a lovely christmas and thats all that matters. Happy Holidays!

April, Big Huggs to you. Everyone needs to take a break once in a while. Making your daughter's holiday the best ever is what's important. I was so snowed under that even though I made cards all year long I didn't get around to mailing them out until Christmas Eve. I had them addressed and stamped by the 13th. Just how bad can I get??? Oh yeah.....I didn't wrap the gifts for the grandchildren until Christmas Day after we opened gifts here at home with DS#2 and DD#3. I used leftover wrapping paper and wrapped them under the tree before they got here at dinner time. With times as tight as they are with DH not able to work the two at home each got one package and we bought all nine of the grandkids nerf guns and extra darts. The whole house had a blast after dinner. I don't think they missed the bigger presents at all, they were having so much fun. The adults said they needed guns next year. The box is beautiful. You do such a fantastic job of altering things. I would love to just sit with you at a crop and watch you create. Everything looks like it belongs where you put it. When I try to alter anything it never comes out right.

Sandy

If it weren't for the kids I think Christmas would be pretty low key here. We love making it fun for them. They're only small and passing through our lives once. Sounds like Zen had a wonderful Christmas. I also hope you have a GREAT time with Dave. He's such a fun and dear man.

DH and I are kind of the same way. We really don't exchange gifts. We do the token gift. He got me the new Tom Jones CD and I got him a cord so he could hook his iPod to the big stereo. Together we're going to get a new stove. Right now I cook on 3 burners and only have one big burner of those

1. It will be so nice to cook on a new and working stove.

I wanted to thank you April for the stamps you sent with your card! First off just loved the Gingerbread man paper!! I just love those theme acrylic stamps. I have a few, but none like the ones you sent. I think they'll be great for card making and scrapbooking. Thank you so much. Such a fun treat.

I know what you mean about Christmas cards. I usually get about 9 if I don't send any out. I feel great that I have 9 people who will sent me a card no matter what. After my cards go out then the cards come flooding in. One really has to pace themselves this time of year. There has been many years that I didn't get cards sent out since I had kids.

Lynne

Linda