Getting Ready For Christmas

Wow, Mother Nature is unrelenting this year! Here we are getting ready for Christmas and preparing for a visit from my brother and sister-in-law, as Mother Nature begins her own version of White Christmas. Rain, freezing rain, sleet and snow should begin sometime tomorrow (Wednesday) and continue through Friday!!! I e-mailed my brother and cancelled and rescheduled for Saturday-Sunday...hope we can get together then.

I was supposed to work at the quilt shop today, but Miss P. isn't going to visit her mom because it is still snowing and freezing rain north of us today! What a mess...

Oh, well. Husband and daughter and I are here to celebrate and that's all we need. Daughter declared she may just stay in her pajamas ALL day on Christmas! More power to her!

Dear daughter and I baked Christmas cookies yesterday. I tried a new recipe. Cranberry nut cookies...not bad, but probably won't do them again. Made my favorite sugar cookie recipe and got those decorated. I made toffee crunch... YUM!

I guess I'll make a vegetarian meal for Christmas. Daughter will be pleased. I'm not sure if Grandma will be here. I am still debating about dragging her out of the retirement home in bad weather. Doesn't make much sense to me, but I will decide Christmas Eve.

My Gourmet group met here last Tuesday. It was a resounding success, if I do say so myself! The recipes were delicious and everyone seemed to have a good time.

The Jazz Cafe was great! We didn't go till just before daughter's group played. They were spectacular, as usual! Dear daughter has taken up the clarinet! She is just a musical maniac! She started lesson this week.

Blessing to you all! Happy Holidays!

Christmas approaches..

Yikes! I've done it again! Didn't I practically pinky-swear I would not forget to keep up with my blogging? Oh, well...

Christmas is fast approaching. But, first there are soooo many things going on in addition to Christmas! And then throw in an incapacitating snowstorm and you've got one big mess... We had our first official 'snow day' on Wednesday AND Thursday this last week. But first, daughter and I had to make an onion quiche and buche de noel for her World Language Open House which, of course, didn't occur because of the storm! So now, the buche de noel (or is that du noel?) is being "reconfigured" for the Jazz Cafe dessert scheduled for this evening (PS, sleet is predicted to start late this afternoon).

Tomorrow, Sunday, I am scheduled to teach the second part of a class at the quilt shop. I've been pretty nervous about this and I am actually hoping for a snowstorm... which, as it turns out, is kind of in the predictions for tomorrow. So maybe I can put this off for one more month...

Tuesday, my Gourmet group meets at my home. So I have to plan and purchase the food. The group arrives Tuesdsay morning and they prepare the recipes and then we eat. Its fun, but always nerve-racking prior to the actual day. So Monday I have to clean and shop....pray for no snow. I'll let you know how it goes.

Last weekend we went to our daughter's high school musical, Grease. Dear daughter was in the pit orchestra. They did a great job! It was very entertaining. And, of course, daughter's sax-playing was superb..as usual.

Gotta go. I'll post some pix of my latest projects.