During the before-Christmas shopping, sewing and cleaning madness we received holiday greetings from the grands. Stardust is looking perhaps a bit suspicious of Santa!
Five and Batman are getting so grown up.
Now I realize I don't have a scan of The Viking's photo with Santa. Suffice it to say, he wasn't particularly happy about meeting the man in red. Cat lovers however, will appreciate this pic of him napping with one of the cats. :-)
Some fun photos from New Zealand included this one of Rocky. We're told he came home from kindy very proud of his self face-painting job.
Magenta looking quite adorable in her Christmas dress.
Charlie and the dogs survived all the hubbub. Possibly better than we did. :-) ED and LZF had family visiting, my brother and his family traveled to North Carolina too, so along with Mom and Dad and the Sailor Son and his boys we had 18 people for dinner one night and all the beds and sofa space pressed into service. Very satisfying and very exhausting at the same time.
Part of the pre-Christmas rush was finishing up the cleaning and rewiring of this Singer 15-91. The Tramp made a temporary box to set it in and the day before Christmas Eve found us putting the final parts back together and getting back into the cabinet. It was touch and go as we had to order a part for the motor at the last minute!
All the wiring is new and we held our breaths as we tested the reassembled machine for the first time....and it worked! Cool!
Chrismas morning found several large packages "under the tree." On the hearth is the largest, the 15-91 in it's cabinet. ED had seen it in pieces any number of times at our house but we managed not to let on it was for her. I'm looking forward to taking some proper photos of it at her house.
Also under the tree was a Bernina 1000 for me. It was a Craigslist purchase earlier in December that I wasn't allowed to touch! But now it's also polished and oiled up and I think I'm really going to love it as my "traveling" machine.
Chrismas was also an opportunity for a technology upgrade, so the laptops have been put to pasture and replaced with an iMac for me and a Mac Mini for The Tramp.
So now he hides behind his array of monitors while I hide behind the big Mac screen. Seems to be working well for us. ;-)
One of the Christmas sewing projects was this bear rug/mat for The Viking. He wasn't interested in the package but when it was laid out on the floor he rushed right over and sat down. Smart boy!
We received a wonderful calendar full of Stardust photos. Hmmmmm. I need a haircut.
The Viking was thrilled with his Snoopy and showed off how he has learned to hug.
Then much to our delight he looked right 'round and patted the Snoopy on The Tramp's shirt. :-)
Of course he was mostly interested in an old toy. Now he knows how to stack those rings, no new toy was going to get in the way!
The Sailor Son arrived for his visit highly upset with his car. He'd spent too much time and money on it and it was just limping along. So he went on an impromptu car shopping trip with LZF and a friend, and came home with this!
We made sure Mom and Dad got their chance to admire it too.
The boys were very impressed with the retirement community's Christmas tree. Five kept walking around it looking up and repeatedly declaring it was SO HUGE!
While the truck was being admired in the parking lot we spotted a red-shouldered hawk high in a tree in a spot of evening sun. I got a lucky photo of it.
I also got a lucky photo this week of another hawk, this time sitting right on the bird feeder pole! It was a quick photo through a screen but there is no doubt what it is.
I'll try to post a few more pictures of Christmas sewing soon. I have to test and see if I can blog from my new iPad too! In the meantime I leave you with those who seem to really enjoy doing laundry.
Stardust, who in this photo looks soooo much like her mother.
And The Viking keeping the clean washing warm, yesterday. We should all have so much fun with our laundry!
Oops. Speaking of laundry, the dryer just beeped at me. Goodnight! (cough, cough) :-)
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3 comments:
Wow you had a busy Christmas, sounds like wonderful family fun. And then, just as you could start to relax and put things in order you got ill. Sod's law we call it. Hope you feel better soon. And have fun with your iPad, I love mine and use it for all sorts of things.
What a wonderful Christmas you had. So much family and fun. The grandchildren are all do adorable. Lots of new technology to play with while you recuperate. I love that bear.
Ugh, creeping crud isn't any fun but it looks like you had a great time with all the family. Ours was all around and I know the love it and the ugh too many people feeling too. Back to normal now. I miss the little ones.
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