Back Again!

A year and several months later, I am back to blogging (hopefully). Much has happened during this space of time but I won't look back now or I will never start again as the task is too daunting!

It's now 7:30 am three days away from the winter solstice and it is not yet daylight! We've got more than a foot of snow and the temperature is ... well I don't know what it is exactly ... trust me, it's cold! I have barely begun Christmas shopping and have a week to accomplish it - it's been hard to catch the Christmas spirit this year. Procrastination used to be exciting but now it just wears me out. I just can't seem to break the habit. I blame the girls for not getting me a Christmas wish list but I could be more assertive in asking for it.

Emil has been home with me for over a month while recovering from heart valve surgery. He is doing well, thankfully. It's fun to have the company but I never seem to get anything done when he is about. He decided to start organizing my postcards - last time he said he was going to do that he sorted them by whether they showed a body of water in them or not! Seriously! Who does that? I have hundreds of boxes with a thousand postcards in each box, so it should take him well into the next decade to finish. Meanwhile I will keep digging through unsorted boxes looking for good ones to list on eBay. :)

Lizzie arrived for Christmas last night. Jessie finished her last final yesterday and will probably come home today or tomorrow. They asked me to hold off decorating the tree until they were home so perhaps the Christmas spirit will arrive at long last! It's a bittersweet Christmas as this will be Lizzie's last one as a child (even though she is 26 she is still a child to me) as she will be married in March. We really like Tony and are thrilled about the marriage but it's sad somehow to have to share her.

Ok well, blogging time is up and I have lots to do today (none of it includes Christmas shopping!). I am shipping ebay orders this am and then meeting college friends for lunch in Edina. We are going to look at Christmas lights tonight in a bus - should be fun.

TTFN