Today a neighbor mentioned that she’s still Christmas shopping. I asked “isn’t Christmas over”? I mean I’ve given the family the gifts and the checks, so it’s over, right? I know, I know I’m being a Grinch! It’s hard to have the sprit when it’s almost 80 degrees and the kids are living over 1,000 miles away.

Last week this time, I was with Mom Christmas shopping and planning our trip to visit Trina and family in Tennessee. Now I’m home again, and feeling a little blue.

I did knit gifts, mostly hats. I also made some “wine bottle lights”. Cindy got a wine bottle with a chicken on it. Rowland got red peppers. Mom got one with ribbons and bows. I even did one for Billy, but unless he goes to Moms for Christmas, he doesn’t get it. They were fun to make. Just take an empty wine bottle (Tom got to drink the wine). Put a string of lights (20 or 30 lights work best) in the bottle, and then decorate. It was fun to make and the family seemed to like them.

Tonight Tom got the camper from storage and we loaded it. Tomorrow we are leaving for 4 days/nights in Louisiana. We have reservations at the casino RV park. We’ll be back late Saturday. We’ll have Internet access, but not sure if I’ll have time to update the blog. It might interfere with my slot time.