baking, shopping, wrapping, playing...

cute?????  a gift from my secretary!  

It has been a busy few days of last minute shopping, last minute baking and last minute playing  (board games and whist!).  Husband and I have made it a goal to avoid all malls in our Chrtistmas shopping preparations and so far it has worked!!!  I have not yet stepped into a shopping mall and yet, we are pretty much finished all that Christmas shopping mayhem.  Yesterday, I even baked.  Yep, for real.  Shortbread stars with dark chocolate drizzles.  A standard for Christmas at this house and today it is sugar cookie time.  Thank goodness the little chicken girls are starting to produce in an impressive fashion.  But if you notice in the egg carton above, one of those eggs is not like the other!  It is a double for sure!

Merry almost Christmas!  Hopefully I will find some quilting time today!

Busy days at school but don't forget the giveaway!!!

I am super busy this week at school with start up but will try to pop in every now and again even if it is just to do this!

Don't forget about the giveaway!

And in all this busy-ness, I am going to try to breathe and stay calm even when I have lost my car keys and the hot water tank died.  Ya.  Not a word of a lie.  Oh and I left my cell phone at school when I came home.  Ya.  But my mummy sent me beautiful flowers for the first day at a new school and that made me very happy!  And the day actually went really well.

I will think of this lovely sight and close my eyes and take deep breaths.    From the other morning.