I want you to know I have great intentions… but darn!, Christmas sneaks up on me every year… you would think I would learn… last night I was working until after midnight on some gifts I am giving tonight…

why do I do this???? Well it started many many years ago… probably 35 to be exact… I was so excited when I learned to knit. I decided I was going to knit everyone a gift… again, great intentions… I made my mom a wrap around cardigan (very ambitious!!!), my dad got an array of “varigated” yarn hats… (he loved them, the brighter the better)… memory fails me as to what I made my brother… but the memorable one was my sister’s mittens… it was the last project I had to do that year… I was frantically knitting on Christmas Eve (did it come early that year?)… I had got one mitten done and my eyes and fingers could do no more… So I did what I thought was genuinely sincere… I wrapped the one mitten and the knitted part of the 2nd…. the thumb! well, what was one to do with just a thumb? so I added 2 strings so she could tie it to her hand!!! I was quite proud of my I.O.U. gift… my sister laughed until she cried… and 35 years later I still get chided…

You would think I had learned my lesson… but alas another wild Christmas Eve is coming my way!!!

Have a Very Merriest of Holidays and Happy New Year!
Kim <