Did I miss Christmas? Oh, no, thank goodness - there's Santa! Actually, that's my youngest playing Santa in this school play. When I woke him up for school the morning of the play he was nervous, but he turned out to be quite a ham. He was a pro at navigating the stage, handling the microphone, and he remembered all of his lines!

My studio has been a flurry of neutral fabrics that went into a new quilt top I promise to show you once the weather warms a little. The top flew overnight to its destination, and I was celebrating the accomplishment of a year-long project. Now I need to get those Christmas cards and teacher gifts that have been calling my name!

The weather is appropriately frigid today, and we might even see snow this weekend. We haven't seen much snow since moving to the mountains, and my guys are patiently waiting. It will be a great weekend for cookie baking, gingerbread house-decorating, and wrestling meets. That right - my oldest is wrestling on his middle school team. I watched him for this first time this week, and it was hard to see those boys going after each other with such intensity.

Wish you and your family peace, good health, and a blessed New Year. I will be taking some time off to spend with my family during the holidays. I'll still be on Facebook and Twitter, and I'll post a little now and then, but nothing big until after the New Year.