Almost Christmas!!

Its almost Christmas, another year gone by! kids growing fast, getting older, bigger, adorable as always!
This year we wanted to do it different, try to find a way to make it go better than the past couple years. I had the idea of an all home made gift Christmas. No one buys any gifts we all make them! I talked all the kids into it, not to hard to do. Its been so much fun!!! It has made a difference in attitude, grumpies, everything! No one got to grumpy over the time of year until the last week, and even then its been mellower than usual for the last few years.
The funnest part I think has been watching each child be creative! It has been so cool to watch each one plan and then make! I love it. I sat with all younger children as they listed what they wanted to make, we picked supplies together and then started making. I have been making gifts as well, and am kind of finding a little creative something in myself. Maybe :wanna be creativeness" lol
Many of my gifts include something that needs sewed! Guess what? I can sew but can my machine? Well normally my sewing machine can but for now some pieces have walked away. I hope to get pieces this week so I can finish. If I do not get pieces I am unsure whats going to happen.
Baby E-now 5 and I guess not a baby but is still MY baby, loves to paint. She colors, draws, paints and does it all very good! Chubs is improving rapidly!
Loo is doing good with her Embroidery!. So with a little of various types of crafting everyone has been busy making!
Since the last few years has been rough at decorating time we have not done much yet. Kind of taking it slow. Hope to get it done before Christmas! I know the kids are asking for it finally!
After Christmas I'll post pics of what everyone made!
Merry Christmas !!!!

Christmas update

So its been a while I am slow. Christmas was good. I took lots of pics. I am putting pics from Baby E's 4th B day, thanksgiving, Christmas, Demolishing our garage and other stuff on. Hope to be done over the next day or so. This will be a short post just to share Christmas. More to come later! We had a different Christmas this year. Details later! For now settle for a short note saying it was good. We were together and thats the important part. "L" was able to arrange a program to get the kids each a gift from him. That made them happy. He also arranged someone to buy me a dozen roses, he always bought lowers for me for Christmas. My brother "C" was here for Christmas also!!! That was nice to spend with him. It did not feel much like Christmas here, but it was, and it was ok. More on that later as well!