Tonight I did a little sprucing up on my blog and updated my 2009 finishes. I started working on it upstairs while Steve was in the hot tub. When he came in I was going to move downstairs and work on my posting while he watched TV. In the process of the move, I managed to spill a FULL glass of tea on my stitching table,on my lap stand with my Quaker Christmas in progress and then all over the floor. I'm yelling for the rug shampooer, grabbing towels and trying to decide what should be mopped up first. The off white carpet, the cross stitch or the table with the tea pouring off it. Since the carpet cost more, and the cross stitch had been intentionally tea stained prior to the start of Quaker Christmas, the carpet won out. While I'm shampooing the rug Steve is washing tea from all the stuff from my table. So now I'm downstairs working again.
The update on my mom is that we now have moved her to the nursing home here in town. It makes it easier to see her and she is happier to be back in town and out of the hospital. Her progress is slow and we don't know what the future brings but she has improved from when she left the hospital a week ago. From wht we hear, they have very good physical theraphy at the nursing home and she is able to move her right hand and leg just a bit.Her speech is improving faster tha I thought it would. But still, it's hard to get in the Christmas mood this year and I'm having to push myself to get things done. I put the Christmas tree up Saturday morning and Angie and Darrell, Sabrina and Austin came in Saturday evening to attend the fire dept. Christmas dinner with Steve and me.

I have been working this weekend finishing up the ornaments I have stitched this year.
Here's a look.





And here's Austin's 2009 ornament.



I will end with a funny picture.

Living with a puppy.
If you don't know where she is, you know you had better find her.