Current excitement

For years now I have asked my immediate family (hubs, kids, parents, brother and his family. Eleven of us total) if we could for just one year do a homemade Christmas. Where everyone give and receives homemade gifts. Not homemade by someone else and given as gifts completely homemade by each family member...this past Christmas they all agreed! For Christmas of 2016. I can not even express how excited I am about this.

Everyone knows I love to sew and my dear brother made a comment a few weeks ago about not being surprised at Christmas because everyone was going to get a blanket from Tammy this next year. I laughed. He thinks he knows me so well but the reality of it is I have several months to scour over pinterest to find just the right gifts for each and everyone of them. And though some are crossing their fingers and praying daily that they will get a new quilt (Janae) not every person will.

Today I did start work on one of my gifts and cannot wait to see it done. I am truly looking forward to all the fun stuff I am going to make this year and can't wait to see what everyone else comes up with.

Here's to keeping our fingers crossed that everyone holds up their end of the deal with homemade items. Because it isn't about how much money you spend on gift it is the thought and love that goes into choosing something for each person and thinking all the fun memories you have with that person while you are working on a unique gift for them.

Thank you family for indulging me with this request I am absolutely blessed to have each and every one of you in my life. (Now get working on your gifts it's almost March already!).

Thanks for reading
Have a great week.

tammyc

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Happy New Year! !

I can not believe how quickly the years pass now that I am inching ever so close to 40. Some people say "wow I dont know where the year went" but crazy as it sounds I do know. It really seems like yesterday Stephen and I were hanging out with some friends waiting to ring in 2013. And here it is January 1, 2014. It flat flew by. At first thought I could think I don't know what happened to the time. But given a few minutes to ponder it all I remember well what all happened (Stephen always gives me 9 kinds of crap about posting on Facebook or instagram but when looking back they help me remember all the fun we had). We did some pretty great things in 2013. We got to travel out of the country for the first time (to 3 different countries), made some new friends, sadly lost touch with some dear friends & got back in touch with some old ones. Val got her drivers license and Britt started her first year of high school. We had some pretty great adventures and spe

A good time

Yep anytime you get to spend the weekend at the lake is a good time. My girls and I drove over to mom and dads place on the lake this past weekend (Stephen met us there on Saturday) I wanted to see them as it has been several weeks since the last time I had seen them. Just wanted to share a few of the silly moments. ~~~~> This is one of the little girls (forgive me Janae, I still can't tell them apart unless I'm looking directly at their faces. I'm sorry. I love them like crazy just can't tell them apart very well) <~~~~This is my girls making our purchase at the Dairy Deal. This is a MUST when making the drive to Salina for any reason. I have never had the food there but the ice cream products they offer are out of this world (unless you are a dork like Britt and order dippin' dots...those are just weird) Be careful when ordering a large...they are way too large (especially if you on a diet. :) ~~~~> Here we are agai

Wonderful waste of time

I tried to warn you that I had so much to tell you... So We have been spending so much time at the hospital with my dad. I mean we were all there for several days (now we are taking turns-he's doing well and we had to go back to work). And you know how it is everyone brings something to keep them busy so that they can ward off boredom. Well Val had been using one of those round loom things that you can knit hats and such. She had made herself one and while there her knitting caught the attention of one of my nieces (Katie) and she wanted to know how to make one for herself. So Val being excited to show someone sat down with her and gave her the loom and some yarn and helped her along. That girl made her whole hat. She loves it and wears it everywhere already. Before we knew it Haleigh was in on learning to make hats. They were having such a good time knitting away while visiting with their papa and all his company. I mentioned to Val that maybe they could make some

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