Merry Christmas everyone, family, friends, future family and future friends.

It's Christmas Day, the sun is shining and all is well. We are having the kids over later on today for gift opening. As usual, the little ones get more than the adults. The stockings are hung and filled with goodies. Dinner is ham & swiss cheese on Rye, (make your own) chipped beef and cheese ball, spinach dip, pimento dip, fresh veggies, crackers, and tortilla chips, deviled eggs & strawberry jello salad. Of course all sorts of stuff to drink. No big sit down meal this year.

Arkansas broke the 127 year old record for rainfall this year, 75.54 inches, as of today, December 25. Thursday we got almost 8 inches of rain total. Flooding everywhere. Even I-30 was closed for 10 hours between Alexander and Benton. The small base lake was flooded almost up to the road. Hwy 107 was under water in places. Going through Gravel Ridge, the water in the swamp was only about 3 ft from the road. Jacksonville/Cato Rd, which leads to our old house was under at least 3 ft of water, the church parking lot was a lake, quite litterly, at least 3 ft deep!! I wonder what sort of winter we are in for. It's gonna be cold I'm sure, and I'm thinking icy. I'd still rather be here for winter than in NE or IA. My friends and family have been telling me about the snow. They can have it!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!

Made out Christmas Cards today for most everyone. I don't have a few addresses and some others do not want to hear from me so no card will be sent to them. Their loss. It really doesn't seem much like Christmas here in Arkansas. No snow, no real cold, none of the usual things we link to the holiday season. Oh well, I'm used to these no snow winters and I have to say I really like it. I am not a big fan of snow. It can be here for Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day, but that's about all I think I can tolerate. I see where Iowa and Nebraska got dumped on. I have family and friends in both states.

Busy weekend and now for a busy week. Fine by me, makes my day go by faster. I have several quilt's I want to make and am so happy to have such a giant kitchen table for the laying out of the fabric, cutting, putting together, etc. Sure is nice. I'm considering getting a strip cutting machine. It will cut 4 layers of fabric at a time, but I'm not sure I'd use it enough to pay for it. But on the other hand, it sure would make cutting strips a whole lot quicker!! Time savers are always good!!

Enjoying myself here at home, with my kids and my grandkids. Family is such a wonderful thing to have and the closeness it gives a person cannot be topped.