WHEWWWWW! Christmas is over and I survived!  It was a lot of work for such a short time.  My daughter Darcy and her family were here in the morning and we had a brunch and opened gifts.  Her children are 2 1/2 yrs, old and 5 yrs. old so Christmas day was so exciting for them.  They looked so cute all dressed up and were very good.  My son and his family were her late afternoon and we opened presents before dinner as I knew the children were too excited to eat.  Darcy came back with Declan and Rowan and we all had desert together.  It was a very nice day and I loved all my sheep gifts that I got plus my favorite was a new barn jacket from Darcy.  The new barn jacket is just too nice to wear to the barn!  I have been needle felting like a mad man and have made several dogs in the last three evenings.  I have put my higher priced critters in a new shop in West Dover. It is called Mountainside Photo Gallery and is a beautiful shop.  They are featuring a lot of local artists and I think they will do well.

Well, the cold weather has arrived and the wind chill is suppose to be around -10 to -16 below.  I think it is definitely at least -10 below because I thought my face would freeze this morning doing chores.  Of course, the water has decided to not work, nothing coming into the barn.  That means I get to carry bucket after bucket of water from the tank outside into all the heater buckets in the barn! That does not make me very happy, but I guess its good exercise so I can eat more chocolates.  There always is a positive to offset the negative.  I have decided to have a play day today.  I'm going to stay close to our soapstone stove to be cozy and spin for awhile,knit a little,read a little and just be a slug..... 
Hope everyone has a very Happy,Healthy New Year 2010.   
Maybelle MaMa