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We are having a quiet "Advent" evening here tonight! This photo shows me holding the little one while looking at the Williams Sonoma catalog....he is fast asleep after a real "screaming" and "fussy" half hour of "colic". (He may "tune-up" again at any time in the evening....last night he hardly went to sleep at all, fussy and restless. My bleary-eyed daughter brought him to me at 6:00 this morning....I rocked him off to sleep, then he slept all morning....)


Laura (my daughter) is feeling well enough to clean and vacuum while I hold the baby. I'm smiling because she is feeling better, and I know that I can head home!!!! The baby's daddy had been working out of town all week (no doubt catching up on some sleep too!) and is due home tonight. So I'll be leaving them in good hands! Daddy can help with the wee hours crying and fussing....and the baby will soon grow out of that too!

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This is an Advent Calendar which now hangs in my daughter's kitchen and is used by my granddaughter to count down the days until Christmas.

It is almost 30 years old....and is one of the first quilts I ever made....I think it was featured in a magazine from the late 1970's. Laura was just a toddler when I first hung it in our Little Rock home. There are 24 pockets with minature ornaments which are hung on the tree. (I noticed that my granddaughter is hanging them in an orderly, row-by-row fashion. I think I was always more random....

One other funny, new, or odd thing is going on here....in the neighborhood, the elemetary school or something....the children are writing notes to Santa to please send an "elf". Then they set out soda crakcers and water.....and the next morning, the elf is supposed to be somewhere in the house! The parents next door, dutifully ate the crackers and water but had no "elf" to hide...so they told their daughter that he must be invisible at first....or maybe in the basement...she had no time to look there as she had to go to school this morning. So today they are out rushing madly around trying to find an "elf". they generously offered to get one for us too, as Lilia has a post-it note on the fire place here asking Santa for an elf and is planning to put out the crakcers and water tonight!!!!!
Meanwhile, the mother across the street had bought the book "Elf on a Shelf" and used the little elf doll last year. Now this Thanksgiving, she was beside herself trying to remember where she had put the elf...as it was time to have it moniter the child's behavior again!!! (She did eventually find it!) Do any of you have mysterious "elves" appearing in your homes????

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Finally, a photo of the tea party I had with my granddaughter last week. We are sharing a cheese scone and a chocolate truffle along with our tea! We have used her little tea sets and had parties since she was 3.

This makes another wonderful memory for us!