Christmas is approaching far too quickly. The kids had their last day of school yesterday, and now are home until January 3rd. Well, DD had her last day of school - DS has been home with an on-and-off fever all week that has now developed into one heck of a cold.

Besides running around doing Christmas shopping and other errands, I've been working on the "Cats on a Staircase" stocking. I finally feel like I've made some progress on this:




We had our family holiday get-together last Saturday. We only stayed for a little while, because DD wasn't feeling well at that point, but my sister finally got her quilt! Despite the fact that I had it back from the machine quilter's for two months or so, I put the binding on Friday night. Procrastinating as usual! And in my normal procrastination mode, we still need to get a Christmas tree...