Roughly 200,000 Stitches later … we now return to our scheduled programming

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I made it!     I finished the last of the Christmas stockings (which was mine) at 1:00 am Christmas morning … just in time for the old man to fill it.

My children all knew the joy of having a crocheted Christmas stocking that stretches and stretches on Christmas Eve and it was fun to hear them tell their children  the Christmas memories these new, super-sized stockings invoked.

I had been worrying the last ten days or so that I might  not be able to get them all finished and could be found at any moment huddled over my crochet hook and yarn.    My new slogan was “Don’t leave home without it.”    I finished Lynn’s at about two in the morning on Christmas Eve and decided I didn’t want one bad enough to pick up the crochet hook one more time in the year 2009.   About 2:00 Christmas Eve I changed my mind.    So … I joyfully can report that I reached my goal!    Counting the ones I helped Kim do for her family there were 40 Christmas stockings finished and delivered by Christmas Eve.    (Patting myself on my own back.)

I apologize to all who didn’t receive a Christmas card from us (which is everyone we know).    I apologize  for not getting the tree up before the 21st of December (but I’m grateful it did get put up before Christmas).    I apologize there was no home made fudge or peanut brittle (but I might have been tempted to eat it if it was).

We do extend our best wishes and a belated Merry Christmas to everyone.    It has been a wonderful year for Lynn and I and we are grateful for our children, grandchildren, inlaws, outlaws, parents, siblings, nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends, and each other.     The people in our lives bring us our greatest joy.    We are most grateful for our Savior and for the hope and purpose our lives have because of Him.

2010 … we’ll be blessed once again!    Happy New Year everyone!

8 Responses to “Roughly 200,000 Stitches later … we now return to our scheduled programming”

  1. Congratulations, that is so neat! Merry Christmas!

  2. What an undertaking. I’m proud of you for working so hard. NOW maybe we can get together, hu? We’ve missed you guys. Sounds like you had a marvelous Christmas. It’s wonderful to spend time with the family. Love you both.

  3. We loved ours! Thanks again mom….they looked great and were fun to have :)

  4. Wow! Total admiration for your sheer preseverance and determination!! They are awesomely cute! :)
    Hope you had a wonderful Christmas

    Debs xx

  5. We are lucky to be siblings and each get one of those neat stockings! They hold so much and when filled they fall off and pull the heavy duty stocking holders to the floor with them. Oh well – we just put them on the couch and enjoyed them there. Thanks Edna – we love them!! It was fun to have you here and being able to chat while your fingers flew on the project. You are a wonder!!

    HAPPY NEW YEAR!

  6. Way to go Edna! You would have been the kind of pioneer woman that got written about! Proud of your sticktoitiveness! (I love that word, don’t you?)

  7. Well done aunt Edna! I’m very impressed with how many stocking you made for your family in such a short time!! I’ve made a handful to help keep Grandma’s tradition going. We also love how they can stretch and stretch!!

  8. I loved watching you make them when you was here.
    I want to make some for the four of us four Not forty.
    you are So amaizing.. love you sooooooooooooo much. love this blog..

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