Beginning to look more like Christmas around here...lots of ingredients bought at Kroger today to get me started on cooking for various Christmas activities. The first thing that I need to make things for is our Sunday School Christmas pot luck luncheon. I started getting things ready to make rolls tomorrow...my potato rolls...had to make mashed potatoes to go in them...so did that and that part of the task is finished. I will make the rolls tomorrow. I am also taking a cheese ball...the cheese is grated and is on the counter awaiting the rest of the ingredients. I will complete that tonight, as it will taste better if the the flavors blend a bit before our party on Sunday. I bought other ingredients to make more Christmas goodies...probably next week...but we'll see how much time I have tomorrow...for baking...have other time sensitive tasks to do, also. This morning besides getting groceries, I stopped and got gas for the car. A tank of gas, these days, lasts me a lot longer than it used to when we were going back and forth to dialysis and other doctor appointments. I came home and got the groceries sort of put away. Some things I have left in their bags near the pantry, since I will be needing them soon and it is hardly worth putting them away...much easier when the time comes to use said ingredients if I don't have to hunt down the spot that I put them away in! As soon as I got through with the groceries, I headed upstairs with the piece of fabric that I cut from Abigail's dress. I first got my serger set up to stitch the hem and then practiced on the scrap from her dress. Then I brought her dress up and I got the hem done quite quicky since I could do it with the serger...took longer to prepare the dress to be hemmed than it did to hem it this time. It is done. I have informed Abigail and she plans to come get it tomorrow. Tonight's ornament photo is of a little china bell that Mother bought years ago to use to decorate the packages we were sending to Massachusetts (where her sister and famiy lived). We always wrapped the packages, but tried to decorate them as flat as possible so more would fit in the shipping box...also didn't do bows because they would get crushed. Oh, how fun it was to wrap the packages and get the box ready to send...usually a pretty big box (I wonder what it would cost to send such a package today!). But the best for Cheryl and me was when the package came for us from Massachusetts! Mother must have gotten quite a few of these little bells as when she made us a tree skirt, she sewed one of these bells on each of the points of the star. Most of the bells came off over the years...I still use the tree skirt that, I'm guessing, she made for us in 1970 or 1971. Anyway, I think that either she or Cheryl sent me one year when one of them found it tucked away in their decorations...or maybe it is one of the ones from the tree skirt...not sure...but for some reason, I think that I was given this one at a later date. Anyway, it is a memory of my childhood and then of the tree skirt in its original condition! Well, back to my cheese ball making! To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious! Nathan stopped by today and changed a door knob and took me chair shopping...my sewing chair gave up the ghost today...so I am in the process of making a decision...still thinking about it. I didn't really find what I wanted at Office Max and we didn't search any farther afield...except for realizing that perhaps I would order one...still thinking.
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