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It’s hard to believe it’s a new year.  I’ve been thinking about those 2 degrees all day and I can’t believe how really encouraging it is to decide to take baby steps rather than come up with some big change I need to make!

Today has been one of those stop~start~stop~start kind of days.  I got to sleep in and that was nice.  I laid in bed for awhile after I woke up and listened to a few episodes of The Couple Next Door, my current favorite old-time radio show.  I know all of the episodes played last night, but I missed them because I fell asleep on the first one. 

I’m excited to get to hang up my new calendar.  I get these every year and have watched many of the kids grow up in them…if you ever see one of these calendars anywhere, take time to look.  They are done so beautifully.  They’re awfully hard to find, though.  I have made it a personal mission to buy them out at Barnes and Noble and give them to the grandparents.  I always have 2, one for home, one for work.  This year they made me special order them, but when mine came in, so did a bunch of them.

Speaking of beautiful faces…here is a treat I enjoyed today.  I couldn’t get him to stick with helping me put the tree up, but he stuck with me all the way through taking it down~without being asked!  When hubby and I were putting things in boxes, I turned and found this.

This kept him busy for a long time.  We can’t have a tree without a star.

How about ornaments?

(You know how kids want to hang everything on one branch?  Well no different on this “tree”!)

We also put all the snow globes away.  My mom treated us all (meaning sister, brothers, my girls…) and I do love them.

This is only 2 of them, I have about 8. 

And that’s that.  Most of the Christmas things are out of here and now I have a lot of work ahead getting it all together again but I have decided to think about what I bring back downstairs.  Just cuz I have it doesn’t mean I have to put it all out to collect dust.

And I have started hubby a pair of Fuzzy Feet.  I was going to alter the pattern and make them wider until I was looking at how much room I have around the ankles on mine…which was the reason I made mine first.  I frogged them and started over with the same stitch count and will just make them a lot longer.  I love wearing mine!!!

Hope you had a productive or at least fun day!

I hope this evening finds you feeling expectant for the year to come.  I am really contemplating what I would like to see this next year look like.  I’d like to think that I will do a better job of prioritizing what is important to me:  people.  I’ve always been one who had time for people.  I know that part of my difficulty now is that I am trying to run a business and it cuts into my time, but even still, it’s too easy to get caught up in everything else and not have time for what’s important. 

Our sermon at church yesterday was about the 2 degree difference that can change our lives in order to reach the big goals we have.  One step at a time.  I instantly knew of a few things I wanted to apply that to.  What’s really funny is that I stopped at Starbucks on the way to church (a miracle, I had time!) and was talking to my friend who was working.   She asked me what my New Year’s Resolution was and I told her I have learned not to set myself up for failure so I wasn’t setting any this year.  This 2 degree change really spoke to me, though….I can make a little change at a time. 

On the knitting front, I got a super fast project finished and I love them.  Fuzzy Feet!

Don’t let the cuteness of this cat fool you,  She is a pill.  I can’t poke my feet out from under the covers or they get attacked.  She likes to stick her nose 1/2 inch from your nose, but don’t try to pet her, she’s mean.  She loves to be outside at night, even when she’s been injured by who knows what and has to wear a cast.  You just don’t tell her what to do.  lol  However, she’s sleeping respectfuly next to my fuzzy feet and she isn’t giving you the evil eye, she was just walking up when I rudely flashed my camera.  She didn’t bat an eye.

I did what  I saw others doing on Ravelry  and put them on before I set them to dry so they shaped to my feet.  I also closed the toe with a fun technique the Diplady told me about that was in Knitting Daily…it really works!  I don’t mind the kitchener stitch at all, but this technique accomplishes the very same thing using a knitting needle instead. 

Here they are before felting.

And last but not least.

The little imp is having fun tonight.

He got these bracelets literally 5 minutes ago.  A friend was taking these out to the church for the youth church to use for the party there and thought about the little imp on the way.  He loves these.

And here’s the last look at him this year…pizza face and all wishing you a very happy New Year!

God bless you.  I really look forward to the year ahead and getting to know you all better.

edited to add:  I really messed up my blog big time tonight. I decided to give myself a new look and in the process upgraded wordpress…I ended up with a bunch of mumbo jumbo at the top of the page.  The tech support person fixed it for me but then the whole blog was gone and only my parent directory showed.  He had to restore a back up file so I lost the later comments and have to repost this but since I had done it on ecto, I still had it.  ugh ,  Happy New Year, great start, eh?