True Snow

Long time posting.  Just finished Christmas celebrations #1 with mom and Nick who were in town for about a week.  We're about to sit down for lunch and then off to the airport to drop mom off.  Then Nick and I head up to VT for round #2 with dad and  Barbro.  My step-sister and her husband and son are coming for the weekend along with my cousins from CT.  So it will be a busy few days.

Now there were a few flurries the other week, but nothing that stayed on the ground.  And yet every where else there was snow.  I was bummed.  But yesterday it started snowing a little bit - not the big fluffy flakes but the small dusting that appeared like it would disappear in no time.  Yet this morning I woke up and there was enough snow for shoveling - the first real snow fall of the year!

We were considering (not really) of waking up in the middle of the night to see the lunar eclipse but it was just as well we stayed snug in the beds as I assume the snow clouds (snow comes from clouds, right) would have blocked the viewing.

Now the problem is I have these wooden white snowflakes I hang on the windows each year.  And this year I was about to put them up and realized I should wait until the first snow fall.  So I tucked them away, but where, I cannot remember for the life of me (and it was just a week ago I did it).  I've looked everywhere and I need to get them up today or the tradition is ruined (this is the first year I've decided to do this, that's why it's important, or inversely, doesn't really matter).  Fingers crossed they turn up by days end.

One last round of wrapping presents.  Then packing and squeezing in all the last minute stuff.  I've had to scrap a knitting Christmas gift as my idea of using scrap yarn didn't really work out - not enough.  The problem with scrap yarn.  And yet, it does not prevent me from casting on in another attempt to use the scrap yarn for another project.  Another fingers crossed moment, that this one will work out. 

Merry Christmas to everyone and may you have a holly jolly time and safe travels be it cross country or around the block to grandmother's house!