
Hard to believe that in a few hours a new year will start. For us the past year was full of ups and downs. The worst thing that happened was the death of my mom. It is a great loss to lose that person who gave you life. Cleaning out the two apartments immediately after mom's death was very hard and difficult. It cost us a lot of stamnia and our resistence was low and we caught colds and other viruses. But we are happy in our new surroundings and look full of hope into the new year. I look at life differently now and I learned that it is very precious. Each new day is a gift. With this in mind I wish my whole family and our friends a very healthy new year.
All of the three Christmas holidays literally went down the drain for me. I really had that stomach virus real bad, I never made it to the couch on Christmas eve. Instead I crawled into bed with a bucket, crawled back out to the bathroom and that went on for two full days, but still kept me laying flat on the third day. Today is the first day where I am trying to make the dinner I had planned for Christmas so that at least Detlef finally gets a good meal. And I am so enjoying not having to run to the bathroom. The pic above is Daisy after she removed her Santa hat.












Didn't get to the Post Office this morning, the plumber was here again, but it seems like he could fix the problem we had with the drain in the basement. So I used the time at home to make gift bags, using the new cartridge again to make the tags for the bags. I finished my cards last night, working half the night. Once this hail storm is over, I am going to the Post Office.
Anstatt dass ich die Weihnachtskarten geschrieben habe, spielte ich mittags mit der neuen Cricut Cartridge "Winter Woodland" herum und probierte dieses Häuschen. Am Morgen war ich in der Stadt und holte mir neue Winterstiefel. Jetzt kann es schneien und ich weiss was ich heute abends machen werde, damit ich morgen früh gleich zum Postamt fahren kann.









Woke up with pains in my lower back, my right leg hurts and I can't sit without pain. Good thing I am a stand up scrapper, so that I can decorate the Happy Birthday calendar we made in Ansbach. My favorite so far is October since the picture of Millie fits perfect with the haunted house deco.






Der workshop in Ansbach war total klasse, wir haben viel gemacht, viel Spass gehabt und ich habe natürlich viel gekauft :-).






After recovering from a 2-day migraine, I started decorating our new place today. Now that we have so much more room, I could use more of my Christmas stuff that was put away in boxes. And I also had a teeny weeny bit of time to make some more cards. 
Nachdem ich 2 Tage lang mal wieder unter Migräne litt und es mir heute besser ging, habe ich meine Weihnachtsdeko hervor geholt. Da wir ja nun so viel mehr Platz haben, konnte ich all meine Sachen aus den Kisten im Keller hervor holen. Und zwischendurch fand ich ein klitzekleines bisschen Zeit für Weihnachtskarten.



