Christmas Wrap-up...or is that "unwrap?"

Christmas '08 is well and truly done for The Family Sheep.  As holidays go, it was a good one!  There were the usual little mishaps that occur along any Yuletide Highway, I suppose.  The challa went into the oven at a rather late hour and while I was still trying to festoon the last of the gifts with ribbons and wrapping.  This probably accounts for the somewhat crispy outer coating.  I simply called it Blackened Cajun Challa and declared it "good."

We will not even think about the vast mixture of cultures and belief systems involved in this process.  It is confusing.  

In my haste to get to Mommy and Daddy Sheep's house for breakfast, I managed to forget the gift for  Sarge The Very Scary Teacup Terrier And Favorite Widdle Doggy Nephew.  Happily, he had other plans for the day and didn't join us for the family festivities.  He doesn't need to know that I forgot.  I'll drop it off next week and tell him that I wanted to wait and see his gorgeous face when he opened it.  

But more went well than went wrong and that is the very definition of a good holiday.  I managed to finish up the mittens I'd been frantically knitting for Daddy Sheep at what can only be described as The Very Lastest Of Minutes.

Apparently, the trick is to announce that you are not going to finish them in time and have given up.  Suddenly, mittens happen.  It's like magic...

Wonderful gifts were given and received by one and all.  In fact, there was something of a "first" for me this Christmas.  I have been spinning for a number of years and have often been gifted with fiber.  However, it has always been handed to me by a fellow whirler of the wool.  Non-spinners never give fiber as a gift as a rule, I've found.  They fear that they will make some sort of mistake being that they don't necessarily understand the whole process.  But my new SIL is made of sterner stuff.  She took the leap and included a bit of the woolly goodness in my gift box.  She casually said that it was something she'd seen at a craft fair a while back and that she'd thought of me immediately.  Unspun wool fiber from a non-spinner.  That would have been enough of a gift simply because of its sheer thoughtfulness.  But that's not all...

People, this was alpaca.  A non-spinner bought me alpaca because she thought it might be the right thing.  We seriously love that Baby Brother Sheep brought this one into the family!

There was so much more to love about the day.  But Christmas has a way of being lovable and exhausting at the same time.  I'm tuckered out from all the merriment.  I must rest, not to mention put away all the new stuff that came home with me.  Why don't I leave you with a little holiday gift from the good people at Folger's coffee?  This has been my all-time favorite seasonal commercial since before forever and, sadly, is one that I did not see this year at all.  

Enjoy!

SA