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Well it’s been a little while since I’ve had time to knit.  Oh was I ever missing it!  Knitting is really a good therapy, a quiet time to sit and relax.

I finished another balaclava, this one is for my uncle.  It’s an umm quite late Christmas present.  LOL!  I have two  more to make now.  I’m going to cast on 1 today.  But knitting with all this black is driving me nuts.  It’s plain and boring and hard to see to!  So I’m going to start another project as well.  Maybe I’ll start on the fingerless gloves for next Christmas…Or maybe I’ll start on some longies, although I have some nice blue yarn calling me to make a shawl to…Oh the choices….

I would like to say thank you for all the nice letters and wish all a good and safe holiday season.  Let us remember those who are less off than we are weather they are close or distant we are all in this together.

Last Friday we took out traditional light drive.  Each year around Christmas time we bundle up and head to town.  We take a slow drive around letting the little ones see all the lights.  It’s a wonderful sound to hear their excitement.  Two year olds are especially bursting with excitement.  It’s the first time they can really see and enjoy the lights.

Sunday, yup you guessed it, my birthday.   I had a very nice day.  Hubby got up early with the little ones so I could sleep in.  He made a wonderful breakfast for us.  Then I spend the afternoon making fleece blankets.  Latter on he made my favorite supper.  Tomato pasta, garlic bread and caesar salad.

I love making no sew fleece blankets for gifts.  They are so quick and easy to make, yet beautiful and useful as well.   This year I’m making smaller lap blanket size ones, 1 meter long.   Hope you enjoy the video.  To read step by step instructions see here.

I finished another knitting project and it’s a hit!  This is for my BIL for Christmas, but dh was kind to model it for  photos.  He loves it and wants one as well.  I’m hoping to start on that today.

The pattern is Easy Balaclava and you can find it here on Ravelry or on Knitting in Color’s blog.

The only change I made to the pattern was to use a bulky weight yarn.  This gave me a men’s large size and it fits great.  Yarn used Cascades Eco +.

Its been snowing all night and still coming down hard.  For the 3rd day in a row, schools were closed and most of the roads in our area as well.
Its a good day to sit and knit!

Family traditions are a special way to build closeness.  We all have meaningful times we look forward to each year.  As Christmas gets closer our family looks forward to our yearly light drive.  We pick a evening when the weather is nice, make lots of hot chocolate and pile into the van.  Off we go to town to slowly drive around and look at the beautiful light displays.  The children especially look forward to this every year.

What are your favorite Christmas traditions?  Please share about them on your blog and include a link below.  Do you have more handcrafted gifts, please share links for thoughts as well!

Our family has really been enjoying celebrating Advent this year.  In addition to the free Advent devotions and Jesse tree ornaments I posted already, we’ve been using the Advent calendar on DVD 2.

We have also been reading Jotham’s Journey.  I thought at first the chapters might be a little long for our 3 year old, but no even she loves the story.  They can’t wait each day to find out what happens to Jotham next.  I also like how Bible history and scriptures are woven into the story. Has anyone read the other two books in the series?  Are they as good?