
Christmas knitting has begun. This is a gift for C. She requested a new Phoebe sweater for her Phoebe doll to match the one I made her for her birthday a couple of years back. I had just enough yarn left for the project - perfect! The book is one of our all time favs and it makes me so happy to see that C still treasures the Phoebe I knit her.
On another note - The children and I are spending the week making handmade gifts to go into the shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child. We only have a week to complete the gifts (I was just informed of this tonight at their AHG meeting) so I need some fast gift ideas. I was thinking some simple hand sewn dolls maybe and that is as far as I got. Do you have any suggestions? I could really use them! I would love for it to be something special but easy for the girls to make, too.
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summerv7 30p · 444 weeks ago
Rebecca · 444 weeks ago
I've been enjoying your blog for several months now and have planned to comment before but never really found the time. (Or maybe I already did?! I don't remember!) Well, I enjoy it so much! Particularly because you and I share a similar story with our last borns. I jumped around on your blog after finding it, then found and read the post you had quite some time ago about longing for another child even though all those around you would wonder in astonishment at that fact. In fact, I was going through the very same thing at the very same time. The longing for a child for years (five in my case), the wondering why not?, the questioning, the self-doubt and then-out of the blue- the joy of a new life! My Christmas baby (and your fall one, no doubt) have given us both new appreciation for what may not have been. Of course it is true of all people- children aren't promised to us, no one knows when we will have them no more-but when you wonder if you will for years, the joy that comes when a child is given is just and the joy of all the looks and laughter and milestones- these are just such precious gifts that are so much more blatently so knowing, as we have, that they might not have been.
Very similar stories and a happy joy to know that someone somewhere....understands. :-)
Anyway. If I think of a few more ideas, I'll let you know. Those few just popped into my head as I read your post. :-) I have hopes to participate in your KKCO linky more often (I have several times) particularly now that Christmas crafting is next. ;-)
FrontierDreams 111p · 443 weeks ago
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Annie · 444 weeks ago
I know my kids love getting mail as well as writing and sending notes through the mail...maybe your Christmas Child recipients would, too? How about using rubber stamps or paint to make ordinary heavy white paper and small envelopes (with postage stamps already attached) into little packs of pretty stationery/note cards? Then you could bundle them into fancy "sets" using ribbon and this little flourish: http://www.adelightfulglow.com/cupcake-liner-flow...
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