Tonight is the big football game with the University of Miami and Indiana University. I will be perched on the couch at six pm. ready to go. I hope it is a good game since both teams are so good.

Be kind to one another.

I got an IPad foe Christmas and boy, what a learning curve this is. All my other things are android and this is so opposite. I wasn’t good with my old technology so I’m having a hard time. 

I wish all of you love and happiness this holiday season.

I got ready to mail my cards Saturday morning. I gathered the cards, a squirter bottle of warm water to melt the ice, a towel to completely dry the mailbox door, pliers to curl the hook a bit more to keep the door closed, the key fob for my car to drive to the mailbox and foxy. (Foxy is my portable oxygen. Since she is always with me when I'm out I felt like I should name her so she is Foxy, for foxy oxy). It was quite an undertaking but I was ready for anything. I drove down, the mailbox door was closed, I opened it and put my cards in, closed the door and put the flag up just fine. Turns out my neighbor sent her son down to fix mine and open hers! It's wonderful to have such terrific people around you.

I spent two hours day before yesterday trying to upload pictures again. Somehow I have been disconnected from something between my phone and computer. I've been to all the things I know to do with no results. I emailed pictures to myself, then didn't know what to do with them. It was a really bad day and I just couldn't function. This morning I emailed them and downloaded them. Then opened my downloads and dragged them into my picture folder. It takes forever but I did it. Then I went out to mail my cards, finally. Wednesday it was 45 degrees here, yesterday it was 54. Today it is 14 degrees and my mailbox was open with ice in the door so it wouldn't close. I came in and called my next door neighbor and asked if she would mind if I put my outgoing mail in her mailbox. She said no problem. I went back out and hers is frozen shut! I normally do not go out in this kind of cold. The wind is making a wind chill and I can't breathe in that air. Bottom line is I'm mailing them tomorrow. I'm sorry my cards are so late but I will tell you I really enjoyed making them even though they are quite simple. It made me so happy to be in the crafty mood again.

This is the last card I was able to load from my phone to the computer. It is worse than it was last time I tried. I am making Christmas cards on most days. I have more energy on some days than others and I have to work with that.

All of a sudden I needed get well cards for several people. Two surgeries and one broken hip from a fall. The broken hip is bad because she is my age and will have to be in rehab for a good while. One is my daughter in law who had foot surgery and one is a great card maker friend.