Monday, September 27, 2010

CHRISTMAS 2008

I am a very lucky woman! I was married for 19 years (which ended in divorce) but I had 5 wonderful children from the union. I was single for 13 years and then met the love of my life! He has 7 children so together we are blessed with 12 awesome children and each of them have a wonderful spouse. So far we have 24 grandchildren with one more to join our happy clan in December of this year.
I love to give and with the amount of kids we have, Christmas's have become a bit of a financial burden.

So I have started to make each family a gift. I started in 2005 (our 2nd Christmas together) and I made each family a Santa who was holding a sock. We put a $100 dollar bill in the sock for their Christmas gift. I didn't take pictures at the time so when I dig mine out I will post it. You'll have to wait for Christmas! lol

This is what I made them in 2008. An Advent Calendar!



Yes, I made 12 of them and it took me nearly a year to complete all 12 .... but I did it!
The kids loved them and it's such a joy to go into their homes at Christmas and see them using the calendar!


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  1. HeatherSeptember 28, 2010 at 7:56 PM

    I love it! I love the fact that it is something that can be passed on to my kids when I am dead! They'll be able to say, "My grandma made this for my mom." And their kids will be able to say, "My great grandma made this!"

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  2. Vernie and TonySeptember 30, 2010 at 2:20 PM

    Awhhhh, thanks Heather. I think you appreciate it more than anyone did!!

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