Hi Everyone,

Hope your Christmas was great. Mine was wonderful. We went to the motel like we do on Christmas and got to see 3 of the granddaughters haven't seen for at least 2 years and longer for one of them. Had a great time. We always do the dice game and fight over the presents we want. Lots of fun. It seems like everyone is going to try and stay at the motel next year.

Santa's Mitten Maids went great. Thanks to all who donated. We had 135 children this year.

Came home and started to work on my laundry room/pantry. I had overloaded the shelves and they were looking like they were going to let go so I reinforced each shelf and put on new shelf paper. Rochelle came home with me and has been a great help. I got one side of the room done in 2 days but ran out of steam today so will start the other side tomorrow.

It looks like we've got about 3 inches of snow so far and the wind is out of the northeast so we will probably have lots more. Hopefully the kids won't have a hard time driving up here tonight.

So far no entrants for the Bread & Soup Contest. But we will still have a good variety of soups and breads for the Sled Dog Races on January 8th. We will be ready to serve at 11:30am. We will be serving all day. The awards for some of the races will be a 6pm. We will stop serving about that time.

Have to go play Wii with the granddaughter. Have a good weekend.

Take care,
Julie