Thank you for the trees fellas. We did bah humbug and no tree.
Our gift was one more family gathering with my middle sister.
we have the fun gift exchange with family, where you get to steal twice before a gift is secure. 18 participants last night and much fun was had.
Our highlight:
When we were clearing out sister Kathy's home, Mary found all the scraps from the Hawaiian shirts Kathy made 25 years ago.
Brother Bill would always wear a Hawaiian shirt to Christmas, and the year he had lymphoma, she made a shirt for everyone to wear in his honor. There were 20 plus shirts I think. Mary was still sewing buttons on that morning. We sneaked out of that Christmas party one by one and put on the shirts. He was surprised and pleased.
Mary grabbed that box and had a plan. She made a quilt from those scraps, really she made 3. The big one was for Bill. Kathy cried when I told the story on her and gave Bill the quilt last night.
Mary has a quilt top put together for sister but did not get it quilted in time. She can wrap herself with those memories of that time and those shirts that she made, that almost all of us still have.
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