Another busy day.

Have you ever realized how difficult it starts to be to come up with new titles? Mine are getting repetitive! Anyways, today was busy! I managed to sleep in until 8. Had breakfast, then took pictures of my mom's quilts. That took forever. I should upload them tonight but tomorrow works just as well I guess. I went into one of the larger nearby towns with my mom. It's about 45 minutes away. The police were ticketing that area like crazy! We saw 6 or 7 highway patrol cars pulling people over within 2 minutes. They're cracking down on that area since there have been 3 fatal accidents in a very small area in 2 months. We then went to my mom's sister's house and picked up some books from the porch. After that we went to the fabric store in that town and bought some material for another quilt or two. Then to K-Mart to buy tissue paper for wrapping. We also bought some stuff at Hickory Farms since it was in the same parking lot. Then back to my town and to another fabric store to look for the fabric she couldn't find at the first store. Then we ended up back home again. Carried all of our loot back into the house. I wrapped the last of my Christmas presents, including David's. I then had to help my mom find the fabric she wanted online since neither of the two stores had it. I helped make dinner, played my game for half an hour, watched football with my family while eating dinner, took a bath, and read my book. I also watched a TV show called 'Deal or No Deal' with my parents. Somehow all of that took up an entire 14 hours. I'm not quite sure how, but another day is gone! Tomorrow is cleaning day, Saturday is cooking, Sunday is Christmas, Monday is the after Christmas party. Tuesday I pack, Wednesday I leave for Sweden. Wow! When will I have time to even think?

All of this done in absolutely pouring rain. We spent the trip back home admiring the wonderful rivers and lakes that the mountains turn into after 5 days of POURING rain. The problem right now is that it's a warm rain. This means that all the rain farther up in the mountains is pouring down the hillsides rather than turning into snow to trickle down the hillside at a later date. So we have our water to deal with, and the water from higher up. If this keeps up much longer we might have flooding. I pray it doesn't end up as bad as the first year we were here... So many homes near the rivers flooded. Thankfully we used that as an opportunity to decide which house NOT to buy. Despite the fact that we have two small creeks on either side of the property, neither are large enough to flood. There is also too much of a slant to the hillside for water to pool and flood anything. Thank goodness.

On another note, less than a week until I'm in Sweden!