Rock To Wind A String Around

It’s officially winter, and I’m delighted!!!  Really, even with the dry hands and heat bills and plans that could be scuttled at the last minute due to weather–I’m feeling the love today.  It’s probably in no small part due to the lateness of the hour.  Christmas is close, and this time next week we’ll be in Florida with loved ones, so I have a lot to be tickled about.  I’m also thrilled that EOR’s annual campaign is out the door.  Close to 400 letters went in the mail today.  I definitely wanted them out before the end of the year, but this close to Christmas was extra tricky–hours and hours of folding, sorting, stuffing, writing, editing, stamping, and mailing.  I had lots of team help, for which I am truly thankful.  I’ll be even more thankful if this project bears fruit.  I’m hoping that we’ll have 100 monthly donors by February, so we’ll need a return rate of more than 28%.  Not impossible, since I asked our personal contacts as well as previous supporters, but I’ll feel a lot better about the whole thing once I know that people are signing on to give.

Now that the letters are out, I can finish the millions of little projects started earlier in the season, and I’ll be baking tomorrow too.  We did a pretty thorough dust up before Pops arrived on Friday, so I just need to neaten a bit–a little pillow fluffing, a bathroom scrubbed, and the kitchen cleaned after baking and all should be well–for once I won’t be frantically cleaning 2 days before a major holiday–huzzah!  And really, once the annual campaign went out the door and the extra copies/envelopes/stamps went into the EOR closet, it looked a million times better. This post will serve as a reminder, and should ward off my need to scrub the top of the fridge at 11 pm on 12/24.
Off to find some coins of the realm (EzE lost a tooth) and dip my hands in a vat of cocoa butter.  Let the good times roll!