Laurie is here! 12-03-10

It's always been a great blessing to me to have so many sisters. We can just be ourselves around each other. My sister, Laurie who is the youngest of the sister has most of her life lived away from the rest of her sisters the most. Since her husband has always been in ministry that is very understandable. We wished we could see her more but as the saying goes, "It is what it is." So when Laurie wanted to spend time with us...especially with Louise, we were all looking forward to spending time with her.

You perhaps don't know this and of course I will inform you...Louise had made beautiful Christmas stockings for all of us and our offspring. Now that's a lot of stockings! Laurie wanted to learn how to make them in case something might happen to Louise. Right now Laurie and Frank have seven children - three are married, giving them ten grandchildren. Louise had made stocking for all them. Laurie and Frank still have four daughters who have not married . Plus the other married couples may have more kids. So I thinks it's great that Laurie wants to learn how to make these beautiful Christmas stockings.Since Laurie would not be with us for our annual Christmas Rehfeldt Party, we started the day out giving each other gifts. Laurie gave us all beautiful cards that she had made for us to use for Christmas. Plus we got some great Arbonne products.

My sister, Louise is a great cook. She knew Laurie loved rhubarb pie! And she also knew that some of loved her carrot cake. Yes, we got both. Laurie who does watch what she eats, ask Louise to give her a very small slice.

Well, we kept watching as Laurie kept taking another small slice, then another. It was so funny. She finally asked Louise to remove it after she about half of it. REALLY she ate almost that much. Above one of her daughter has phoned to see how she was doing. I would say, she was having a great time.

Laurie had also brought with her some delicious homemade marsmallows. And they were just that...DELICIOUS!

Venita and Judi were not able to be with in the morning, but joined us for lunch. And we had a nice spread.

Louise and Laurie started their project in the morning and after lunch they continued on, making headway.

While they were working away, Carol and I started splitting some materials that Louise had. Half for Louise and the other half for Laurie.

Finally!!! Above we have the finished product.

My sisters are all very generous. Louise had a lot to help Laurie make some more stockings when the time came to make another Christmas stocking.

It was such a wonderful fun day with my sisters. My sister, Jan was suppose to come down but wasn't able. She was truly missed.

Then it was time for Carol to take Laurie and me home. We dropped Laurie off at Hilander with all her great Christmas gifts from her sisters and the bin of goods from Louise. Laurie's husband would be coming soon to pick her up.

Perhaps the highlight of the day was when Louise told me that Laurie said, "I wished I could do this once a month." We wished she could too!

Looking forward to the next time we can all get together again.