hi! Well I am finally quitting making dolls!! After nearly 10 years I am tired of it..Then got a call from a good customer and he wanted 5 dolls before Christmas... I got them all done and now no more!!!! Hubby will go to the farmers market to sell what I have made up, and to have people pick up their orders... I hope he wont go next weekend,as I can see him being more tired.. he just keeps pushing himself...But if he does go next weekend, then this will be the last,as I am not making anymore up....He does get some pain now, but he just never stops doing things.. What power he has!!! On Tuesday. my grandkids will be here along with my x daughter in law and my sister and her yucky boyfriend will be here to open up gifts..We do Christmas early with the grandkids, since they get so much, and on Christmas Eve we all go to my sistter in laws house, and then they get more... So this way, one car load can go home early...I knowe I over do, but always have, and heck, grandkids are so much fun... Then on Sunday we will drive to my brothers, childrens house, to give them their gifts.. They live with their grandparents and mom.. The grandmother they loved dearly, and she passed 2 weeks ago...so it will be a hard Christmas for them.. The grand mother died of aids...How sad.. She was a drug addict, and yet she was wonderful with the kids..I am glad the kids are old enough to remember the good things about her,as she really was a nice lady..maybe having an early Christmas will help them to have happy thoughts, and they will enjoy the holidays better..I am anxious to see them again...  I do have some extra good news.... The doctors were wrong!! They told us John had 12-15 months left, and I had been thinking that we still had 3 months before the year was up...but guess what!! I was wrong...It was not a year ago,but 2 years ago in March that we were told he had 12-15 months left,so he is doing better then what I thought..How could so much time gone by and still I thought it was 1 year in March???/ So the doctors do not know everything!!!! This gives me hope that he will be here alot longer....I know he is not well, but he already has proven that his strength gives him more time!!! I am so glad of this....I know he is not doing real good, and sometimes he has pain, but there is power in strength....and believe me, he has more strength then any one I know!!! We did get a call today from hospice, asking John, if he wanted a nurse to come by and help him , and John told them, he did not need a nurse!! Isnt this great!!!!! He is something else!!! So, the doctors do not know just when your time is up.. Only God knows....With this news, I ended up putting  up a tree, and am more in the spirit of the Holidays!! This has given me back some faith, as just knowing he passed his life span that the dr had told us, is enough for me to fill great!!