Belated Christmas and....stuff

I know, 2 weeks past Christmas and I finally get around to posting about it. In a nutshell, we had tons of fun, family, and food. We spent a week with the HuYoungs, then a week with the VanGilders. It's never easy dividing up the holidays, but we had a whole 2 weeks to share, so hopefully nobody felt left out :)
Tomorrow is back to work as normal. I've decided that I've been working too much, so I'm cutting down my hours in January to see how it goes. I've dropped both of the houses I was cleaning (yeah!!!) and am leaving those slots open. I'm also in the process of rearranging my jobs to have less down time in between them, but I'm stuck. I have a 3 hour time slot on Tuesdays and Thursdays in between my 2 jobs. It's not enough time to schedule anyone into (or enough to go home) and too much time to have to kill twice a week....any suggestions for filling/killing that time?

Oh, by the way, I managed to get all my projects done just in time for Christmas. The hats were a big hit! And they all fit!

My niece Sadie helped me get the afghan done mere hours before it went under the tree...

And this was a really cool gift I received- a loaded knitting basket! It had a project bag, needle case, an assortment of yarn and needles, stitch holders, etc. Oh, and my new favorite knitting book! Thanks, Mom!