Starting to get a bit uneasy

[Grandma Nan]

In late October I sent 3 Christmas quilts to be machine quilted to M*. They completed the quilts and sent them back to me on December 9. Everyday I keep looking for them and I realize that the mail is very busy this time of year, maybe its Border Customs, who knows what? I have adjusted my schedule so that I had all my shopping done, I have wrapped all my gifts, decorating done so that I would have the time to bind these quilts before Christmas but they have not arrived. I am not as quick doing it as Bernice who can do 2 queens and a crib in one day. It is nice to have all the other things completed but now I am starting to get nervous as I have 27 coming for Christmas dinner and even tho much of the dinner menu is divvied up between us I will still have things to do in prep the last couple of days. Plus the contractor is still working on our basement so all my sewing stuff is sitting in boxes ready to move into the new room. AND I was going to serve dinner in the new large room we have in the basement.

I am usually so organized that this is making me crazy. I am sure it is no one's fault-just a busy time but the kids may get their quilts unbound. Stay tuned. Film at 11.

[LRM]

Yikes! I would be worried too. Whenever I order gifts or supplies I track the package closely. When I don't get a tracking number or the package doesn't seem to be moving I get very worried. I hope they arrive safe and sound very, very soon.

[Granny Fran]

Grandma Nan, all will be ok. Surely Santa would not let you down. You are so organized that you will have time to finish. Do what you can today and all will fall into place.

The worry is not worth it, don't let it spoil your holiday mood. Have a wonderful Christmas with all that family to surround you.

[Grandma Nan]

Louise i do have a tracking number but everything seems to have stopped on the 15th in Chicago. Also things go blurry when it is delivered into Canada as the tracking numbers stop being followed once it leaves the country but I am pretty sure it will be ok. I just don't like leaving things til the last minute so I start to get a bit panicky. I have ordered lots and I mean lots from M* and it has always arrived so I don't think this will be any different.

[Grandma Nan]

Thanks Granny Fran- I am sure you are right.

[GrammaBabs]

Hey Nancy!!! I think your new name should be "Wonder Woman"... don't know how you do it all!!! and still look picture perfect all the time... Hey gals,, I know this because I've met her at the retreat... Merry Christmas friend... hope the quilts come TODAY!!!! hugs, B

[RiverMomm]

There is always that gap in tracking when our packages go into that black pit of unknown (otherwise known as border/customs). I am sure the package is waiting in a line for someone to figure out what quilting means. Once it clears customs, your package will get to you pretty fast.

I recently brought back some fabric across the border and the customs agent wasn't sure exactly how to classify it. I said it was fabric that I use to make quilts. Poor guy, he had no idea. I finally said-you can make dresses out of the fabric. Ahhhhh, ok.

[Sandy Navas]

Sending good vibes, Nan, that they will arrive soon.

I sent a package to someone special in North Carolina and the tracking stopped and I am hoping some day soon I can hear that the package resurfaced and made it to it's destination. Just a real bad time of year for those sorting and distributing our prizes.

Hats off to everyone who works in the postal service who puts up with us this time of year.

[Over40momma]

Hey Nancy, no doubt the issue of delay will be at the Border Customs. They go crazy this time of year and pretty much everything gets put through the x-ray machines. It's normal to get nervous, but I want you to reconsider how you think of Christmas.....it is not a day, it is a season!!! So think of Christmas as from Dec 20th to December 31'st.....it makes life easier when you don't focus on just a single day. Keeping my fingers crossed your packages arrive in time, but also praying you don't let the stress steal your joy.

[Grandma Nan]

Thanks for the encouraging words folks. I am sure it will arrive and I can't even imagine what the postal workers are going through this time of year. It must be crazy. Well I went out shopping today and there was nothing here when I got home so now pinning my hopes on tomorrow as we are going away for a couple of days and we have a 4 hour car drive each way so I was sure hoping to have my quilts for binding on the drive. Plus my SIL and BIL will be working on Friday and my husband will be visiting his dad so I will have the whole day alone so again I was hoping to put it to good use.
This is one of those things I have to let go because it is totally out of my control and it will arrive when it gets here. Still hoping for tomorrow's mail as we arent leaving until late afternoon.