[b]Nancy[/b], It's great that you have Family who celebrate Jewish holidays. It makes holidays and celebrations all that more special because you get to help enjoy both faiths, other than just one.
I put away my 2 yarn totes with Christmas crochet projects, because Dson and 3 Dgs's came to pick up Dgs-15.5. I didn't want to spoil any surprises, so this evening, I'll get things out, but I'll organize them better, make the organizing tidier and more creative so it goes easier, faster, and is more productive and more fun for me to do it.
I put 2 Lbs. of 2 different colors in a tote, which DH got 2 for free at Safeway because he paid $50+ in groceries. We have a new county-wide law that plastic bags can no longer be used. DH uses Flylady's shopping bags. They're so wonderful, especially the black insulated ones which zip closed. Since he got the 2 free grocery totes, he said he's given them to me because he thought about me and my yarn projects. I put a legal pad, telling me the break-down of steps, to complete this Granny afghan project. I have the pattern bull-clipped to it with my index card, telling me MY version of how I'm doing the pattern. The original pattern had totally loose, lacy, flimsy too-holey squares, which were rectangles. My method of changing the pattern into 8 x 8" squares, with the Granny stitch, makes it more solid, firm, and warmer. It'll be more rugged and able to take wear and tear.
Also, the boys' afghans have been changed from the diagonal Granny to a lapghan/afghan stitch that's thicker, warmer, and I can stripe it at random. I made it before, in burgundy, white, grey, and black for another Dgs. I loved the stitch because it's easily memorized, to become a "brain-dead" afghan.