so this morning I opened the first of my muffin-tin advent calendar goodies from my daughter Cyndi, who currently is living in Calgary…  last year she sent the calendar already filled and ready for me to open…  this year, as I already had the tins and covers, she sent the items to go into them to one of my colleagues, who had a great time on her lunch hour putting the calendar together…  here’s what it looks like…

Day 1 was a Ferrero Rocher chocolate, which I immediately ate for my breakfast…

Later my other daughter, Crystal, with her husband and 3 boys, picked me up and we went for our first needles in preparation for our January family trip to the Mayan Riviera…  we did pretty well, most of us barely cried, although someone had a fit…  chocolate kisses seemed to fix that up, although he was still saying he didn’t want to go to Mexico for quite a while afterwards…  lucky Crystal and I, we got two shots, one for Hep A and B,and a tetanus one as well…

The boys tell me that we will only be eating tacos – morning, noon and night, while we are there…  this is wonderful for them, as they all love tacos…

We made these plans in June or July while I was waiting for surgery and I am really just getting excited now, especially about all those tacos…