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widowhood…

04 Thursday Dec 2025

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as I sit here quietly in the living room I am thinking of two big events that took place in the last few days…

the first was a congratulatory note from WordPress… on December 1st, 2012 I began writing about my journey into widowhood… and have continued that since then, moving into commenting on my life…

the second was today, which would have been my beloved’s 77th birthday… this year we had burgers here, one of his favourite foods, while the kids in Ottawa had an apple galette… he loved apple pie… we had a video visit between the burgers and galette, lol…

my grandson is going to use his Christmas stocking for the first time…

I sure do miss him🤗…

restrung…

03 Wednesday Dec 2025

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spent Sunday setting up the Christmas tree…

first I had to move the plants in the front window to other spots and move two tables out of the way…

then I spent some time removing two strings of lights… one that didn’t work and one that I restrung on the tree…

then, six or seven boxes came upstairs and were gone through to see what was in them and decide on the theme for this year’s ornaments…

chose glass pieces that have rarely been out since my beloved’s passing…

once it was decorated, I was advised that it needed more purple🤪… can you believe it, lol…

so I added more purple…

glittery…

02 Tuesday Dec 2025

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Monday morning I ran around… brought up the snow people and the big sleigh from the basement…

a glittery cloth, a stool, and the setting was ready…

took awhile, and a few bits of rearranging, but eventually they were ready to go…

from the window, to the table under the tree, to those in the sleigh on the floor, the snow people took over the front window area…

stopper…

01 Monday Dec 2025

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ran around Saturday morning and basically finished my Christmas shopping…

a beautiful outdoor tree tried to seduce me at Canadian Tire, but I walked away, lol…

we also had a lot of fun at BulkBarn finding things for a couple of Advent calendars…

the last few books were picked up at Chapters for my littlest friends and we found the last sheep door draft stopper…

so, I guess now I have to wrap things, lol…

spirit…

30 Sunday Nov 2025

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waited till late in the day to fill the stairs with trees and Advent boxes…

should have started earlier because it took a while to get into the spirit, although I did enjoy the Christmas music I put on…

all of the lights worked right off the bat and eventually each box found a home…

the last few ended up by the front door…

the remainder of the forest found its way into the bathroom, the kitchen and onto the dining room table…

starting to feel like the season;-)…

squares…

29 Saturday Nov 2025

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finally got around to changing the living room table…

it has been the same since springtime, yikes…

took a little while to put away the shells, crystals, stones and books, as well as the sarongs that had been on the bottom of each of the four areas…

next, I found the Christmas box that had all the smaller purple, silver, white, and clear ornaments…

filled three squares and then brought down three angels that have special meaning for me to complete the last spot…

I’m pleased with the result although I haven’t quite decided what goes on the top, lol…

flattened…

27 Thursday Nov 2025

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a very large, and heavy, box arrived in the mail…

I am sure that it is full of items for my Advent calendar… woohoo…

just yesterday morning I brought down the bag full of boxes which have been flattened…

my housemate will be rebuilding the twenty-four boxes and inserting the various items from my daughter into them…

then I will get the boxes and set them out to be opened one at a time during Advent;-)…

streaming…

26 Wednesday Nov 2025

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spent time with the fish and their pumps…

each one was cleaned and the water came streaming over beautifully…

I’ve figured out an easier way to clean them now, so the process is much quicker most of the time… I’ll still need to do the longer process once in a while…

but for now I am happy with this new system…

seasonal…

25 Tuesday Nov 2025

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got these two little cuties while grocery shopping the other day…

the tree will join the rest of the forest once they make their way out for their seasonal display…

not sure if the snowperson will join the melt (group of snow people), or make its way onto the Christmas tree…