step-stools…

10 Saturday Jan 2026

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spent a little bit of time in the kitchen…

went upstairs and brought down the regular mugs and changed them out for the holiday ones…

next, with help from my housemate, I changed out the dinner plates and saucers… it is always a bit of a process as one set comes down from the top of the cabinet and the other goes up…

step-stools are involved and I am always surprised at how much the Christmas plates weigh, lol…

undecorating…

02 Friday Jan 2026

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spent New Year’s Eve and New Year’s morning undecorating the Christmas tree and putting away the ornaments (with a little assistance from my housemate)… even found a few for the pass-along box… the snow people also found their way into the appropriate container…

it always seems to be a much quicker process than decorating, lol… and I put some plants back into the window…

finished by putting away the trees which, besides being on the stairs, were in the living room, kitchen, and bathroom;-)…

likely I will still find one or two ornaments that were missed, lol…

mid-day…

28 Sunday Dec 2025

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my grandson usually arrives here on Christmas day around noon…

our current tradition is to have appetizers for our mid-day meal as he may have already had breakfast and will be heading out for dinner a bit later in the day…

we had wandered the aisles at the grocery store picking up things that looked fun…

we had shrimp dumplings, fancy cheese fries, tempura shrimp, wontons, veggies and dip, sausage rolls, and a shrimp ring… lots of shrimp on that list, lol…

this year we did stockings for each other, which was great… it has been many years since I had a stocking…

it was filled with a great many treats…

then the second round of presents were opened, and I was royally spoiled;-)…

although he only had a few gifts he was very pleased with them…

we sat around and visited before he had to leave for his next engagement, lol…

I truly am blessed to have this thoughtful young man in my life;-)…

face-to-face…

25 Thursday Dec 2025

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all the jobs were done and the living room set up for our morning video call when I went to bed at 11 pm on Christmas Eve…

put my head down thinking I might nap for an hour and then have a Christmas hot tub around midnight…

woke up at 5:15, yikes… apparently no hot tub for me…

laid back down, didn’t really sleep, and got up at 6:30, lol…

made tea and texted a video of me banging pots and slamming doors, (possibly like I used to do when the families would be here overnight, so they would get up), to the kids in Ottawa…

we met and had a lovely time opening gifts and enjoying all of the loot…

what a gift to be able to meet with them face-to-face…

such a lovely Christmas morning;-)…

instructions…

18 Thursday Dec 2025

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I’ve been enjoying my Advent calendars for these past eighteen days…

the boxes for the one have been on the stairs with a few elsewhere when all 24 wouldn’t fit…

as they’ve been opened I’ve rearranged them until now there aren’t any on some of the steps…

they have been filled with items from paper clips, a label maker, seeds, purple and handmade items, as well as a favourite chocolate bar ;-)…

the ones on the wall are turned once opened and I’ve enjoyed all the treats in them as well… from a variety of nuts to a few with chocolate in them;-)…

these are the hands that have filled all of them, some with instructions from far away, lol…

fundraiser…

07 Sunday Dec 2025

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went to Shelmerdine with a friend to pick up some items from a fundraiser she was connected with…

always a treat to wander through all the areas of the greenhouse… even found a little something for someone’s next year’s Christmas present…

this planter was so pretty and the balls were so nice, especially with the snow on them…

when I got home I hung the swag that came from the fundraiser on the front door… not sure if the cord needs to be shorter…

lovely treat;-)…

completed…

05 Friday Dec 2025

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enjoyed time in the computer room wrapping up the Christmas presents…

this year there was just a small box to go to Ottawa which went into the mail a few days ago… a few items were ordered and delivered directly to them…