26 Friday Apr 2019
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big girl pants, colleagues, flowers, hugs, missed, notes, presents, surprise, widow
been away from the office for sixteen days…
today when I returned there were notes and presents at my desk, and hugs from colleagues… nice to feel missed…
shortly after I went into a meeting I was called into another meeting at which point there was singing, flowers and a card… I was surprised as I was thinking that my birthday celebration would be on Monday…
sure is great to be appreciated;-)…
20 Thursday Dec 2018
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big girl pants, Christmas, family, haircut, heron, presents, quiet, restful, slippery, walk, widow, wrapping
today I finished wrapping the presents and put them under the tree…
also received a parcel from Ottawa with a few pieces to add to the pile:-)…
it came with a lovely card… it has a heron on it… I love herons…
was going to walk to get my hair cut but after taking out the recycling and garbage decided that it was way too slippery…
enjoying these restful days before the busyness of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day…
18 Tuesday Dec 2018
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big girl pants, Christmas, lonely, presents, recuperate, relax, repeat, tree, vacation, widow
got the first present to put under the Christmas tree… looks a bit lonely under there, lol…
and my vacation has begun…
rest, recuperate, relax… repeat…
11 Sunday Feb 2018
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big girl pants, birthday, candy, candy cake, envelopes, exciting, food, grownup, magnet, party, presents, widow
been to a birthday party this afternoon… for someone who turned nine…
lots of people and tons of food…
the sad thing is that instead of boxes and bags there was just a pile of envelopes…
seems like it was just yesterday that he played with toys… he is the youngest, so likely we won’t be buying any more things to go in boxes and bags…
the most exciting thing was his cake… made by a family friend, it was a candy cake and drew everyone to the table like a magnet…
was fun to watch, lol…
28 Thursday Dec 2017
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big girl pants, Christmas, detector, kids, nest, presents, safe, smoke detector, widow
well I am safe now…
thanks to all my kids I finally have a new smoke detector upstairs…
for Christmas, the Winnipeg kids got me a Nest smoke detector…
and today, my Ottawa son-in-law installed it and connected it to an app on my phone…
it even shows me the temperature outside when I open the app… how cool is that…
think I will save up for the thermostat and maybe a few more of the detectors… checked for Boxing Day sales but there weren’t any huge discounts…
sure do have a great bunch of kids…
17 Sunday Dec 2017
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accomplished, big girl pants, boxes, grandson, Jamie Noordman Photography, moments, presents, teenager, tidy, widow, work
what a productive day…
started out with a few photos which demonstrate that a teenager was in the house…
there was stuff everywhere… a hat and headphones on the table in the living room… his gym bag by the fish tank… a bag of presents in a chair… didn’t get shots of the messed up bed and clothes in the basement, lol…
but he accomplished so much on our project… it had been difficult to walk into the computer room… I may have a slight problem with saving empty boxes, lol… and other stuff…
the top picture is from our family photo shoot in October taken by Jamie Noordman Photography… we both had our phones out and he was Snapchating with his friends… clearly we were both having fun…
today we worked well as a team… he dragged things out and I sorted and distributed stuff into various categories… at one point the hallway was filled with bags and boxes… we will need another day to finish, but it is so much better in there…
things were dropped at the Civic Centre recycling, Value Village and put into the garbage…
we popped out, delivered a few things and picked up a final joint present…
a wonderful Christmas present, I gotta say…
09 Wednesday Aug 2017
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beloved, big girl pants, bin, birthday, goat cheese, pack, presents, supper, widow
been busy since I got home…
had a brief rest and then a simple supper of fresh cucumbers with tiny tomatoes and basil from the garden with some goat cheese… very tasty…
then I started gathering stuff… clothes, food, birthday presents… put as much into the trunk as I could so that there is less to do in the morning… getting picked up from the office to head out, so need to be organized first thing…
always giggle when I pack as I remember my beloved… he had a great ability to get any vehicle packed in the most efficient way, but he always had to add a grocery bag or two filled with all of his final bits and pieces of clothes or whatever last minute things he felt were needed;-)…
possibly I am starting to take after him, lol…
thought one bin was going to be enough but now have a bag filled with foodstuff, another with a beach blanket and expect to fill another with my travel items for the car…
we shall see…
18 Tuesday Apr 2017
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Aschenti Cacao, big girl pants, birthday, cake, cherry pie, chocolate, New York, presents, sing, song, the Wall, tradition, treats, widow
today is my birthday;-)…
I love birthdays, mine and everyone else’s… I like presents too… they don’t need to be big or expensive…
I enjoy the birthday song being sung over the phone, or in person, or nowadays by text… when my kids were little I’d sing it to them the number of years they were turning… eventually you can’t sing it enough times in the day, lol..
last night my BS friends brought birthday cherry pie and presents… so this morning I enjoyed the last piece of the pie with my breakfast…
I’ve never been a cake lover…
busy at work but there was time to spend with visitors, who also brought treats – chips and a lovely purple water bottle… and answer some of the birthday calls and texts that came throughout the day…
purple tipped flowers from my colleagues with a fun balloon and card… one of our traditions is to circulate a card that everyone adds comments to for the celebrant… always a gift to read the kind notes included…
was going to order from SkipTheDishes but made leftover turkey dinner instead, one of my favourite meals…
then had a treat, lol…
had some loose tea in my new left-handed the wall tea cup… works really well and the tea I’d picked up recently at one of the Farmers Markets is delicious – it is similar to one of our all time favourites that was discontinued a number of years ago… and chips with two types of chocolate bars – my favourite Aschenti Cacao 79% with Sea Salt, and one of the bars we picked up in Mazatlan – a Ritter bar that had rum, nuts and fruit in it…
I mean, I’d been good all day, and it is my birthday, lol…
thinking back to a delicious piece of chocolate cake we found and shared by the Flatiron building in New York last year on my birthday…
really was one of the best pieces of cake I’ve ever eaten…
a great day to be alive…
20 Tuesday Dec 2016
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big girl pants, carols, Christmas, family, fish tank, holidays, presents, shovelled, tacos, widow, wrap
excellent first day of holidays…
slept in a bit, had breakfast and watched some tv…
then I spent a lovely few hours listening to Christmas carols and wrapping presents…
the kids came over and we did a run to Costco to pick up a few final items needed for the season…
while we were gone the oldest grandson shovelled the sidewalk, driveway and backyard…
they brought over the makings for tacos for supper and we gobbled them up…
after supper a bit of work went into the fish tank and the babies were added in… we hope they make it but they’d stopped growing in the bowl…
pretty nice day…
14 Monday Dec 2015
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another great day off…
worked on my list of prep for next weekend, and then Christmas… wrapped the last few parcels… put ribbon on the finished ones and made sure that each person had an ornament on one of their gifts…
then I sorted out which gifts will stay here and be opened on Sunday when we have our Christmas with everyone, and the ones that will go to my daughter’s house for our actual Christmas morning celebration…
also preparing to stay healthy by getting the shingles vaccine this morning… on my way there saw these two adorable reindeer…
had to stop and take a picture… very cute…
had a triennial medical appointment and picked up a few final items as I prepare for the holidays… think I got the last gift…
picked up these little numbers for me…
brought home all the groceries for the week and our Christmas dinner…
still on a roll, cleaned out the fridge and put everything away…
then a rest, lol… 
finally tidied everything up… looks lovely and I am feeling much better about what is left to do over the next few days…
was able to enjoy each piece of my day as I worked on my preparations…
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