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new year…

01 Thursday Jan 2015

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sitting in the living room listening to Whitney Houston and writing my blog… haven’t been using the laptop but the kids helped me put my music on it tonight… Whitney was one of my Christmas presents…

downloading music...

downloading music…

this morning I spent quite some time upstairs on the desktop finding water lily pictures for the frames I bought the other day… happily I was able to find some that had gone missing, lol…

looking forward to getting them printed, framed and hung on the stairwell wall…

also need to choose a few for the upstairs hallway as Cyndi took a few pictures home with her for the new house…

had a hot tub, but didn’t stay out too long because one of the squirrels was in the neighbour’s tree and kept making the strangest sounds, almost like it had a cold, or was feeling sick… didn’t like the sound, so I came in, but I did enjoy the sunshine…

just before the kids arrived for our New Year’s dinner of steak and lobster, I took the decorations off the tree and put it away… the living room is back to normal although I haven’t taken the coloured balls out of the coffee table just yet…

errands…

13 Sunday Apr 2014

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lots to do today… the kids came over around noon and we went to run some errands…

I learned how to get the car washed… it was quite different than the last time I went with George… at that time you had to drive the car onto a track… now you leave the car and they put it onto the track… didn’t take very long for it to be run through…

then we went to Costco… after all the shopping and filling the shopping cart I discovered that my card didn’t work… it had been under George’s work and had expired in March… we had to wait in line for quite a while and then couldn’t get an actual card because their camera was down…

just about did me in… was embarrassed and tremendously sad…

few more errands and we were home… Jeff changed the tires and put on the pretty ones, lol…

had steak and lobster for dinner to celebrate getting into the French IB program…

tonight the moon is nearly full…

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advent…

21 Saturday Dec 2013

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today, as I was waiting for my daughter and son-in-law to arrive from Ottawa, I spent some time cleaning up the computer room…

has been on my radar for months, but finally got to it today… my son-in-law looks after my computers when he is here, and sometimes from wherever he is… it has been some months since the desktop smelled like burning rubber and was turned off… hoping that he can perform some magic and bring it back to life…

this, of course, involves having a desk space that he can work on, and floor space to walk around… thus the cleaning binge…

Bethlehem with peace...

Bethlehem with peace…

also rearranged the wooden figures I pulled out last night… now Bethlehem is on the top of the shelf and across the living room the shepherds are watching their sheep…

shepherds and their sheep...

shepherds and their sheep…

Mary and Joseph are travelling in another area of the living room and the wise ones with their camels are located  somewhere else… across the room a number of northern animals are waiting patiently…

the kids and I had steak and lobster for dinner, but without our guests… they were still waiting to get on a plane in Ottawa… the weather has been bad in parts of Ontario today…

now I am heading to bed to be up at 1:30 am to collect them at the Base… this will be the first time I have gone on my own to pick them up…. I will be thinking of George as I head out… we were always so excited when they came home…

tonight I am excited on my own…

Missing George…

31 Monday Dec 2012

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today was fairly good… I had an early hot tub, even though it was minus thirty-four or some such thing, because I just had to have one last one in 2012… the boys came over, Jeff added water to the hot tub, and we went grocery shopping…

usually on New Year’s Eve, George would have barbecued steak and lobster for dinner… as the kids were having a party, I decided we should have the special dinner tomorrow night, so no one would have to do any rushing around… George would barbecue on a regular basis and I miss that… I am going to have to put on those big girl pants and do it myself one of these days…

while we were out I bought some nice stuffed scallops, fresh asparagus and mushrooms for my supper…  I anticipated that the evening would be a little sad, but didn’t really feel like being around partying people…

this year's New Year's Eve dinner...

this year’s New Year’s Eve dinner…

had my dinner and have just been watching the fireworks which our Community Club has on New Year’s Eve…  often we would be watching TV and one of us would hear the sound, and we would stand together in the dining room watching them out the window…  tonight I did that on my own…

fireworks through the window...

fireworks through the window…

I am saying farewell to a rough year, and trying hard to look toward the excitement and new things that will be 2013… I look forward to tomorrow and starting new traditions with my family… fancy dinner on New Year’s Day… family vacation… who knows what else…

I have come through the death of my beloved, a cancer diagnosis, big surgery and a long recovery…  now I am healthy and surrounded by people who care about me… I continue to be blessed…

if I awake at midnight I will toast my beloved, the past and coming year, and maybe speak with my girls… if not, I will start the new year in the morning with a smile…

may your New Year be filled with precious moments and much love and laughter…