Update

Well, Christmas did come and go and I was mostly ready but had come down with a cold so not really feeling that good.  Had the family in Christmas Eve and really enjoyed everyone's company.  Quite bittersweet though.  This was our 49th Christmas in this house and it'll be the last...we move in Feb or March.  Christmas Day I got up had some left over bread pudding and apple rum sauce from dinner last night then went back to bed.  When I got up it was time to go to our daughter and son-in-law's for a wonderful ham dinner.  Granddaughter C made me a bracelet with her Rainbow Loom that she got for Christmas....and surprise...the colours she chose matched my sweater perfectly.  Thank you my love!!!

Boxing Day was very literal...I'd taken the dishes and wine glasses out of the china cabinet and there was NO way I was putting them back so out came several boxes and I managed to box up the majority of the dishes and wine glasses...ready for their new home.

Friday, a couple we know from church came and had lunch with us.  We had a lovely visit and I gave her another box of stuff for her preschool.  I was doing some more packing and the phone rang and our friends J&H asked us to come for coffee tonight...nice break from packing and we managed to solve a mystery.

Last week we got a Christmas Card in the mail from "Cheryl & SAS" thanking us for making a donation and telling us how wonderful her life is now....okay???...hadn't heard of the organization and didn't remember making a donation to them.  There was a newsletter with the card which did nothing to shed any light on the mystery, so I tried phoning them, but they're closed for Christmas week.  Phoned three or four of our friends and they couldn't shed any light on it other than it was a Christian organization.  I took the card to J&H's and BINGO....I'd sponsored H for a bowling tournament the beginning of the year and forgotten about it...WOW...mystery solved!!!!

Tonight we're off to see our youngest granddaughter perform in  a show that's been playing all month.  If I don't get a chance to get on the computer in the next couple of days I'm sending everyone greetings for a Very Healthy, Happy New Year!....and special prayers and wishes for our friends E&J whose granddaughter who is very sick and in Children's Hospital.

Christmas Concert

Sunday the pre-schoolers at our church put on their concert during the morning church service...they're soooo cute!  In the evening the school aged children did their concert called "An Out of the Box Christmas".  The story line was a group putting on the Christmas Story but they got the wrong costumes so improvised and had the 3 wise men as cowboys, the shepherds as pirates, and the angels as cheer leaders...it was so well done and all the kids were on stage for the majority of the concert.  I was SO glad we decided to go rather than stay home!

I'm actually starting to get some Christmas stuff done...took a break from packing today and decided to do some baking and other cooking.  I figured out ages ago that Christmas was going to come and go whether I was ready or not, so now I just do what I can and relax and enjoy the season.

B's Baby Has a Boo-Boo

Saturday we headed out to Langley to attend the Langley Ukulele Ensemble's Christmas production....it was EXCELLENT!!!!  Paul is doing such a good job since he took over the group from his father.  He's encouraging the students to reach out of their comfort zone and do either vocal or instrumental solos.  Our granddaughter even had a vocal solo part. She just found out 6 days before and hadn't told us, so it was a total surprise!

We left the concert and were heading to the Christmas Banquet at our church.  Stopped at a red light and when the light turned green B took his foot of the brake and we felt a big THUD!!!  Someone in a white car had come barrelling up behind us and went to cut into the left lane but didn't cut soon enough and smacked into the bumper.  He/she just kept on going and of course it all happened so fast we didn't get a license plate number.  The driver's side bumper has a big dent in it which is marked with white paint and is pushed upwards making it tight to open the tailgate.  Thankfully we were in the truck and weren't hurt....just upset!

The banquet was good and when we got home I phoned the police but was told they wouldn't be investigating it because it was a hit and run with no plate number and no witnesses.

Like a Needle in a Haystack

We went to our youngest granddaughter's Christmas concert this afternoon.  Now, you take a bunch of young girls all about the same age with very similar builds and hair cuts, put them in costumes and how in the world are grandparents supposed to recognize them from 15 or 20 rows back????  We did have a couple of possibilities from the class performances....but really weren't totally positive... but then when the choir came out to sing....there she was!!!!  Then we realized which class group she was in!  Thank goodness!!

Before we left for the concert I'd received a call from a friend whose husband and son have a landscaping business.  The son was married 4 months ago and I guess in the cold weather his wedding ring slipped off and was lost in the trimmings from a hedge.  They'd taken one load to the dump but when he realized his ring was missing they put the remainder of the trimmings on a tarp and put it in the truck.  When we got home from the concert they came over.  We spread the tarp out in the carport and spread out the hedge trimmings to about 4" deep...oh my...is the ring in there or was it in the load that went to the dump or had it fallen somewhere else...like looking for a needle in a haystack.  Out came the metal detector...and after several passes over the entire bed of trimmings, it was looking pretty bleak....but wait....beep...beep...beep....could it be?????  Carefully looked around in that area and low and behold...we found it!!!!!  We were so happy for him!!!!

US Thanksgiving

It seems weird that we're not in our trailer camping down in the States for Thanksgiving.  This year we put our trailer away for the winter after Canadian Thanksgiving, which is unusual for us!!!

We do wish all our American friends and family a very blessed Thanksgiving and hope you get what you want in the Black Friday sales!!!

What Next?

We've been to a couple of funerals lately and Monday we go to another one!

Still sorting, packing and eliminating stuff.  Still haven't sold our house, but there is someone coming to have a look at it Friday....it would be super nice if they fell in love with it and gave us a good offer!!!

We went to the Dr. and got our flu shots and in preparation for our move we asked if we could get our annual (usually year and a half or longer) blood work done.  Went for the blood and urine tests.  It's so neat these days because I can go online and get the results, unfortunately some of the results weren't that good so I phoned and made an appointment for yesterday after B's eye doctor appointment.  Results weren't that bad after all, but B did need some antibiotics, which we got, but he did get a good report at the eye Dr.

On the way home we stopped at the casino and I won a 2 for 1 entrée ticket so we went to the sports bar and had a lovely grilled salmon dinner!  Things have a way of working out!!!

Fun Day

Last night a friend phoned and asked if today would be a good day for him and his wife to come down.  He's going to try and fix a cord on my phone and I've got some books for them to take to the park where they spend a lot of time and donate them to the clubhouse.  I suggested they also stay for lunch because I'd made a big pot of vegetable soup.

They came down today but he couldn't fix the phone cord.  I was preparing lunch when my cousin phoned....he and his sweetie were in town so I told them they were just in time for lunch so come over.  Two more place settings at the table, more soup in the pot and a couple more grilled cheese sandwiches and we were good to go!  What fun we had!!!!