This weekend we had a beautiful arrival of my first grandchild born to the family... Caleb.... Arrived on December 19, 2009 at 4:11 am... weighing 5 pounds 13 ounces and measuring 19 inches...
We came home on Saturday but Sunday the thought of going back down just to sit and hold him was very much on my mind... hoping to get to do that very soon....
Four Days to go:
Today marks 4 days to Christmas and not a lot of time to get whatever I have to do done... so being me I sat down with the Tim's tea Carl actually went up and got me before heading off to work this morning... got to love that man.... and make a list... after number 55 I stopped... actually I got a little discouraged about the whole thing... so with list in hand I headed out to pick up the last of the Christmas gifts I needed to pick up... which took a very short time... I was actually surprised that the malls were not as full as I thought they would be.... lucky me I guess... I am happy to say I am done my Christmas shopping for the year... and by the time I came upstairs tonight I also had all the wrapping done... with gifts under the tree and those going out of the house in bags ready to go on Friday... the wrapping paper and ribbon is back in their storage bins and I am hoping I will not see that again until next year as well...
Of course I did have to do a drop in to see mom and dad for a bit but also picked up the stuff I put in their freezer since I took the bird out and put it in the fridge this morning making room for other things... which is always nice... I figure it is going to take that long to thaw....
On the way home I thought I should pick up cranberries to make this afternoon... something else that can be done ahead of time but to my total amazement Donald actually didn't have one fresh berry in the store... so tell me what store keeper actually forgets to order cranberries this time of the year... ohhh yes Donald... shakes her head in total amazement of this man...
By the time I got home I knew that I had to tackle the list so it wouldn't look too back tomorrow morning and actually I think I did pretty good today.... I knocked off about 10 things but also added another 7 things that either has to be done or picked up tomorrow... I decided that I was leaving the touch up of the house until Wednesday while I am waiting for Matthew to arrive... I did important things today like finding that perfect spot for my angel that usually is on top of the tree but this year we put the tree in the TV room and if we wanted the angel on we would have had to but it to about 4 feet... we went with a real tree this year...
Wrapped gifts, got the tables set up, put up the rest of the decorations that have been laying around the house saying I am going to put them up one day, started taking out plates, bowls and things of that nature out, washed and ready for the tables... looked for things I know I have but can't find, finally put my ribbon up for my cards I received and it seem that it was a perfect day to be home because from Monique call this morning the phone had not stopped ringing until 10 tonight... so I think I had a very productive day... to get the day an hour on the cook book which reminds me there are some of you that have not put in your recipes which I would like to see... so take a minute people...
Well now I am off to bed so I can start again tomorrow ... first of the list...find cranberries....
Have a great one...
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