Wow what a busy few
weeks at 884. Due to my health I was
spending all waking moments focusing on making Christmas presents for the
kids. Our Christmas eve was celebrated
quietly at home, just G and myself. We
slipped on our new pajamas and watched Polar Express. I have never seen that movie before so it was
nice to enjoy a cute movie, new pajamas and then to top it off, G let me open
my presents on Christmas Eve.
I wasn’t able to get
out this year on my own to pick up a present for G for Christmas. I am getting him a membership with our local
photography club. The yearly fee is only
$40 so it's very reasonable. I really
wanted to buy something this year that he would use. He often gets it in his mind that he wants a
new gadget and then once we buy it as a present it doesn’t get used. So I wanted this year to be different.
They get together on
Wednesday nights, once a week. They
offer challenges, day trips and many cool techniques. If G really enjoys the class and makes an
effort to get out and take more pictures I might even consider joining
myself. I am not a photographer. I stumble just taking pictures with the
automated settings.
But the gift that
has him super excited is an xbox1. He
would have gone out and bought it already but locally we have none in any of
the stores and today is the last day of his mini Christmas vacation. I'm kind of eager to see all the neat
features etc. I have been wanting to
play any of those dancing games for the Kinect.
G
bought me an amazing fairy/dragon sculpture.
You can see it in the pictures below. *This is my first attempt at
collages with PicMonkey, hopefully with practice I will be able to get better
results* It is extremely detailed and
has tons of amazing features that captivate my heart. This is the biggest fairy I have. When G and I moved to this new home in
October, I absently stated that we would have to get a bigger fairy to sit on top of my glass
fairy cabinet. He remembered that
comment and this is my big gift from G.
He is so amazing and I enjoy that He is my best friend and cares about
the small personal comments I make and wish for.
For the last 4 years
my family and extended family have started me collecting these fairies. I have no 'collection' per say. But I do have the beginnings of a lifetime of
love for special pieces like this. Here
are pictures of the few other fairies that live with us at 884.
I was once asked
which was my favorite and I honestly couldn’t answer her as they each hold a
special place in my heart and the fairies symbolize hope and dreams to me. I am even going to be building a fairy garden
in the flowerbed in the front of the house.
I am unable to pull weeds and look after gardens these days so when I
saw the front of our house, that is what I envisioned. I will be sharing the creation of our fairy
garden with you in the next few months.
Wow got sidetracked
there LOL. Back to Christmas. G also gave me a Xyron sticker maker. This will definitely help with all my paper
crafts. Paper piecing can be a slow
tedious process at times trying to get a small element glued. This will definitely get used a lot this
year. When I had an at home scrapbook
store, I stocked tons of Xyron products.
They are versatile and have always been one of my go to adhesive musts
for my craft stash.
When drove over to R
and M's apartment around 2 to help out with Christmas dinner. This is the first big get together they have
had since they got their apartment. It
was a pretty decent amount of family and friends. I think the boys were a bit naïve in the
process of completing a family meal like this.
It's a dance really. Preparing
this, heating that, cooking this in the oven, while three pots are about to
boil over on the stove type of chaos.
You all know what that is like.
These boys are 22 and they found out that while it is great to have this
type of holiday, it takes a lot of work.
The boys and G got
together to buy me another present. So
while there I opened my presents, they bought me a game that I have been dying
to try since it came out years ago. The
problem was we are xbox people and nobody had a ps3 in the house, and this
particular game is machine specific. I
told the boys before they moved into their place that I was going to buy a copy
and come over and play on their machine.
Guess they didn’t like that idea….
They bought me the
game, and 2 others, as well as a used ps3 cause "we didn’t really want you
hanging out on the couch all the time mom" was the silent message passing
through the room. Then we all burst out
laughing. It was a great evening. We all laughed, and ate till we were ready to
burst.
As usual my tummy got in the way
of staying longer. I will be glad when
this operation is over and hopefully get back on the road to recovery instead
of always taking these three steps backwards .
This year, I was
finally in a festive mood. Seems Scrooge
found another victim this year. I
enjoyed all the family and friend time we got in. Love was flowing through the holiday wrapping
my loved ones in a cozy blanket hug.
I am hoping that
each of you had a great holiday. We have
so much to be thankful for this holiday.
I will be writing a post of the year in review soon as well as some of
my goals for 2014. One of the most
important goals I have this year, is to get the domain site ready to go live
and be a beautiful peaceful place for you to pull up a chair and sit and get to
know one other.
