We’ve just arrived home from a lovely day spent with family for Christmas. Feeling grateful! The last two years, due to covid, we haven’t seen family for Christmas and so today we all just enjoyed being together again.
Wishing you all the best for this holiday season and especially thinking of those in the U.S. with this crazy weather.
“What is Christmas?
It is the tenderness the past, courage for the present, and hope for the future.”
Agnes.M.Pahro.
We’ve had a very busy few weeks since I last posted.
A family get together for a 65th wedding anniversary, our 40th wedding anniversary and DD & I’s birthdays. It’s been lovely to catch up with extended family, some we hadn’t seen since before Covid. I also had the Share the Dignity collections and drop offs to do which are all completed now.
DH and I have also been very busy at home with lots of decluttering going on, and trips to the op shop and the tip each week. We have also replaced all the blinds on the windows at the front of the house and down one side. I was able to get the double blinds at 40% off at Spotlight which was a good saving. They didn’t have enough in stock to do the whole house so I will get more when they are on sale again. We also bought a new lounge which is SO comfortable to nap on!
Today we are putting up our Christmas decorations and next week we will visit DS for a few days to help organise a bathroom and kitchen renovation for his unit.
It feels good to have the time and energy to get so much done.
I’m still having difficulties commenting, but now have a few ideas so will try and sort that out this week.
Its a lovely Christmas morning here. The sun is shining, the sky is blue and theres a nice cool breeze. Heres hoping it doesn’t warm up too much as the day goes on.
Yesterday I finished up the management role that I’ve been doing this year. I’m relieved that its done and dusted. It’s just been one of the busiest, stressful work roles I’ve had. I slept like a baby last night.
I went into the office a few days this week and cleaned out all my cupboards & filing cabinets, bought home all my own stuff from my office and took the pictures down from the walls. Lots of happy memories going through everything!
I did a lot of shredding and sorting of paper files. I have one pile of about 30 files that I need to go through and about a weeks worth of data entry to do and then I am completely up to date, ready to walk out the door for good in 90 days.
I wanted to get it done in case we had to work from home again due to Omricon and its good thing that I did as we are now working from home until February. But now I am just there to finish up and handover. My mind is already in retirement mode!
We will be having a quiet Christmas today and we’ll catch up with family via zoom. We always have a traditional roast dinner at lunch time which I’m looking forward to.
I have two weeks of holidays now and will be back to blogging more regularly again. Thanks for visiting my blog and for your encouragement & comments over this last year. Wishing you all a safe and happy Christmas and a peaceful holiday season.
“What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.” Agnes Pahro.