We know it's not going to last but Sunday's snowfall certainly helped to put folks into the holiday spirit - all 21.5 cms of it! It sure did for me. I didn't have anywhere to be so I spent the day digging out the Christmas decorations I brought with me, to see just what I have (not quite as much as I thought, but enough to work with) and then I spent the better part of the day baking cookies.
We're hoping we'll be able to have a special day for our volunteers in early December. In the past they have had a banquet but that's not an option this year. So each will be given a gift certificate and we'll have treats available. Hence the baking. A few of us are going to undertake that task, and a snowy day was just the right atmosphere.
I spent Saturday in Guelph at the Dennison's. Patti was working and Tristen had a project he needed to complete for school. One of his classes is donating handmade small toys to a woman's shelter. He needed to learn how to crochet so he could make a rabbit. So of course I got the text, "Grandma can you help?" I went over and we found a very simple pattern to make a rabbit out of a crocheted square. Pretty simple but even at that it didn't turn out quite like the picture but it was a semblance of a rabbit. Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of the finished product!
Sunday morning (before it started snowing) was spent putting greenery into my bucket I rescued from the metal recycling at work. The bottom is rusted and has some small holes but doesn't affect what I needed it for. Not as fancy as I could have had on PEI but it will do. I saw on a neighbourhood facebook page that some folks had decorations stolen off their porches so good thing mine isn't that fancy. I certainly won't have the lovely birch sticks that we used on the island. I was at a local building store the other day and they had bundles of 3 birch sticks, about 2 feet long. They were a mere $16.98. Seriously??? Needless to say I didn't buy any, My bucket will have them in my imagination!
It is officially one month till Christmas. I still have some stuff to do and my move downstairs has stalled slightly. I'm going to be able to use the kitchen and the living room but for now I will leave my living room furniture upstairs. I have the tree put up in the downstairs living room (although not decorated as yet) and there's even an electric fireplace to add some atmosphere. We'll put the table and chairs in there for Christmas dinner and call it done. We then can finish the dining room renovations after the new year. No point in getting ourselves all in a dither about something that's not that critical. After all there will be lots of other things to remember about the COVID CHRISTMAS 🎅
It's actually going to work out really well this year. Patti is working overnight on Christmas Eve. I'll go over there in the afternoon and we'll have our finger foods. Then she can leave for work, the kids and I can clean up and watch a movie or whatever, and I'll stay over. When Patti gets home in the morning, and after the gifts are open, I can go home and make dinner while she sleeps, before they all arrive later. A win/win for all involved! I'm really looking foreword to it.
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