christmas afternoon with the little kids

christmas morning

brother patiently waiting to start the opening sissy got a pony (it moves its tail and its head side to side and whinnies, so life like its a little scary; butterscotch is its name) brother got a remote control tarantula ( and he proceeded to scare sissy with it)

sissy's mean look

Merry Christmas

merry guinea pig

one of my favorite postcrossings postcards, this is just too cute not to share

the christmas ornament

my tree skirt is a red and white quilt made by my great great and great aunts in law over 60 or 70 years ago.

the story of the my Christmas ornament. I was given this frame ornament by a friend at a Christmas exchange. It was the year that my mom died and i decided to put the photo of my mom and dad in the frame and hang it on my tree. After i finished decorating the tree i sat down with a cuppa to reflect on the past year and heard a crack like a glass had broken. after searching the house for broken glass i glanced at the tree and was amazed to see the the glass in the frame had broken right down the middle and separated my mom and dad in the picture, just as death had separated them. there was no other reason the glass broke it had been hanging on the tree at least an hour and the temperture had not changed. strange but comforting. i try to give any friends an ornament when they have someone pass in their family

home reno 2

first color or two all colors on

a little bit of tweaking. final gloss coat will be done on the weekend. I still have to paint the walls, decide wether to get a almond or white dishwasher since my stove is white, fridge almond. put down new floor tile and maybe painting the cabinets and maybe a new sink as well as purging some of my junk

Christmas dinner with friends

outside of the "mother in laws" restaurant where i had dinner with some girl friends the other night. these girls and i worked together for 5 years, then i left the company and we decided to have dinner together once a month to keep in touch. we have been doing dinner since 2000. we go to the mother in laws each december for our Christmas celebration. the gingered carrots and handmade chocolate are wonderful. this restaurant is reported to have a ghost that dines with people. the building was built in 1866. the builder and his wife lived in one side and her mother lived in the other side.

the girls