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Merry Christmas 2019

Merry Christmas Everyone!

This was the LAST Christmas of the Decade...

Isn't that hard to believe?

I hope you all had a nice holiday season.  I had a wonderful time with family and friends.  My parents bought an amazing blue spruce tree; it's huge!  Check it out:

Mom and Dad enjoyed opening their gifts, and were very happy with everything I bought them, but were also mad because they thought I spent too much, lol.  My Mom is hard to buy for and doesn't want anything, so I mostly got her clothes.  I bought her 5 new tops, 2 pairs of pajamas, socks, lol, and some lotions and creams and household items.  Here's Mom with some of her gifts:

Dad's main gift was a Aerogarden Harvest, which is a hydroponic grow light set up.   

It came with a set of herb pods, but I also bought him the lettuce seed pods.  He decided to plant the herb pods first.  We set everything up yesterday after supper, because the lights are super bright so we're using them to basically light up the kitchen and entrance hall, lol.  The lights will be on all night so we won't have to use any other lights. 

Here's Dad with his brand new Aerogarden Harvest.  It's so bright, lol.

Here are the seed pods, planted on Dec. 27th at around 7 PM.   It will be exciting to see how quickly they sprout.

The pets also enjoyed their Christmas.  Smokey, my African Grey Parrot, opened her gifts under the tree.  She tried to open our gifts too.  She has been opening gifts under the tree for 30 years now, so she is a pro, lol.

Dasha the dwarf hamster also enjoyed her gifts.  She decided to sit on one of her treats while she ate another.  I cracked up laughing when I saw these pictures, as she is totally using the green pretzel treat as a little sitting stool, lol.

I hope you all had a wonderful holiday too!

Merry Christmas!

Christmas Day 2016

We had a nice quiet Christmas this year.

It started with my little dog Benji waking me up at 3 AM, 3:30 AM, and 4 AM because he wanted to open his presents, lol.

Benji in the early hours of Christmas Morning, wanting his presents.

 I managed to get him to go back to sleep until morning. I was pleasantly surprised that he even noticed it was Christmas because he is 16 and a half years old, is partially blind and deaf and sleeps most of the day. 

Benji diving head first into one of his gift bags.

 Ben was very happy when he was finally allowed to get at his gifts, lol.  He looked adorable in his new Santa sweater.

 My Dad complained that he had too many gifts to open.

 But he seemed to appreciate them.

 The toque I crocheted for him was a bit big but fit OK.  Dad picked out the pattern and colors himself. Just about everything he owns is either blue, grey, or red, lol.

 Mom opened her presents under the tree while Benji looked on.

 She really liked the purple top.

 I opened my gifts last.  My main gift was my new exercise bike, but I also got two cute hoodies, a watch, some bath oils and creams, and loads of chocolate.

Dad and Ben

Smokey opening gifts under the tree

 Smokey enjoyed opening her gifts.  She shredded the small gift bag to get at the toy inside.

Smokey with her new musical guitar toy

We had a lovely day, and a wonderful dinner later on.  It was weird not having my Uncle Buck with us, but he had shingles and felt awful so had to stay home. It was our first Christmas without him since I was born 52 years ago, and probably longer than that (I'd have to ask my Mom).

Mailman and my Dad brought goodies

Today was a fun day!  The dolls that I ordered came in, and my Dad picked them up for me; woohoo. The are so cute; check them out:

Aren't they sweet?  I'm not sure if I'm going to keep both or not; I originally had planned on keeping one and selling one on ebay...but they're so adorable i may just have to keep both, lol.
The dolls were a gift to myself, in honour of ending over 10 years of therapy.

I also got a parcel in the mail today.  I was excited because I've been waiting (and waiting!) for my needle felting kits to come in.  So I thought that was it.  I was surprised to find it was a parcel from the Peel Board...a gift for me, celebrating 20 years of service. I've been on a long term disability for over 10 years (which is one of the reasons I needed therapy), so it was bittersweet to get this gift.  I haven't even opened it yet...i'm just looking at the box.

Well, I'm going to do some stitching now.  I'm making some plastic canvas bunnies.  

I hope my needle felting kit will come in soon.