The Beauty Around Us

Hello friends! It has been a while since I published a blog post. My last blog post was published in October 29th. Did you miss me?

How were your end-of-year holidays?

Bob and I celebrated Christmas with Stacey and our granddaughters on Christmas Eve at their home.

Stacey prepared dinner. We had baked ham, accompanied with baked potatoes, broccoli and corn pudding.  Dinner was delicious.  After dinner we opened presents.  Everyone was pleased with their respective gifts. The last gift Harper and June opened was from Stacey, the game of Cards Against Humanity (the family edition).  We played several rounds of this game.  It is a fun game. There was much laughter from all of us.

Christmas Day was a quiet, low key day for Bob and me. Neither of us could sleep, so we got up at 4:00 am.  We had opened our Christmas gifts to each other by 5:00 am.  We buy from each others’ wish lists, although there are always surprises. We were happy with our respective gifts. We took a nap in the afternoon.  Bob slept on the reclining sofa.  I slept on top of the bed. We had Christmas dinner at 5:00 pm.  The main entree was spiral ham, warmed up from Thanksgiving  Day dinner.   We had divided the leftover ham into 8 ounce packages.  Christmas was the first time we have used the leftover ham for dinner.  Accompanying the ham was fried potatoes and onions and tossed salad.  Dinner was easy to prepare and delicious.

New Year’s Eve was a rainy, but mild, day.  We spent the day home.  We celebrated the end of 2022 by ordering pizza and chicken wings from The Cornerstone.  Bob picked up our order.  We watched several episodes of “Silent Witness” on BritBox and “Criminal Minds” on Paramount+.  We did not stay up to welcome the New Year.  We went to bed around 9:30 pm. We welcomed the new year at 6:00 am on New Year’s Day. We had plans to spend New Year’s Day with my brother and his family. Our plans were cancelled, however, because COVID found a couple members of my family. Thankfully, everyone has since recovered from COVID.