Ah....vacation

I took some days off to relax and enjoy! Simple things like sleeping in, making a nice breakfast and watching a mid morning movie. Having some petit fours for brunch. Spending some time with my daughters. My soul feels refreshed and my mind recharged. I will be smiling and happy when I head back to work and hapkido.

Wishing you peace, hope, joy and love

Pet food and wine

Headed off to the grocery store to buy dog and cat food. Good reason to buy wine, sparkling non alcoholic and the real thing. Met my son and a neighbor shopping the aisles. The weather has held, brilliantly sunny here. Makes flower delivery and travel from other states easy. This Christmas Eve, we will help take my mother to church to celebrate Christmas. After, a simple family dinner. Wishing you peace, joy, love and hope.

Good morning

Rainy and wet outside this morning. Had breakfast and in a few minutes, my daughter and I will drive to my parents' home to help clean the family room and set the table for a big Christmas dinner. My dad is concerned about a seating arrangement where everyone will feel comfortable and have enough room. My daughters made sugar cookies and will pick up some food coloring to use in bright icing to decorate them. Tonight I train in hapkido, the last class for a week.

Early morning peacefulness

I woke up early this morning and couldn't seem to settle back to sleep. I got up and Pudge, the puggle and I are enjoying the early morning quiet. He had some dog food and a biscuit for breakfast, I had fruit, toast and hot cocoa. We got the dishwasher unloaded, the cupboard doors wiped down and the floor swept. The lights on the Christmas tree shine in the living room.

Thoughts

4500 American lives lost
30,000 wounded
Trillions of dollars spent in the 8 1/2 year Iraq war

What is the proper consequence for a 16 year old missing curfew?

Grounding
Writing a sentence 1000 times
Writing an essay

I do concur with the grounding, and putting in some volunteer hours at a food bank for example.

I enjoyed putting up the Christmas tree yesterday. The lights and ornaments reflect Christmas light, joy, peace, hope and love. My brother mentioned that he can tell that the cats have climbed on top of the hutch, where he has set up his Nativity set. The donkey, camel and sheep have been moved!

Almost ready

My husband and I put up the outside lights yesterday. Had to rethink the strings that decorated the yews and the rose of sharon bush since these were removed in the spring. We wrapped the string around the new porch rail and continued the "pink" string on the evergreen bushes. Put all the lights on a timer. On Wednesday, on my day off, I will put the tree up. Have a few small gifts to purchase and would like to make some sugar cookies. I am feeling relaxed and peaceful and enjoying this season of Advent.