Sunday, Dec. 19 -- Sleepy morning! We had omelets for breakfast (mushroom & feta) and then we got ready for a little more shopping. Family dinner in the afternoon was at Patsy's house. Beth likes the clam dip that she serves, and we all got a good laugh when Brian accidentally put barbecue sauce on his ice cream!
Monday, Dec. 20 -- Back to the routine! Nancy had a few meetings and worked from home the rest of the day. We started in on wrapping presents. Beth visited Curves in the afternoon; we took along a set of copies of four pieces of her art for Halley, the gal who gave Beth the nice present. Dinner at home.
Tuesday, Dec. 21 -- Beth was having a slow day -- slow to respond, difficulty in thinking. She had a good workout at Curves and we straightened out everything there, so she's paid up for her exercising. I'm amazed at how many people there know her. She gets hugs when she comes and goes there; very sweet. After the workout, I had to go to the KU Hospital to do some work (stuff that came up quickly and I couldn't do from home) so I took Beth with me. She sat at a desk and practiced her handwriting while I worked. She was very good and did a nice job of shaking hands when she met one of my colleagues there. We had dinner at home -- a nice tortellini with italian sausage and a salad. Cookie sampler for dessert!
Wednesday, Dec. 22 -- Nancy had to be away most of the day, so Beth was with Tom. They did some shopping and went to the bookshop for some work. Late in the afternoon, over to Curves. Dinner at home. Beth now has become reluctant to go up and get ready for bed by herself. She waits for me, calls out for me and generally won't do anything unless I'm there to guide her along and help out.
Thursday, Dec. 23 -- In the mornings when I hear Beth get up, I remind her to take a shower and help her pick out what to wear, and then I leave her alone. Today, she forgot to turn off the shower. I can't imagine how much water was wasted. After breakfast, she helped with sweeping up and wrapping presents. Beth is good at wrapping presents, a great helper! Getting some work done, then we decide to go last-minute shopping but Beth would rather go to Curves. OK, that's what we do. Then back at home, we start in on baking. Beth again does a great job, very patiently mixing stuff and helping out. We make a batch of nut rolls -- the little nut-filled crescents, one loaf and several nut rolls (pinwheels). We'll be sharing these with our brothers. Dinner at home -- made bread while we were baking, also a macaroni & cheese.
Friday, Dec. 24 -- We woke up to a White Christmas (eve)! Just a nice little flurry of big soft snowflakes, enough to cover everything but too wet to stick for long. Today we will go to our regular Christmas eve lunch with Andrea, Vince and Mary Lynn, and then tonight we go to Patsy's house for her Christmas Eve party.
The lunch was very nice. Andrea presented Beth with a cute and Christmas-y pin, which looked great on Beth. (There are photos.) Lunch was fun.
Later, for the party, Beth got dressed up in sparkly top and black pants -- everyone commented on how pretty she looked. She liked it very much, got to hug a lot of people!
Saturday, Dec. 25 -- Christmas Day! We got up a little early to be all ready! We were at Erin's at 9 a.m. Beth enjoyed a breakfast there, and then it was time to dive into the gift giving. The kids had loads of fun with all their new toys and stuff.
Beth got some candles, soaps and lip gloss, pens, a lap desk, a drawing book and a photo album. I'll have to work on getting some prints to fill it up. After all that ruckus, we went home and opened our own presents by our Christmas tree. Beth got a sweater, a couple of shirts, some pants, some pens, a travel pen kit, some paper, socks and such. It was quite nice!
We relaxed a bit then, and later went back to Erin's for Christmas dinner. We had fun with the kids and their new toys, and then sat down to a turkey dinner. Beth had an ice cream truffle for dessert along with warm apple cake. She was nearly falling asleep at the table by the end of it all!
A joyous Noel.
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