day 473 after transplant

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

OOOPS! Please forgive me for not blogging last Sunday, I just plain forgot. I have been so mixed up on my days.

Last Friday evening it started to snow and it snowed all day Saturday—we ended up with 18 inches of snow. Scott, Beth and the kids came home Friday afternoon instead of Saturday (if they would have waited to come on Saturday they would never have made it home). Grady and Libby was so excited about the snow, they have never seen so much snow. It was beautiful while it was snowing and the kids sure did enjoy being outside, sledding and making an igloo.

I spent a lot of time in the kitchen and I sure enjoyed being able to make some all time favorites.

Saturday night we had “our” Christmas. I got a beautiful pendant for my necklace that had “Mamaw” on it and three charms of my grandkids(1 boy and 2 girls). Audrey made us a cute reindeer ornament using her footprint as the reindeer body. Also a ceramic tile- an angel with foot print wings (we have one of Grady and Libby when they were little). It’s little things like this that means so much.

Sunday we were “snowed in”. Churches closed so we had our own little service. The kids enjoyed playing in the snow and the guys spent the afternoon cleaning off the drive way.

Monday evening it was still very cold but we did get out to go to my Dad’s for Christmas. What a fun evening. The kids acted out the Christmas story, with Libby as Mary and Grady as Joseph. Audrey started out as baby Jesus but ended up being an angel!

Tuesday Scott, Beth and the kids left to go home. Rodney and I wondered what to do! We went to town just to see how busy the stores would be. It was kind of crazy.

Wednesday, Rodney back to work and I spent my day baking rolls, sugar cookies, pumpkin bread and fudge for gifts for several of our neighbors. It was so good to be able to do this again. I didn’t get to do this last year because I was in Richmond. Only got home for four days and then had to go back to Richmond.

Thursday evening Dad and Corinne came up and we rode around looking at the Christmas lights and then we went to 11:00 Christmas Eve Service. Dad and Corinne spent the night and Christmas morning I fixed a big breakfast. We played Dominos and just had a very quiet day. In the evening we went to Ryan and Jennifer’s for dinner. A quiet day but a day that we could think about what Christmas is all about.

Rodney volunteered to work on Saturday. I rode with him and it was a good day for us just to be together.

Today we went to church and then visited Aunt Louise. After that we rode to Skyline Drive to see if we could get some good snow pictures but the drive was closed. We rode on over to Charlottesville to see Rodney’s brother, Richard. It was a very nice day just to ride.

I hope that  all of you had a wonderful Christmas and wish you the best for 2010. Can you believe that 2009 is almost over?

Blog next year,

Love, Gloria