Since the Stole

It has been a very busy week, since the completion of the stole, but not stressful which is great considering the holiday season alone is stressful enough- not much time for deep thinking, but many things have been accomplished and "marked-off"-
first up-
the Christmas cantata at church- wonderful music, the choir and orchestra's hard work was self evident.
cooked cranberry oatmeal and cinnamon almond cookies (some for Steve to take to work)

♥Monday-Thursday was spent transforming our training room at work into a party room for our annual Christmas luncheon- moving chairs and tables upstairs, moving tables and chairs around- pushing and pulling that required many brawny boys!

♥Monday- blocked the Stole at work- took a while-I was warned by Mary, and I was amazed at how the Stole was transformed by this process-

♥Tuesday- the Stole made a tour around the office- PJ got his braces off (no photo), and Mom and I attended the DBE annual Christmas dinner- conveniently located at our neighborhood clubhouse :-) !

♥Wednesday-had Christmas lunch with Steve at his office -more wonderful food, and later the usual "yellow cab" services back and forth to church-got the "light" housekeeping done and coordinated the borrowing and delivery of the warming cabinet for our lunch at work.
♥Thursday-put the finishing touches on the training room, did a double check on the availability of audio/visual equipment for showing movies while we eat.
♥Friday-a tad more stuff in the training room- barking (I mean giving) orders-(directions) regarding food placement, and eating, etc. A totally delicious meal, and a great time was had by all, especially our visit from Santa, yes we have our very own Santa at our office. Later on Santa, Chrystina and I paid a visit to the pediatric facility across the street from our office. The kids, who are very sick, were entranced by Santa, and I'm glad we took the time to visit.

Some knitting in between, cast on the Victorian Lace, seems pretty easy so far, and I'm about half-way finished with my gift scarf.
♥Saturday-got some gift shopping finished- gift for the family gift exchange, baby gift for Beth and Sean, and birthday gift for my secret sister, and a quick stop at the grocery store.
Hanging out until time for the Katnik party- watched Elf and some of A Christmas Carol. Realized that we only have 1 Christmas DVD, and we plan to remedy that very soon! Spent some time in the kitchen getting Sat., Sun., and Mon., dinners together, and stuff for the coffee fellowship on Sunday morning-trying to keep things very simple right now.

Also, this week managed to print out about 50 Christmas newsletters, address and seal the envelopes--these are for folks that I don't have emails for, and will be getting a mass produced letter instead- (gotta buy more stamps!)

♥Sunday, spritz cookies and the gelee candy from this month's Gourmet. Andrew helped on this one- Also, made more progress on the house decorations. I spent so much time and effort getting the office decorated, I'm not sure I want to do any more! I still have to finish taking down those decorations and moving stuff back to the proper spot next week!

Oh well, what gets done gets done. I decided to put a link for the photos at the end along with a snap of come cards we've received, didn't want to do all that cutting and pasting as there are quite a few.

Love hearing the sound of rain on Saturday, and was very thankful that it held off while I did my walk Sunday morning!

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