Parties & other December Happenings

Hello there Adventurous Friends, greetings from South Dakota.  How you doing?  This is Sentence a Day where I join others & write a little something about each of my days, wrote in a long drawn out sentence or 2.  The month seemed to go by quickly now that it's all over, we had a white Christmas, let's see what other things happened.

Grand inducted to Beta Club.

* Celebrating the 1st - Daughter took some really good random pictures of each Grand for my thankful activity, got the Christmas decorations put up & all the presents mailed out, got to go camping & trail riding in some really nice weather for this time of the year, discovered several more caves to take the Grands exploring when they visit, thought the electric bill was less due to being away from the house a lot while camping, realized there was a year-end meter credit of $60 on the bill.

* Thurs 2nd - Power outage at work for a couple hours, did a little extra cleaning while waiting.

* Fri 3rd - Chatted with Daughter about my Happy Birthday Jesus Christmas party plans, picked up extra bulbs for the window candles at the hardware store & looked at Christmas stuff while waiting to go back into work.

Grand scored his 1st 2 points.

Week 49

* Weekend 4th & 5th - Went camping up at the pond, cooked pizza & brownies, watched Miracle on 34th St & Home Alone, too cold, windy & pelting snow to go trail riding, came home early, worked on laundry & broke down boxes didn't need for mailing.

* Mon 6th - Burrrr -0 & a dusting of snow on the ground.

* Tues 7th - Another Grand got a cell phone for his birthday, added his number to contacts to send random text about nothing & everything.

* Wed 8th - Helped do some Christmas decorating in the office, up & down the ladder putting up lights, made reindeer out of boxes.

Happy Birthday to Grand McClain.

* Thurs 9th - Visited the courthouse parade of trees, stopped by the park to see the town Christmas tree & the kid's hand-crafted ornaments, tree lighting was already over, drank hot chocolate while riding around town looking at Christmas lights.

Crosses made out of nails on
the 4-H tree at the courthouse.

Gnomes made out of a pinecones
on the town tree.

* Fri 10th - Memorial service of the women that died in a house fire next to the office, someone shared their bulletin for employees to read since the service was during business hours, she was a year older than me, had 2 adult children & a grandson.

Week 50

* Weekend 11th & 12th - Went camping up in the hills, watched Elf & Jingle All the Way, hotdogs & chili for supper & lunch, Daughter hosted our Happy Birthday Jesus Christmas party for the Grands.

I like to play hide & seek with
the Grands, think they would find
 me in here?

New additions to Daughter's 
family. Annie, Abbie & Roscoe.

Made table runners using
wrapping paper.

* Mon 13th - Helped decorate the Club's building for the Christmas party.

* Tues 14th - Decorated Club's building a little more, got ingredients to make punch.

Yummy punch.

* Wed 15th - Up early making a chocolate cake & mashed tators, Club's Christmas potluck was successful & fun, there was so much good food, lots of laughing & good conversations, snow falling throughout the day was festive.

* Thurs 16th - Took breakfast sandwiches & juice to share with coworkers, watched A Holiday in the Wild.

* Fri 17th - Coworker brought a meat, cheese & cracker tray to share, watched a couple more Christmas shows.

Sister sent this angel ornament
that is perfect for the mini tree.

Week 51

* Sat 18th - Visited with Daughter on facetime while she was in her car between Grand's basketball games & the rain, won 3 games of bingo, got the news that Friend Ed died, he gave Kevin a pair of horseshoes & get him involved pitching in tournaments, he also rang the office bell annoyingly doing it for fun & games, we'll miss Ed.

* Sun 19th - Pajama Day, relaxed wearing my new flannel snowflake pjs, drank the last of the leftover punch with an extra scoop of sherbert, worked on Christmas cards, watched Grand's church Christmas play live on Facebook, they all did so good. 

Rose don't mind that I
wear my pjs all day.

* Mon 20th - Wrote out some more Christmas cards & mailed them, laid out the Christmas ham in the fridge to thaw, started planning the camping menu, got a dusting of snow, did snow shoveling at the offices, elementary school carolers stopped by, such a blessing & beautiful voices. 

* Tues 21st - Did some more cards & shoveled more snow, went to memorial service for Ed, last day working the other office for a while, got someone hired, penciled in to take a month off in March.

* Wed 22nd - Set up a table in the office for Christmas goodies.

* Thurs 23rd - Heard on the radio it was Christmas Adam since the day before Christmas is Christmas Eve, coworker had her baby, schedule changed to working back at the other office while new hire goes to training, had the afternoon off, caught up on opening the mail, balancing check books & did a couple loads of laundry. 

Week 52

* Weekend 24th, 25th & 26th - Merry Christmas, went camping up at the pond, had Christmas at camp, watched both of the National Lampoon's Christmas Vacations.

Christmas day trail ride.

 

Home baked goodies, smart photo
 frame & handcrafted Christmas tree
ornaments from Daughter's family.

Coffee, cookies & books from Moma.
A painting done by Sister.

Cold & snowy outside,
warm & cozy inside.

* Mon 27th - Got the new picture frame set up, got the Christmas decorations took down & stored away, got the camper cleaned out & Kevin parked it till spring, a day of shoveling snow off sidewalks at the office & cleaning the floors, soup beans & ham cooked in the crockpot for supper, started reading one of the new books from Moma.

* Tues 28th - More snow to be shoveled at the office & cleaning of the floors, a lazy afternoon of not being in the mood to do anything, watched several Christmas shows on the Hallmark channel, leftover beans for supper.

* Wed 29th - Cleaned floors at the office, ice melt & muk are yuck, had ethics meeting about how to answer the phone & how to greet & thank the customers.

* Thurs 30th - January is Uber Frugal Month, looked in the freezer to see what needs to be eaten up, made a crockpot of chili to have throughout the weekend.  

*Fri 31st - Kept busy in the office taking down Christmas decorations, cleaned the floors & shoveled snow, sent Happy New Year messages then went to bed.

These are some of the things that's been going on in my neck of the woods, how about you?