Quarantine and chill and kindness chatty clubhouse: Jump in and join the conversation! All is welcome!

[bobbiwoz]

@PollyannaMom ,

 

[Snowysmom]

So sorry PollyannaMom. What a lovely Kitty.

 

[Snowysmom]

Good morning. Merry Christmas. Off to Jeff's house in a bit for brunch and to see what the kids got for Christmas.

Have a nice day.

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Merry Christmas to my dear Quacker family. I watched a touching Christmas Eve family service that started with God's youngest children at the church singing Him, "Happy Birthday. " Hearing kiddo's voices lifted in praise especially at Christmas warms my heart. Wishing each of you joy as you celebrate this holy day. Always remember God loves you. I care, too

 

[lynxstch]

@PollyannaMom 's on the loss of your furbaby. She was a beautiful cat. She knew she was loved and she loved in return. Now she's no longer in pain., and you have the memories of all the years that she was a part of your family

 

[lynxstch]

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE!

 

[Pea-n-Me]

PollyannaMom, so sorry to hear about your baby. Thank you for sharing her with us.
Until you meet again at the Rainbow Bridge.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I hope Santa was good to everyone! Merry Christmas!

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Good night/early morning hug to all with love.

 

[Snowysmom]

Good morning. I hope everyone had a nice holiday. It is 22 not with temps heading to the upper 30s. Good walking weather for the lake this afternoon. I had a nice time at Jeff's house. The grandkids loved their santa gifts. They opened the stockings I got for them and of course the candy was a big hit as well as the parachute men. Aimee makes wonderful cinnamon rolls from scratch and they were so good. I came back to the condo and decided to take it easy for the rest of the day. I watched a couple of Hallmark movies, one on Hallmark plus. I made my chicken dish which was good. I have leftovers for a couple more meals.

Have a great day.

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Snowysmom, I'm so glad you had a nice Christmas. I hope you enjoyed the movies. I did subscribe to FRNDLY TV for another month and am glad I did.

Happy Thursday dear friends. God truly extra graced me with extra rest and even sleep in the wee hours earlier. For the first time in forever, I didn't turn on my Kindle. Amazing. I pray to get more sleep after breakfast.

Dad really liked his Audubon Engagement calendar and other surprises. He was also moved by listening to the kids singing on Christmas Eve. Dad got me a thoughtful gift too. Jesus is every day my greatest Gift. That He continues to bless dad and I with time together with Him and each other is joy.

I will text Vivian later to ask whether she is able to stop by for even ten minutes. She has shared that she lives close to us. I just really need to stop setting myself back further Only positively moving forward especially into the new year I pray. Thank all of you always for all of your prayers.

Thursday joy to all.

 

[lynxstch]

Good morning. Going to be sunny and 40 today, better than snow, so I'll take it.

It was a quiet Christmas for the most part. It didn't start out well when I woke from a dream that Don had come back for Christmas and found myself crying and my pillow wet. Then I got up and found that one of the naughty kitty's had gotten on a shelf they never should have been on and knocked one of my old ceramic snowmen off and shattered it all over the kitchen floor.
Lily sent me a FB text just after midnight Christmas Eve telling me how much she loved me. That made my night.

Summer called and we laughed over old Christmas memories and last night she texted me pics of the kids opening their gifts.
Luke texted a 2 word message, Merry Christmas but I never heard from Ben at all.

Another friend had sent me an engraved silver ring/jewelry box, and I went to put it in my jewelry chest and decided to clean that out and get rid of old (not good) jewelry I hadn't worn for years. In the bottom of the chest, folded up, I found a Christmas letter Don had written me 2 years ago. The date was on the outside, but I couldn't bring myself to open it and reread it, I was already in tears just finding it. On top of the dream, it was just a little too much for me.

I had fixed a small 'buffet', for Christmas Eve (which was our tradition), but I wasn't hungry and barely ate any of it. I had it for dinner last night.

After dinner, my friend in CO and I talked on the phone for 3 hours, laughing and opening our gifts to each other. It was after 1 here when we finally said goodnight, and I went to bed.

Not planning on doing much of anything today. NOT going near any after Christmas sales. Since we don't have a lot of stores, all of them will be crowded and I don't need anything enough to fight the crowds. I worked retail for a number of years, and the day after was always worse than the day before.

Have a good day everyone

 

[bobbiwoz]

We forgot to take a picture yesterday, so Nancy’s Honey isn’t in the one we took today!


Family is going back to Houston today. It was truly a wonderful Christmas together!

Best wishes to all!

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Big extra hug dear Lynn. I'm truly grateful for your CO friend. She is blessed to have you. We all are and you are extra in my prayers.

Dear Bobbi, beautiful picture!

I finally heard back from Vivian. She said she could come on Saturday but did not say when! I will ask her tomorrow. Today was tough. I feel extra badly putting more on dad. I need him more than ever getting up from the chair in our kitchen now. Helping me is putting strain on him

It's my lower legs under my knees that are sore and stiff, at times painful. I can feel it as I navigate the walker which now I'm slower on too. I definitely brought this upon myself from improper walker use. Awful. I have been taking daily a very low dose of ibuprofen. At most 200mg. I may need to up that a bit tomorrow. Have any of you tried an ibuprofen cream? Google told me there is such a thing. I do know Voltaren (anything with Diclofenac) does not work for me. Bad reaction. Another reason ibuprofen seems the best answer. I pray to nip this in the bud. Before this all began a few weeks ago, I really was doing much better. Extra prayers most appreciated.

Thank you dear friends and sweet dreams.

 

[Snowysmom]

Flyingdumbo127 Sorry to hear that you are having some pain with walking and getting out of a chair. Good thoughts and prayers that this resolves and you continue to make progress with your healing.

Bobbiwoz Lovely family picture.

Good morning. It is 18 degrees here now with temps heading to the 30s. It is supposed to warm up over the weekend with temps going into the 40s but with rain unfortunately. Yesterday I walked at the lake. There was a big flock of Canadian geese taking off from the water. They were so noisy as they flew off. It was amazing to watch the formation as they left. I hope to walk there again today as it will be rainy this weekend and I may have to hit the gym instead. I made dining reservations for my cruise in June. We get a complimentary meal at one of the premium restaurants so we choose the Italian restaurant. I want to make one more excursion reservation for Portland, to go see a lighthouse and the city. We are already booked to see the Bay of Fundy in St. John. For Halifax I am not sure what we will do. I would love to see the Titanic cemetary and some other sights. My Dad was born in Nova Scotia so I am finally going to see parts of it. His stepfather was from Cape Breton and I will be seeing a part of that too.

Off to work. This week has been another challenging week which really makes me think about retirement. That is a decision for next year. I need to talk more with the kids and my 2 friends who are already retired. My NH friend and I said we can see each other more. And my MA friend said that we could do day trips together, maybe Rockport and other good places.

Have a good day.

 

[PollyannaMom]

Just saying hi this morning. The guys have a Lodge thing today, so I plan to use the time to clean for our company coming over on Sunday, pack up the wrapping supplies, etc. Then I may run a couple of quick errands or I may just watch a Hallmark movie, as I still have a few in the DVR.

I watched the Call the Midwife Christmas special yesterday. It's one of my favorite shows, and I'm always happy when I see that extra episode "magically" appear.

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Thank you dear Snowysmom. How fun to have possible future trips to look forward to.

Dear PollyannaMom, enjoy a quieter day. I just finished rewatching Cherished Memories the sequel to A Gift to Remember. I definitely would recommend.

Good early Friday to all with love.

 

[bobbiwoz]

Good morning!
Your cruise sounds special @Snowysmom !
@PollyannaMom , I was surprised as well to see that a Call the Midwife was waiting to be seen! I loved it. Many tears.
@flyingdumbo127, I pray you get some relief. Please don’t blame yourself, you walked as you thought was correct I am sure.

Tom goes for a PET scan today. We hope this is precautionary.

Tom will bring home a Sam’s rotisserie chicken. I made fresh cranberry sauce yesterday. We both will see our chiropractor this afternoon.

Our Houston family’s plane was very late departing PHL. It finally left around 11 PM…was scheduled around 6 PM. There was bad weather around Houston. I am glad they did get home safely!

When we took our picture yesterday, Gus didn’t want to sit up, we tried to get him in the picture. So, when they left, I asked Tom to take this picture and I sent it to everyone so they can remember he was with us this Christmas!

 

[Snowysmom]

Bobbiwoz Gus is adorable. I hope Tom's petscan goes well.

 

[lynxstch]

Good morning. Cloudy and 40's through the weekend with rain for most of it, and a lot of next week. At least it's not snow!

Not a good start to my morning. I open my computer to find a huge Norton Expired notice. Tells me I have to renew. I have the email with the expiration date and it's not until June 2025. Go through all the nonsense to try and get their phone # to call. Guy says that new update they put in a couple of months ago, is locking some people out of their devices. He had to do a virtual thing and get to the computer to put in some code to unlock it. Nothing like giving me heart failure first thing in the morning. I've had Norton products for at least 30 years and never had such an issue. The one on my laptop doesn't expire until Nov of 2025 and I better not have to go through that again.

I finished the last Hallmark Christmas movie I had recorded last night. I don't usually make it through all of them until March, but then again I was picky about the ones I chose to record. They're all pretty much the same anyhow, lol.

I did some cleaning yesterday, washed the floors, did laundry etc, so I can find something else productive to do today.

Your cruise sounds like it's going to be awesome @Snowysmom

Have a nice Friday everyone