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

[NYCgrrl]

@Pea-n-Me do those crèche figurines have heads made of nuts? I enjoy their simplicity!

@bobbiwoz great leaf dish and inspired showcasing of the baby Jesus. Reminds me of Venus rising from the sea .

 

[NYCgrrl]

@lynxstch Sometimes life‘s travails are just too much to bear. You must be proud of your DGD ‘s ability to see past her current state of mind and ask for help; it can be such a hard thing to do at her age and even older. Keeping my best thoughts zooming in her and the family’s direction .

As a side note for all, I’m trying to catch up and using reaction emoticons as a place marker so don't think I missed your post if no current acknowledgment from me. It’ll come I’m just being slow right now. Think I’m currently on page 363, LOL.

 

[sparkle78]

Agreed I have enjoyed our group and hearing about other parts of the country.
Dinner tonight - spaghetti carbonara. I only make it once or twice a year. With the pancetta, eggs, etc. is has a ton of fat in it. Tomorrow - it’s bowl games, so I am going to try our the air fryer pan and make some crab cakes, breaded shrimp , and spinach, Artichoke and guyere cheese dip.

Easypass , thanks for info. We got one several years ago for our summer trip to the beach thru PA and Maryland. And the two trips in the fall to South Bend and Chicago.

Breezy Carol - I had a response for you, forget what the topic was now, maybe nativities? If so thanks for posting some.

So in the next picture I post with the nativities, here’s a little explanation.
the tiny one inch ones: my mom sent me in college to put in my dorm room, i think she got it from current magazine where you order wrapping paper
the glass ones with advent candle holders: I bought with money from my first teaching job to decorate my apartment. They say dicksons on the box
the fisher price nativity: my aunt bought for the boys when they were little and it is what we have used under our tree for the past 14 years.
Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus: I just got this Christmas , after saying I wanted a nice nativity set for under the tree. It’s Fontanini and a gift from my Hubby. It’s a little pricy, so i will collect the wiseman, shepherds and angels over the next 5-10 years.
May this new year bring blessings to all

 

[sparkle78]

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Good Morning, Everyone

Thank you, Carol for the email. I did see the notice on the main Disboard page just now. The "new" password I made yesterday did not work. It allowed me instantly to create a new one again. Hopefully this one sticks! I appreciated your time and help

Love the Nativity pictures, Sparkle!

Much thanks, prayer, and hug to each of you, my Dis Family in this thread. ITA how grateful I am to Tina for starting this safe, welcoming place and always to God for bringing and keeping us all together in it. Each of you has made a difference to me. Prayers for a healthy, safe, and brighter 2021 for all! Yes, let us stay together throughout

 

[bobbiwoz]

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Beautiful!

 

[lynxstch]

Small update from stepdaughter..who once again put me in the middle by send a FB message to ME, and not her Dad..but oh well...

She spoke with the doctor this morning and they said she finally got a good night's sleep with her new meds and was sitting her her doorway ready for the doc with her sarcastic jokes at 6am this morning. She said she is increasing her meds tonight as well as starting her on a mood stabilizer tonight and she should be able to come home Tuesday or Wednesday. They had a zoom meeting at 11am this morning that lasted about 35 min. Granddaughter cried the whole time which made it very hard for stepdaughter but she kept it together for her until it was over. She needs more clothes and a blanket and her jeep is not running good so her mom is picking me up at 1:00 and taking her to Hagerstown so she can drop of some of her stuff.

My reply was to tell her to tell Lily that we love her, and are glad she has the strength and courage to get through this. And told stepdaughter to call her Father when she gets home from the drive today. Tired of being the middle man, since she doesn't care much for me anyhow!

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Lynxstch, I am so sorry. I am grateful Lily sounds like she is doing better.

 

[lynxstch]

Lynxstch, I am so sorry. I am grateful Lily sounds like she is doing better.

Thank you Mona,,but that seems like an awfully long time to keep her there..more than a week..when her older brother had 'issues', they brought him there in an ambulance, and kept him 2 whole days, and then sent him home. I hope they are keeping her long enough to really get some help to her.

 

[flyingdumbo127]

I sure pray so, Lynxstch!

 

[dazedx3]

Lynxstch, I hope Lily is getting the help she needs, depression can be so difficult to treat.

Sparkle78, I don't know if you have any Steins Garden Centers where you live, but they always have the Fontanni figures 25%-50% off after Christmas. They don't have all of them, but plenty to obtain a nice collection.

 

[easyas123]

Agreed I have enjoyed our group and hearing about other parts of the country.

Ditto to that, it's nice to hear what different families are doing to mark the holidays, and this weird period of time we are all coasting thru.

I hope they are keeping her long enough to really get some help to her.

Keeping her in my thoughts for a healthy and reasonable resolution to her situation. I'm glad she is finding help, that must be a great comfort to you & your family.

For a while here today the sun came out and it was quite pleasant to be outside in just a sweatshirt. So - I took down the lights along the fence line and the lights all along the porch. Tossed a few broken or in ill repair decorative items, then got my husband to help and we took down the big wreath on the top of the house. Hauled it and the light up deer up to the top of the barn/pickleball court for next season. Got all the a fair bit of the inside decorations down as well, but stopped around 1:30 when I got real lazy and figured I didn't much feel like hauling boxes downstairs then back upstairs to stack in the hallway till they can be hauled up to the attic. Rest can wait till tomorrow. Weather has turned grey and damp, getting colder, so I laid a fire to start in a bit.

So, on to this evenings preparations. We don't do much of anything at all for New Years on normal years, and this year is not much different. I find it torture to force myself to stay up late, and prefer to stay off the roads this evening. But it seemed worth making a bit of a effort, so we have decided to enjoy some of the other foods of the season we usually have along the way but didn't get to. Yeah - it's about junk food tonight!! Fondue, not the whole 9 yards, just the cheese tonight. Philly cheesesteak dip, a first for us to make...should be good. Chicken wings for the youngest. Oh - and motz. sticks if he is so inclined. No desserts to speak of, since I refused to make any more!! But we still have holiday candy left, some cheesecake in the freezer, and a 1/2 gallon of mint chocolate chip. Panettone, Oh and my husband picked up some Baklava. Tomorrow we may try to make french toast out of the Panettone. My order of tamales have arrived, and I've already made a salsa, that is resting in the fridge for tomorrow.
And then there is the ham, still sitting in the fridge.
Someone will have to roll us into the New Year come Monday because we are eating our way to the very, bitter end! Thank goodness for two sons to send home with leftovers!
I've put on the first Hobbit movie, with the thought of perhaps just making a go at watching those three then moving onto the 3 LOTR movies tomorrow. One must have goals afterall.


I wish a safe and happy New Years Eve and New Years Day to you all. Thank you for the efforts each of you put forth in making this a welcoming place to spark a discussion, and a soft place to land when things got us down. Chill, chatty & kindness I have for certain found here! As for my NY resolutions, I am not much for them so for now I will be content with attempting to watch all three Hobbit and LOTR movies over the next day & a half!

cheers to you all! Here is to a better 2021 in all ways.

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Slipping thread!

Wow, Stein Garden Centers sounds like a great place to stock up on Nativity figures, DazedX3.

Hug, Easyas123, thanks for your sweet post.

I hope each of you are having a good afternoon!

 

[Breezy_Carol]

Our NYE is usually low key. Early dinner out then some TV. This year is no different. DH just went into Newark for carry out. Getting nachos as we rarely get them, then sandwiches.

Today I finished watching Dash & Lily on Netflix and the movie A California Christmas, also on Netflix. I liked both. The movie was a little different from Hallmark which made it enjoyable for a change.

I wish a safe and happy New Years Eve and New Years Day to you all. Thank you for the efforts each of you put forth in making this a welcoming place to spark a discussion, and a soft place to land when things got us down. Chill, chatty & kindness I have for certain found here!

So well said. I'll just say ditto.

Happy New Year!

 

[lynxstch]

HAPPY NEW YEAR'S EVE!

 

[lovemygoofy]

HI All,

Happy New Year's Eve or New Year's depending on when you read this. Thank you all so much from the bottom of my heart for your company and kindness and compassion. I can't tell you how much I've needed it just having somewhere to go without judgement and always support. Thank you all for staying with me after almost a year of this. I saw a meme on Facebook that said " people are missing people and connection and not things." That's truest statement I know right now.

Today has been quiet. I've been working on a big wreath for my front door and loving it. I'm going to work on a wreath for my mom's door next in a unicorn theme because she loves unicorns (always has and collects figurines of them) for her birthday next month. So my mom got the vaccine today. She was super scared because people were making all kinds of noise in her ear that need to keep their big fat thoughts and mouths to themselves. She called me before the shot and we talked through the shot and afterward and again later this evening. I shed all kinds of tears knowing that maybe just maybe I'll be able to give her a hug by March, which is a year since the last time.

Tonight my handsome Matt and I went to early dinner of fancy sushi and shared a hibachi dinner and then walked around the Christmas lights park trail before coming home to settle in with comfy pjs and a movie and be long asleep before midnight as the alarm goes off 0445 here. Maybe we will have mimosas and panettone french toast tomorrow as a treat. Later in January we are giving up booze and sugar. That should be fun for no one but necessary.

Sending all here big hugs and nothing but best wishes for a 2021 full of love, friendship and peace for us all.

 

[apirateslifeforme]

@lynxstch, continued prayers for Lily. Glad to hear that she is getting the help she needs

I feel stupid for getting all nervous about my account when it was just a glitch. Oh well, at least I finally changed my password after 17 years! Now I'm having another interesting glitch, though. As I go through and react to posts, when I "turn a page" in a thread, the line where I can choose my reaction disappears. At the top, it appears that I'm no longer logged in, so I click on "log in." I then get a message that I'm already logged in and to "click here to return to the main forum page." So I do that, then I have to look for the thread and click on the page I need, and then my reaction line appears. Very odd...

I worked on putting away Christmas things today. Why did it seem like it got put away a lot quicker than putting it out did? Well, it's not 100% put away yet - I still have framed photos out because I can't get to the cabinet for storage, and I also have a few linens I haven't taken down. I should be able to finish tomorrow. As I was boxing things up, I remembered this little nativity that was in the display cabinets in the kitchen:


If I remember correctly, my grandmother got it on a day trip to NYC with some of her friends. Around the mid-1980s, I think - when the Statue of Liberty was covered in scaffolding, I recall her saying that they couldn't really see the statue because of it. She said she bought the nativity from a street vendor and it was Peruvian (?). Fits in the palm of your hand. I feel badly, though, that it's clearly getting old; the paint is starting to crack and there are some chips in it.

After I finished putting Christmas away, I got Josh to do his math and reading apps (with plenty of push-back from him, of course) and then we finished his Lego space shuttle for his Mars Research Station. I really enjoy the Legos myself and I think I need some sets of my own now! DH got out of work at 1 and was home just before 2. A friend of mine dropped by with some outgrown winter boots and DVDs from her kids. The last time I saw her was just before she moved to Florida, 2 years ago. I wasn't prepared for her to tell me that her older son (12 years old) already has a mustache! Wow...I remember visiting in the hospital when he was born and holding him for a couple of hours! It's going by too fast.

We had Chinese for dinner, as usual. We ordered early because of what happened back on NYE 2014. I had just learned that I was pregnant with Josh. I went with my mother to pick up the food at our normal dinner time. She went in for it and I sat there in the cold car for over an hour, wondering what the heck was going on. I saw people going in, but not coming out. Finally my mother appeared...the restaurant was having some really bad issues with giving customers other people's orders, and it had created a domino effect. As a result of that, now when we order on a holiday, we order no later than 3 p.m.!

Now we're watching the Twilight Zone, also as usual. Flipping back and forth between that and Doctor Who. We tried to watch Doctor Who earlier, but it was a David Tennant episode and Josh insisted that "he's not Doctor Who, Doctor Who is an old man" (meaning Peter Capaldi...he was the Doctor when Josh was a baby ). Right now is my favorite TZ episode, though, "Time Enough at Last," so I won't be changing it until it's over.

Josh wants to stay up late tonight. Good luck with that, kid. Your parents can barely make it past 10:30 as it is...

 

[easyas123]

Later in January we are giving up booze and sugar. That should be fun for no one but necessary.

Yeah, a lot of that will be happening here, too.

We tried to watch Doctor Who earlier, but it was a David Tennant episode and Josh insisted that "he's not Doctor Who, Doctor Who is an old man" (

What?what?what?!?!?
I can handle Matt Smith , but not whomever that current Dr is.... call me sexist but my Dr Who (and my Bond) I prefer as male) I grew up w/ scarf guy (what we called him as kids) and David T’s FIL aka All Creatures Great & Small guy!
Of course, the ONLY television shows we were allowed to watch as kids were Dr Who, Are You Being Served- ironic, no???, Dick Cavitt, and the MacNeil-Leher report! Oh, and the Muppet Show!

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Thank you for your lovely post, Tina. Thank all of you again for daily being kind connections!

Wishing everyone a safe and cozy New Years Eve.

 

[AuntieMe3]

Happy New Year's Eve everyone....

My pot roast last night came out soo delicious. I'm proud of myself but I don't see myself making it often because it felt like a lot of work. I'm a lazy cook.

Glad everyone was able to sign back in again.
Love seeing all the nativity sets. I especially love @sparkle78 your little people set. I love the little people toys.

@lynxstch I'm glad Lily is getting the help she needs.

I wish a safe and happy New Years Eve and New Years Day to you all. Thank you for the efforts each of you put forth in making this a welcoming place to spark a discussion, and a soft place to land when things got us down. Chill, chatty & kindness I have for certain found here!

Love this. ❤

So my mom got the vaccine today. She was super scared because people were making all kinds of noise in her ear that need to keep their big fat thoughts and mouths to themselves. She called me before the shot and we talked through the shot and afterward and again later this evening. I shed all kinds of tears knowing that maybe just maybe I'll be able to give her a hug by March, which is a year since the last time.

So glad she got her first dose, even with people making her feel uncertain about it. Ugh....what is wrong with people. If you're not comfortable getting it, keep it to yourself. I really hope you're able to give your mom that hug as soon as you can.


24 years ago, I was at a bar with my friend for my first NYE at legal age. LOL My friend and I were sitting at the bar when a guy come over and said something I thought was rude and obnoxious. I cursed him out and he walked away. A little while later, another guy came over to my friend and started up a conversation, said he had sent his friend over to ask about buying us a couple drinks but her friend(me) was mean... I apologized and we ended up spending the rest of the night hanging out with them. At midnight, me and the guy I cursed out at the beginning of the night shared a New Years kiss and then ended up married 5 months later. Every New Years, we just hang out at home with a couple friends so this year is no different. Our two very good friends are coming over in their pjs for food, some drinks, and play some games. Both guys worked this morning so I'm sure we'll be in bed by 12:15 like last year....which is fine by me.

I hope you all enjoy your evening, however you choose to celebrate. Tomorrow will be weird with no Rose Parade. I'm hoping they show a repeat of last year's parade maybe.