Pictures of Christmas 2011
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Christmases Past
with Randy and Jim |
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Randy and the Christmas tree
at the 12th St. house |
Jim helping to put up
the tree
at my 14th St. home |
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Jim and the Herman, the "Christmas Camel" |
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Christmas 2008
The Last Christmas with Jim |
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| Holiday Decorations |
In a houseful of people who aren't too keen on decorating,
we really only have a tree up for Christmas. |
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Even though we don't have
kids in the house,
every house needs a tree to bring in a little Christmas spirit. |
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On the front door, hangs
one of Nana's latest craft projects, a beaded picture of Christmas
candles. Outside the door, not only did I notice the very
inappropriate sn@wman flag that Mom is flying
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but I can see our Christmas tree lights reflected seemingly out in
the front yard. |
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| Holiday Fun |
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Well, there's one way to keep some of my Christmas traditions
from Ohio, and that's to do them myself. |
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away, it was time for me to do more cooking - like I needed an
excuse to hang out in the kitchen and bake. ROFL |
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I'm going to have to cook
something to clear off enough counter for me to put together
something to cook. |
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| After about 5 hours, I had
produced 2 Pumpkin Rolls, Candy Cane Cake Cookies, Choco-Chip Cake
Cookies, Lemony Doodles, Instant Russian Tea, Seasoned Oyster
Crackers Snacks, and a skillet of Cornbread and a pan of homemade
Biscuits to make homemade Dressing in a few days, along with the
fixings for a Green Bean Casserole. |
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| I actually got everything
but one thing cooked all in one afternoon. |
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Dasher, Dancer, Prancer,
Vixen (wow! Do Santa's reindeers should like they could be gay or
what?!?
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Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blixen, Rudolph and Huey, Duey and Luey.
Well, even with the red noses, they couldn't all be "Rudolph",
right? LOL |
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| Christmas Day with the Snavelys |
| For more years that I can
count my Christmas morning entailed driving an hour over to spend
the morning with Randy's mom. It was a tradition that Randy and I
had, and that I kept all these years afterward. Even Jim and I made
the trip over for several years. Back home, Mom and Dennis would
pick up Nana and drive up to have Christmas lunch with my Aunt and
her partner, Chris, up outside of Durham. |
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Since Nana is in the
nursing home this Christmas (as you saw from the pictures with my
brothers),
we took Christmas to her at Sardis Oaks Nursing Home. |
leatherman
the reindeer |
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While we waited on another
family to clear out from the conference roomed,
we opened the few gifts we had all gotten each other. |
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Dennis, Chris, Beth, Nana |
| Beth, Peggy, and Celia |
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Beth started clearing the dirty dishes
the previous family left, while I started unpacking the car. While I
did most of the cooking, Mom definitely did the major planning. She
arranged to have a decorative tablecloth, festive paper plates and
holders, along with silverware and cups. |
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| By the time they got Nana
situated in a chair, everyone was beginning to dig into and pass
around the food - gravy, the homemade dressing I made from scratch,
a green bean casserole, two roasted pork loins, potato salad,
cranberry sauce, rolls, wine, tea, and the pumpkin roll for dessert,
along with some mini cheesecakes. |
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Stuffed! |
| Celia, Beth and Peggy. |
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| Although we didn't spend
this Christmas anywhere we would have wanted, this get together went
very well, and everyone enjoyed themselves. I was very glad to have
brought a touch of homemade Christmas to Nana while she's trapped in
a place like this. And I was glad we were able to share that same
Christmas with my Aunt and her partner. |
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| Christmas with Bill |
| After the lunch party with
Nana broke up, I loaded up my car with some dressing, another
pumpkin roll, and a small gift and headed down to spend some
Christmas time with my beau, Bill. |
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Although Bill had sworn off Christmas
many years ago, he did get me a couple of presents. Along with a new
alarm clock (because my old one was very dead and I had been using
my phone until it died), he got me a memory foam pillow. He's been
using one for years and hopes that it'll help with my neck pain
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Bill also got me a bucket!
Well, not just a bucket but a bucket-caddy for tools and gardening
stuff. What a great gadget to use to tote my stuff around the yard
here when I out there working. |
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| This has been a good year
dating Bill. We have had some issues as we have gotten used to the
situation (me with the dogz and living at Mom's, not to mention the
40 miles between our houses); but all-in-all we have a lot in common
and get along incredibly well. |
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| December, 2012 |
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