Our hope and prayer for all our family and friends is for 2018 to be a year of answered prayer, peace of mind, excellent health and the deepening, or even restoration, of family relationships! God bless!! 😇
We enjoyed our New Years Eve day very much indeed. We both slept in for the second day in a row and spent the morning be bopping around the house doing some little home chores and watching tv and reading. By lunchtime we were sick to death of being indoors...again...due to cold weather.
As we were preparing to go and visit our friends after lunch, we got a call from them. It would not be a good day to come for tea and dessert after all as she had a terrible fall at a skating rink a couple of days ago and has a somewhat serious concussion! O dear..... So, we got geared up and made a big batch of baked spaghetti to take over to their house. It turned out very well. Rather than just accepting our gift at the door, our friends insisted we come in for a very short visit with fresh picked mint for tea and freshly ground coffee for lattes. Our injured friend got out of bed and seemed to enjoy sitting in the living room for a half hour chatting. My husband was able to find the bible stories about Jesus' birth, in the books of Matthew and Luke, written in Arabic so he printed them up and took them along with the spaghetti meal. The men had a good time chatting over the bible stories, grandma enjoyed giving us all her special teas and coffees, (She can now ask, "Drink?" in English and wish people a Happy New Year, so she is trying harder to learn our language better...at the age of 82 that is a pretty darned fantastic attitude to have in a new country!), and my friend and I talked about what had happened to her at the skating rink and at her subsequent hospital visit. We stayed for just short of a half hour so we wouldn't tire her out and then my husband decided we needed to drive across the city to Chapters and scope out a few sale items. A friend of mine received a pair of their Reading Socks for a Christmas gift and I loved them so much that I purchased a pair today for myself with some of my Christmas money, as well as a new pair of winter woolly mittens. I have been carrying my money gift around for the better part of a month without spending any of it, so today was a good day to get started. After that we wandered through Canadian Tire, where I found a tasty Hickory Farms taster kit for my dad's birthday, plus a wander through Mark's where I found 2 more pair of what are now Dad's favourite winter socks and some socks for myself.
Before we knew it we were done with our short shopping spree, during which my husband found not one thing he wanted, sigh, and it was time to go home and make dinner. My husband asked me rather plaintively, "Do we HAVE to go home to eat? Couldn't we go out for one more little party together in honour of New Years Eve? PLEEEEEEEASE???" So, off to Original Joe's we went. hahaha It has taken him the entire holiday to start to relax enough to enjoy life again and now he has to return to work. The poor man....BUT this holiday with his family and our subsequent times together have finally convinced him, I think,that he needs a life outside of work and ministry. 2018 could be a very good year indeed!! We enjoyed our meal tonight. I had my usual chicken caesar salad and my husband had their plate of specially prepared brussel sprouts. They were a bit too salty, but other than that he certainly enjoyed them. We shared an appetizer of parmesan potato crisps, so I got my share of carbs, fats and sodium, but what the heck....it is New Years Eve and we NEVER do anything special to ring in the new year. Tonight was by far the best time we have had on New Years Eve for many a year...although we were all done by 5:30pm. hahaha Guess we will not be seeing in the new year this time around. hahaha Zzzzzzzzzz..........
As we decided not to go into the office today, we will go first thing in the morning. I am going to take along the fixings for pizza pitas for our lunch there and since we have no other committments tomorrow we can stay as long as we want to and get all the filing properly done! While my husband technically has Tuesday off work in lieu of his regular Monday off being a statutory holiday, he and 2 other colleagues are going to meet and have a day of prayer for the diocese and clergy. He is looking forward to that.
The temperatures will begin a slow rise tomorrow, at last!! We will still need to plug the car in overnight for the next couple of weeks at least, but during the daytime it won't be necessary after tomorrow. YAY!!
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