Feels like the year is WAAAAAY further along than just a few months! The kids and my parents enjoyed another fun filled New Years in Merrimac. They played Chinese Checkers, Bananagrams and baked cookies. I literally don't remember what Scott and I did! Must have been mind blowing!
I have been continuing to care for Evelyn and have also been working with a new client named Betty. She's a spunky 93. I love this lady. A month or so after I began caring for her in her home, she took a nasty fall and broke her hip. Since then I have become a friend, and visit her while she is in the rehab/nursing home. We watch old "Carol Burnett" and "All In The Family" episodes while she teaches me to knit. I'm hoping to resume employment with her in the future, but either way she is a wonderful new person to have in my life.
We got our first substantial snow on January 15th. We were beginning to think we wouldn't have any! Now we have been going from one storm to the next. None of them have been too bad though... I'm thrilled to be using my cross country skis.
Oh, and ETHAN IS 16!!! Yup. He had a long and drawn-out celebration. The weekend before his actual b-day we traveled to mom and dads and combined Ethan and Meagan's birthdays. It was a fabulous day with family. Ethan was thrilled to get tickets to a Red Sox's game in June from his Uncle Jason and a trip to a bat making facility from Gampy for a custom bat!! Baseball, baseball, baseball...
Fiona won a Gold Key award in the Scholastic art competition for the 4th year in a row! This is a very big deal. There will be a gallery opening at Maine College of Art this weekend where all gold and silver winners from across the state will have their work displayed. We are all looking forward to seeing the show. The awards banquet will be the following weekend. It's nice to have things back in person. The last few years winning the award was pretty lack-luster due to everything being online.
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| Kids baking cookies together at Gammy and Gampy's over New Year's. |
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| Take a close look at this menu. I found it at Morton's in a scrapbook his mother made from a vacation they took in 1938. Most everything is UNDER a dollar! |
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| Love the last two lines! Again, from the 1938 scrapbook. |
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| I squeaked in ANOTHER tattoo. |
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| On the back of my calf. |
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| Each flower represents one of my oldest friends birth month. Skull laughing is 'cause we plan on having a blast long after this life. |
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| Our first real snow. |
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| Taking a photo break from skiing. |
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| Winter walk with my boys. |
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| Fiona's Gold Key winning painting! |
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| I just love these before and afters from my organizing jobs! |
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| We had quite the cold snap a few weeks ago. |
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| This was ice on the INSIDE of our bedroom window! |
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| Trapped inside and cold, I baked LOTS of cookies. |
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| Ethan and my dad listening to the bat maker. |
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| A quick hike up a tiny "mountain". |
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| Tiny mountain view. |
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| From my solo hike around Mackworth Island. |
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| I bought Evelyn this pink bear for Valentine's day. This was how she fell asleep! |
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| From my Valentine. |
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| Fiona and Jacob on their way off to a date. |
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| Ethan's b-day cake. |
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| The dogs were helping... |
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| He likes to be awakened with donuts on his real birthday. |
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| Presents at home. He was a happy boy. |
