Keeping Busy Hiding On Winter

Nearly half of our "hide-on-winter" time has passed already!   It takes some time to get the house and porch and yard all tidied up from the long 7 month that we are away.  Then there are always all the fun things that get put first, and rightly so.  New faces and old friends to mingle with .. a few things to volunteer to help with and a couple of trips to visit friends and family.  All this as well as the daily stuff ... meals, housework, swim, play with Miss Lizzie, Skype with grandkids, etc. Not to mention going on a few little trips with the Kayak girls, and Thanksgiving and Christmas!!   Speaking of the outing with the girls, as I mentioned before, we have a thing about making a trip to Mt. Dora to shop before Christmas but mostly we window shop and have lunch at our favorite place, The Garden Gate. At the time of my last post we were about to have our day out.  It was once again a lot of fun and our lunch tasty.

Cream puff 'swan' for dessert is lovely to look at and delicious to eat!

So all these excuses as to why I haven't written something here lately!  The holidays were nice this year and the weather has been great most of the time.

Could it be that I am getting OLD ??  Not as fast as I used to be with the chores! Well, guess I have the option of feeling a bit aged since we had our 12th great grandchild, beautiful Selena the day after my birthday in October and on Christmas Eve we became Great Great grandparents to a new baby boy, Jordan Edward who weighed in at 9 lb.8 oz. !!  He is the firstborn of our oldest great granddaughter Harmonie and her Jason. He is a beautiful baby too.  We are so blessed with all the little ones!  Lots of cuddling to catch up on in the Spring!  Will make this # 1 of my New Year's Resolutions !

Tomorrow is New Year's Eve and we look forward to seeing the new year in with our daughter Angel and hubby Paul.  They will arrive here just before midnight, Lord willing and the airports are not snowed in!  We've been seeing lots of folks here entertaining their families over the last few weeks.  SO excited to have our loved ones with us for nearly a week! Weatherman promises pretty nice weather for New Year's Day and only forecasting the possibility of a shower on Thursday, a good Friday in the low 70's and we'll hope for the rest of the days to be like that!

Here is a collage Lindsay and Patrick put together of our little Selena.  

And a picture of little Lauren, the soon- to -be famous chef!

So as another year closes we wish you all a very Happy and Healthy New Year.  May it be one filled with good things and great opportunities to be the best that we can be.

"With God's strength behind you and His arms beneath you, you can face whatever lies ahead of you. "

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