Wordless Wednesday

 

A fun visit and some cookie making!

I told you yesterday that our son Andy and his wife Nikki came for a quick visit this weekend. They live in KY, about 8 1/2 hours from us.  They drove up after work Friday night, arriving about 3 am.  They left again Sunday morning, to get home and go back to work on Monday. So it was short, but sweet!
Nikki arranged some Christmas cookie making on Saturday. She's really good at it, people buy cookies from her frequently. The girls were very excited about this.
Alaina and Ruby came earlier to help make the cookies and start decorating.  We knew Cassie wouldn't handle too long at this, so she came later and some cookies were saved for her to decorate.

Here they are, with a few inspectors checking out the progress.  Actually, Bob is inspecting,  Andy is on the far right is harassing me about taking pictures.  :)

Cutting out the cookies

Alaina rolling out some more dough

Then it was time for the fun part!  Nikki was smart and took some of this rolled plastic to cover the table.  It saves a lot of mess.

When Cassie came, the girls were happy to help her too.

She was really concentrating on it!

And here's some of the finished cookies!

Everyone came over for pizza at night and we went downstairs for more room to play.

It was so nice to have all my kids together - even though I'm being picked on again here for taking pictures.  :)
The little girls all had fun playing together and we just enjoyed the time.

A day in my life - December

 I'm back from my break and it's December!  I made some progress on the project I was working on.  It's photo books I do every year for my granddaughters for the year, and I was so behind!  I got Alaina and Ruby's done, now am madly working on Cassie's.
Now I'll share how the first day of the month went for me.

It was a day I was working, so I was up a little before 6, got ready, had a little quiet time and left the house at 7:10.

Here's our house as I backed out of the garage, the little trees are lit from dusk to dawn.
It was 36 degrees and drizzling.  On these days I appreciate my seat warmers in the car!
It was kind of a yucky drive in, light rain all the way and still dark when I arrived at 7:45.

I am first to arrive, so opened the doors, got things started and got settled in my little spot. I'm by myself for the first 30 minutes and have to take any emergency calls that come in from the on call center.  On this day, I only had one of those.
My co-workers arrived and we had a nice day - not too busy, not too quiet.
We get lots of calls from our patients in assisted living centers and some of them are confused and the calls can be pretty interesting.  On this day I had one of our regulars, well known to all of us.  She was sure that someone came to get a specimen, but the cleaning lady took it.  When I asked her what the specimen was she said "You're the medical person, you should know!"  I figured out it was blood work and reassured her that she didn't need another one, that the lab took it.  The phone call continued for 15 minutes and she called about the same thing 2 more times that day. All of us in the office have worked in long term care and enjoy these kinds of calls as we miss that interaction we had in facilities.

One of my fellow nurses brought a bird feeder and put it outside our window.  The birds are enjoying it and we like seeing the birds.

I left work shortly before 5.  It was 35 degrees, drizzling and getting dark, kind of a repeat of my drive in!

I stopped at the store to pick up a few things and also picked up some chicken for supper.

Our area decorates the main road all through the town and it's so pretty!

I went home and we had supper.  We did a little clean up around the house.

We also got the bed in the guest room made up and ready for visitors.  Our son Andy and wife Nikki were coming for the weekend.  They left KY after work and would arrive in the middle of the night, so we wanted the bed to be cozy and ready for them

Then it was time to do a little more work on Cassie's book before bed. Another good day!