These are two very nice young kids. Trevor is 13 (14 in a couple of weeks) and his brother, Tony is 11. They normally do my yard work and some other chores for me but when they were here in early December we put up the tree and hung lights and set out the nativity scene. Then, while mom and I ate biscotti and drank tea, the boys had hot cocoa and decorated the tree. It's been years since I got to watch kids decorate the Christmas tree and it was a real treat. Today they did it all in reverse and packed the totes and hauled them back to the shed, with mom's help. She's a real gem!
In retrospect, this was one of the best Christmases I've had in more than a few years. Kids around to help set the mood, participated in the Christmas Eve service at church, friends came over for Christmas dinner, my son and his family came up and spent the day after Christmas (and he brought homemade tamales), no stress, no expectations, no disappointments. A very good Christmas!
The house is boring looking again but now I'll move furniture around and, for some reason, I'm in the spring cleaning mode. Now's a good time to go through stuff and decide what stays and what doesn't. The weather is such that I can still be outside dragging stuff back and forth; no rain or snow to slosh through. I've relocated my kitchen table set to the living room and am ordering a kitchen center for additional counter and storage space in there. I've redone my laundry room and am making better use of that limited space. All in all, a good start to the new year. A HAPPY & BLESSED 2012, EVERYONE!!!
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