A new year

Susannah just called and told me that I was a terribly disappointing blogger because it's been a month since I blogged. She's right, of course, but the past month has been busy and I've not had time to do much.

Besides celebrating Christmas, I've had my busiest month recruiting physicians. This is the time that they (residents) start panicking about making a decision and it becomes a race against time to get them to visit, make a decision and sign on the dotted line.

Christmas was fun --we did alot of shopping for our grandchildren. Anderson's first Christmas had to be memorable and we started his ornament collection of trains. He probably had 10-12 Christmas outfits and I hit the consignment shops to do my part. Sydney is growing up at 3 and 1/2 and she can out-talk, out-maneuver, outwit, and outlast us. I remembered buying Susannah a Fisher-Price clock so I purchsed one on Ebay for Anderson along with a set of keys and a handy PDA. I also bought Susannah a Fisher Price tape player when she was four that she sang along with and played Michael Jackson, Air Supply and other creepy artists. Remembering that, I purchased a CD player for Sydney and she loved listening to Christmas songs and kids hits. It's was a bit bigger than Susannah's so she could hardly lift it.

On Christmas Eve Eve (yes, the eve before Christmas Eve), we cooked dinner and opened gifts with Jessica--Northface jacket(what else?), guitar and tee-shirts and then watched Syndney open dozen of gifts for what the Northface cost. Granny--who is 92, opened her gifts, too and loved watching Sydney demand that everything be opened and played with immediately as she unwrapped.

Susannah and Adam came over early on Christmas morning and opened gifts with us around 8 am. We do a stocking gift in a box and that takes an hour to watch each person open each little gift in their stockings. Susannah and I gave each other the same thing for Christmas: a webcam!

After a hearty breakfast, we lazed around while preparing dishes to go to Amy and Tim's. We hit Amy and Tim's about 5 pm and caught up with the Grinstead family. This has been a rough year for them and it seems that it's time for good things to start happening. From my lips to God's ear.

We celebrated New Year's Day with our friends, Kathy and Kurt. We really enjoy both of them and we talked for hours. We had what Kurt termed as "Chicken and Stuff" which is similar to Chicken Caccitore. They have a neat attractive home and that's a rarity in our lives.

Today, Bob and I packed up Christmas(it took us 3 days and about 50 boxes) and he dared me to buy any more Christmas decor. He's right...of course, but I do plan to buy 2 new trees while everything is half-price. I'm waiting for the divorce papers to arrive any minute.