Christmas in Nova Scotia

Just some pictures of our decorating around the house this year. I think we are going to give in and get ourselves a "fake" tree. Of course, I have said this for about the past 5 Christmases - hasn't happened yet.

This is the day after the storm on New Year's Day. It was so pretty with the light coming through the trees. We dug out just over a foot of snow and several snowdrifts about 2 feet high.

Everything is lovely and white. And cold!

We drove over to PEI to visit my parents on boxing day and the Saturday. This is my mom, who is in Stage 4 Alzheimers. She did not know me but Dad was glad to see me. He is doing a great job of caregiving - but it is tiring him out. My camera battery died so I didn't get his picture. Next time though!

Fire Engine Riding Around the Mall

While Chris and Julee took Jonathan to the lab for his "bilyrubin" test on day 3, Grandma, Ben and Sam were dropped off at the mall where there was a running pit and rides. After we tired of the running, we walked around the mall, took a few escalator rides, threw pennies in the fountain and ended up back at the running pit. Then we got into the fire engine "stroller", fastened our seatbelts and went for a ride several times around the mall. The boys loved making the siren sound (not too loud) and most of the shoppers smiled at the sound of them. (Some shoppers just couldn't crack a smile. They must have been really tired.) Then we had to get a frozen yogurt cone after all that hard work. Then Grandma had to buy some wet wipes - the frozen yogurt place had a limit on napkins. Sheesh! Although, we really needed the wet wipes. Poor Grandma kept calling Sam, Ben and Ben, Sam, and finally they started saying their name for me. Worse still, when I was looking only after Sam I still called him Ben a few times. It was such a delightful time, just imagine if we had Ryan too. Sometime, we will have to have a family reunion with all sides of all the families getting together.