cleaning

I haven't written much lately as I have been busy cleaning!!My washer got a workout as I washed all the bedding and blankets etc upstairs in our home. I don't want there to be any problem with the allergies in the family!! Now it is on to the food, so I took my recipe box to work. The girls were so fascinated by the writing on the cards, they noted how all the people around 70 or 80 years of age write the same--their handwiting looks so much alike. My mom says it is because they had to make circles by the hour. In my generation we had handwiting but we did not make circles by the hour hence our writing is very much different. My grandma who lived to be over a hundred had a flowery script writing and she always used an ink pen and liquid ink. I'm not sure this was worthy of a blog but it was quite fascinating. this is wishing everyone a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year!!Maybe next year I'll post more but I will never keep up to wandering heart!!

tearoom fare

Saturday my friends from the lab met at a tearoom in the midtown area. It is quite an experience, a treat for the eyes and the stomach! The setting was a antique store and the furnishings in the tearoom were beautiful old tables,benches and chairs. It was immaculate and the service was superb. Now the food was very good but picture your average plate of food and shrinky dink it up and you have tea fare. Our dessert was chocolate bread pudding it looked beautiful but was about the size of a doughnut hole!! Maybe that's the way I need to eat on a regular basis!!

Getting out the decorations

Yes, we really do have some christmas decorations. We dug them out after at least 4 years. It actually was fun to remember when we got them. Also it made me remember all the charlie brown trees that dad came home with and how we turned the "bad" side to the back to cover it up . When it was all done, no one ever knew we had an ugly tree! It will be such a treat to have everyone here it has been a really long time since we had a holiday here--I hope I can be creative with the food etc--Now we have older children and they can put in their recipes and ideas--should be fun.