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I hate all the bills at this time of year

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I was just saying on my other blog how expensive this holiday season has been for us. I think this is just about the most expensive time of year for a lot of people … it certainly is for us! Our next most expensive time of year is usually May or early June as we’re buying plants, seeds and other items for our garden.

What’s your most expensive time of year? Do you just dread watching the barcode scanner go over your items and tally up the total? I know I do!

At least this year we didn’t use the credit card for any of our purchases so I won’t get a scary bill in January. Ok … I will … I still have to do my nurses registration online before the 1st of January and I think that will be on January’s bill … maybe February’s if we’re lucky. LOL





Going to the airport to pick up our last house guests of the year

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In just under an hour my husband and I will be driving to the airport to pick up my brother and sister in law. They are coming to Toronto for my nieces wedding tomorrow. They’ll be staying with us for two nights.

I feel sorry for my brother though .. he’s been flying all over the place for work the last few months. He was even in town a couple of weeks ago but he was so busy will meetings that we didn’t get to see him. He also had a cold at the time and even if he’d had time to see us he didn’t really want to make any of us sick right before this big family get together and wedding. He’d feel guilty. LOL

Poor guy, I think he was even working yesterday. I emailed him to send me his flight info and his wife emailed back saying that he’d just phoned her to send the info … so he wasn’t even home .. he was off working somewhere and saw my email on his phone. I think he was on a philadelphia job that he’d told me about earlier if I’m remembering correctly.

I think their visit of almost three days might be the longest break he’s had in a while.

Ok … gotta get ready to go pick him up!

The house is clean – again!

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Our house is clean again! Just in time to get messed up when our house guests arrive later tonight! LOL

I just finished the final touches … my husband helped me make up the beds in our spare bedrooms. Earlier this month I got some allergy bedding so that’s on the beds as well as nice fresh sheets.

Now everything’s nice and tidy. For a few hours anyway.

It’s seems that I’ve cleaned the house from top to bottom at least four times in the last two weeks as we keep having house guests for two or three days and then a break, then another round of house guests. My brother and his wife are the final visitors of the year … Thank God!

Did you have house guests over the holiday season? Did you do a major clean up before they arrived?

At least my brother and his wife are really easy going people … the best kind of visitors.

Recovering from the holidays

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I don’t know about you guys, but I’m in holiday recovery mode right now!

I spent most of last week cleaning the house, shopping, cooking and having two rounds of family visits! I’ve spent the weekend resting. Tomorrow I’ll begin to prepare for the last round of house guests and my nieces wedding on the 30th.

Don’t even ask me what we’re doing for New Years. So far we don’t have any plans, but after almost two weeks straight of holiday prep and festivities I think we’ll be having a quiet evening at home. LOL

With all the cleaning, cooking and standing I did last week I managed to make my back worse. I have a slipped disc and it’s caused me a lot of pain over the last year. I also have a numb left leg to go with it. Yesterday and Christmas day my back was so bad the pain was going into the tail bone, so when I finally got a chance to sit down and enjoy Christmas dinner and spend some time with guests (sister and her boyfriend on Christmas day) I was in too much pain to sit for long. Ow!

Last night my leg had strange sensations that I’d never felt before. I was standing in the kitchen heating up leftovers from Christmas dinner and my lower left thigh suddenly felt like it had a heating pad set on high on it! My leg even felt warmer to the touch in that area.

I actually got a little bit scared because it was so weird. I was just hoping that the very disturbing hot sensation would go away and that other worse symptoms (like leg weakness etc) wouldn’t start up.

I rested my back last night and used the heating pad on it and the hot sensation went away. In fact my back feels a lot better today … but oddly enough my right shoulder hurts a lot. My stomach (I have Crohn’s) is also bad today … maybe I’m just fighting something and that’s why my bad back and shoulder are acting up?

Did you survive the holiday season? I hope that you did! A belated Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all!

Getting ready for the holiday, house guests and a family wedding! Ahhh!

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In just 14 days my niece will be married. I’m sure she’ll be both happy and relieved once the big day comes as she’s only had a couple of months to plan this wedding.

You see she was going to get married in June, but her fiance joined the Canadian Forces and well … that caused them to need to get married sooner – so that she can join him when he’s in training in another province.

Along with preparing for the Christmas holidays, a dinner at my in-laws, house guests for Christmas and then house guests for the wedding … I still need to find the perfect wedding gift for my niece.

She’s registered at one of our large department stores, but I’m still trying to decide whether to get her something that she still needs from her wedding registry, try to find a unique gifts for her or just give her money so that she and her new husband can purchase whatever they really need or something that they wanted on their registry list that they didn’t receive.

The other reason why I’m considering giving them money as a wedding gift is because they’ll be moving across the country to another province shortly after their wed .. perhaps the less things they have to move the better, right? They they can use the money, as I said above, to get what they need when they settle into their new home.

What would you do? Especially considering the holidays, house guests and a Christmas dinner with the in-laws out of town as well as getting ready for this wedding. LOL

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