Last week

HA!  I'm back!  You thought I had forgotten and it would be another two months before I posted again, but you are wrong!  I spent *about* four hundred and eighty hours working on writing and transferring goals for the speech therapy supervision job I have over the last 2.5 days.  I'm done now, though, so back to blogging it is!

Last Sunday, the 13th, I drove to three friend's houses to deliver gifts.  By the time I got back home, Michelle- who was stop #1- had driven to my house to secretly leave this. 

This giant mug was on a table in her outside entryway and I complimented it, saying it was so cute and perfect.  After I left she drove it to me with a note saying I can borrow it temporarily until she buys me a new one.  How sweet it that?!

I was wearing a Santa hat while I was making deliveries, but I didn't remember I had Christmas shoes until I was all done. 

The kids took teacher gifts to school on Monday the 14th.  All of the teachers got lip balm, hand sanitizer, and candy.  The women teachers got that stuff in a pencil case and also face masks (skin care, not breathing) too.  The men got something else to even it out as well, but I have no idea what it was!

I keep a running list of new ornaments for the tree and I hadn't updated in for 2020, so I took pictures of everything so that I didn't have to keep walking back and forth while I added them to the word document. 

Both of these are new this year- Baby Yoda and the blue/gold ball.  They aren't actually touching.  It's an optical illusion. 

The left angel and middle angel are new.

These wooden ornaments were new in 2019, and unfortunately I missed writing them down and now I have no clue where they came from.  Did you give them to me?  Please tell me if you did!

I wore a mask, and my hair dresser wore a mask and I got my hair cut and colored on Tuesday the 15th.  I asked Michael to come into the living room with me to take my picture.  He somehow took these on the way and I think they are so funny. 

New hair!

I think it's hilarious that I am growing and coloring my hair into my wig. 

Wednesday the 16th was Elliott's birthday. See previous post about that. 

Thursday the 17th was my last day of virtual therapy until January 4th.  Tracy (the OT) and I did a special craft with a group of kids.

Sparkly hair pin that night.

My school had a virtual Christmas party on Friday morning.  There were competitions for best mask and best hat.  I didn't even place for mask, but I won first place for the hat!

The kids and I went shopping after the virtual party.  I wanted a comparison of what I thought was an appropriate outfit for the weather (cloudy and high 50's) vs what they thought was appropriate. 

When we got home there was a package from my dad's cousin.  She sent me a "middle finger to cancer" statue!  I'm going to paint it pink with pink fingernails. 

She also sent a whole bunch of old family pictures that she found at her mom's house.  There was one of my grandma in 1963 wearing a dress, standing by her Christmas tree.  I had just seen a post on FB with pictures of women in the 50's, 60's, and 70's standing by their trees and I was so wistful that I didn't have pictures of my grandmas.  And then this showed up and it was like a miracle.  Also, my grandma never wore dresses by the time I was alive so this dress is blowing my mind. 

This is a screenshot of the post I saw on FB.  There were some amazing pictures in there. 

But none as amazing as my own grandmother.

My friend Joni said I should stand in front of my tree in a blue dress to compare.  Well, well, well.  It just so happens I did last year.

This was the day before my big, 8-hour December surgery.

My grandma wins.  I lose.

On Saturday I worked on goals for a billion hours.  We had a Christmas themed family zoom too.