Slippers....

A little shot of all my boys and their new toasty footwear. A local "Santa" supplied these ones and they just love them!!!!! The boys are also wearing the sweaters and sweatshirts they received. They loved them!! We opened our gifts on the afternoon of Christmas Eve. I really liked the gifts I bought myself! I got just what I wanted! CDs! I got the new Chris Tomlin (Hello Love), Third Day (Revelation), Passion(The Best So Far...with lots of Christ Tomlin, David Crowder Band(I love David Crowder Band!!!!), and Matt Redman....), and Tenth Avenue North(Over and Underneath...SO good!!!!).

We all had a lovely Christmas Day here and went to Chatham to have turkey and open stockings. And everyone fell asleep in the car on the way home. Happy, content, and oh...so full. I got a 500pc puzzle which I put together on Boxing Day. So relaxing.

Almost all our snow is gone. Neat how all of Canada had a white Christmas. We got quite a bit on Christmas Eve but it promptly rained away. Everyone in the neighbourhood was helping one another shovel out on that morning. Our boys went across the street to help one neighbour shovel a big load the snowplow dumped on the end of his driveway, it was too deep and wet for his snowblower and our 3 boys and another neighbour had it cleared away in about 20 minutes. And now....we can see the grass again. It was 10 degrees last night and Joe cleaned the windows at church in his t shirt, well actually he was just wearing jeans and showing off his stellar torso since his shirt got wet!! The park below our house is covered with water!!!... well it's only the park when it is dry, when the snow melts it is the flood plain. The teeter totters are totally submerged...and the geese are having a hey day. It feels like the water is REALLY close to the road when you drive by. So far so good......

My foot is doing really well. I think I can almost post a picture here and not offend even the most sensitive viewers. It is looking really good. There is skin growing on the entire area and now the biggest challenge is to keep the new skin hydrated. It is very brittle when it dries out. I am still keeping it wrapped with gauze bandage since tape doesn't adhere to the no stick pads. Go figure! This type of pad also doesn't absorb ALL the moisturizer. In the near future we can just switch to gauze squares to protect against rubbing. I have graduated to wearing socks which has greatly reduced the amount of sympathy I get, and I can wear my slides. They have a closed toe and look like shoes when I wear long pants. People really notice my progress and it is so neat how excited and celebratory they are along with me. I am back to doing all my regular work and am amazed that we've been able to clean up after all the holiday bookings!! I didn't think I would have healed so quickly. Even though it felt like it went so slow in the first week.

Kevin went away for a week to visit with a friend. A family wanted to see how their family dynamic would change with the introduction of a Korean boy. They have hosted a Korean girl before so they're not new to the Keystone concept. It is rather quiet here and low key. Low key is really good!!! We don't have an evening service tonight and are staying in to watch a movie.