Merry Christmas!!

Hello and Merry Christmas!
I hope you are more organized than I am. I still have quite a bit of running around today to do and I am still finishing up several projects. I made a bunch of booties, I guess they might qualify as slippers, fun to knit, not so much fun to sew up. Nev's family celebrates Christmas Eve so I have all of 12 hours to finish all that. See the above post about his family starting on time. :)
I have been playing florist this past week and have had a great time creating lots of arrangements. I love using Christmas greens and this year got a huge box of assorted greens to fool around with. Poor Nevin just keeps cleaning up after my mess, hopefully my new floor in my craft room will go in after Christmas. He finally gave up trying to do things in there and just started to wrap his presents.

My family will have tamales tonight, bought, and will have breakfast together and then open presents tomorrow. Sometime, I hope to squeeze in Mass. My church doesn't do Midnight Mass anymore, it starts at 10:30 these days. Weird, huh? No Riverside again, I'll miss seeing my relatives but will see some of them soon.

My great Aunt Lucy passed away yesterday. She was married to my grandpa's brother Uncle Ray on my Dad's side. She was 91 and last year, her son Dave had a wonderful party for her. We've seen more of her in the last few years since she moved in with Dave in Pasadena. She will be greatly missed!

Have a wonderful Christmas with your family and friends!! XOXOXOXOX, Robin

Christmas Countdown

It is almost here! There is so much left to do. I have one more week of school and during that week, we have our Christmas program, gifts to make, and hopefully a little laerning along the way before Santa visits us on Friday.

Last week was our Union Christmas Party. I decorated with long balloon bouquets grounded in Christmas Chinese food containers. Easy and cute, the opening held a floral pick, I found them for 70% off.
Last night, my dance teacher, Celia, had me over for posole. I think I've only had it three or four times, it was good. She asked if I wanted "pata" in it, I guess feet aren't every one's cup of tea. I had some and I didn't know the difference between that and the regular pork, all good! She had a plate of garnishes and 2 kinds of chile to add. I did not try the chile. I am a wimp. It was a fun night.

Today, I went to a b-day party for my sil and bil. We were late but they were later. In fact, the birthday boy never did show up while I was there and I left 2 hours after the supposed starting time. Nev's other brother showed up just as I was leaving. So I didn't sing Happy Birthday and didn't get to see them open their gift cards, don't get me started!

Met Folklorico friends and had dinner then went to the Shannon Center at Whittier College for a Folklorico performance, they were very entertaining.

Almost midnight and I've got to go to bed! Robin

Milestones

It has been a while, hasn't it? Several milestones have been reached since my last post.

-I turned 50. No floods or famine, the earth did not shake. Just happened. Nev and I had a nice dinner at Claim Jumper, sorry Alonso, no Produce Bar at Brea either anymore! Our families got together at Sizzler's for Sun Brunch the week after, needed time to recuperate from the wedding flowers and Thanksgiving.

-My friend/pledge sister Annelle turned 50 exactly I week after I did. She had a better attitude about the whole business, cheaper insurance was her thing.

-My good friends Wendy and Alonso got married! It was a lovely, joyous occasion and if I do say so myself, the flowers were very nice.

-Thanksgiving 2008 came and went, we had a very nice dinner, no major cooking mishaps and I even had time to make some floral arrangements. We had a nice mix of family and friends over, only 19 this year.

Isn't is amazing how quickly Christmas will be here?

Note to friends, apparently I lost my Juno address book, no clue how I did that, so if you don't hear from me, by all means, drop me a line.

Love to all!