Merry Christmas from Us to You!

We have a very simple Holiday Season at our house.
In preparation for the holidays, we do a little baking ......

And we make a few homemade gifts ...

Once the holidays are here, we like to relax.
We eat Christmas Dinner in our Pajamas
Do a little light reading ...


And take the time to thank God for all our blessings!
Merry Christmas to all!
Love from Wendy, John, Liam,Sara and Lily

The City Awakes ...

This is the scene outside my hospital room this morning. Cities never cease to amaze me. This picture is, essentially, the city asleep. Yet it is so alive! It is not a very good picture as I took it with my cell phone. I wanted to show you The Bow, which is the Encana building (Oil Company) that is being built. It is the tall building on the left. It has 3 cranes on top of it!!! Isn't that amazing??!!! How did they get up there? Too much for this little prairie girl to fathom. Apparently, the first thing to be built in these tall buildings is the elevator, then the cranes just catch a ride on the elevator to the top, then build the rest of the building around it. I am in awe.

Airdrie and Calgary are about 15 km apart, so not very far. They built a mega mall in between the two cities. It takes me about 7 minutes to get to it from my house! (I'm just sayin'. In case shopping is in your blood and you want to come visit!) Very dangerous!! Anyway, because of the mall, they built a new interchange/off ramp thingy. It was amazing to watch it being built! I would be travelling on this very busy 3 lane highway (The Deerfoot) and they would be digging and building a road UNDERNEATH me! Yikes! Then, when they were done that, they built a road above the traffic! Wow! I have much respect for the vision of the engineers!

Nurses don't make good patients!

I'm writing this from the family room of the Foothills Medical Center. I have been here since Friday afternoon. My heart was hurting, so I thought I better check it out. You might remember that it broke about 2 1/2 years ago ... Trying to figure out if it broke more. Meanwhile, I am very bored. Seems like being in this place has made me sicker, what with all the drugs they are giving me. Want to go home so I can feel better. And of course, there are 3 little people who need me there. Oh well, God knows what's best and I trust that He will straighten all this out.

Really I am a model patient, but boredom does tempt one to get into a little mischief! Like last night I was texting in the dark, under my blankies, so as not to be caught by the nurse. I was going to say "big bad nurse", but that would be totally unfair. She's quite average in size and seems to be a very good nurse. I've had her for three nights in a row! I am also finding myself, as always, craving contraband food! Like a great BIG double double from Tim Horton's or a BIG Mac from "you know where" (minus the fries, I've got to think of my heart for Heaven's sake!), or a BIG bowl of Vietnamese noodles from the Vietnamese restaurant next to my place. Are you catching the "BIG" theme I've got going with regard to food? I'm not really complaining about the food, just about the size of the food! But really, it is a good time to pare down my serving sizes. It is Christmas and I challenged L'Dene to lose 10 lbs. before January 1st. (what the hell was I thinking?!)

Lily was here with me today, but had to call my sis to come get her earlier than planned. The poor little thing has had to withstand formula for the last 3 days. She is not a happy girl! Poor little belly is not feeling so good. Needless to say, she was fussy and the man across the hall kept yelling to shut my door, he couldn't stand the noise! LOL! Poor old fart!

Plotting my next escapade into mischief .... hmmm ... might try doing wheelies in the hallway in a wheelchair. Maybe the night nurses will be up for some races?????