A mild week to Christmas

It was a busy week. Christmas shopping is complete including groceries. I managed to get things done in spite of a painful hip. The hip in question is not the one I’ve had issues with for years but the same exercises, which helped the other hip, help this one. It is a work in progress.

Our daughter and I went shopping one day and picked up R to have lunch with us at our favourite Japanese restaurant. It was nice to share a meal with our young woman, a busy wife, mother and nurse. 

It was her birthday recently too. The day she was born in central Newfoundland, there was a snowstorm. Coincidentally, her husband, from Prince Edward Island, was born one day earlier than our girl, also in a snowstorm. The weather conditions for his birth continued east to welcome our baby girl. The two storm babies met years later. They celebrate together each year now.

Every time we three are together, someone quotes my mother. Mom had a saying for everything and one of us will speak as Mary would, to which the others will say, “Yes, Mary.” It is comforting that we carry Mary with us to this day. To me, she represents all those who went before, those who touched our lives and even those long gone, whose names are lost to time but whose genes we carry. They are part of us and I appreciate them and this life.

On the Winter Solstice yesterday, we walked the boardwalk at sunset. 

There still is ice in the bay although the snow is gone from the land after warmer temperatures last week. The boardwalk was bare though icy in the cool evening air. 

We walked on the rocks and grass to be safe as we watched the sun disappear below the clouds.

Orange from the sunken sun spread upward into the blue.

It disappeared as the darkness deepened. Patches of open water in the bay reflected the clouds, 

dramatically in places as we walked to the car.

We are scheduled for snow later this week so these mild conditions are temporary. However, we have learned to appreciate/accept what is, while it is. It makes life so much more enjoyable. 

Have a great week everyone and for those who are celebrating, Happy Hanukkah, or Merry Christmas.