Happy Birthday Linda Seitz! Happy Birthday Cookie Seitz! Two very special somebodies celebrated their birthdays this past weekend. One got a cake, the other a bone. Although Cookie also got into Tom's St Nick's Day stocking and ate up his peanut/yogurt mix. She is such a garbage hound! We celebrated her big day with a long walk. And then she tried to mooch food off Grandma. My favorite was when she kept trying to jump up on Grandma's lap when mom was taking her newly rented power scooter out for a test drive on the driveway. Cookie does love her car rides! No matter how small. Cookie turned 7 this year. I won't say what birthday Linda celebrated. (more than 7).
Mom seems to have taken to the scooter quite easily(although she still wants a car). I feel so bad. I took mom to the ortho MD last Thursday for a cortisone injection in her arthritic knee. Since we are going on a big trip, I wanted her to be in tip top shape(if that is possible for anyone). She has been going to PT 2x/wk which helps, but the cortisone shot can really help with pain and swelling. She really had no idea what they were going to do. I did. I hear the injection is very painful. The MD told her she would hate him at first and then love him. It was true. She said her knee feels wonderful! And we were even able to go out to dinner afterwards. On Friday I was busy meeting with her broker for end of the year business. On Saturday I took her to get her hair done, and then she joined us and our neighbors for a wonderful Holiday party at their house. I also picked her up on Sunday afternoon and took her to our GS choir performance at the B and O Railroad museum. She got to meet Santa and Mrs Claus and enjoy all the Holiday decorations. Afterwards I brought her home for a steak dinner.
Most of us here on the East coast are experiencing a heat wave! It feels like Miami! We hit temps in the low 70s this past weekend. Which made for a very nice party at our neighbor's house on Saturday. The food was incredible, the company terrific and the weather beautiful. It got cool enough in the evening to sit around their new fire pit on the patio, chatting the night away with drinks and dessert. I felt like I was in an LLBean commercial. Our neighbors spent a lot of time putting up beautiful decorations both inside and out for the party. And of course I supplied the entertainment. We played Christmas Trivia. Boy are we a competitive bunch. I treated them all to candy bars for their efforts.
On Friday I had two parties to attend, but could only be at one. I picked the Bunco Holiday party. We had a white elephant gift exchange. I got a nice Margarita set complete with glasses and mix. I had picked the tupperware set, but being with a group of mom's with single college aged kids living in their first apts and needing gift ideas, it disappeared. (Still a little young for the margarita gift set). Next year Allison! I skipped the cookie exchange party. I was not ready to bake and besides, I have a cookie exchange party coming up this weekend with Scott!
He is winding down at school. Of course the teachers are cramming in lots of tests and assignments. He will be in school right up to Christmas. And he is getting ready for his school Holiday concert next week. Not to mention getting in some work hours over the weekend. And driving lessons when he and Tom have the chance. Plus he ran another successful boy scout meeting with a plumbing theme(yes there is a plumbing merit badge).
And Allison can't wait to get through finals! She will be done next week and then head home. She took a study break and made cookies and decorated a Christmas stocking. Very cute.
I am running around like a crazy person getting ready for our trip to Florida and getting ready for Christmas. I hope I make it!
Mom B and Mrs Claus
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