three week whirlwind

I've been such a bad blogger this month, mostly due to the insane amount of Christmas parties I have attended. I hosted 3 at my house and attended the RCMP banquet last night, as well as a small RCMP dinner with Mike's staff Seargent, a church banquet dinner and a friend's Christmas get-together. In all it's been a lot of fun, but also a lot of cleaning my house, wrapping gifts, baking food or appies for the parties and a ton of socializing. Of course, these are all my favourite things, so I can hardly complain.

In addition, I started my new job as the teacher in charge of distance ed PE. It takes quite a bit of time on the internet and BCesis marking journals, but it's not too bad and it gives me more hours.

Today I've been rushing around trying to get everything together for my trip home. Mike and I are flying out of Fort St John tonight at 6:25 to head home for an early Christmas. It's a very short trip as Mike starts work again Christmas morning at 6am but since he has 5 days off before Christmas and there was a great seat sale a few days ago, we decided to both go home. I have an airmiles flight, but we weren't sure until last week about Mike joining me. I'm excited as I get to see my sister who lives in Ottawa. It's been a year and a half since they moved and I've missed her every time they've been back on the island for a visit.

So, I better finish shoving my presents into the suitcases!

But, I'll leave you with a picture of my lovely REAL Christmas tree. It was a delight to find a beautiful real tree this year after so many years of fake appartment sized trees. The other ones are of Mike's work dinner last night. He was on shift but I got to get dressed up...I also got my hair chopped off the day before so that was fun.




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