Happy Holidays.............

Life has been hectic as I am sure it has been for all of you. Our boys arrive tomorrow so I have been busy try to getting the final touches on wrapping gifts and organizing their rooms and just general Christmas stuff.

Hubbies recovery is going very well. He is just amazing me. He is a very fast healer. We were at physio on Monday and go again today and he is getting great range of motion with his arm. I am so happy. I on the other hand am not doing as well as I had hoped. I met with my employer and the powers that be on Monday and we decided that I should stop my gradual return to work and not try to come back until the New Year. My shoulder is starting to show signs of impingement, but what bothers me the most is my spine. I have pain up an down my spine and am getting numbness in my finger and great toe...all just to weird. When I saw the physiotherapist on Monday she did some mild traction on me...and ever since then my spine has been killing me...I actually took hubbies pain killers yesterday and basically vegged on the the couch....that is sooooooooooooooooo not me. I am more mobile today, I was to see my GP but he called in sick today so they had to cancel all of his appointments and now they are not open until the New Year. Living in a small town there are not many options available to me at this point in time. I asked to see another doctor but they are all booked up. My only option it would appear is to go to the ER but it is not that bad and it is not an emergency, but I do feel as though I need a xray of my spine and possibly at CT scan, but it looks like that will have to wait until the New Year now. So much for that.....

I am so excited about our boys arriving tomorrow. I want to do one last baking which I will do today, and then I think I am done. We got our tree the other day....and you know.....I love it....it is much smaller than I wanted....I mean it's not the 13 footer that I am used to...but we are anticipating a lot of people on Christmas and didn't feel the larger tree would fit........so here it is our 2007 Christmas Tree.....

It would have been nice if there had been snow outside. We did have snow off and on yesterday....our weather has been so odd this year. Our boys are travelling from back east and we know how hard they have been hit with the winter storms, we are being optimistic about their being able to travel tomorrow.

One of the things I collect, are Santa's....this year I added two more......here is what I have done with my Santa's this year....

The White Santa on the right on the table is one of my new ones.....and here is the other.....

He stands a couple of feet tall......I just love him.....I don't know how or why I got into collecting Santa's but I did, so now I am always on the look out for a Santa........other than my Santa's the theme around my house is blue and sliver. The garland around the window as are decorated with blue and silver and the tree as you saw is blue and silver.....well I can across this lovely table runner that is of varying materials of blue and with silver stars, I just loved it...then I saw the candles and holders and well I just had to have those......the center piece was given to us as a gift a couple of Christmas's ago......

The nativity scene in the back ground was my mothers....it's nothing extravagant, but it was hers and it brings such fond memories for me.....

The angel with the blue candle was my sister's, her husband gave that to me the first Christmas we celebrated without her, so to put it by the nativity scene just seem appropriate to me, so when I look at that I think of both my sister and my mom.......Merry Christmas Eileen and Mom.......