Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Where is your Christmas Tree?

Well, after two weeks off I am back at work! It feels good to get back into a routine again---you can only lay around, eat unlimited sweets, and watch movies until you get your fill of that!

Some of the highlights of our two week holiday:
1. My niece got engaged.
2. We had a white Christmas----first time in our fair town since 1929!
3. It snowed twice during the break.
4. Santa was very good!
5. We rang in the new year with some old friends and family---great fun!
6. My husband and I got to spend some quiet time in a deer blind---very romantic! But the quiet time you have sitting in a deer stand with very specific instructions not to move or make any sounds can be a very relaxing experience!
7. Santa brought me a gift certificate for a massage---my favorite!!

A humorous conversation that we had with my mother-in-law; remember, she has Frontal Temporal Dementia so changing her routine can cause a little bit of anxiety for her:
Question: Where is your Christmas tree?
Response: I took it down.
Question: Where is it?
Response: I don't know.
Question: Where are your decorations for the tree?
Response: In that box-----in the box are decorations from someone else's tree.

We looked for two days for her missing tree and ornaments and tried to find the rightful owner of the multi-colored ornaments and tinsel that were in the mysterious box by her front door to no avail. Where did they go?

Life is good over the hill..........