“The RoseBouquet”

Well, I’m satisfied with the Christmas and New Year’s holidays I had and the days between too. How about you?

I had a lovely quiet day on Christmas day and was able to spend the morning in prayer. About noon I started the turkey in the oven and the potatoes and stuffing in the crockpots, etc., and then went back to my quiet time until about 3:30 or 4 pm when I prepared the cooked foods into metal serving dishes and covered them so I could keep them warm in the oven.

After 5 pm I went to the airport to pick up my nephew Jasel, who was our Christmas dinner guest. I’d been tracking his flight online and expected it to arrive at the later time of 5:35 but when I got there it was delayed some more, and so he only arrived just after 6 pm.

We hurried back to my place, loaded the turkey meal into my fabric carrying bags, and hurried off to my brother Tom’s apartment where we enjoyed a nice hot Christmas meal. Later we loaded Tom’s wheelchair in the trunk and went for a ride through the Enchanted Forest, a display of many Christmas themes in the zoo. We followed the trail this way and that, and looked at all the colourful trees and cartoon scenes, and even one nativity scene.

We dropped off Tom, and then I dropped Jasel off at his other aunt Phyllis’s home (from his dad’s side). He had already had one Christmas meal the night before at his girlfriend’s home, and this one with us, and was having another one the next day with his Peters relatives. Yes, three days in a row!

Meanwhile, I was happy to eat turkey leftovers, and stay mostly at home for a week, and do some serious catching up on several fronts. Well, to be honest, I didn’t get those projects all finished, but I made some good progress.

For instance, I had fallen behind in answering emails on a daily basis while I was working so hard to get my Christmas gifts made and my mail sent out. So I set aside most of my afternoons to work at catching up that area. I managed to read, and answer and file or delete all but 20 emails. Seems I could not break that barrier. One day I answered a whole bunch of personal emails and had a good time chatting with my friends that way. Wonderful, mainly ezines left to go. But the next morning they had all answered, and I was way behind again.

It would seem that with all the people I know and correspond with, plus clients, and ministry contacts, and people using contact forms on my various sites, I really need to dedicate more hours a day to email work.

On New Year’s Eve I had a friend over for supper, and another friend came later to play some Bible trivia games and then we prayed over the minutes of the new year rolling in. It was very special!

New Year’s Day was another prayer day for me, but in the afternoon I took a nap and got really rested up.

This week I’m back at the office, and feeling as if I’ve had a nice vacation.