My humble attempt at a small Alaska style Christmas corner. The nutcracker is an antique that Ani sent us.
This week has been fun - earlier in the week Jessy and Olivia came home for a few weeks. Jessy has been spending time at the Blueberry farm and is home for a couple of weeks. I’m not sure of her plans yet; guess I should ask. Olivia brought Jessy home from the airport; Olivia has had a successful semester at the U of F and will be home for a couple of weeks too.
John Venebles dropped in on his way home (Haines) from the U of F. He dropped Lizzie Jepsen off. He and two other college kids spent the night here before taking off early morning to head to Haines. They were going to meet two other car loads of kids from the U in Tok and caravan to Haines together.
Bradie Cox flies in today from Homer. She’ll be home for a couple of weeks too.
Here's a link to some of the fun stuff we planned!
https://www.facebook.com/griselda.h.buongiorne/media_set?set=a.10204846371190830.1585591801&type=3
Annie Buongiorne came home from TX on Tuesday. She hasn't seen her Dad and Gramy Flo for over a year now...
It is super fun to hear all the kids running their mouths like magpies catching up on news and foolish life’s details.
Yesterday afternoon, Rich and Liz ran to Delta to bring Ella out for overnight. She’s at a fun age, but I won’t bore you with stories. Well, maybe one story. Lizzie brought home this little chocolate covered acai candy things. Ella is perpetually on high alert for all things sugary. Ella smells the candy and gets down on her hands and knees to try to covertly peer between Lizzie’s ams and face (Lizzie was on the floor) to see what was there. When asked, Lizzie told Ella they were little poops. Ella sweetly kept asking about the “poops”, the "yummy poops”. We laughed until we cried. Lizzie finally gave Ella a “poop”.
Before I last wrote, Marilyn had her gallbladder taken out. She’s had a rough couple of weeks here recovering. Yesterday Jon took her back to Fairbanks for more tests.
Today it is windy and 11 degrees. A couple of times this week, it has dipped down to -15 and -20 degrees but then it quickly rises to above zero when the wind arrives.
We had an nice sharing meeting this past week - Sarah Jane shared for the first time since she came home; Hannah shared too; Tommy, well……., he told his nightmare, I mean dream, about procrastination in order to make his point.
Cody Williams took a real nice photoshoot of Rob...
Rob and Michael Squries continue to have a good time in their archery classes with May. Michael has been taking Rob out to his trap lines in the woods...they go off together on M snowmachine...now Rob is saving up to get his own snowmachine...so far he has about $15 in quarters...haha
Have a great weekend. I plan on it!
