Happy New Year!
I know, photos would be nice, but I've not taken too many lately if you can believe it.
Jason's Dad passed away just before Christmas 11 years to the day after his Mom died. Jason was to Windsor & back several times visiting and staying with his Dad in the hospital and then the kids and I went with him for a last visit the day before he died. We all made the trip again for the funeral and I think the kids really understood and felt sad. It was a beautiful tribute to his Dad seeing the hundreds of people who came to pay their respects from farmers who had known him years ago to family and even the staff and friends from Tim Hortons where he had found a group of people he bonded with every day while they shared coffee and conversation. The kids and their cousins (10 of them!) were all very well behaved and got to have a little bit of fun later when we returned to Windsor again on Boxing Day for a Christmas celebration. Christmas at home was a little sad and a little quiet but thank goodness for the kids. They made sure Christmas came to our house! We had a really nice Christmas dinner a few days later with Mom & Dad, Eri & Mike and family at their new house complete with a game of cards for the grown ups!
We attended a couple of Christmas gathering with friends and spend New Year's Eve on a street crawl. We went with 5 neighbour families to each of our homes where we were provided drinks (including flavoured martinis at one house!) and snacks and the kids played before it was time to move on to the next house. It was a beautiful, mild evening with just a light snow falling and I was reminded of the importance of friends. We are lucky to have such wonderful friends for neighbours and resolve to spend more time with our friends old and new this year.
Jason's Dad passed away just before Christmas 11 years to the day after his Mom died. Jason was to Windsor & back several times visiting and staying with his Dad in the hospital and then the kids and I went with him for a last visit the day before he died. We all made the trip again for the funeral and I think the kids really understood and felt sad. It was a beautiful tribute to his Dad seeing the hundreds of people who came to pay their respects from farmers who had known him years ago to family and even the staff and friends from Tim Hortons where he had found a group of people he bonded with every day while they shared coffee and conversation. The kids and their cousins (10 of them!) were all very well behaved and got to have a little bit of fun later when we returned to Windsor again on Boxing Day for a Christmas celebration. Christmas at home was a little sad and a little quiet but thank goodness for the kids. They made sure Christmas came to our house! We had a really nice Christmas dinner a few days later with Mom & Dad, Eri & Mike and family at their new house complete with a game of cards for the grown ups!
We attended a couple of Christmas gathering with friends and spend New Year's Eve on a street crawl. We went with 5 neighbour families to each of our homes where we were provided drinks (including flavoured martinis at one house!) and snacks and the kids played before it was time to move on to the next house. It was a beautiful, mild evening with just a light snow falling and I was reminded of the importance of friends. We are lucky to have such wonderful friends for neighbours and resolve to spend more time with our friends old and new this year.
posted by St. Louis Family at 7:09 PM
3 Comments:
Oh it's nice to read how things went, I was thinking of your family a lot over the holidays, wondering how hard it might be. That sounds like a great New Year's Eve idea-a street crawl. Here's wishing your family a happy and healthy 2010.
Glad you guys got through- it must have been tough but I figured the kids would help over the holidays- I hope that their memories of their grandfather will help for a long time-love to you all and a happy 2010.
Happy new year, you guys. I'm glad you got to have some time to be sad with your family and friends.
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