Up and going this sunny "day after Christmas" with Mark bringing up all the plastic bins, boxes, etc., and I dug in taking down ornaments from family room tree (snowmen, patriotic and nautical) and packing all my treasures away - BIG job, but what a nice surprise to have 2 little elves stop by and help - that would be Philip and Annette. They had spent last night with Anne and Patrick and Philip wanted his Dad to go with him to Farm and Fleet (not a place you would have to twist Mark's arm to shop at)! HA! So, Annette said she would take all the ornaments off the big tree in living room and pack away - that's a job!!!!! I was extremely grateful for her help.....even Philip got in the act...
Ahhhh...thanks for changing my snowman switch plates!
Annette "untrimming" the tree
The kids all met at Pub II for lunch (Philip, Annette, Anne, Patrick, Liam and Connor). Can't believe that we all missed phone calls from Ryan today (Anne, Philip and us) - ugh!!!!!!!!!! Darn, darn...he will probably be heading back to the ship and out to sea very soon! He had said earlier he was enjoying his time in Dubai but VERY expensive!
We did facetime with Michael and all yesterday from North Carolina - fun, fun, fun! Sounds like they had a great Christmas, too, and of course, love "seeing" and "chatting" with all of them!
So it was a good day of packing up and storing away most of the stuff - tomorrow, we'll finish up and also enjoy Liam and Connor who are staying with us the next 2 days! The house looks bare and dark tonight without all the pretty lights, but big day behind us and onward to tomorrow!
Mark and I ran a few errands late afternoon and got some "real-deal-after-Christmas bargains"!!! We then met friends, Bill and Charmaine at Panera. They used to live here and were back from Georgia visiting their daughter and family. Fun catching up with them!
Bill and Charmaine
Nasty out there tonight - rain, sleet, etc.....
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