Last Day of Winter Break

It seriously seems like winter break from school lasted for months, but alas, the kids are back to school tomorrow.
Thursday was a busy social day. My friend, Dena, came over and we drove together to meet our friend, Laura and her girls. We met for lunch and it is nice that the kids sort of know each other now and were able to visit more. It was great to see each other and catch up. We went to the mall after lunch and let the kids run around and got to visit a bit more. Ellie and Laura's girls bought friendship bracelets...I thought that was cute. Ellie asked that evening when we were going to see her friends again.
We met Dean and Lauren and the girls for dinner on Thursday to celebrate Dean's 40th Birthday. We met at Hackney's and had a nice time catching up and visiting. The kids amused themselves playing tic-tac-toe and dots.
Friday morning the kids and I went to do a bit of shopping/returning before meeting the GGs for lunch at Northbrook Court. Ellie brought some cookies for Cathy, our waitress. It was nice to visit with the GGs and the kids got to share all their adventures from break. We got to share some of our photos, too. After lunch, we did a bit more mall shopping before heading to Target to see what was left on clearance. We went to Mom and Dad's for a little bit to play with Jo, Tony and Matteo. Teo is starting to walk now, more from person to person but look out...here comes trouble. Friday night we hung out here and watched some videos.
Saturday we did a couple odd things/jobs. I ran with the kids to the bank. Ellie and I did some shopping. I had to pick up Rob's medication at Target and Christmas was marked down to 90%...I stocked up on gift bags ans wrapping paper. I organized and cleaned off the shelves on the stairway down to the basement. We worked on putting some insulation around the garden window and putting up some new moulding. I worked with Ellie in her room to organize her new things into boxes. We went out for dinner and some family time.
Today we hung low. We got the window all back together. I went out to get some more insulation foam for Ellie's door and the kitchen door. The kids played together nicely for most of the afternoon. We went to Mom and Dad's house for dinner. Mom had a great dinner and her sense of taste is finally starting to come back after her cold. We got the kids settled into bed earlier tonight so that the morning is hopefully smooth.
I am taking Christmas down tomorrow when the kids go back to school. Probably need to get to the grocery store, too. Visualizing my healthy and continually healing body and the new normal, Tree