Family updates “what’s going on around here”

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Happy Saturday! Just stopping in real quick to share some family updates and what has been going on around here. December traditionally starts to get a little chilly here but we have been lucky, we’ve had a few nice days above 50 degrees. I hope that doesn’t mean we are in for a horrible winter though, like last year. I can’t handle another 100+ inches of snow. So what’s been going on around here? My grandmother is insisting on her tiny tree again this year for their TV room. Last year I setup a 2′ tree and she thought it was the best thing ever. They don’t have a lot of space for a larger tree so I will be helping her decorate her itty bitty tree this weekend. I think she will like something decorated like this dwarf boxwood tree in our kitchen.

My grandfather posed with his kitty Sophie this week for a newspaper article featuring Sophie’s long journey in a kennel and how she has now found her forever home. So sweet! We can’t wait to see the article.

My shoulder is healing and I am on my 6th week of physical therapy. I don’t know how anyone would recover from shoulder surgery without physical therapy. It’s so expensive though, thankfully we have health insurance but for those who don’t, I can’t imagine paying out of pocket for it. Although, our deductible is huge so we essentially pay of pocket until that is met. My mom has been working with a few different insurance companies for my grandparents, trying to find the most affordable senior option and plan that is conducive to their needs. Ugh. Health insurance is a topic for another day!

These guys, they are loving the rug in front of our barn doors we recently installed in the kitchen. I shared this on our instagram page and it was a hit. Do you follow us on instagram? Click here to follow and check out what goes on during the week in our house.

We headed to the tree farm last week with the kids to pick out a Christmas tree and I think the highlight was the homemade donuts. It’s so much fun during the holidays visiting tree farms and browsing through their gift shops and enjoying the holiday cheer.

Our town has a full day of holiday parties, events and fun things to do all over the town today which we will be heading to soon. They have a trolley that takes you all over town from 10am-4pm visiting local sites all decked out for the holidays and then later, the town tree lighting and Christmas caroling. My mom is cooking a huge dinner tonight so we are definitely looking forward to that! Happy weekend!

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