2017 December Escapades

We had an action-packed (!) final month of the year with business and family bookkeeping, family and pal visits, decorating for Christmas, and doing painting at our commercial property. Yolanda again made gingerbread for the VDDS kid’s party – a joy for her each year.

Mid-December we hosted a sleep-over with little Francis Sandoz and one of the evenings that he was with us we hosted a dinner and evening for colleague/pal Chris Hildebrand and his boys Luca and Finley – Francis thoroughly enjoyed preparing for the visit and making Lego with the older boys.

Closer to Christmas, Yolanda and pal Stacy went up-Island one day to craft fairs and happened upon a firefighter’s fund-raiser to which Niece Alex & husband Evan had contributed baked goods – we bought lots and gave them as gifts to staff and neighbours as Christmas remembrances. Niece Alex & husband Evan hosted a lovely Christmas Day Brunch in Chemainus for us and her parents, and Yolanda was home in time to sit with her mom for Christmas dinner and evening at Oak Bay Lodge. We hosted brother Rick & family for our annual after-Christmas visit, which we look forward to each year, and New Year’s Eve dinner was with the Harbeck-Sandoz family. We ended December 31st with Frances arriving home from Lethbridge in time for a midnight toast with the Attwell gang.