Flypaper thoughts somewhere in Nova Scotia sometime before Christmas version

• I have down tools on the sewing
• There are folks who will be coming expecting to eat
• My husband will take over Christmas cooking on the day
• In his male mind the only time to think about Christmas is for about 5 hours every year
• Now my own idea of Christmas is the equivalent of launching the invasion of Normandy
• Needless to say I do gifts
• His contribution is to say lots of time and they don't expect anything
• I am dealing with a crazy person
• Obviously
• I am not expecting Pinterest but focused eyes would be helpful
• Any guess what I got for my last birthday?
• A bidet attachment for the toilet
• If I had sat in a room for a hundred million years
• This is not something I would have thought of
• "It was your birthday and I was in Canadian Tire"
• "And I thought, can't be hard to plumb that in"
• Bingo problem solved
• But he makes a hell of a turkey
• Christmas is huge for me
• Yes I realize that many people don't like it
• But my Auntie Bonnie who was a glamour girl 
• In the dances at the beach during the war
• Who used to wear knee high nylons with her summer dresses in her old age
• Still believed in gloves
• And whose favourite saying was
• "In life you have to have your jazz band dancing"
• She was onto on of the great truths of life
• Nice afternoon yesterday
• Visited my friend who is now in a memory unit in long term care
• Early onset
• My own feeling is that he had so much life he kind of used his quota up early
• Lately he has said the dog's name 
• So I went with his wife, my old old friend, to do dog duty
• Folks who no longer were sure who they or the family are
• Still look at a dog and smile
• Soul to soul
• Can't take time too seriously
• Just some things are out of synch
• But never underestimate the ability of the universe to send you something to your heart
• Tomorrow our baby girl from California arrives
• She looks so much like her dad, my son, that it is eerie 
• Of course she is herself
• Sometimes like all mothers
• I think can I have them back just for one day
• And then suddenly here comes this one just like her dad
• And I have that day back
• Who would have thought?
• So to me that's what Christmas is
• You never know
• You just never know