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One of our nephews just moved out on his own recently. He’s so proud of his new home.
He actually invited us over to his new place earlier this week for dinner. His new home is just a bachelor apartment, but he’s decorated it nicely. Of course it’s a real guys place … He’s even got one of those pull up bar’s in a door way. LOL
I was surprised how well he could cook. He made us a nice chicken dinner. I’d be happy to have dinner there regularly. I think he’s going to do fine on his own.
I was talking to my mother in law earlier this evening and it looks like we’ll probably have guests at Christmas time this year.
My brother in law might be coming for a visit from Chicago. We don’t know for sure yet, but my mother in law said he’s going to try to come to the Toronto area if he can .. if only for a few days.
I guess we’re going to have to visit a few cigar retailers to try to find his favorite cigars. He loves nothing more than having a cigar when he comes for a visit to Toronto … only this year he’s not going to have my husband to smoke with since we both quit smoking this year! I’m sure he’ll be disappointed but he’ll get over it.
Are you having out of town guests during the holidays? Do you do anything special when you’re expecting guests?
On Sunday night my husband and I are going over to some friends of ours for dinner.
It’s going to be a small dinner a party to celebrate our friends birthday and to show of some of the renovations they’ve been doing to their new home.
They totally redid their kitchen – new cabinets, new appliances, glass mosaic tile splash guard, new tile flooring. I just know it’s going to be lovely. Probably a dream kitchen.
I don’t even want to know what it cost them. I’m sure it’s way more than my husband and I could afford right now if we were to redo our kitchen.
Have you ever renovated your kitchen? Oh and don’t you love dinner parties?
I was just talking to my sister in law on the phone. She was making one last ditch attempt to get us to come up to their “cottage” for the long weekend.
They bought a new RV trailer last year. I think it sleeps six people quite comfortably and now – every long weekend – they call wanting us to come for a visit.
If it were closer I’m sure we’d go more often, but from Toronto it takes about four hours to drive there and that’s not including the likelihood of getting stuck in slow moving traffic on the way in and out of the city so make that more like 6 hours.
She was also telling me that they have their rv insurance all paid off for the year so she’s happy about that. No more bills other than utility bills for their RV for the rest of the year.
Anyway … we can’t go away to her cottage this weekend. She had forgotten that her (and my husbands) nephew and niece are flying in this evening from Chicago for the weekend. The kids are doing their own thing in the city but we’re picking them up at the airport in an hour and we’ll be getting together with them for lunch or dinner at least once. So that nixes going out of town.
What are your plans for the long weekend?
Last weekend when my husband and I were working outside at the front of our house one of our neighbors came by and started talking with my husband.
The neighbor works for our cities bus company and he happened to mention that they were going to be hiring soon in a particular division and since it has to do with health care (this part of the bus division transports the handicapped) he thought my husband might be interested in the job.
It would certainly pay more than what my husband it making now .. oh and there would be great health and pension benefits too.
So my husband has been working on his resume and then going and talking with our neighbor .. polishing up the keywords that they think the bus company will be looking for etc.
Earlier tonight the neighbor came by to offer a few suggestions and he gave my husband a present – a box of cohiba cigars. Now my husband doesn’t really smoke cigars … but his brother does on occasion so I guess we can save them and then they can have a smoke together next time his brother comes down. Maybe they can celebrate my husbands new job together? Now that would be nice.
I love our neighborhood. The people are so nice. We all do favors for each other, give little gifts on special occasions or at Christmas etc. It’s a nice place to live. Now this neighborhood might actually help my husband get a better job. I love it.