December 22 2014
I was writing yesterday's blog and drinking drippy Joe until almost 11:00. That's when Papa Squatch Dayscare started. Jen dropped off Bella and Christopher so she could take her mother Christmas shopping. I had plans for these kids! " Can we play with Matty? Can I have a yogurt? Can we watch a show?" came at me all at once. No, yes, no. We got things to do!
I loaded them and the rat dog into the truck and went to see Mama Lee. Christo sees Mama Lee a lot more often than Bella does. So mama Lee was very excited that Bella and come to visit.
Mama Lee and Bella had a conversation about Christmas.
While Christo stood around looking bored and making faces at himself in the mirror. After half an hour we took Mama Lee out to the dining room for lunch. Mama Lee introduced Bella and Christo to her table mates, Margaret and Irene. I have to say the grandkids are very polite and well mannered. We left the ladies to eat their lunch with the kids yelling Merry Christmas as loud as they could and went across to Como Lake.
It wasn't raining but it was damp and cold.
My ears and fingers were feeling a little chilly after only a few minutes. It takes about thirty-five minutes to get around the lake with two grandkids and two Rat dogs.
There are rocks to throw and sticks to swing and other dogs to see and a whole world to pee on! We only made it once around the lake, by then it was already past lunch time and the kids were starving.
Bella is in grade one and goes to school all day long so I don't get to spend as much time with her at Papa Squatch Dayscare as I do with Christo. I took the kids to Rotten Ronnies for lunch, I usually buy Christo a burger and fries no pickles but Bella is on to the whole Happy Meal thing. As she explained to me "That way you get a free toy for only $3 more."
Bella had chicken McNuggets and Christopher had a cheeseburger with no pickles and a free toy.
I went to this particular McDonald's because it's close to Stupid Store, our next stop, and it has no playground. With the playground, it turns into a two hour lunch.
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| What do you mean no playground! |
After lunch we went to do some food shopping. It's really weird, I can't buy one stinkin Christmas present but I can food shop all day. Chef Boy R Lisa was at work but the lovely Lisa left me a shopping list. Brussel sprouts, butter, and icing sugar.
I had both the kids pushing the cart.
I was the only person they ran over. And they ran me over at least half a dozen times. The first time they ran over my ankles I could see the look of fear in their eyes. When I said "That's alright, be a little more careful, please." it then became a game.
When we got home I got a text from Christian saying that he was on his way to pick up the kids. What he didn't text me was that he was on his way from Chilliwack where he and Adam have been standing in a river fishing since 6:30 in the morning.
Is it fishing if you don't catch a fish? Or is it just standing in a river with frozen legs?
I sent the kids down to the Green Room, made myself a cup of Joe and did some work on the computer. I have been trying to contact a friend for over a month and have had no response. It turns out he is massively pissed at me about something I wrote. I hope he gets over it I will truly miss him. Nothing I write is written with malice or the intent to hurt. So if I ever write anything that pisses you off, please feel free to send me a note telling me so. It makes it possible to solve the problem as opposed to the silent treatment which has never helped any situation.
The lovely Lisa sent me my Ho Ho Ho warning about 5:00
and walked through the doors just before 6:00. I had a couple of nice striploin steaks that I was going to cook for dinner. Along with a big pile of broccoli and a Squatch salad, we had dinner.
After dinner it was time to build the gingerbread house. Ok not build, bake. Chef Boy R Lisa rolled out the dough that I had made yesterday, pulled out the handmade gingerbread house pattern that she made and has been using for as long as I've known her and started the build!
Chef Boy R Lisa is only doing one gingerbread house this year. Her work schedule made it impossible to do anymore. One year she did seventeen of them. It took her four days to do it. There are about twenty baked parts to the ginger bread house. It takes about three hours to get all of that done. You can only fit so much into a home oven. After the gingerbread house parts were baked and trimmed by Chef Boy R Lisa they were left to harden overnight.
I rolled out the rest of the dough and made cookies I started with Christmas trees, and Santa Claus's that are unrecognizable and checkerboard gingerbread cookies because I could do those with a knife and didn't have to use the cookie cutters. The lovely Lisa called it a night. I made my self a large cup of no Joe (that's decaf)
I try not to have caffeine after mid afternoon.
Then I sat back and watched the Canucks game that I had recorded. No talking heads, no commercials.
Wooo hooo.
That's all I've got
Till next time
Peace out y'all
©2014 Dave Squatch Ward
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