11/2/10 Chores, L helps me, GD around Chirstmas tree

Luke did a GD for me. He got up so early and came home to rest, but he saw that it would be so hard for me to do the chores that had to be done. So he offered to help me and he didn't make me feel bad for a second. We work so well together. First we did banking. Then we went to the lamp store. They fixed our two broken table lamps and we chose finials. I picked out three that were my favs and Luke chose out of the three. Blown glass and so beautiful. We felt so good; it's low level stress to have broken things in your home. And we found the perfect Chirstmas gift for David M. He collects pink flamingos and this was a blown glass pink flamingo finial. He's going to LOVE it. Another GD.

Then to the post office. We mailed a bday and holiday gift for Nana. I think she'll like it a lot and get good use out of it. We also mailed our gift to a mystery soldier who has to stay in one of those awful, hot countries that we're at war with. The woman who coordinate this humanitarian project, told me I might have a problem with the post office. But I didn't. Who can have a problems with sending snacks and books to a poor soldier who can't even come home for Christmas. I also put in some simple Christmas decorations.

I have to be honest here. Only MKate reads this and she knows me so . . . People tend to like me and help me out. Not just because I struggle to walk, but . . . . I think . . . We'll it's like my little granddaughter said, "Gramma, you make everyone feel happy. Well, almost everyone."

This was a happy day.

Then, MKate was nice enough to take me Christmas tree shopping. I saw a very nice tree on sale. But I knew that Luke wouldn't like it. So . . . . I took a small tree and we're going to put up the little tree (my GD to Luke) and then we'll wait for one of the new good lighting trees to go on sale. Hopefully before Chirstmas. It kind of doesn't matter because we leave our tree up for a long time to make the winter more cheerful.