Sorry I have been missing for so long. I left my I-pad in St Albert and I couldn’t get my WordPress to work on my phone. So now I have to get myself much better organized. I get to Fraser Lake and I need stuff from St Albert, then I get to St Albert and I need stuff I have in Fraser Lake. I need to make lists. Getting old sucks. Lol

Jamie and I have been very busy. We are still living in Fraser Lake BC. And we both really like it here . Jamie is loving his job and has never been so happy on a job in his life. I love to see him enjoying it so much. We have really found our little niche in Fraser Lake, I have become very comfortable in our little town. I do drive to Vanderhoof, the town just 30 minutes from us. I need to go there for groceries and odds and ends. About once a month I drive to Prince George for a good grocery run where there are the big guns lol lol. You know like Costco, Walmart, and Safeway. That is about 1 hour 45 minutes away. It is a nice break every once in a while. Sometimes I go on a Sunday with Jamie and Mac. Then Mac and I drop Jamie off at the casino and we go do our shopping, that’s the only way Jamie wants to come. 🙃 then we make a day of it.

This week we came back to St Albert where we have our beautiful condo. That’s the hard part when I am away. I love living in St Albert. I love even more living downtown St Albert. I have found it to be such a great place, there are so many shops and cafe’s. I love walking to the corner for a “special coffee” and sitting outside on the patio on a beautiful sunny day and just enjoying my “special coffee “ then there is our grandkids, well that’s the best part of all they are so nice and close I get to see them so much more. Three of the kids are at a school just a few blocks for our condo. If I was here more they could walk to see me. Hopefully in the next few years we will settle down and be living here full time. 😍

Jamie and I are leaving in the morning for Mexico, a well deserved break for Jamie. We have not been away from the grandkids for Christmas since our oldest was born “19” years ago. So it might be a little sad Christmas Day 😢🎅🏻🎄but Jamie and I will have each other and that’s really important right now. Life is short and everything moves so fast. Sometimes you need to slow down and smell the coffee ( as the saying goes). I think a little alone time and together time will be good for us right now. We will come back stronger than ever and ready to kick 2023 in the butt. Lol 🤭

I did have one little problem for us, when we decided to go to Mexico for Christmas. I had put all our summer clothes into a couple large bins out in our c-can that we keep at a friends acreage out in the back “40” in the bush. YUP, great idea in September not a great idea in December when you need them out. I did try to order stuff from Amazon hoping to get a few things that would be ok. I am here to tell you a woman who had a double mastectomy can not order clothes online without seeing them first. NOPE…….. I sent 99%of what I got back. Which was also a problem. You know why ????? There is no Purolator in Fraser Lake to do returns. I had to drive to Vanderhoof to do returns. Also a problem because I hate winter roads especially when I don’t know the roads well. There is no shopping around Fraser Lake, and we decided so late to go to Mexico and there were no summer clothes in Prince George. It has been a shit show all around. Lol. Jamie loved me so much as I got him to drive me out to the c-can in a blizzard on Saturday. But we did, we got the clothes I am all packed and we leave in the morning. YIPPIE 🍹🍹🕶🩲👙

Last night we went out for supper with Mac, Jolee, Hannah, Ava, Austin, and Chloee. We went to Montana’s seems to be a place we all like. We had a nice little pre-Christmas dinner and shared some good laughs and lots of love between us. Jamie and I are pretty lucky Papa, and Mama. We didn’t get to spend time with Gordon, Zack, and Riley as Gordon, and Zack are away working. So hopefully we get to see them all when we get back from Mexico. 🎅🏻🎄

As always Christmas fills my heart with so much sadness as well. This is “27” Christmas’s that our family has had without BJ and I can say this one hurts as much as the first one did. I don’t think the pain will ever ease because he is always going to be gone and we will always have to have Christmas without him. The only thing that helps me cope with the pain is I know he has some pretty fantastic people in heaven to celebrate with. As so do I down here on earth ❤️❤️ as my heart breaks for my BJ it is full with Mac and his family and Gordon and his family. It is a pendulum swinging happy/sad, happy/sad, happy/sad. LIFE !!!!😘

Merry Merry Christmas to everyone, thanks for continuing to follow me. I am happy to say I am still healthy and doing good. I thank God that my Jamie found my Mexico doctor to help me when I was so sick. He was my rock then and continues to be everyday. I love him with all my heart. ( sorry kind of mushy) I hope everyone has a great Christmas making lots of memories. All the best in the New Year as well. 🎅🏻🎄❤️

Todays saying : I only miss you when I’m breathing.

# 2 : She was powerful, not because she wasn’t scared but because she went on so strongly despite fear.

#3 : We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone.

Beth 😇