Tonight I meet halfway with my son (who lives an hour and a half away) in a grocery store parking lot to swap bags of presents. We will open them via zoom on Xmas morning. It will be only the second time since the pandemic started that I have seen him in person. It's hard but it's what we have to do, I'm grateful he's being careful. Thank god for Facetime and the internet.
My last day in the office then a nice week and a half off. I haven't taken a vacation all year so this is much needed. Oddly what I am excited to do is organizing in my home. Being home so long, and not having the cleaning ladies coming every two weeks to force me to pick everything up, has led to a bit more clutter than I like and has demonstrated all the problem areas in the house in terms of organization to me.
A Christmas miracle is also happening in my house. I have two orchids that were given to me, on last year in October after my mom passed, on a Xmas present last year from a patient. I am bad with houseplants and usually kill orchids. Somehow, these kept blooming and blooming until just a few months ago. Now I noticed that both are putting out new flower shoots again! I have NEVER gotten an orchid to rebloom! I haven't even fed them. I only water them once a week and they must like the indirect light on my living room entry table where they live. The only other difference - which might be major - is that I started a few months ago using the filtered water from the fridge to water them, rather than the tap water.
