kitkat, I hope you got your coffee maker descaled so you could get some coffee this morning.
Hope time with your mom and dad goes well. Also hope you get some rest time today, Lauralind. Is your sister going to join your get together?
Thank you Bama! I'm taking a coffee!
Enjoy reading time, L Ann.
I hope your day at payroll is going well, FFB.
That's a great habit to hold on to, Kitty! I hope you had a pleasant walk.
Is the Rideau Canal opened for skating, Doggedly?
Christmas Tree disposal: One of our local high school men's lacrosse (I think) teams raises money each year by picking up trees and disposing of them for you. (Our city collects them and chips them into mulch used in the parks.) We've already paid and have that date set up for Sunday, Jan. 4.
I'm drinking coffee and watching the sun rise over the little lake where our bnb is situated. There seems to be fog on it each morning. Yesterday, the sun eventually burned it off. It was a very pretty sight! I'm not sure there will be much sun today so we shall see.
Yesterday, dh and I planned, shopped for, and cooked dinner for 9 adults. No, it hasn't let up - we're continuing to cook for the masses. LOL! I shouldn't count -- but I am.
That was the 7th time in 1.5 weeks we've cooked for 7-10 people, with some help from dd30 and dd27 on a couple meals. There were a couple smaller meals for 5 people as well. Anyhow, our friends the Ss came to visit with their daughter A last night, and it was lovely to see them all. This happened at ds+F's home. Of course, I also got to hold little I some more. 
But by the end of the evening, I was pretty tired and socially drained. Goodness - I will need some days to be a hermit to recover. SO glad I have the next session off payroll. AND. . . yesterday, there was a little drama at our home in Michigan amongst those who are staying there. RH and KE have continued to use M's bathroom, even though we moved them upstairs and told them to use that bathroom, which is much newer and much nicer in the opinions of everyone in our family. I even cleaned the nice bidet so they could use that if they wanted. Apparently, RH was even using M's toothpaste which irked her more than their using her bathroom.
She and dd30 were furiously texting about all this in the morning. (Dd30 and M work for the same org; dd30 is M's supervisor for one of her roles.) The outcome was that dh sent RH a text asking him and KE to use only the upstairs bathroom, explaining that M is renting the room and the bathroom from us. *sheesh* We've all concluded that RH is a little immature and coddled. 
I've discovered that I ordered the wrong size knitting needles for my next knitting project. I may look into a craft store here so I can buy the correct size.
Dh is on a sibling reunion zoom call with all his sisters right now. I love hearing the Dutch chatter next to me.
Next:
- some qt
- back exercises
- dress to jog? (Or jog later?)
Later:
- make the bed
- pack up everything to spend the day at ds+F's home: lunch, gifts, entertainment stuff
- buy knitting needles?
- go to ds+F's home
- jog/ long walk
- lunch at some point
- deskwork: email EP, email ML, work on making med appointments
- help ds+F - Dh and the girls will do some handyman type projects; maybe I can clean?
- open gifts with them at some point
- dinner: dd30 will go get Filipino chicken + sides (this is a GF restaurant)
- duolingo
- read?
- other things?
TaDas!
- up; coffee while watching the day lighten up around the foggy lake
- checked bank account; property taxes haven't hit yet
WEEKLY ACTIVITIES
Wed Visit/ help with baby and cooking
Thu Visit/ help with baby and cooking
Fri TRAVEL home
Sat 5:30 - ? CG1
Sun 10 - Church/ Host Dinner for 8?
Mon Groceries
Tue KS2J get together
Wed
Thu 2-3 work out with AS
Fri dinner date with dh
Sat Nothing so far?
Sun 10 - church/ 3:30 - 6 CG2 - we host/ 6 - ? host Sunday dinner
December Brain Dumps
This Week - House
- can I scrub the tile in our shower?
- clean sheets on bed
This Week - Deskwork
- make appointment with optometrist and food doctor
- schedule mammogram
- reach out to JK?
This Week - Errands
- get Mom's bags of stuff to the charity
- C and E's gifts in the mail
General Brain Dump
- progress decluttering clothes - wip
- new phone eventually
Mom
- go through bag of Mom's knick knacks
). DH is now flicking through channels and I've been occupied filling in the "pothole notification" form on the council's website. At the start of the process it warned that the interactive process may not work very well or even at all(!!!??) and it did take several attempts 
Dailies dust, vacuum, pets feed water litter, laundry my clothes 1 load, dh’s clothes 2 loads, still need to put away all loads 