Christmas 2020, Dec 22 - 26

Tuesday, December 22nd. Not much happening here. Finished up last minute stuff for our holiday meals.  Did the last bit of grocery shopping at Country Grocer here in Lake Cowichan and enjoyed the sunshine.

Wednesday, a very cool morning at -1C. The sun came out though which made it nice. Received a call from Jason at 7:45 am ... Kristi is in hospital again and has to stay for 48 hours on IV antibiotics. Still trying to keep the "peanut" inside instead of outside. Jason has been madly trying to get all things "baby" done in the house in preparation. We decided to come up to help out Jason and look after the dogs. They love getting walked by Ray and fed by me. :) Ray installed the baby monitor for Jason in the nursery, another thing off his list.

Here is a picture that Ray took from Kristi's deck. Awesome clear view that you don't see very often with the lower mainland smog. 

Kristi is allowed to stay at her house in Nanaimo for Christmas day only and then has to relocate to Victoria to be close to her fetal medicine specialist at Victoria General. She will have to visit the hospital daily to be checked out. They wanted to admit her but she negotiated to be able to stay at a friends basement suite 18 minutes from the hospital for the duration. Ray and I are trying to take on as much stuff as we can to relieve them of some stress and will keep the dogs with us until they can come back home with baby.  

Thursday morning, Christmas Eve.

I have a list of errands to do for Jason and Kristi that they were unable to get to with all that is going on. Top of the list for Kristi is pacifiers and diaper cream. lol Kristi made it home finally at 6 pm. I had made ham and scalloped potatoes.  Kristi spent her evening on the couch as ordered. She is only allowed to get up to go to the bathroom otherwise has to sit/lay down and not stand.

Up early for stockings and presents. After I made breakfast and we ate, Kristi and Jason headed back to the hospital for a quick checkup and Ray walked the dogs. I was back to washing baby clothes I bought yesterday as Kristi did not have any "preemie" clothes only 0 to 3 months and the peanut will be smaller than that at first. Jason was busy packing up their stuff in preparation of being in Victoria for up to a month. A very busy Christmas morning instead of the relaxing one we would usually have. 

Kristi assuming her position.

Christmas Dinner, Cornish Game Hens, stuffed with rice dressing.

Boxing Day ... I made eggs benedict while Ray took the trimmings off the tree and Kristi packed them into their boxes from the couch. Jason busy packing for Victoria after throwing the tree off the sundeck onto the back yard. I did the last load of laundry for them. We all were packed up by 10 am.  Jason was busy getting all the dishes done, Ray took out the garbage etc, Kristi and I emptied the 2 fridges, as we don't know when they will be back home.

The dogs squished into our car with all our leftover food, luggage and presents. lol After 20 minutes or so the dogs figured it out and managed to be able to lay down.

Kristi and Jason were not far behind us as Kristi needed to go back to Nanaimo Hospital for another fetal check up before leaving for Victoria. She was given the go ahead to go to Victoria. Now we all wait for the "big event". Kristi is 33 weeks as of Christmas Day. Hoping for 35 weeks, but we shall see.

Once we got back to the lake and Ray walked the dogs they were pooped.

Here are some Christmas pictures of our granddaughter Stella that Kat sent us, and a video of Stella blowing raspberries. lol

Her present from us with clothes and the book Garrett is reading to her.

And that was our Covid Christmas. Hopefully never to be repeated again. We are very fortunate though, that we have a place to live, good food to eat and lots of family visits through technology. Next year we will have to double up on hugs to make up for this year. Looking forward to close the door on the year 2020 and feel the optimism for a new year 2021. Imagine for us,  having 2 granddaughters being born during this Pandemic ... definitely stressful not to mention for the stress on the parents.