Countdown to Christmas

After Saturday's monster snowstorm, I drove down to Maryland to my mother's.  Aside from a ten-mile stretch of I-295 just above the Delaware Memorial Bridge that had an almost un-plowed look to it, the roads were excellent, and almost no one was out and about.

Executive Decision:  The holiday cards got sent today.  No letter enclosed.  It was just time for it to be over and done with.  If I feel like it, I might work on it and send it out in early 2010.  Or not.

Present's got hauled to Oma's on Sunday, and wrapped or bagged today.  (Oma had promised she had wrapping paper, but not in the quantity needed.  A trip to Bed, Bath & Beyond solved that.)

Purchased what I hope will be the last two gifts today, stuffed the children's stockings - also left at Oma's waiting for Christmas morning.

Meanwhile Mom had her second chemotherapy session and afterwards we went to Fran's Nu Image and bought accessories to make her feel and look life her old self.  (We've named the wig "Robespierre" after one of our guinea pigs who looked like a wig on paws.)

Today she had an appointment with the retina specialist who injects my mother's left eye to treat her macular degeneration. Though I love most procedures, I just hung out in the waiting room with my laptop.  Needles and eyeballs meeting just isn't something I want to witness.  I'm a wimp.

10:30 pm back in Princeton, roads clear, but HUGE back up on the Delaware Memorial Bridge so it was the Wilmington/Philadelphia option - and fortunately the gas tank held out until I was back to the Land of No-Self-Service Gas Stations.