New Year's Eve

The last week has been busy. I keep thinking every night that I will write something, but I have not got round to it.

We celebrated Christmas Eve our usual way. We went to church, then home for the meal, then presents, then dessert, then midnight mass followed by some more food and singing until 4.30 am. Loved the family time! Missed Paul!

The next few days are a blur. Probably just saw lots of people and ate way too much good food.

Yesterday our beloved dog Chaggy finally died. He had prostate cancer and was paralyzed and quite in pain in his last days. But since he was my mum's dog, she had to come to terms with his loss before she called the doctor for the injection. Me and my brother Joel dug the grave in Kernu and buried him. Since Joel has recently become a deacon in his church, he is actually authorized to do funerals now and Chaggy's funeral was the first one Joel had to officiate. It was beautiful.

Well. Now it is the New Year's Eve and I miss Paul more than ever. But time to go down to parents' for a good sendoff to the year. (That despite my Grandad's misgivings as to the way we intend to send off the old year.)

I will try to upload some photos later to see how this facility works, but maybe not until tomorrow.