I know you can not wait to hear about my week.

The ipad is still out of commission but Emilio says he has a spare cord that he will bring to the pizza shop tomorrow so I may not be out of commission as long as I thought. I have noticed that with my ipad turned off my iphone doesn't ring when I get a call on Messenger. Sorry if I have missed your calls. Before long it should be all back to normal. Let's see, I had a massage on Thursday morning and then when I was planning to bake cupcakes Gerardo came and invited me to go with them for coffee at the bed and breakfast. I had time to make one batch and change clothes and grab the container of cookies. It was a full car - and I think a new one. Gerardo, Tia, Ana, Flors, Me and in the far back sitting sideways was Dora and Martha and her son. We all had things to eat and Ana showed me Empanadas. Plans were to go out and pick oranges and lemons after coffee. Unfortunately it started raining hard and that part didnt happen. Some cousins, 7 people, from 3 generations met us there. I sat and crocheted most of the time. When the yarn gets here Ligia will come get some and make the scarf for Kathy and I will make the hat. I gave Ligia the pattern on Thursday so she could be familiar with it and I am practicing with the last of the yarn so I know what I am doing and can whip along once the yarn gets here. On the 21st the ladies are coming to get yarn and I am going to give them each some as their Christmas gift to use as they want. I got home and made more cupcakes before the crew got here to decorate for the senior's party on Friday. I had cut several kinds of greenery and brought the candles and pointsettias and Christmas balls to let them use as long as I got them back. Cupcakes are cooling to be frosted and they came to get me to do the centerpieces. I did one and picked a couple women to do the other tables. I told them it was OK if they were all different. I think they enjoyed being able to do it. I went out and picked sweet lemons, oranges, mandarinas, cas and guayaba to use on the tables. I also brought a jar of jelly for each table. I know it meant only one person got the jelly but I just didnt have 50 jars. Cupcakes are frosted and I am off to bed because they want me to open the doors at 8:00am. And it was an all day party! And they ate all day! And they danced all day! They started with exercise and prayed and spent the rest of the day having a good time. I spent part of the time there with them and part of it on the porch working on the throw. It was a big hit when I took it to the party with me and sat and worked on it. It is finished and was a good learing experience for the next one. Knowing my daughter, she will love the quirks. There will be more of them! There were a couple mishaps at the party. One lady fell while dancing and I was told later she fractured her shoulder. One of the men fell as he was leaving but I dont think he was hurt. They had lovely gifts for everyone. A basket of all kinds of snack goodies and another container with an apple, pear and grapes. I handed out all the fruit on the tables and the jelly. All the rest of the decorations came back to my house. As far as what they had to eat, I know there were crackers and dip and tamales and chicken and french fries and the cupcakes and I dont know what else but there was lots. Most of the reason I didn't stay there the entire time is I have problems with the loud music bothering my ears. Jose called to ask if I would participate again this year with Christmas gifts for his poor people. I told him I would be happy to do 30 goodie containers. I have also sent him a message asking if we can wait until the afternoon of the 21st so Adriana and Heather can come along. I havent heard back yet. Early next week I will go to Cartago to get the containers. I may have to take all the little things off my Judi tree to decorate the containers. I have been getting projects done. The throw is done, I have lots of Christmas gifts, the navy curtain for my storage area is made, the wall in the second bedroom is painted a lovely mint green. Then I discovered I needed to paint over the multi paned window frame as it is the same blue they used in the bathroom and all over the kitchen. I will finish that tomorrow. I am in the process of making a dresser scarf for my bedroom to match the new color's and to sew straps on one of Heather's great finds. It was too long so that gave me fabric for the straps. I think next week will be lots of baking. We are going to Ziomara's for Christmas Eve, which is the big Christmas celebration here. We will arrive about 9:00pm and have dinner about 10:00pm and prayers at midnight. Gifts for kids. I am bringing sweets and Tom and Jerrys. We will do taxi both ways. It will be so much fun, my first Christmas in Costa Rica. There will be about 23 of us. Douglas and Ziomara and their 4 kids, her parents, her sister and her brother and his wife and I think 3 sons. I am not sure who else. Maybe Douglas's family. There is probably a way to get at my pictures but I am on the laptop and don't know what it is so no pictures.