Nana Christmas 2019

Mother Nature was kind to us this year and Jan and I were able to visit Pennsylvania and spend Christmas Day with Nana. Thanks  to Nancy, the receptionist, we made plans to have Christmas Day lunch with Nana privately at the Watsontown Nursing Home. 

We arrived Christmas Eve and gave Nana her gifts. She was most excited about her Texas Wildflowers Calendar. What fun we had going through each month, oohing and ahhing the beautiful, vibrant wildflower pictures! Then we talked about whose birthday was on each of those months.  

Nana with her Texas Wildflowers Calendar

The gift of new purple sweatsuits was not as exciting, but Nana looks beautiful in that color, as you can see by the pictures. With her perfectly coiffed white hair, she's a lovely lady at 96!

Nana with her Christmas gift of purple sweats

During our visit on Christmas Eve, Kristin from the Activities Department came bearing gifts for Nana and Ruth. Kristin was decked out in her Holiday attire - an opportune time for a photo.
We left Nana on Christmas Eve with our promise to be back the next day, Christmas. 

Kristin from Activities and Nana Christmas Eve

On our way to visit my son Tim and family, we stopped to see Uncle Ben. Uncle Ben is also in a nursing home, Arista Care at Loyalsock. Uncle Ben is the baby of the family at 89 and Nana's only living sibling. Uncle Ben appreciated our gift of chocolate candy and homemade cookies, but wanted to know how Nana is doing. I showed him our pictures so he could see that she's doing well. 

Uncle Ben Christmas Eve 2019

Christmas Day, Nana was in Christmas red as we arrived for our lunch together. We were in the Activities room with our delicious meal of potatoes - ours were scalloped, Nana's were mashed - baked ham and corn. We soon found out that Nana preferred my scalloped potatoes to her mashed ones so that's what she ate. But, for Nana, the hot food was just an preamble to the cherry pie. Although Nana has false teeth, I think she still has her 'sweet tooth' tucked away somewhere. We soon found out that the skins on the cherries didn't work for her, but the syrupy cherry gel and tender crust were a hit! Along with the fountain Sprite we brought her, I'd say the pie was the highlight of our meal. 

Nana and Diane Christmas lunch 2019

After lunch, we made sure Nana was comfortably resting with her newspaper. As we headed home for Indiana, we thanked Mother Nature that we were blessed  to share a delightful Christmas 2019 with Nana.