**Elaine**

On Thursday mornings i have started going over to Elaine's house and visiting with her. Last Thursday, Elaine and i made banana bread for Christmas...she and her husband are having a family Christmas at their house this year and she wanted to have her children's favourite bread ready for them! Today, i rolled her hair in curlers! That was the first time i have ever rolled hair in curlers! It was kind of fun actually. And then we addressed Christmas cards! i love to write so this was perfect for me! Elaine's handwriting is not as she once remembers it and her hand tires after awhile...so i helped her address her cards. i would write out an address and then she would sign her and her husband's name in the card and seal it closed. And of course all the while we are working we are chatting about everything! i love chatting with Elaine! She tells stories of when her children were growing up, traveling around the U.S. to different military bases with her former husband, different friends she has had throughout the years...i like to listen to her tell stories. And of course she is very nice and will ask questions about my family and how wedding plans are coming along and how my time was down at Brandon's and how cleaning his house went...she is a very nice lady. i am very glad that i have started going to her house once a week and visiting with her since she has unfortunately had severe back trouble within the past year and now must be in a wheel chair and pretty much stays at her house all of the time. i always enjoyed Elaine's company while i was working at the scrapbook store and she would come in to help her daughter's with a few things at the store (her two daughter's own the store)...and i have missed chatting with Elaine for the past year...so i am very happy to be joining her once a week and helping her with anything she might want to do that day!