It’s the pre-dawn of Christmas morning here in London, Ontario and the rest of the house is still slumbering away. Likely most of the city is slumbering except those homes with excited children who are itching to wake up parents and get on to the business of the day — opening presents. It’s all adults in this home. My adult niece and nephew will be arriving later today and my almost 2 year old grand-nephew will be visiting on Boxing Day.

Let me take this opportunity in the peaceful quiet at the beginning of a new day to wish you all a merry Christmas. Christmas Day is the one day of the year when most of us can set aside every day worries and stresses for other worries and stresses like will the present be right? or will the turkey be cooked on time? or … insert whatever. Those are stresses we can live with.

The weather has been sending us on a bit of a rollercoaster but it should be ok over this holiday time. Well, depending what you call ok. In the last week we’ve had four snow storms. I arrived in London on Tuesday just ahead of storm number four. By yesterday the snow had turned to rain and the snow had started to turn to a mix of snow and slush, the rain was washing some of the snow off them but at the same time creating great puddles of water due to storm drains either overwhelmed or blocked by snow that crews had not yet had opportunity to move.

This morning looks calm and quiet out there. It is definitely calm and quiet in here at the moment. So…. MERRY CHRISTMAS to all!