2023 Davis Family Calendar

The links to the left will take you to the family trees.  The link above will take you to calendar blog where you can download the entire calendar in a PDF file.

Christmas 2022

Merry Christmas!  I hope your New Year is more awesome than you expect.

My year has been amazing! There are far too many things to list and too many people to thank individually in this short letter.  I have been enjoying myself and my travels with aging relatives.  While taking care of business we always found time to enjoy being together.  I am filled with gratitude that at my age, I have so many elderly relatives still living.

I’ve also enjoyed a special relationship with my sister-in-law, Soni.  We have had a great deal of fun over the past year.  Covid slowed us down for a couple of years but in 2022 we managed at least 10 outings.

My foot surgery in December of 2021 was a success and I am half way through the expected 2-year recovery period.  The bunion was modified and two bone spurs were removed from my left foot and I now have a rod and two plates reinforcing my foot.  I might even be able tromp the woods next fall to hunt chanterelles.  I was able to find morels with my mother in May of 2022 because they were all over the place in her neck of the woods.  I could barely walk without stepping on them in some places.  Lucky for me Mom is 82 and not too much faster than me.   Next year, I should be able to out-pick her.

Next year I go on Medicare!  I am excited about that because it should make the surgery that needs to be done on my right foot a lot cheaper!

My grandson Matt still lives with me and his health seems to have improved yet again with a new job.  He still commutes at least 45 minutes to work on the other side of the Narrows Bridge, but he loves his job at Master Millwork in Puyallup.

For every drawback, we both have had better things come our way.  Those lost are not replaced but they definitely generate more gratitude for the new things in our lives and what we have had.

The internet has not been stable for me this December but I still managed to find pictures for the calendar from Facebook.  If you wonder why you’ve never been pictured in the calendar, it could be because you are not on Facebook.  If you have great photos that could be used in the calendar, you may email them to me at carmendavis6@gmail.com.  Both old and new pictures are welcome!  Due to the family growth, I haven’t been able to put the large family photos at the top of the page in a few years, but it is fun to find the faces that I can manage to scrunch down small enough to fit in a tiny space.  

My printer had a glitch that spread yellow ink all over many pages of the calendar.  I figured out that I needed to let it cool down.  I’ve replaced the yellow pages but there will still be extra black ink where it doesn’t need to be. 

 

Happy Holidays with love from Carmen Davis and Matt Carson!