Mom's Pre-Xmas + House Warming Party

On the Sunday before Christmas, Mom invited a few good friends over to her new house for a pre-xmas plus house warming party. We took her for dim sum and grocery shopping on the day before. We went to quite a few places- Kerrisdale, Oakridge, Bean Around the World on Main, Houseware shop on Fraser, DongYang furniture, Superstore, T&T. She bought her last bedroom set for the spare bedroom and the stuff for her party. By the time we got home, Q and I were exhausted! We sat around and played wow while Mom was cooking up a storm in the kitchen. She is really a super Mom!



Oakridge has pretty Christmas decoration as always.


Everyone had a lot of fun at the party and some people stayed and played MJ until 10pm. It was snowing very hard throughout the whole day. Uncle 10%'s family had a difficult time getting out of the driveway. While trying to get out of the driveway, we saw a SUV driven by with someone tied at the back snowboarding! Some people really got good winter spirits. After we got the car out of the driveway, it got stuck again in the middle of the road. Between shoveling and pushing, Joanne's mom fell on her face in the snow! After a while, a van approached behind us and 2 kids jumped out all excited and tried to help us. They ran around shoveling here and there and asked for card boards to put under the tires. It was so nice of them to give us a hand. Finally, we all pushed and pushed the car out of the hole and onto the right track. The empathy from the strangers really warmed up our hearts in this freezing holiday season.