Happy New Year!

Hi All!

Our Van Driver is out getting the champagne for our combined Birthday/New Years Eve Party !  Hurray!

Later this week we have our Holiday party with hordevours, Surf and Turf <Ed comes in- helping us get our parking lot clean of snow> and the former lead singer of The Platters will entertain.

We are looking forward to A Happy and Healthy New Year!  We wish you the same!

Emily

shootings

After all is said and done and the conversations of helping our fellow humans and gun control begin, and 28, yes 28 candles are lit, this poem says it best for me:

Edna St. Vincent Millay

I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned
With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.
Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you.
Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust.
A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew,
A formula, a phrase remains, --- but the best is lost. The answers quick & keen, the honest look, the laughter, the love,
They are gone. They have gone to feed the roses. Elegant and curled
Is the blossom. Fragrant is the blossom. I know. But I do not approve.
More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the world. Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

Greetings!

happy Hanukkah to those who celebrate!  We are having a nightly service in the foyer and a Latke party Thursday.

Today's dilemma was red or off-white ribbon on the tree.
The residents left the Atheneum inspired.

Pictures to follow.
Good to be here,
Emily

New Activities Scheduled

Guess What! 

Our planners have been meeting and here is the new Activities schedule for our Wednesday trips:


11/21 O'Porto restaurant for lunch (I went with a group from church and it was fantastic.  The building has quite a bit of history too).  it is on Park Road

11/28 Basketball Hall of Fame!  Golden Corral for lunch (but they are still taking lunch suggestions also)

12/5 Wadsworth Atheneum Festival of Trees

12/12 Trip to a nursing home to visit (nice).

12/13 Traveler's Choral at the Bushnell (free with a donation of a non-perishable food item).  This is a Thursday night event.

12/19 Bristol Plaza and Century Buffet

12/26 Shady Glen Restaurant and Memory Lane Antiquing

Wouldn't it be FUN to live here!?

Take a virtual tour (and hear my voice) at
www.canterburyretirement.com

We're having a PROM!

Hi All!

I am sorry, I have been slow to blog...really since my dad passed away in February.  I am just getting back to my old self I guess.

  What a great thing we have to look forward to at The Canterbury...

It all started when Rachel from the University of Hartford called.
She asked if the new members of the sororities and fraternities could have a PROM here for us.

I said (a resounding) YES!!!!

She said, and reiterated this when we met today, she had called all over to nursing homes, assisted and independent Living facilities and everyone told her NO, that it was not what they were looking for.

She said "and you were so excited".

I remember being extremely excited when she called!  I remember her saying she had been calling around all day and did I really mean it.

Am I missing something?  They aren't bringing a keg or anything (I asked).
The theme will be a masquerade ball; they will provide the dj, horsdevours, masks, etc. (who knows what these young fertile minds will come up with)

I took some pictures of them organizing today...and meeting some of the (also enthused) residents.

Let me go get them.........

Okay- that's my dad visiting me in Connecticut from Buffalo (isn't he cute?). Sorry, got distracted.

I stayed up too late watching the election and the worry about our storm Sandy victims also has me a little , um, scattered.  Our Property manager may bring a truck full of gifts and supplies down to New Jersey himself.

 

Here they are, Rachel and Tiffany from the Uof H- Go Greek life!

 

When they left, our resident Nora said, "That is the best age in a human life".

xo everyone,
Emily

All is Well

Hi Friends-
I am really enjoying listening to the Bible Study being held next door to the office in the lounge.  A group from outside, friends of our residents, join in.
Our van driver has taken people to the grocery store...
the fax machine is ringing...
All is well.
Emily

We saved a life!

10.10.12

Hi All!

I have to share, because of our housekeeper checking on someone this morning the life of one of our residents was saved. No lie.

Of course I can not get onto the details.

I need the adrenalyn back I used this morning....fading fast!

Peace to all who read this :)
Emily