Welcome to the New Year

Happy New Year everyone!

We welcomed in the New Year with a great dinner from the kitchen staff and a fun program on New Year's Day at snack time. We sang Auld Lang Syne and toasted with a glass of wine.

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Christmas at Hampshire House

I hope everyone had a great Christmas. We sure had a lot of fun here at Hampshire House. We attended many programs centered around a Christmas theme. We played Christmas song bingo and Christmas bingo, sang "Must Be Santa", learned about raindeer and more. One of the most popular things to do was to ride around town and see the Christmas lights. We had many groups in to sing Christmas carols and we watched a video of the Radio City Rocketts performing the Christmas show.
Our Christmas party was great! Santa came and gave everyone a present. Then we had drawings for special gifts and everyone got one of those too. The party ended with two young boys who read "The Night Before Christmas" to us. What a fun day.

Christmas fun.

Christmas is just around the corner and we have many special programs we are looking forward to. Several groups are scheduled to come in and sing to us. We always enjoy them so much, especially the school groups. Oh, we won third prized with our gingerbread house of Lincoln Logs. We were so proud! There were many very nice entries.

We visited the Festival of Trees. It was such a fun evening. We took our supper with us and sat and ate it down there. We not only got to see all the beautiful trees and vote on the one we liked the best but we also decorated cookies (we ate them for dessert) and made center pieces that we got to bring home. We had our pictures taken with Santa Clause and Mrs Clause read us a story.

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Getting ready for Christmas

Hi everyone!

Here at Hampshire House we are getting ready for Christmas as I imagine you are all doing the same. Last Monday evening we made gingerbread houses. What fun we had doing that. We made several little ones out of graham crackers.

Some folks worked on a big one that we entered into the contest down town. The theme this year was classic toys. We chose to Lincoln Logs as our project. Many folks remembered playing with them as children. We used tootsie rolls as the lincoln logs. The rest of the gingerbread was made from gingerbread and decorated with lots and lots of candy.

Saturday we decorated the facility. Many of our friends and family came in to help us. We decorated four trees, one for each living room. After the decorating was complete we had a snack and then sang Christmas carols. It was such a fun day!

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Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Here at Hampshire House we have much to be thankful for. We hope your day will be a good one.

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Thanksgiving Craft

We are getting in the spirit of Thanksgiving. We decorated the bulletin board with all things to do with Thanksgiving and wrote what we are thankful for.

The residents wrote the following:

"We are most thankful for our families and friends and all they do for us. We have great children-great! They are thoughtful and caring. They phone, come by and take us on outings. We are thankful to be living here at Hampshire House where we have no worries. We are thankful for the staff, who are caring and helpful. We are grateful for each new day and all that it brings."

I have included some pictures of some of the residents working on a craft. Please visit us at www.hampsirehouseacf.com.

Veteran's Day

We had a great time celebrating Veteran's Day. We have 6 residents who are veterans. We honored the veterans by name and mentioned the branch of service that they were in and then we talked a little about what they did during the war. Next we all shared the cupcakes that were decorated by the residents in red, white and blue sprinkles. We then had special music that featured, what else, patriotic songs.

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