We received a wonderful email on Christmas Eve from three wonderful young ladies, Lacey, Eva and Sienna. We thought you'd enjoy their  email.

Hello and happy Christmas Eve to all at Rosedale

Lacey, Eva and Sienna brought the £200 they have raised to you on Christmas Eve for your staff and residents to spend as you wish.

We received some lovely cards for our residents from Sedgefield Primary School in December.  They had spent time drawing and colouring in pictures to send to our residents which they loved.  

Thank you so much we loved reading your cards.

 

 Sainsburys at Sedgefield Manager Nicola and her colleague Sophie called to Willowdene care home to donate a box of Christmas goodies for the staff and residents.  The residents at the home were over the moon.

We received some wonderful cards from St Joseph's Primary school. Each one had a lovely message in from the wonderful school children. There was a card for each resident.

Thank you so much for thinking of us all

Christmas at Yohden Care Complex is always a magical time.  We had two Christmas parties at the home.  One in the Lodge and one in the Court so that all residents had a party they enjoyed.  

Here is a picture of our buffet in the Court and the Lodge had a gorgeous Afternoon Tea from a local supplier which was delicious.  To see more of our Christmas antics visit us on Facebook to see when Santa (Jill in activities) visited and our Christmas nurf gun battle.

We had lots of fun for Elf Day here at Water Royd and had a lot of fun dressing up for the residents.  There was many activities we had on over the Christmas period at the home and have put up lots of pictures on our Facebook page.

We were delighted to launch our visitors booth in December.  It was wonderful to see the families starting to arrive and using the booth to visit loved ones in the warmth.  We hope you enjoyed your visits as much as we loved seeing you all.

Here at Heeley Bank we believe that if we can't take our residents to the Christmas pantomime, we will bring the pantomime to them. Performed and written by our wonderful staff. We brought to life the story of Cinderella. We would love to say a massive thank you to Woodseats Amdram for donating such wonderful costumes.

The residents had as much fun as the staff pretending to try on the slipper Cinders lost running away from the ball.

J and I had a pod visit yesterday to see B on her birthday. We can't express enough our thanks and gratitude that all the staff put in to celebrate B's birthday. With everyone singing happy birthday and the candle on the cake, B's face lit up and we saw the biggest smile ever. I haven't seen her that happy in a long time. It was a very special moment, not only for me B, but for J and myself. This was J's first visit to see B since March. She posted a tweet this morning to say that she still has a smile on her face.

We weren't about to let the snow go to waste so we wrapped up warm and headed outside. A snowball fight ensued with plenty of laughter and shots on target! We were especially proud of our snowman, using the hand painted pebbles from our snake pebble for his eyes and buttons.