The Cordwainer

12/29/2025

🎉🎂 Very Happy Birthday to Chris! 🎂🎉

Wishing you a day filled with smiles, laughter, and lots of celebration. Hope your year ahead is full of great moments. Enjoy your special day—you deserve it! 🎈🎁🥳

12/29/2025

We had a very special visitor last week — the big man himself stopped by to spread some holiday magic! Santa brought smiles, laughter, and plenty of cheer, and everyone was thrilled to hear the best news of all… they’re officially on the nice list! The excitement and joy throughout the community truly captured the spirit of the season, making it a visit we won’t soon forget. Moments like these remind us how special the holidays are and how much happiness a little Christmas magic can bring to everyone.🎅🏼🎄

12/28/2025

"Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most"--Ruther Carter Stapleton. Truly the highlight of our holiday season was our two visits to the Royal nursing homes, where we put on a Christmas show with narration and song. It warmed our hearts so much to see the happiness we brought to the lovely residents there.

12/27/2025

Residents took every opportunity to celebrate the holiday season. 🎁Pictured here are folks selecting gifts for family members made by our own crafters. 🖼️ Additional fun: nursing home concerts, holiday baking, music, outings to shop and see the lights,🕯️making Christmas crafts, visit with the Girl Scouts, Enchanted Village, A Child's Christmas in Wales, Messiah, Tabernacle concert, potato latkes, making snow globes,❄️ Christmas in New York and London, nature wall hangings, Christmas stories and poems, and finally, a visit from Santa! 🎅🎅

12/26/2025

The three December celebrations were the topic of one of our Learned Environment experiences this week--🎄Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa. The common denominators of these holidays are family, food, and bringing light into this dark time of year via Christmas lights, 🕎 the menorah, and the 🕯️lighting of the kinara.

12/25/2025

🎄At Christmas, we hold close the ones we love. Your visits, calls, cards, and prayers throughout the year mean more than words can say.🎁 To our residents and to the families and friends who love them so deeply: may this season bring comfort, peace, and moments of warmth that remind us we are never alone. Merry Christmas! 💝💝

12/24/2025

12/23/2025

🎻We enjoyed learning about G.F. Handel's iconic masterpiece, "The Messiah," with a lesson on the recitative by none other than Leonard Berstein! 🎻 It is such a privilege to listen to this oratorio at Christmas time.🎻

12/22/2025

WHO created adorable owl artwork this weekend? Residents !

12/21/2025

🔔Jingle all the way! 🔔 Residents were consumed with holiday fun this week: pointsettia artwork, 🎵Holiday Pops, 🐶Brody the Dog, South Shore Dance Academy, Hanukkah, Tabernacle Choir concert, potato latkes, Girl Scout visit, Harry Connick,🚐 Royal Nursing Home visits, 🧈baking, gift wrapping, 🕎menorah, holiday markets, 📕book club, "Gift of the Magi," Andre Rieu,🗽Christmas in New York, and chestnuts, (hot) chocolate, and Rockerfeller Center! 🎄🎄

12/20/2025

🎹"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy"--L. Van Beethoven. 🎹 Happy Birthday Ludwig! 🎂 From all of your classical music fans 🎻 ! 🎻