Thanksgivign is over...tiem to move on to Christmas people....

Thanks Shirley - I will try my best! Really enjoyed reading about your miracles. It is amazing how different all our lives are and great to share our trials and tribulations here on POE!

Diana, I thought about sending you the email on this animla as an forword but I think you said your addy is different now, or can I use it yet?  Hello Rhett..good to see you here also...come in more often will ya...and bring those guys back also! ....We like the conversations.

Ok....here is how it is this morning....

pies..gone...both salads..gone...Lewis and Clark Sausage and Lentil stew..half gone..cornbread..gone, cranberry sauce..gone  dressing gone,,,rolls,,,gone..baked beans..half left, mashed protatoes, gone..turkey 3/4 gone..gravy 1/4 left. Plus the spagehtti we started with as an left-over is gone and they made since all this macaroni and cheese with fish fillets for the kids and ate all of it also...by now I have some of the Christmas decorations up, and made my tables back into an L-shaped lounge look and I took green lighted garland and wrapped it around the Christmas table decorations, and those six little kids eating thier macaroni and cheese were acting like they were in an "fancy" place having dinner (kid style)and I had to chuckle a bit. Our littiest one came up an whispered in my ear, Gandma..do we do an "countdown" to the lights...like they do on the trees? I said..I don't think it's necessary this time around, enjoy your dinner. I hope he did, as my next visit with him was in emergency...at the hospital. Ever since he was "wee" his mother would occasionally buy sticks of gum and she'd let him go looking for it in her purse...as an "treat"...well, he saw her pruse, and went into it un-announced and got stabbed with an epi-pen...which looks something like an hypodermic needle for an elepahant. It's used for allergies, and I guess for bee stings particualry and they thrust this thing into the thigh to give the doseage of medicine. Well, he's five, and it went through his finger. I wasn't here at the time, and I said, where's the gals at guys..shopping?, and they tell me they are at the hospital and what happened... so I went up to emergency. I looked at him with his hand in this plastic bag thing, hooked to monitors to see his vitals and if the medication was going to affect him. I sat beside him and I said, What happened Logan...he says I got in mom's purse..and he looks down..little kids what can I say....I said...to get yourself some "gum"maybe.. and He said "yes"...I said.."ouchy"..did ya cry?..he said I sure did Grandma...and I said, Bleed a lot to didn't ya..he said, yes, but they washed me all over. So I kissed him on his head, and said..get "better" my grandson...next time "ask". He knew it was "important" because grandma don't go with him usually to see the doctor. All's well now, he goes back for an follow up I think, but it looks to be "OK"...I think the needle went through enough, he never got any of the medications in it. I was told that they didn't know if his finger would be coming off when I took off to the hospital, which bothered me also...he is so little yet,  Yes, it's an trial growing up...I had to tell him the time I went to camp with the guys, went to go to bed for the night and sat on an bee, yep, it stung me in the rear-end..and thank goodness I was carrying my "baking soda" with me. Of course you can't swear around the little kids, all you can do is kind  of whispter to yourself..."Sweet mother..Jesus!'..through your teeth out of helplessness. Do first aide on yourself quietly. What you'd REALLY like to do though is "scream" and "wet" your pants though...but you don't...even if it does run through your mind.  When hubby comes and says, concerned looking..Is everything "OK"...you got the strangest look on your face? You want to say...Hell NO!..take me to an SPA,,an messagger...apply the HEAVY pain- killer buddy! ..... I'm just kddin you all now...but its no fun getting "stung" like this any time.  So now its back to Holiday decorations for today, I've  got one whole room of them to find an place for aroudn here...it will most likey take me more then just one day.  

Lol. I like those sappy movies too, Barbara! :-)

Two of my favorites are "A Season for Miracles" with a hunky David Conrad, and "Borrowed Hearts" with Roma Downey (I just love her in Touched by and Angel). They usually show both of those movies during the month of December. If you haven't seen them before I think you would enjoy them.

Well. I picked up an goodie yesterday. I said whose he?..to my hubby and he said he was an production supervisor for where hubby worked, but the message comes out of Oregon state.edu...it says...for Patrons of the Pacific Northwest, get ready, as the next few weeks maybe be setting up for an snowstorm of likewise simliar "surprise" to everyone last year, which resulted in 48 million dollars worth of green-house nursery damage, that never, for many small operators has  been replaced as of yet. He then goes on to tell of three possibilities, but the projected models right now are saying heavy snow here by Dec. 9-10, unless things change between now and then. So I'm scurrying around to stock up extra food and perpare the animals and everything else...so if it snows, I can sit it out comfortably. Rather we actually get this or not, it's going to be "cold" here. I hope I'm ready for it  all.

As to the Christmas cards, I wish "our" Diana would send me an card, as I keep stashing her address to later on lose it. and I'm really bad about that one...this is hubby's neice Diana. I try to keep them in an box every year to not be able to find them the next time around...hubby go tteh postage stamps yesterday.  And somewhere around here, I thought I had some metal deers, (black wrought iron) I would like to use them, as this is my theme this year...it just kind evolved I guess...for the upstairs. But I'm facing boxes galore needing to be placed about in decorating as of yet...maybe I'll find them as yet...let's hope!  No tto mention my Bing Crosby, Andy Williams and other oldies in Christmas music. My doctor was unhappy today with me, I'm slowly gaining weight and blood pressure, though again... the hospital had it down 20 points lower...I wonder what they do all these other people can't seem to do. This IS the story of my dieting, I lose weight to gain it back..never keep it off so far...it started the day I had my son. I should of lost the weight then,  like most ladies do and never did..it "creeps" up...but it also adds up over time. So he says, why?...I said you know "why"...I went into emergency two weeks ago in near complete "exhaustion" from work I'm doing around the house...I'm not taking care of "me" first. Then I told him I was slipping money to the neighbor kid to help me with many of the things my hubby can't seem to do. He doesn't offically get "released" until two days from now. I have 15 steps to walk to get into my house, the groceries and the 27 pound turkey...now all but gone, and finishing off the outside lights, and today an 20 pound sack of dog food, 3 sacks of  10 pounds of cat food..and about 5 bags of small artifical Christmas trees, lawn ornamanets... I  decided to not put up this year, and boxes of wrapping and things we use through the season he hauled down into the garage for me. I think he knows that if its heavy for him, how "tough" it really is for me sometimes. While my son helps me, he's seldom here during the day because he works, and he NEEDS to work, he's got an family to support. This kid needs the money..so why not. We both get somethig out of it..being neighborly..

If it snows here you can catch me, making fabric ornaments for my own tree and watching some of those Christmas Shows... after I bake some cookies for the neighbors perhaps.  The tool shed out back is now "Santa's Choclate Shoppe". Today I prepared it for Christmas music and put an fruit cake, brownies, molasses cookies, vanilla creme filled cookies, and decorated chocolate gingerbread men, 2 matching cottage type houses, and five activity/coloring books, and some board games. there's heat out there, if crude, and lighting, if crude, and comforters, and stuffed animals...and an big BBQ for hot hot chocolate, cider or coffee.  Outside the shed it the tampoline and an large swing set also...if they get to feeling active... an coil type rope colored Christmas tree and an sitting area I can make an large fire pit  also to sit by... if it's not raining...I even got an case of "thick" chili....besides the hot chocolate.  I'm ready, this is part of their Christmas Present from us this year...they will enjoy it about Christmas break from school most likely. If it does snow, they will most likely enjoy it....when they can' t go to school also.