New Years Resolutions... 2011

A few thoughts for the NEW YEAR!

1. Loose weight
2. Exercise
3. Pray more, worry less
4. Volunteer
5. If I have something to say, just say it!
6. Love with all my heart
7. Be thankful
8. Sadly, some things will never change, except it.
9. Cherish every day with your family.
10. Make every attempt to live a peaceful life.

What I loved about Christmas. what I didn't!

Christmas was different this year, some for the better, some for the worse! I loved the fact that I started shopping early but I didn't stop... I just kept going so did the early start help or didn't it? If I had started later the stopping point would have come sooner.
The colored lights on the tree grew on me and I actually think "given a choice" I would go that route NOW but I wasn't given a choice so is accepting the lights a good thing eventhough I accepted with a far from joyful heart?
I really gave alot of thought to the gifts I bought this year and wanted to be sure I bought the things that my family would love! I think I did good. I had a little Christmas note book and I used it religiously! It kept me on track! Also, I saved every receipt! In the past I haven't done so well with that one.. :/
Once again we did 3 Christmases LITERALLY in a row and I wish that was different.. I love doing our gifts on Christmas morning. I think its great doing Christmas Eve gift giving with our families but I will never stop pulling for Christmas morning at home.
I did however like the way we opened our gifts at home... taking turns, opening one gift at a time. It took about an hour and a half.... like I said I didn't know when to stop shopping!
I over baked and over ate! I baked alot of sweets and cooked alot of food and most of the time it was Jeff and I ....no Brooke, Justin or Matt! That was different but I knew that day was coming and it was an eye opener in many ways. About the over eating... got to get a grip! Top of my New Years resolution list... LOOSE WEIGHT! We'll have to see how that goes! ;)

The MOM MUG

THE MOM MUG
I have decided this mug will probably be the highlight of my day! Woke up to the jingle bells text alert on my phone saying church had been cancelled. I thought to myself this will be a long day. Although, I'm not sure why I looked at it like that because yesterday I had decided not to go. I got up, took a shower, took the dogs out, picked up AND this house is a Christmas diseaster STUFF everywhere! Next, I started a load of clothes, out of my p.j.'s into BLAH comfy clothes (which has become my daily attire!) I am almost certain if I didn't work I would never wear make-up and everything would have an elastic waist! ugh! :/ Anyways, grabbed my Christmas Nook (have to say NOT loving it) and decided to try for the hundreth time to actually download a book and once again that didn't happen! I am sure there are people that love the Nook, I'm just not one of them. After that I made coffee and poured it into the MOM MUG with egg nog latte creamer and decided then and there THAT would be as good as this snow day would get! Which leads me to this-the things I got for Christmas that I loved were...the MOM MUG, a pair of green dangly earrings ( I have started loving dangling earrings) the coolest reading glasses ever, fleece pajama pants and the cutest, hard to find, pick of the season UGG boots! I can say that because the men in the family don't blog!
I looked and felt like crap yesterday, like I had been hit by a truck but I had on my new green earrings and I can already tell the MOM MUG will be in the dishwasher everytime it runs! Have a nice Sunday and enjoy... I am going to TRY to do the same! :/

Sad but True

This is my "sad but true" list, here goes:

1. I said I would be a better blogger (end of November) and this is my ONLY December blog!

2. Life is full of surprises, not all of them are good ones!

3. I will never be thin!

4. 2/3's of my life is over.

5. If I could do it all over again... I WOULDN'T !

6. I'm tired on many different levels!

7. Sophie can take me or leave me... I think she would say leave me!

8. Today is Christmas and I'm sitting downstairs watching Christmas with the Kranks ALONE!

9. Things are very rarely how they appear.

10. Hot flashes are here to stay! :/

I hope all you bloggers had a Merry Christmas! I must say mine was a different one to say the least!

Let the baking begin!

I love to cook, especially love baking- must be my love for sweets! Tomorrow will be the beginning of days of THANKSGIVING cooking! My friend Susan and I are doing our pumpkin rolls- also will make my brother's favorite- pecan tarts. Tuesday I will bake the cornbread and chop celery/onions for the dressing. Wednesday make several more desserts and cranberry salad. Then Thursday put the dressing together, make sweet potatoe casserole and deviled eggs. I will lug all this to my Mothers and along with her turkey, ham, mashed potatoes/gravy, corn, green beans, peas and fruit salad WE will have a meal fit for a king!
This will be a busy week to say the least! Sort of like the Thanksgiving/ kick off to Christmas week! You start the week thinking turkey, dressing, pumpkin pie and end the week thinking Black Friday! I just told my daughter that I think Thanksgiving should be the 2nd Thursday in the month BECAUSE it seems like Christmas overshadows Thanksgiving. I am usually good about this BUT like I said I am thinking Christmas! Just take a look at this blog!
So, after days of cooking there will be days of decorating and shopping ahead... DAYS! Exciting, busy, exhausting but THANKFUL days. I have so much to be thankful for this year I've run out of fingers and toes to count my blessings on. God is good.

I have to keep telling myself....

It's Thanksgiving NOT Christmas! I don't know why but I have jumped ahead of things and landed in the midst of the Christmas spirit! Not really like me at all. I could lay the blame on Brooke since she officially did the first "deck the halls" of the season SHE PUT HER TREE UP!
That must have been all it took for me-ha! Seriously!But, for whatever reason I am ready! More than ready! I should be making a grocery list for Thanksgiving dinner, digging out my recipes, deciding what to take where. Instead I am getting Christmas lights, having Brooke pick up wrapping paper, making Christmas to do list AND memorizing the black Friday ads! SNAP OUT OF IT! Oh and as you can see I basically have a Christmas blog! ;)

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas

"Lord help the mister who comes between me and my sister and Lord help the sister, who comes between me and my man!"

I love White Christmas! One of my favorite movies of all time. I'm amazed at the people I've talked to that's never watched it- I can't imagine Christmas without watching this wonderful movie.. it's a classic.