Category: Holidays

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Let me tell you about Mothers Day

All of us girls met over at Moms for Mothers Day and cooked her a nice lunch.  Then it was time to pull out the Mothers Day presents.  I made sure mine was the last one that Mom would open too.  One of my sisters got Mom a beautiful summer outfit and Mom loved it.  It had Capri’s and the cutest top with it.  Then my other sister got Mom a beautiful card with a gift card in it to a nail salon to have a manicure and a pedicure too.  Mom thought that was wonderful.  Now she would look great in her new outfit with her nails and toes painted up all pretty.

Then came time for my gift.  I had it in a nice box wrapped up really pretty with a beautiful bow on it.  She gently pulled the bow off and carefully took the wrapping paper off just like she had done with the other presents.  She likes to save the wrapping paper and bows if she can.  When she opened the box, inside of it was a DVD of Casablanca, she was thrilled since that’s her favorite all time movie.  I told her to look under the DVD.  That’s when she found the bag of microwave popcorn.

As she picked it up with a smile, she saw the ‘grow a boyfriend’ figure under the popcorn.  “What in the world is this?” she asked.  I then told her that after she got all gussied up with my sisters gifts, she could put her new boyfriend in water and let him grow and then she would have a date for a movie and popcorn.  Then I handed her a 2 liter of Coke and told her that date would be complete.  Mom started laughing and everyone else was falling out of their chairs.  It was great!!  Mom loved all of her gifts.

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I just realized that Mothers Day is Sunday!

I swear I thought it was next Sunday and I just realized that Mothers Day is THIS Sunday.  What in the world do you get for a woman that has everything, wants for nothing, and sending flowers just doesn’t seem to be nearly enough?  Well luckily my mother has a good sense of humor because I think I came up with the perfect gift.

See when I was on my way home from work, I had to stop and get gas.  In the little convenience store that I always get my gas, was a little “Grow a boyfriend” figure.  I sort of chuckled when I saw it and then came up with the idea that I would buy this for my mother, find a DVD of one of her favorite movies, a 2 liter of Coke and also give her a bag of microwave popcorn.  That way, she gets a date, a movie, a drink and popcorn for Mothers Day.  How’s that for a last minute gift?  I just hope she gets a good laugh out of it which I think she will.

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What beautiful flowers

I have a cousin that lives in New York City and for Easter, her mother had some of the most beautiful flowers delivered to her since she couldn’t come home for Easter.  She ordered them online from New York Flower Delivery and had them delivered to her at her work on Friday.  Of course, everyone wanted to know who was sending her flowers.  They thought she had a boyfriend hidden somewhere or something.

I checked online to see just how much my aunt paid for the flowers since they were absolutely beautiful.  I was surprised at the price too.  It was very reasonable and cheaper than anything even slightly similar around here.  They do custom arrangements and are really great at it too.  The flowers were very fresh and my cousin said they are still beautiful today.

One of the best things about this florist is there’s no service fee and 100% satisfaction guarantee.  Plus they deliver on the same day if you want and delivery is free.  It’s a shame they don’t deliver here because I sure would love to have an arrangement like hers.

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Crazy Weather!!

I don’t know about where you live but we have had some really strange weather around here. One week, it’s in the lower 70’s, the next week, we’re lucky to be in the mid 50’s. It’s no wonder there are so many kids sick. This strange weather is enough to give everyone pneumonia.

Oh listen to this. I think the low this week was supposed to be about 30 degrees. THAT’S COLD!!! It needs to either stay warm or stay cool. Not COLD!!! I’m just not much into cold weather. Besides, it’s Easter weekend so it’s time for old man winter to get the heck our of town!

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Glad the holidays are totally over

Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years all run into one long holiday around out house.  That makes for over a month worth of a holiday.  I’m always so happy to see New Years Day so I can get my house back to being just my house instead of a holiday house.  I finally got everything put away for next year yesterday.  it took about 3 days of walking around finding all of the stuff that comes out for the holidays so I could pack them away for next year.

I have got to come up with a better form of decorating for the holidays.  Don’t get me wrong, I love the Christmas Tree with all of the lights and memorable ornaments but I hate putting it up and taking it down.  I don’t do live or real trees anymore.  It just didn’t seem right to me one year to kill a tree to celebrate the birth of Jesus.  Oh well, that’s just me.  Maybe next year I’ll scale back just a bit.

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We’re having a New Years party tomorrow night

Well my sisters and I have all decided to get together with a few friends and have a New Years party tomorrow night.  We’re having it at my sisters house since she has a kid and she won’t have to take him to a sitters that way.  He’s a great kid so I’m sure he’ll be out by 9 pm, which is his regular bedtime.  Even if he stays up a little late, that’s okay with us too.

There’s not going to be a bunch of drinking and stuff like that.  We are all not much on drinking.  I think it’s because each of us are control freaks and drinking makes us give up control.  Can’t have that.  Plus there’s nothing worse than someone telling you what a good time YOU had at a party and you were too drunk to remember.  It’s more fun to stand back and watch everyone else make a complete and total idiot out of themselves.  Not that’s fun!!!

Anyway, we’re all splitting the cost for soft drinks, a bottle of champagne (which none of us like the taste of but we have to toast the new year), and all of the snack food so it won’t cost anyone very much.  There should be about 12 people there not including my nephew.

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Whew am I glad Christmas is over

I do love Christmas but I’m so glad when it’s all over and I can just sit back and relax for a day or two.  It’s rush here and go there and wrap this and ‘Oh no, I forgot that!’

I don’t care what I forgot to buy for who, I will not go out shopping the last week before Christmas.  I hate the way they commercialize Christmas.  That’s not what it should be.  It should be a time to celebrate with family and loved ones.  It’s supposed to be a celebration of the birth of Jesus.  Not a celebration to the gift god.

It’s amazing how many people don’t realize that Santa Clause represents the Three Wise Men bringing their gifts to the Baby Jesus at night so as not to bring trouble to him.  That’s how Santa Clause came about and what he stands for.  Christmas is a celebration of children but we need to all make sure that even the youngest child knows what we are celebrating and why.

Sure they are the center of Christmas but the true center of Christmas is Jesus Christ.  No I’m not a religious fanatic but I do know that there is something or someone greater than I am.

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Wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas

Well tomorrow is Christmas Day and I’m sure the last thing on my mind will be my computer.  I wanted to make sure to wish everyone a Very Merry Christmas to anyone and everyone that reads my blog.  I do appreciate it very much that you stop by.  I hope I have brought a little pleasure into your life or helped in some small way.  That’s what life is all about, helping one another.

My father always volunteered at the local Disabled American Veterans Association and that’s a legacy we carry on in his honor.  They’re feeding the local veterans or the families of deployed service men this evening and my family will be there to gladly serve them.

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What a treat

My nephew was in his first Christmas play at his preschool.  It was the cutest thing I have ever seen.  The little ones were all dressed like tiny angels and barn yard animals.  Of course my nephew was the jack………donkey.  OOPS!!!!!!  Anyway, the play used each age group of kids for different levels within the play.  It was done like a cowboy type play.

It was a musical and had a lot of really neat songs in it too.  The kids did great on the singing.  Of course the little ones stood there and shoot tambourines or what ever musical instrument they had.  They did so good for their age.  The theme of the play was like a cowboy play but it was the ‘Bethlehem Ranch’.  The bigger kids were dressed with cowboy hats and cowboy boots but then sort of traditional garments for the time of when Jesus was born.  They did all of their lines with deep country accents too.

I would give anything if I could tell you about it but it’s hard to explain.  The one thing I can tell you is it was about the best Christmas play I have ever seen.  My nephew was so cute in his donkey suit.  I was so proud of all of the kids because they all did a wonderful job.

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Things I ordered just arrived

Boy was I glad to see the UPS truck pull in.  I had ordered a bunch of stuff from abcdistributing.com and it was getting a bit too close to Christmas for my comfort.  I was scared to death that something had happened to my package because it was supposed to be here three days ago.  They had never let me down at ABC Distributing before so I kept my fingers crossed and hoped for the best.  I almost gave the UPS guy a big hug when he knocked on my door.

I kept remembering one Christmas when Mom ordered just about everything we girls were getting from JC Penney’s and they promised her that she would have the items by the beginning of December.  Well it didn’t come and it didn’t come and Mom called and called and all they could tell her is it was shipped and should be there and IF it isn’t, then give it a day or two and it will be there.

Just four days before Christmas, Mom had to go out and try to find presents for us for Christmas.  It was crazy and we didn’t get hardly anything we had asked for but it was still a good Christmas.  Then in February, the UPS guy knocked on the door with a package……………you guessed it, our Christmas presents.  Mom told him to take it back and make sure they took as long to get it back to JC Penney’s as it took for them to get it to her.