Jingle Bells

Christmas Gift

Recent conversation between Ian, Sean and I:

Sean: Mom at insights Mrs. Carl showed us a web sight for a man that makes catapults, can I buy one with my money?

Mom: You need to wait until after Christmas to buy anything for yourself, and besides you should be spending your money on a Christmas present for me. (Sometimes you have to give them a reminder.)

Ian: We already got you a present.

Mom: You already got me a present? Your dad took you to get me a present? Already? (I must have said this three or four times.)

Ian: Yep, we got you an exploding bra.

Sean: It was made in Pakistan.

Breath of Heaven

Thank God for kids

I can't say that Christmas is my favorite holiday, it's always so busy, and we seem to forget the real meaning of CHRISTmas... but I do like the music. Sometimes the words just touch my heart and for a moment I feel the peace and joy this season is meant to bring. This song is an oldie-but I love the message.



After listening to this song again this morning, I had to smile at the "Big Bird and Mickey Mouse" part. What would it be today? Bob the builder and Dora the explorer perhaps? Kool aid on the couch...that never changes!

Smart kid

The Lansing School district has something they call "ABBIT"-A's and B's because I try. They recognize 4th & 5th graders that got all A's and B's each marking period. This is Sean's third time. Way to go Sean! Mom's proud of you!

Family Turkey

Ian's English teacher gave him a project: decorate the pre-drawn turkey with your family. Use things you have around the house. This type of project is right up my alley, I love this stuff. The family project ended up being mostly me, with a little input from Ian. I don't know if you can see this part or not, but the feet just have some little colored spots-they were m&m's. It seems the kids at school picked them off and ate them. Notice the little silver puff ball eye? That's the third one, one of the cats (or maybe all three) found them fun and they kept disappearing. I ended up taking the completed project over to the school and asked the teacher what the purpose of the project was-I mean it was English, not art. (On a side note, I learned they don't even have art at Ian's middle school this year. Stupid budget cuts!) She said she tries to do something like this once a quarter, the goal is to have the family work together. Families are so busy these days they don't talk anymore. She hopes these types of projects will get them to spend some quality time together. What a wonderful teacher!

OK

I've been a little negligent in my blog posting lately, things kind of got away from me for awhile there. I had a minor emotional melt down turning 50, how does someone get this old anyway? I distinctly remember saying I would never be so old. So I went through a little "woe is me" stint. Then some wonderful people thought I was lying to them about it, "no it can't be! I thought you were 35 or 40", God love 'em! And then I stared to think about how blessed I was and God willing I'll have another 30-40 years to do the things I still want to do. Life is good.