picture tag

The object of the picture tag is to:
1) Choose the 4th folder where you store your pictures on your computer.
2) Select the 4th picture in the folder.
3) Explain the picture.
4) Tag 4 people to do the same and NO CHEATING! (cropping, editing, etc!).
So here is mine.


this is freddie's friend becca. they were goofing off after the prom last year.
on a sidenote this young lady has been coming to church on wednesdays with freddie and is a super sweety.

i tag just jinny and anyone else who wants to do it.

when i'm sad....

i listen to elvis or patsy cline. the past few days have been very much elvis days. i've pushed it down for months but now its time to grieve. i am thankful that my friend is not dead as someone so graciously pointed out to me. but when you've spent just about everyday for the past 13 years with someone its very hard to say goodbye. so right now i can't look on the bright side i can only be sad and listen to elvis.

moe in tights

tonight we got to watch moe at his schools madrical dinner. whats a madrical dinner, you ask? it is his choir's christmas performance where they dress up in renaissance costume and sing and dance. its pretty fun. especially the part where 2 young men carry in the boars head and they all sing the boars dead song. no lie they sing a song about a dead boar. i'm just thankful we don't have to eat boar. they serve us chicken and wassail.

lord moe at the banquet table with his chalice of wassail


moe in tights

the difference between girls and boys

we went out to eat the other night and this is what we brought home. colleen was upset because she wasn't quite done decorating her take-home box. cliff added the squiggle as an after thought.

christmastime is here

i love christmas and i especially love christmas music.

thanksgiving memories

my whole life i have watched and been a willing and sometimes unwilling participant in cooking the thanksgiving feast. my mom and grandmothers would start weeks in advance planning and preparing. the night before thanksgiving was always a flurry of cornbread stuffing and apple peelings. my mom dubbed me the official stuffing sniffer. it was my job to make sure she had just the right amount of sage in the stuffing. it was also my job to peel hundreds of apples. for the hundreds of apple pies and apple cakes she would bake. we would never eat them all because she gave most of them away. to teachers and coworkers and the mailman. thats what we did back in the day. why give your friends a store bought gift when you could give something homebaked. so between thanksgiving and christmas we made lots of baked goods. fudge and peanut brittle and cookies and cakes and pies. lots and lots of pies. we would always tease my oldest brother because his favorite pie was raisin. have you ever seen a raisin pie? its not a pretty sight.

my best thanksgiving memory was when i was about 8 and my mom was carving the turkey and the knife slipped and cut her hand. she started crying and before anyone could blink my grandfather gathered her up into his lap and rocked her and told her it would be ok. i will always hold that memory in my heart as extra-special. i realized then that my mom was my grandfathers little girl and even though she was a grown women she still needed her dad to make everything better. don't we all just want our dads to make things better. for some of us it will never be our earthly dads but we do have a Heavenly Father who is always faithful and always ready to rock us when we need it.

coins for groceries

about twice a year i haul my husbands change bucket (a 3 pound coffee can) to the grocery store. i throw the change into the coinstar machine and a little receipt pops out. i then buy groceries with my change. i really don't know why this little activity makes me so happy, but its like free money. yes i do know that it really isn't free money, but it feels that way. i don't even mind paying the fee to have the machine count it for me.

how much did my husband have in his can?

the grand total today was $120. wooo hooo!!!

kitten season

ok the neighbors cat had kittens so if there is anybody out there who wants a cute little kitten please let me know. or my husband is going to load them up and take them to the animal shelter. i hate the thought of doing that but we can't adopt 5 kittens and the neighbor will just let them run wild all over the neighborhood without shots or neutering. we are going to keep one which brings our cat count up to 3 and 3 is our limit. so there are 4 very cute lovable kittens needing good homes. so please please please someone adopt a kitten.