Christmas meme

Christmas Goodies

1. Post the rules on your blog.
2. Fill out the questions below
3. Tag 5-7 people at the end of your post.
4. Pass on the tag.Have FUN!!

1.Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Hot Chocolate with lots of mini marshmellows

2.Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
sit them out

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
white on the tree and house

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
If we have some.

5. When do you put your decorations up?
Thanksgiving weekend

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
I don't know, let me taste them again....

7. Favorite holiday memory as a child:
When I was small and we all gathered at Granny Todd's and Papaw's. There would be 30or 40 people there. Loud, loving and lots of love.

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
I woke up Christmas morning to find the toys out were the toys hidden in my mom's shower the day before.

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
no


10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? white lights, then little Santa Claus lights, tons of Hallmark ornaments mostly supplied by Granny Glenda (what will I do when I have to actually give them to the kids they belong to?), some pretty braided wood stars, special ornaments made by the kids and new this year, some red beads.

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
Snow in Texas? very rare

12. Can you ice skate?
Never tried.

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
I got a princess telephone with a note with my new very own number and the hookup date, December 26th when I was a teenager from my mom

14. What is the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
remembering Jesus' birth and spending time with my family

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
not much on desserts

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
We are having to make new traditions.

17. What tops your tree?
a star of braided wood

18. Which do you prefer giving or receiving?
both are funbut I love finding gifts that when they are opened that brings a sincere suprised smile and not the "oh you shouldn't have" smile.

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?"
it was a story called Small One on a Burl Ives Christmas album my mom had when I was a kid. I have searched for a copy and can't find it, I would LOVE to have a copy of that.

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
yucky

21. What do you want for Christmas?


22. Do you attend an annual Christmas Party?
no

23. Do you dress up on Christmas or wear PJs?
comfy clothes

24. Do you own a santa hat?
yes

25. Who do you normally spend Christmas with?
christmas day, my kids and kevin. my siblings & I started a new thing 2 years ago, the saturday before christmas eve we gather, eat and have chinese christmas. FUN!

I'm not good about tagging people, but if you want to play, join us and let me know so I can come and read your answers

My girl's birthday.

Today my oldest little girl turns 18. Where has the time gone? I can't even begin to tell you what a wonderful gift she has been to me. She is kind, loyal, honest, strong, determined, focused, and smart, incredibly smarter than I was at 18. I can count on one hand how many times I have had to really discipline her, she does that to herself. She loves cheerleading, shopping, sleeping late, goulash, peace signs, dancing, coaching at twisters, her birthday on Thanksgiving day, her family, friends, JJ and me. She hates racism, liars, the left side of her hair, math, and cheese. So Katelyn, on this milestone birthday I tell you HAPPY BIRTHDAY and I wish that all your wishes come true and I humbly thank GOD for eighteen years ago giving me the gift of being your mother.

One Word

I saw this over at mama's on a playdate and it looked fun, so I copied it.

One Word

I'm inviting you to join me in this one too. Put your answers in the comment section or copy to your blog and then leave a comment if you want to participate.

You can only type ONE Word! Not as easy as you might think.
Change the answers to suit you and pass it on.
It's really hard to only use one word answers.
You can only type one word, on each line.

Where is your cell phone? kitchen

Where is your significant other? asleep

Your hair? graying

Your mother? gone

Your father? troubled

Your favorite thing? hugs

Your dream last night? insane

Your dream/goal? peace

The room you're in? den

Your fear? death

Where do you want to be in 6 years? happy

Where were you last night? home

What you're not? skinny

Muffins? yummy

One of your wish list items? vacation

Where you grew up? Mansfield

The last thing you did? potty

What are you wearing? clothes

Your TV? ancient

Your pet? spastic

Your computer? distracting

Your life? stressful

Your mood? quiet

Missing someone? Mom

Your car? cluttered

Something you're not wearing? makeup

Your summer? good

Love someone? yes

Your favorite color? red

When is the last time you laughed? today

Last time you cried? today

Looking forward to your answers,
Tracy

44 things about me

1. Do you like blue cheese? nasty

2. Have you ever smoked? very nasty, no

3. Do you own a gun? no

4. What flavor of Kool-Aid was your favorite? Tropical Punch, no, grape

5. Do you get nervous before doctor appointments? no, I cancel them before I get the chance

6. What do you think of hot dogs? got any chili and cheese?

7. Favorite Holiday Movie? Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Santa and the sequel, Meet the Santas with Steve Guttenberg and Crystal Bernard, I will have to dig those up and watch them this weekend! So good.

8. Favorite thing to drink in the morning? really, really cold milk, pulpy orange juice or tea

9. Can you do push ups? hahahaha, someone come help me up off the floor

10. What's your favorite piece of jewelry? I have several. all gifts.

11. What's your favorite hobby? blogging or scrapping if I had time

12. Do you have A.D.D.? I must, I just retyped this questionnaire so it would look better

13. What trait do you hate about yourself? fat

14. Middle name? Lynne

15. Name 3 thoughts this exact moment; some issues between kevin & cody, I need to clean & purge around this house before decorations come out & I REALLY need to go to bed

16. What do you read in the bathroom? my Sunday school lesson, magazines, the novel I'm reading if I remember to take it in there

17. Current worry? Cody & Kevin

18. Current hate right now? Everyone thinking they would know what to do in my shoes and telling me what I ought to do instead of being supportive

19. Favorite place to be? almost anywhere with my family and friends, I'd love it to be the beach

20. How did you bring in the New year? sleeping

21. Where would you like to go? Mexican beach resort

22. Name three people who will complete this? not sure

23. Do you own slippers? somewhere

24. What shirt are you wearing? ugly white tshirt

25. Do you like sleeping on satin sheets? no

26. Can you whistle? barely

27. Favorite color? red

28. Would you be a pirate? no

29. What songs do you sing in the shower? none, I enjoy the quiet

30. Favorite girl's name? katelyn if she is listening and skylar if she is listening :)

31. Favorite boy's name? cody

32. What's in your pocket right now? eight dollars woo hoo

33. Last thing that made you laugh? Cody & Skylar playing basketball

34. What vehicle do you drive? VW Jetta

35. Worst injury you've ever had? broken heart

36. Do you love where you live? I do, would love it more if I had $$$ to finish the remodel

37. How many TVs do you have in your house? 4

38. I guess number 38 got lost :(

39. Do you have any pets? 3 dogs, an iguana, some fish, a turtle, a hamster, a bird and a husband

40. Does someone have a crush on you? my husband does, crazy man

41. Your favorite books? anything by Karen Kingsbury and Debbie Macomber

42. Do you collect anything? wrinkles

43. Favorite sports team? Canton Eagles of course

44. What song do you want played at your funeral? I Can Only Imagine by Mercy Me

Common girls, link this to your blogs and lets get to know each other better!

Miss Vivi Jo Lester

I have a Mt Vernon friend, Kim Lester, that I have reconnected with through blogging. She blogs over at Celebrating Everyday Life. She was raising her "first" batch of kids in Mt Vernon at the same time I was there raising my first "batch." She and her husband, Paul, adopted the most precious little boy from China last year. Max is adorable and will capture your heart if you read their blog. Recently, Paul and Kim have started another chapter in their family story to adopt a daughter, also from China.
Tuesday, November 11th, Vivian Josephine joined Britney, Mark, Hayden, and Max to make Paul and Kim parents of five! God had a wonderful plan for this precious child and she will be loved to pieces. My purpose in sharing their story is two-fold. One, that you will be blessed by their amazing family and two, that you will pray as they prepare to travel home with Vivi on Thursday. Miss Vivi has horrible motion sickness and China to Texas involves a small amount of travel. ;) Please read and enjoy their story and keep them in your prayers as they travel. I LOVE this sweet picture of Vivi, coloring intently. And check out the bow. Kim is the queen of BIG hairbows. I have several pictures of Britney in the day when the bow was bigger than the girl!

Skylar and Dr. Carter's office

We have had a couple of HORRIBLE dental experiences with Skylar. In light of this, her regular dental visits have suffered but with great thanks to our friends, Lorrane and Rebekah Epps, those days are behind us! We went several weeks ago and had an introduction visit with Dr. John Carter, a pediatric dentist in Tyler. She immediately, as did I, felt relaxed with him and his assistant Ms. Gail. Yesterday our girl had an appointment with them to fix a nasty cavity. As you can see, the girl loves the gas. She was giggling and wiggling like she wanted to bust a dance move to the music in her head and they were SUPERB with her. Other than the tingly, moderately painful feeling of the "pinches" wearing off last night our experience was wonderful. I can't thank Dr. Carter and his entire kind staff for changing how we feel about going to the dentist. Thank you Lorraine for sharing him with us! If only he would treat my dentist phobic large child, Kevin.

Cheer Season

This past Friday was Katelyn's last football pep rally and football game at
Canton. She has been cheering for Canton since the 7th grade. I hadn't really let myself dwell on that "last" thing so I was holding it all together rather well. But, obviously, Skylar had picked up on it being the "last" and had been stewing on it because when they went to sing the school song, I looked down and she was having herself a good cry. She said she doesn't want Katelyn to leave her. Well, that did it I was crying right there in the gym with her. So, if you saw me Friday at the pep rally, yes, I was crying as the seniors swayed in their circle singing Old Christmas Tree with the I love Canton High School words.

The sadness was short lived though because we are in the middle of competition cheer season baby and it was off to Denton for us on Sunday. The team is looking great and improving with every competiton. Sunday was a short day, we had to be there at 10 for Katelyn to coach the little girls, she competed early afternoon, we were out of there late afternoon and home at a decent hour. We have a couple weeks off and we are headed to Denton again on Skylar's birthday. Here's hoping for a win. Those kids deserve it, they work really hard!