Happy New Year!

I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe new year! I, for one, am glad to be leaving the drama and chaos of 2008 behind! I am encouraged to think that 2009 is going to be better for our family and for our country. Don't pop my bubble of obliviousness and tell me differently! LOL

We don't have any exciting plans for the evening and will be staying in to watch the Ball drop. Hopefully I can stay awake that late. If not? Well... I'm sure 2009 will ring in just fine without me!

I do wish you all a very blessed New Year and I hope I can continue to entertain you with the antics and misadventures of my life, well... mostly of my kids!

I can hope that the drama in our house will end, but I have a sneaking suspicion it's only just begun!

Happy New Year!


**Update on the Pig** - She weighs a whopping 87 pounds and is very eager to have her belly rubbed and led around on the lead rope. I promise more pig stories and pictures are coming your way, go ahead - you can tell me - you're really not interested in seeing and hearing more about the pig. I know these things! LOL

Only My Daughter

Would want a PIG for Christmas! But yes, Bailey asked for a **pig**!!! Not as a pet, so to speak, but more as one to learn to show in the 4-H events in our area. She's never done this before, but we have very close friends that are pros at this and they are going to help her all along the way. This should be a learning experience for all of us! This is not just any ordinary pig, it's a blue butt pig? See those spots? That makes her special.... as special as any pig can be? I guess? After we had already bought and paid for the pig I asked just what was going to happen to this precious little animal, and my husband quickly informed me that she would be bacon by Spring! OY!

It's do or die time....

I must buy christmas gifts for my children!

From the looks of our tree, you might think the elves were on strike - NOT A PRESENT TO BE FOUND!

I attempted the mall on my lunch break today, but it was just horrid. No parking spaces, and absolutely no selections - so I suppose this means that I will have to drive about an hour out of my way to the 'rich folk mall' and shop on Saturday. I do have a general idea of what each girl wants, so maybe I can focus and just get through it? I do have a list for each girl and I keep looking at them hoping that it will just magically get done. No luck yet?

We only buy gifts for our three girls and my mother and grandmother, you would think that I could have this knocked out wouldn't you? NOPE... I am not a shopper and I am most definitely not a mall wanderer, so this really is a taxing and challenging time for me.

I wish you all the best of luck in finishing your shopping and for those of you that are finished and have been for several days or even weeks - well - I don't want to know! Good for you... you big NERD!! LOL

Christmas Music?

What's your favorite?

I've been listening to an online radio station that is playing Christmas Music and I'm slowly getting into the spirit of the season.

I also realized that I really only like the 'ole' guys Christmas music... such as Andy Williams, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Mathis, and Nat King Cole? I also like the traditional songs as sung by the popular artists of the 50's. I wonder why that is?

Maybe it's because that is the music I grew up listening to. My parents had RECORDS (remember those?) of the old time original favorites of the 50's and 60's and since we had music speakers all over our house (a hobby of my dad's) and we had a fancy schmancy stereo (another hobby of my dad's) we had wall-to-wall music going on in the house - most of the time. I never really realized how unique that was until I tell that to someone else and realize that it wasn't the 'norm' to have in most homes? Hmmmm???? We were surround sound and didn't even know it? LOL

What is your favorite Christmas music and/or artist?

Migraines....

Oh how I hate thee, let me count the ways.

I must apologize to my blogging buddies for my sudden disappearance - it was a Migraine!
Not just any migraine, but one of those that sends you to the ER in so much pain that death would be a welcome change!!! I ended up at the ER TWICE, once on Saturday in Houston while I was visiting my BFF and then again on Monday, after I attempted to go to work - like a big dumby!!! I finally got into see the Neurologist on Wednesday.

The most wonderful Neurologist that came to my rescue has discovered that I've been having anxiety attacks and thus I have developed severe muscle spasms in the back of my head and neck/shoulders. Thus the feeling that someone was stabbing my head with a hatchet -for 8 days STRAIGHT!! Did you know that not being able to stick your tongue out is a huge indicator of bad stuff? Let me tell ya' - it's not good if you voilenty throw up with a turn of a head or a sneeze! HUGE WARNING signs that something is wrong!!!

Oh well.... I'm on the road to recovery and really loving the pain pills and muscle relaxers that I've been prescribed! Who knew?

Maybe I can bring some fun back to blogging ? Right now I'm just trying to relearn to READ!! LOL

Plum Giddy

I'm just plum giddy... I am going to spend the weekend with my long-time childhood bestest friend in the whole wide world. I can't wait....a weekend with just the girls! Woo Hoo......
I'm leaving for Houston in the morning, just as soon as I drop my rugrats off at school in the morning, I'm hitting the highway!

This is going to be great! Hopefully I'll remember to take plenty of pictures and not incriminate myself! LOL

Stay tuned for the good stuff!

Have a wonderful weekend!

I'm back on Digital Scrapbooking

It's just scary how much fun I have doing my digital scrapbook pages and I've rediscovered the colors and fun of the Christmas season - so consider yourself warned! :)

AND.... I just found some really cool websites with Christmas digi-stuff..... Wooo Hoooo....
This is quite addicting!

Stale Blog

There's just nothing worse than a stale blog.... and I've got it!

However, I'm on a mission to find something new and cute to put on my blog - maybe I can do something for the holidays? Who knows? I'm inspired to sorta redo and shake things up a bit.

I have fallen behind in my picture taking and I desperately need to update pictures of the girls. Not to mention I just need to find some fresh graphics and do a little scrap booking along the way.

Stay tuned for changes to come - I need a new obsession....i.e...hobby... or just something new to play with for a while.


We all know, I'm easily distracted by shiny things.... so this should be interesting.