It's In The Genes

Before I continue with my observation for the day, I just want you to know that I'm fully aware of the fact that I fell off of the blog wagon this past weekend. I had a sick kid, I didn't feel so hot myself, I was focusing on Christmas cards, etc. It just didn't get done. And you know what? The world will go on! (For those of you that know me well, you know how big of a deal it is for me to say that!)

And now, today's thought....

There are a great many things that I've passed on to my kids: my love for home-made mashed potatoes, my anal retentive need for everything to be tidy (well, only one kid got that), the general shape of my nose, my competitive nature, the list goes on and on. Tonight, I discovered one more thing that at least one of my kids picked up.

We stopped by the library after hours to return a book for Andy and I asked Matt to hop out and put it in the book drop. What he did next totally made me giggle. He ran over there, placed the book in, closed the door to activate the drop, then opened it again and peeked in just to make sure that it was empty.

That's not something I've ever told him to do. All I can think of is that he's seen me do that a million times with mail boxes so it must have made sense to him to do it at the library.

My kid makes me smile. :-)

One Step At A Time

Today I did something very cool.

I bought jeans that are a size smaller. :-)

I've been wearing my heavy jeans; I'm not yet able to fit into my skinny jeans. However, the heavy jeans started getting a little too baggy so I had to go by some one size smaller.

I was hoping to be back into the skinny jeans for my trip to Tennessee next week. It really doesn't look like I'm going to make it. Oh well, baby steps, right? I'm down one size.

Hooray!

"Always two there are, a Master and an Apprentice."

Sorry. I couldn't pass up the obvious Star Wars quote. Priorities, you know.

Anyhow, here's my thought for the day:

Who is having more fun these days? The teacher or the student?

The World We Live In

You know, sometimes I like to pretend that we're not in the 2000's...

Like maybe we're back in the 50's and I'm June Cleaver and my biggest problem is the Beaver giving away my new hat and gloves to the clothing drive at school.

Or maybe I'm Aunt Bea and I'm trying to help Opie nurse the sick birds back to health.

I could be Laura Petrie, were I'm busy rearranging the furniture for a dinner party that I'm throwing.

Heck, I could even be Lucy Ricardo and I would spend all day trying to figure out what to do with the two sides of beef that I ordered. (It was such a good price!)


Those happy thoughts never last long though. I'm always jolted back to the reality of our times. Take tonight, for example. This is question #10 on a consent form that John brought home from school today regarding the H1N1 vaccine:


10. Is your child pregnant or planning to become pregnant in the next month?

Yes - No - Don't Know

Sigh. I think I do miss the good ol' days.

Ten on Tuesday

For today's Ten on Tuesday list, I'm going to share with you my ten favorite Christmas cds. I'm a Christmas nut and I have a ton of Christmas music. It was really hard to narrow it down to ten; but Thirty on Tuesday seemed a bit excessive.

I decided to add in the links (where possible) so that you can listen to samples if you're so inclined.

In no particular order....

1. A Christmas To Remember, Amy Grant. While I love love love all of Amy's Christmas cds, this one has Highland Cathedral on it. If this would have come out prior to my wedding, it would have been my processional; it's simple and it's gorgeous.

2. The Living Room Sessions: Christmas, Chris Rice. It's beauty is it's simplicity. My boys are learning to play some of them on the piano; I love it!

3. A Christmas Together, John Denver and the Muppets. From the touching lyrics in A Baby Just Like You to the pure fun of The Twelve Days of Christmas, this cd has it all.

4. Christmas Card, The Statler Brothers. I've been listening to this one all my life; my parents had the record. This would always be on while we were decorating the tree. This one is easily one of my top three favorites.

5. Merry Axemas: A Guitar Christmas, Various Artists. What can I say? I grew up in the 80's.

6. The Christmas Sessions, MercyMe. Oh, I love this one! Their Little Drummer Boy is my 2nd favorite version of it ever (just behind White Heart). It IS the best version of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, they use part of Carol of the Bells in the background. Sounds weird, I know, but it really works. And as a parent, you can't avoid being moved by Joseph's Lullaby. It's amazing what Joseph and Mary were asked to do.

7. It's Christmas Time, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong. Classic.

8. Elf: Music from the Major Motion Picture (Soundtrack). I just bought this one about a week and a half ago but I love it already. It's so very happy.

9. One Christmas Eve, Wayne Watson. While this one loses a few points for including Sweet Little Jesus Boy (I hate that song), it wins a million points for Child of Bethlehem. I sang it in a musical once with my choir buddies; I think of them every time I hear it. Also, this one has my favorite version of I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.

10. Yust Go Nuts At Christmas, Stan and Doug. Because a Scandinavian comedian with a super strong accent messing up Christmas songs is just that funny.

Sorry....

...tonight I've got nothin'.

Gone all weekend with baseball activities.
Spent over 8 hours today processing Little League paperwork.
Just spent several hours at a board meeting.

Sorry, I'm done for the day. There are no creative brain cells left.

I guess I can be thankful that tomorrow is John's late day at school; I get to sleep in until 7:30. Woo hoo!

I'll try to offer up something better tomorrow. :-)

Seven on Sunday

I know, I know...it's supposed to be Ten on Tuesday. However, a bunch of little things made me happy today so I thought I'd take the opportunity to be thankful, even if it's the "wrong" day.

In no particular order, here are seven things that made me smile today.

1. My Farms. Yes, I'm a Facebook junkie and I have three farms. I love them. They're so orderly and tidy; they make me happy.

2. Andy. He offered to run an errand for me today when I was in a hurry and stressing out about how I was going to fit everything in. A little thing, but it meant a lot.

3. The Colts won. It wasn't looking so good there for a while, but my main-man Peyton pulled it off. It was fabulous!

4. Left Overs Being Consumed and Not Wasted. We'd piled up quite the stash of left overs in the fridge. Tonight everyone had some (all various things, mind you, not things you'd usually put together) and not a bit went to waste!

5. Cheesecake. There was a left over piece of cheesecake in there that was Andy's. He let me have two bites. I'm on Weight Watchers so I couldn't really eat more than that, but boy were those two bites heavenly! I love cheesecake.

6. My Boy Matt. He's such a good ball player. He went five for six with two walks in the tournament this weekend, pitched four shut-out innings and played some great defense at short. He's pretty awesome.

7. My argyle socks. Seriously, how can I have a bad day when I'm wearing such fun socks???