New Years What?

I hate when people ask what your resolutions are going to be. Nobody ever keeps them. So with the new year coming soon I was thinking about what I would like to accomplish with the new year. So instad of making any resolutions I would like to make some GOALS for the year of 2008. I'm not sure exactly what they are going to be or even if I will share them but one that I know for sure is to be a better wife.
It is my husbands birthday today and he didn't ask for a thing. We had my brother over and a close dear friend. Nothing major, just spending time together. I am so blessed that we found each other and we became husband and wife almost 7 years ago(that will be in May of 2008). This is a man that married a woman that had MS and has a child from another marriage. My girlfriends would tease that I would never find anyone who would marry me. I would just laugh and say there is someone out there and he will be a very special man. We have our differences and I still drive him crazy with my stubborness but we are there for each other when it means the most. I'm going to sit down with Polo over the weekend and share with him my goals for 08. I might even get my son involved with this one. Think about what goals you will have for 08. Share them if you like or keep them to yourself. Either way do it for yourself.

Merry Christmas to All

I want to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas. Blessing to all my old and new friends. Enjoy this time with your family and take the time to just take a breathe and see the joy around you and appreciate what you have.

Merry Christmas

Fun in the Snow

My hubby and son decided to have some fun tonight in the backyard by making a new friend. This guy was created with items they found in the garage. Love their creativity. The things boys do when it is a dark foggy night.

Have a great weekend everyone.

Christmas Cookies

So I found a way to download from my camera since the usual way isn't working. Here are some pictures from our two nights of making Grandma's cookies. To our fellow Grinchologist, if you notice in the one picture there was a Grinch cookie made in your honor. We had a blast making them but Mitchell is having more fun eating them.

Merry Christmas

Christmas Past

I love nothing more than looking back at old pictures. I found this in my closet after posting about my Grandma and her cookie tradition. So in memory of my Grandma, for Christmas, I am posting this picture for her. I can't believe the way they would dress me back then. What were they thinkin?

Love to you Gram

Grandma's Cutouts

So this weekend we did our family tradition of baking Grandma's recipe for butter cookies. I would have pictures but my camera doesn't want to cooperate with the computer, maybe later. Saturday we made the cut outs and baked them all and on Sunday we frosted them. Now comes in the big tradition my Grandma started and it has been carried down to me. My brothers won't do it anymore. Grandma would make her homemade frosting and color it in different colors, blue, green, red, yellow & white. Then comes the utensils to frost......toothpicks. Yes, you heard it right, toothpicks.Each of every cookie is done with toothpicks and yes it takes hours. As a kid my brothers and I would help my mom. Of course by the 5th cookie my brothers were long gone. I started this with Mitchell years ago. He gets into it believe it or not. He does get tired and walk away but comes back not wanting to miss anything. It is a great time for us to sit and talk and remember Christmas pasts. My husband looked at me like I was nuts when I first told him about this but he enjoys it to. As time consuming as it can be it just isn't Christmas without making Grandma's cutouts. Probably by the last dozen or so we are getting lazy and just throwing the frosting on in any way. I'll have to get my camera working so you can all see our works of art.

Not a Snow Day

So here in Illinois our kids didn't have a snow day yesterday but an Ice Day. We had an ice storm that lasted from about 2am until midnight last night. It was some crazy weather. Mitchell has been sick since last Friday so he didn't care much. That should be another holiday tradition, stomach flu or just flu. I don't know what he had. All I do know is that he had a fever and pretty much laid in bed watching tv. He didn't even complain. He was quite and still. What a perect patient. So when the ice storm hit he was happy he didn't have to go to school but it was basically just another day. The trees looked awesome, like frozen glass. I don't know if you can tell from the picture or not. I got alot of my baking done ayway but now I am exhausted.

Time to curl up on the couch with my big fuzzy blanket and a glass of spiked eggnog or my hot chai tea and watch a Christmas movie.

Want to be an ELF?

Have you ever thought what it would be like to be an Elf? Well now you have your chance. I found this website, elfyourself.com. Download a pciture of yourself and create a dancing Elf. Any of you that have bladder issues be careful. My family and I haven't stopped laughing. Here is my son & hubby. I'm sure they will love that I am doing this. Let's see what you are like as an Elf.

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1192986766

Merry Christmas

HAPPY DECEMBER

Last night we went to see Mitchell play basketball in another town. Sprikles of snow were coming down when we left. It looked like a mini blizzard when we came out of the school. It would usuallt take about 25 minutes to get home from the school and it took about an hour. We woke up this morning to snow overed everything. We did get lucky and our city actually plowed the streets. I love the snow. I lived in California one year during Chirstmas and hated it. What I don't like are people that drive like they have never seen snow before. HELLO....we live in Chicago, IL people, we get snow. Well I live North of it but still. Of course Mitchell was hoping for a snow day. Not yet. I wish that to. I love having him home this time of year, any time of year for that matter. This is good fireplace weather and sitting on the couch bundled up watching a good movie. Eating Christmas cookies of course.

HAPPY DECEMBER

You have been Grinched

Since a dear, new friend of mine was talking about being a Grinchologist on her blog the other day, Mitchell did this photo just for you. This is one of Mitchell's traditions, always watching the Grinch movies.

He loves the Grinch.

Da Da Da... Da Grinch

Merry Christmas