Christmas lights...

[melodymom]

...are everywhere you look. The rush is on for my house. Dave will be
home in a few minutes to load up the car with our dirty clothes and we
will head for the laudromat & grocery store.

Tomorrow morning I'll be in the kitchen scrambling eggs & cooking
sausage to take to son & daughter-in-law's house for breakfast with all
the kids & grandkids, followed by the greed-fest. It's the only time we
can get everyone together, as Ryan's oldest, Taryn, will be with her mom
on Christmas day, and Naomi has to work the dinner shift at the
restaurant tomorrow afternoon/evening.

In the afternoon I'm going to cook the turkey for Saturday, and in the
evening bake some pies - or supervise Dave baking if I run out of steam,
which is quite likely. Naomi is bringing my mom up for dinner, and my
kitchen is so small I figured that was the best way to do it. There
will only be 7 of us here for dinner. LOL There were ALWAYS seven of
us for dinner for so many years, plus kids' friends, plus family for
holidays, etc, and now when we get 'everyone' together there are 21 (?)
and still end up with an extra visitor sometimes, so seven doesn't seem
like very many.

My Johnny is home now after his band's 6 week tour, so maybe that '7'
will be '8' - and one day soon, before he takes off on another tour, I'm
going to get some alone time with him so he can tell me about the trip.
I know they played in Idaho, Wyoming, Oregon, California, Texas,
Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina. Can't wait to hear all about
it, but sure can't do that with other people in the room! The more
noise, the less I hear...

Here's wishing you a love-filled holiday, and a better year ahead.

Love you!
Denise

[Rosemarie Shiver]

You'd LOL to see the Pagan Palm all decked out. It really does look
nice. The whole town knows us by "You're the palm tree covered in lights."
Yes we are and have been for 5 years. A few others have now started to deck
the palms in their yards, too. After all, the first Christmas was near palms
and not evergreens. <g>

Got most of the Yule gifts thru Amazon.com. I remembered how it used to
be when the UPS gal delivered the 20 pounds of freeweights the youngest
wanted ONE HANDED. Ah to be young and strong and not know you've got Dratted
Disorders sneakin' up on ya. :-) 'Member back then? LOL

I'm cookin' at my mothers house 'cuz I'm the best cook of the family
and her house has more room. Turkey and the trimmings. We traditionally
open a few gifts on Christmas Eve and the majority Christmas morning.

The ex is coming next Tues.to stay a bit and take the oldest to see his
( my son's) half sister and nephew who is almost one and pulls hair. He
asked to have a crew cut b4 he goes to visit. :-) Today was a ruff day
because he said his anti-depressant ( Effexor) wasn't working, so I
convinced him that this would be a good time to get off them altogether so
that he won't hafta be on them forever. He's been off it for 2 days. Looks
like he'll be fine given a few more days.

Ricky Kitty did 2 days at the vet and has a UTI and had bladder
blockage. Got him in in time to not have kidney damage. He's so happy to be
back home he could plotz ( faint in Yiddish) but that doesn't mean he makes
it easy to give him his antibiotic pills. Thank Heavens for Norm's parents
who give us the means at Christmas to save the Kitty Kat.

Thanks for the cards, ladies! I dunno if I forgot anyone on this NG but
if I did yer getting e-cards so lemme know and I'll dash one off to ya.
E-cards are always timely and so much nicer on these arthritic hands.

Blessings be upon you and yours this Holiday Season. Luv ya's muchly!!

Luv and Hugs from The Shivers and Our Coddled Critters
--
"If you wanna get it done, you gotta fight for yourself" -- Meat Loaf, Bat
Outta Hell II

Post by melodymom
...are everywhere you look. The rush is on for my house. Dave will be
home in a few minutes to load up the car with our dirty clothes and we
will head for the laudromat & grocery store.
Tomorrow morning I'll be in the kitchen scrambling eggs & cooking
sausage to take to son & daughter-in-law's house for breakfast with all
the kids & grandkids, followed by the greed-fest. It's the only time we
can get everyone together, as Ryan's oldest, Taryn, will be with her mom
on Christmas day, and Naomi has to work the dinner shift at the
restaurant tomorrow afternoon/evening.
In the afternoon I'm going to cook the turkey for Saturday, and in the
evening bake some pies - or supervise Dave baking if I run out of steam,
which is quite likely. Naomi is bringing my mom up for dinner, and my
kitchen is so small I figured that was the best way to do it. There
will only be 7 of us here for dinner. LOL There were ALWAYS seven of
us for dinner for so many years, plus kids' friends, plus family for
holidays, etc, and now when we get 'everyone' together there are 21 (?)
and still end up with an extra visitor sometimes, so seven doesn't seem
like very many.
My Johnny is home now after his band's 6 week tour, so maybe that '7'
will be '8' - and one day soon, before he takes off on another tour, I'm
going to get some alone time with him so he can tell me about the trip.
I know they played in Idaho, Wyoming, Oregon, California, Texas,
Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina. Can't wait to hear all about
it, but sure can't do that with other people in the room! The more
noise, the less I hear...
Here's wishing you a love-filled holiday, and a better year ahead.
Love you!
Denise

[Squirrely]

I am sure it looked nice. It provided the light that we need. ;-)
Also those palms can be used to fan ourselves. LOL

If you wanted ornaments on the palm trees you could have wired some of those
oranges on them. (running and hiding before I get hit with one of those
oranges).

Hope you didn't over do it with the cooking. Hope all went well at mothers
house.

That is cool about Norms parents giving you the funds to take care of Ricky
Kitty. I hope Ricky is doing better now.

thank you for the ecard Rosie, you didn't need to do that, I know the hands
are bad and I know you care without a card. ;-)
--
Love and hugs to all
Good thoughts coming your way too.

Squirrely Jo

Post by Rosemarie Shiver
You'd LOL to see the Pagan Palm all decked out. It really does look
nice. The whole town knows us by "You're the palm tree covered in lights."
Yes we are and have been for 5 years. A few others have now started to deck
the palms in their yards, too. After all, the first Christmas was near palms
and not evergreens. <g>
Got most of the Yule gifts thru Amazon.com. I remembered how it used to
be when the UPS gal delivered the 20 pounds of freeweights the youngest
wanted ONE HANDED. Ah to be young and strong and not know you've got Dratted
Disorders sneakin' up on ya. :-) 'Member back then? LOL
I'm cookin' at my mothers house 'cuz I'm the best cook of the family
and her house has more room. Turkey and the trimmings. We traditionally
open a few gifts on Christmas Eve and the majority Christmas morning.
The ex is coming next Tues.to stay a bit and take the oldest to see his
( my son's) half sister and nephew who is almost one and pulls hair. He
asked to have a crew cut b4 he goes to visit. :-) Today was a ruff day
because he said his anti-depressant ( Effexor) wasn't working, so I
convinced him that this would be a good time to get off them altogether so
that he won't hafta be on them forever. He's been off it for 2 days. Looks
like he'll be fine given a few more days.
Ricky Kitty did 2 days at the vet and has a UTI and had bladder
blockage. Got him in in time to not have kidney damage. He's so happy to be
back home he could plotz ( faint in Yiddish) but that doesn't mean he makes
it easy to give him his antibiotic pills. Thank Heavens for Norm's parents
who give us the means at Christmas to save the Kitty Kat.
Thanks for the cards, ladies! I dunno if I forgot anyone on this NG but
if I did yer getting e-cards so lemme know and I'll dash one off to ya.
E-cards are always timely and so much nicer on these arthritic hands.
Blessings be upon you and yours this Holiday Season. Luv ya's muchly!!
Luv and Hugs from The Shivers and Our Coddled Critters
--
"If you wanna get it done, you gotta fight for yourself" -- Meat Loaf, Bat
Outta Hell II

Post by melodymom
...are everywhere you look. The rush is on for my house. Dave will be
home in a few minutes to load up the car with our dirty clothes and we
will head for the laudromat & grocery store.
Tomorrow morning I'll be in the kitchen scrambling eggs & cooking
sausage to take to son & daughter-in-law's house for breakfast with all
the kids & grandkids, followed by the greed-fest. It's the only time we
can get everyone together, as Ryan's oldest, Taryn, will be with her mom
on Christmas day, and Naomi has to work the dinner shift at the
restaurant tomorrow afternoon/evening.
In the afternoon I'm going to cook the turkey for Saturday, and in the
evening bake some pies - or supervise Dave baking if I run out of steam,
which is quite likely. Naomi is bringing my mom up for dinner, and my
kitchen is so small I figured that was the best way to do it. There
will only be 7 of us here for dinner. LOL There were ALWAYS seven of
us for dinner for so many years, plus kids' friends, plus family for
holidays, etc, and now when we get 'everyone' together there are 21 (?)
and still end up with an extra visitor sometimes, so seven doesn't seem
like very many.
My Johnny is home now after his band's 6 week tour, so maybe that '7'
will be '8' - and one day soon, before he takes off on another tour, I'm
going to get some alone time with him so he can tell me about the trip.
I know they played in Idaho, Wyoming, Oregon, California, Texas,
Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina. Can't wait to hear all about
it, but sure can't do that with other people in the room! The more
noise, the less I hear...
Here's wishing you a love-filled holiday, and a better year ahead.
Love you!
Denise

[melodymom]

I'd love to see the Pagan Palm. The last time I was in Florida I was
staying in a mobile home park, it was December, and I'd just left cold
and snowy NY. It just didn't look right! lol The neighbor across the
way had a huge speaker outside and blasted Christmas records all day
long. Some of them were nice, but the Chipmunks? Aw, come on! There I
was, lying down with a headache with Alvin, Theodore & Simon bellowing
in my window...

Since then I've developed a love for palm trees in the winter, and I
think I could really enjoy a Christmas sans rain and cold and pine trees
- as long as it was also sans Chipmunks!

I made it through Christmas dinner with my mom here, and cooked
everything myself. It was wonderful to be able to do it. I crashed
physically afterwards, of course. Wasn't able to go to church for the
special service on Sunday, but that's the only thing I had to miss out
on, and that was great!

Post by Rosemarie Shiver
Got most of the Yule gifts thru Amazon.com. I remembered how it used to
be when the UPS gal delivered the 20 pounds of freeweights the youngest
wanted ONE HANDED. Ah to be young and strong and not know you've got Dratted
Disorders sneakin' up on ya. :-) 'Member back then? LOL

I'm thinking, I'm thinking... Yep. Used to be able to lift a 250 lb.
man on my feet & then 'toss' him back several feet to a standing
position. What else. Can't remember... <G>

Glad Ricky Kitty got taken care of... (never end a sentence with a
preposition - so I added the dots to imply the sentence wasn't finished
yet.)

Post by Rosemarie Shiver
Blessings be upon you and yours this Holiday Season. Luv ya's muchly!!
Luv and Hugs from The Shivers and Our Coddled Critters

Blessings upon you and yours, too. You know I love you, too! And that
goes for everyone else reading this. ;)

luv&hugs&stuff,
Denise