HAPPY NEW YEAR !! Happy Birthday !!

Happy New Year!!  A and the sparklers on New Years Eve.

With her trusty dog by her side, she safely used the sparklers and he faithfully protected her. 

Happy Birthday to my mother.  Happy Blue Moon.  A made a wish and we all went to bed.  See you next year. . .

Time flys . . .

In the month of December time goes by twice as fast as a normal month like January. Unless you are a small child, say nine years old, then time drags by so sss-lll-ooooo-www. I think A has told me every day since December 14th, ten more days 'til Christmas Eve, I wish it was Christmas Eve. She has counted down every day since then. She tells me every night when I tuck her into bed, I can't wait 'til we go to Grammy and Papa's for Christmas Eve. If you are an adult then you know how fast time goes by: shopping, making elf hats and shirts, working, trying to stay one step ahead of the ever changing Christmas list.

Christmas Eve afternoon we go to my parents for the celebration, opening presents, getting the little oranges (clementines) and candy in your stocking, visiting with cousins and then driving home to get in bed before Santa comes to our house. A loves to see her cousins and grandparents.

Over the weekend, we went to see grandparents and cousins. On the way we went to an antique store. WOW, that was spectacular, everything decorated for the Christmas holiday. WOW, everything I looked at was $1,100+. We stopped downtown to shop. We watched the cousins, W and B, play hockey. My A, my niece A and my nephew M, play and run around and do little kid things at the hockey rink. After the hockey game, T and I saw a movie, The Blind Side, a great movie. Sunday, I watched Julie and Julia, great movie, and I watched I Love You Man, not so great.

That about wraps things up for the weekend. This week will flash before my eyes and before I know it we will have wrapping paper all over the living room floor and it will all be over. Things will slow to a crawl again and we will be on our way to 2010.

I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

December . . .

I see it is December and I have not blogged yet. I had a volunteer job and my (paying) jobs to keep me busy for a while.

As you know and I have blogged about, A is in gymnastics. Her coach decided that the Christmas Parade would be a good idea and Coach wanted the girls and boys to wear elf hats and elf shirts. I volunteered to make a few. Well, that was a long project. The parade went well except that it was the coldest day of the year. It doesn't matter when the parade is, it will be the coldest day of the year. A's picture is on the front page of the newspaper so that is exciting for her.

I shouldn't say that we had the coldest day of the year, the entire U.S. experienced the coldest part of winter. Many states had snow and bad weather. We had cold. I think it was too cold to snow.

December is here and I have not had much time to do the Christmas shopping. OK, I've had time to shop, it's the ideas that I'm having trouble with. What to get the parents, what to get the nephews (we have the niece's gift taken care of), what to get T, what to get A. The list goes on and on. The Christmas tree is not up and decorated yet. A is going to Grandma's tonight to make cookies (that's a plus). I love Christmas cookies. I love cookies period, it doesn't have to be Christmas. T and I are going shopping tomorrow and maybe Sunday the tree will go up. I am running out of time. I better get busy.