30 Days Until Christmas.....

After loosing my tree that I only bought 2 years ago, buying a new one(and decorating it), then finding the old one.....I feel like the countdown to Christmas is starting off well:)

I have to admit it is cheering to decorate a Christmas tree. I love all the little ornaments I've collected over the years. Now my collection has been merged with Mom's collection. Now I have ornaments Rachel made when she was little and the angel topper I gave Mom the first Christmas after she was on her own after 10 years of marriage. I also have an M&M ornament I'm pretty sure belongs to Clint, but it's mine now:P

I was thinking that I should post this pic of the tree then at the end of the month when HeartBreaker and Xander have had their way with it.

Yep. That's what I'll do.

Thanksgiving was..........

............filling.

I finally posted Rachel's Homcoming pics to photobucket. I am not impressed by them. I was late, we were rushed, Xander was there being an adorable distraction.

It is painfully apparent in the photos that I was not paying attention. They aren't exposed correctly; some areas are to light, others to dark. Poor Rachel and Elliot don't have feet in the majority of the shots and for some reason they are backlit with no use of flash.

If you would like to see them anyway, they are in photobucket.

" You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or, if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999

"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."- Helen Keller

Let's Share....

....Just thought I'd make a post to let you all know there

are some more pics of Xander in Photobucket.

Enjoy at your leisure:)

Chicken Butt....

....This year when Xander and I went costume shopping I fully expected that he would be insistent about which costume he wanted. To my delight he passed up Thomas the Train costumes, Lightning McQueen costumes and the like. He really didn't seem interested in any costume at all. Even when I explained (in case he forgot....he's only 3 you know.) that he needed to pick out a costume in order to go trick-or-treating and get ......CANDY. That didn't grab his attention either.

So, I decided to take full advantage of what will probably be the last time I will be able to pick out a costume that will thoroughly embarrass him when he brings his first girl friend home and I break out the baby pictures. As you can see I chose a fuzzy, cuddly, absolutely adorable chicken costume. His first girlfriend will think it's the cutest......and every girlfriend after that will too.

Sadly, I didn't get to parade him around for Halloween. I had to work in the lab, but Tony took him out to Onsted to visit Poppy and with every intention of going trick-or-treating. Apparently he was serious when he said he didn't care about the.... CANDY. He informed Tony and Clint that he was "tired" and wanted to play with "Poppy trains".

Okay then......fair enough I guess.

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