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Most of my readers know that December keeps me busy with loads of personalized stationery products from Chele’s Treasures. My family knows I’ll be working nonstop from sunrise to past sunset… sometimes from sunrise to sunrise! It surely doesn’t leave alot of extra time for blogging.

I’ve been on my own self-imposed vacation since December 19th. I just simply had to do it. My body demanded it and my mind welcomed it. I’ve spent most of the time enduring the holiday festivities and traditions, sleeping, goofing off and researching anything that pops into my head that I haven’t been able to take the time for in the past few months.

To tell you the truth, 2007 was not the year I had envisioned. Business wise it was great but as far as my personal life, it pretty much sucked a rotten egg. It’s a year that irks me everytime I think about it. My 2008 resolution is to flush 2007 down the toilet and start 2008 fresh.

This year WILL be the year that I take care of myself FIRST so that I may care for the ones that depend on me. I’ll learn from the preflight safety lesson you receive before your flight takes off - I WILL secure my own oxygen mask before assisting others this year!

To start the year off, I am also taking time to smell the roses and grant my own personal wishes… I have spent New Year’s Eve and New Year Day watching the Twilight Zone 48 Hour Marathon on the Sci Fi channel (I am a Twilight Zone freak) and it’s been great! Thanks to the DVR I’ve been able to fast forward thru commercials, delete the ones I’ve seen or don’t want to watch and catch all the others!

I’m looking forward to this year and starting over fresh. Here’s to YOUR 2008. May it be GR8!

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Holidays in my family get a little interesting.  We don’t always agree with each other or approve of what the other does, but we put it all aside at the holidays for a little fun. 

Each year, at least one person gets a gag gift in the family.  It’s sort of like a contest to see who can out do last year’s gag and see who can achieve the reddest face.  Whatever happens, we all remember it’s done in fun and love and the recipient always plays along and hams it up for the camera.  When we go back down memory lane, we always have lots of laughs. 

This is a snippet of last year’s Christmas gag.  The recipients were my younger sister and myself… and the gag gift giver was our own mother.  My sister and I haven’t always seen eye to eye and we’ve had some nasty words, but it’s good to know we can put it aside and laugh together. 

Warning… this may be offensive to some.  In my family, it’s good clean fun.  It’s definitely rated G compared to some of the movies your children may watch.

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If you’ve been reading my blog, following me on twitter, or deal with me online to any degree, then you probably know that I’ve been entertaining some “little people” in my home the past few days to relieve family at the hospital with my uncle.

So, on Saturday my mom and I brought the kids back to my house to play outside and have pizza after we returned from the Bee Movie at the theatre. We were just finishing up the pizza when the doorbell rang. It was my neighbor boy from up the street. Apparently, my sweet ol’ granny dog was running loose. Assuming the “little people” visiting had accidentally opened the gate in the back yard, I yelled for someone to find her leash and I took off in the direction the neighbor pointed.

Two blocks over, I see my dog frolicking in someone else’s yard. I stop to catch my breath and a man puttering around in his yard asks if that’s my dog. I look at him like he should be shot for asking such a stupid question and nod my head. Then I gasped, “She’s pretty old, she’ll lay down in a minute and then I can get her”.

About that time, she takes off running again and disappears around the corner. When I make it to the corner, I run past a dog laying on the lawn of the house on the corner and think how coincidental that the dog looks similar to mine. As I turn the corner, I see two teen boys walking toward me, but no dog. So I ask them if they’ve seen my dog and which way she went. They give me the same look I gave the man up the street and say, “We didn’t see any dog, lady”. So I turn back around the corner to see the man up the street closing in on the dog on the lawn and my husband with leash wearing only socks!

Embarrassed, I tell the man that the dog he’s trying to capture isn’t even my dog. Donald is looking exasperated after running three blocks in his socks to bring me the leash and the good samaritan from up the street is looking at us like we are both total nut-jobs.

Seconds later, the neighbor that sent her son to alert us that my dog was out pulled up in her car to help with the dog hunt. We tell her it’s not my dog and she apologizes and offers us a ride home. Because I’m only mildly stupid and sweat drenched, I accept her offer and laugh all the way home.

As soon as we got out of the car, we went straight to the back yard to verify that my sweet ol’ granny dog is truly there. I swear, she looked at me like I should be shot and with her huge brown eyes said, “Next time check the backyard first, stupid human”!

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I’m a little behind on posting this in response to my friend Alyssa of Life From My Laptop. It seems that I took so long thinking about this that it slipped my mind to come back and post it! I mean really, it’s quite difficult to think of seven whole things about myself that you’d find interesting enough to read, but here’s my best shot:

1. My favorite color is orange. Weird, right? Yeah, but that doesn’t mean I want an orange car or orange furniture!
2. I like to watch the old black and white Twilight Zone on the SciFi channel. I love it when they have all day Twilight Zone marathons.
3. Movies I will watch EVERY time they are on television, regardless of commercials or what is on other channels: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Legends of the Fall, Jerry Maguire, Dances with Wolves & A Knight’s Tale (odd combination, huh? I have no idea why, but I can’t seem to change the channel when I see these movies on!)
4. The sound of people chewing their food annoys me and makes me paranoid about how I might sound while eating.
5. Fall is my favorite season. It makes me think of the cycle of life. It’s far enough along that you can look back and appreciate all that is gone, yet there is still time left to experience life.
6. I am a product of teen pregnancy. Because my mother is only 14 years and 11 months older than me, many people think my mom is my sister. Sometimes when I have PMS or feel sorry for myself, I wonder how my mother survived as a young mother when I’m barely coping as an adult mother. I try to talk to this awesome woman by phone daily, even if it’s only for a moment to hear her voice.
7. I’m a toilet paper snob. Only Charmin is good enough for my hiney… I pack my own toilet paper in my suitcase on vacations! I have even been known to keep a roll in the glove box for long road trips!

So there you have it. I certainly hope that was worth knowing!

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My friend Alyssa of Life From My Laptop tagged me to share my WAHM uniform. My uniform varies with the season and the duties for the day, but one thing always remains the same… it’s totally casual and my hair is always up! In preparing for this photo opportunity, I realized that I had no current photos of me because I’m always holding the camera. So, this called for an emergency photo session!

If you were a member of my family, you’d understand that we are silly creatures. Photos are a time to “ham it up” and make a great story. We have some pretty wild photos over the years. This photo opportunity proved to be the same. As hard as I tried to be serious, it just wasn’t in me. I hope you’ll enjoy the evidence of my WAHM uniform photo shoot.

The two boys in blue are Biscuit and Wrangler and the toddler is my adorable nephew. The boys did a fine acting job of pretending to fight (they have lots of practice). The scary thing is this could be a real photo any day of the week for many moms! Don’t you talk on the phone while holding the baby, dusting, vacuuming the carpet buried under toys and breaking up squabbles?

I’m tagging Tishia Lee and Petite Mommy to share their WAHM uniform. I’d love to see YOUR mom uniform. Leave me a comment and tell me where we can see it!

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If you know anything about me, then you know that I’m constantly thinking about something.  Everyday I think of at least 5 things I could blog about, yet time eludes me again and again.  Where does it go?  I may need to get a “Think & Type” program so my ideas and thoughts can be instantly uploaded to my website.  Has that been invented yet?  Probably not, so I’m yelling DIBS on the idea now!

Of course, being too busy practically guarantees more blonde moments.  I’ve tried to return our Blockbuster rentals in the Hastings drive thru drop box.  Just the thought of having to go inside and explain my stupidity and retreive the DVDs is humiliating but I know the day it becomes reality is probably inevitable. 

You think that’s funny?  Just wait, it gets better … (more…)

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Normally, I have a limited number of blonde moments in one day.  It’s usually one extremely big moment then I’m done for awhile (like the time I got all depressed because I couldn’t get my jeans on that I KNEW I wore the week before, then I realized they were my 9 year old son’s jeans). 

Well, this morning it started with my new pair of Levi’s capri jeans.  (more…)

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