Tuesday,
December 25, 2012 @ 6:10 AM
Good
morning, good morning! MERRY
CHRISTMAS!!!!!
This
is us and this is our tree and we’re very happy it is Christmas morning. Lot’s to talk about. It looks as if it’s been a couple days since
writing and for the most part we had last talked a little bit about having the
kids come over. Now this morning reading
it again … and I feel bad there seems to be so much negative when the event was
really very positive. I think I just tend
to worry about things that don’t seem to be perfect. It’s a hard line to tow. Please forgive me for this personality
flaw. I know we have to feel able to
write whatever comes to our mind, but we really don’t intend to hurt anyone in
the meantime.
But,
moving on … today is a brand new day AND it is CHRISTMAS. The first thing about Christmas was that we
woke up during the night – most likely to use the washroom, and we found
ourselves sneaking into the living room.
There are THREE presents under the tree and we’re thinking one of them
looks suspiciously like SOCKS! That’s
how you know if you are really IN Rich’s family because he gives everyone socks
and underwear. It’s just his thing and
has been since the beginning of time.
Word has it … he gave his Grandson Jaxsyn socks and underwear too and
the poor kid is just about 4 months old and we’re pretty sure those underthings
are just going to have to wait. Rich
gave him a few other things too, but the fun gift was that he found a GREAT big
Piggy bank dressed in Cubs gear. Gotta
love a Grampa with a sense of humor!
There was one bad thing there, because we told Rich’s Mom – AT THE
APPROPRIATE time, that Rich had given his Grandson something very personal
thought out. Rich’s Mom then told him
about when he was young and had a piggy bank with his brother and his father
took it into the garage and smashed it so he could get money to go out and
drink with. BAH Humbug! Not the kind of story that Rich deserved
hearing. BAH HUMBUG!
I’m
SO not for that!
ANYway
… that’s this year’s story about the socks and underwear. This year Rich included Chris and Natti too
in the his family Christmas tradition.
It should actually make them feel as good as it did us the first year we
“made the grade!”
The
other thing that we spotted was that someone had left a stocking. We’re thinking it WAS just after midnight –
so that worked out in our mind though Rich told us last night that when you get
older all the toy gifts you might have gotten went down to your Grandchildren
so they would enjoy Christmas like we have.
That makes sorta sense, but last night?
When we sneeked into the living room and saw our sock … there is a
little furry thing with his head popping out the top of our stocking. I’m not sure what it is yet … we know enough
so that we can’t touch ANYTHING until Rich wakes up.
We
have been busy though. One of the things
we had to do was clean up the mess by the Christmas tree, because SOMEBUDDIES
cat tipped over the plant and so the water filled up three of the trays under
the tablecloth full of water. One of the
trays was for our good markers, one was for a box of pins (sewing), and the
other tray was for loose coins. I’m
thinking that they will be ok, because we’d just cleaned all that a month or so
ago and I’m pretty sure that the markers were all capped tightly. Even though they were sitting in a pool of
water, they should be ok. I didn’t try
them at the time. We did get a big towel
and soaked up all the water. AND we were
happy because the water hadn’t spilled on the Christmas gifts.
We
weren’t able to get Rich anything to wrap because we’d already spent $150 for
him to buy the fishing rod and real and we’d spent $190 to have his fishy
blanket quilted. I guess then it totaled
up to $340 and I knew we weren’t supposed to spend that kind of money, but
there were so few gifts – just because those three things were so
expensive. Rich didn’t want to pick out
a rod and real yet because he wanted to wait and see if he would get any
special sales on them after Christmas.
It didn’t make the tree much fun.
We
did get his blanket which still needs a binding out and we set it on his
chair. And, THEN we made him some “coupons”
which we placed all over the tree. There
were a lot of them for umm, playing around … Hehehe, but then there were
massages, kisses, hugs, Ann stop being grouchy card, and even one card that
said we would be a SUPER Ann all day which meant doing EVERYthing Rich told us
without complaining. Pswhoo. THAT was a hard card to write! I think what we were trying to convey was a
little Ann cooperation! The tree now
looks like this:
But
you can’t see ALL the coupon slips of paper … there are about one dozen of them
J Makes me feel better … Oh, there was one too
for getting omelets made for him. We
barely EVER do anything cooking like so that was an especially good treat!
BUT,
speaking of cooking … we did that this morning too. It’s about 6:30 AM now, but we’d woken up
just before 5 AM and remembered that we were supposed to have made Jell-O last
night. I think it is going to be ok, but
we did have to make it right away because we are supposed to be at Maury’s at
1:30 PM today. I sure hope it sets.
Hmm,
we just got some fresh coffee and checked the Jell-O. I’m not sure if its doing what it is supposed
to do, but we did check the side bowl – the big one had too much in it and that
one already tastes good. The big one is
in our very large popcorn bowl and it is pink frothy type of Jell-O on the top
and on the bottom the Jell-O is more clear and red. I think al the raspberries are hiding in the
pink part, but I’m not sure that it will stay the same or all turn pink
frothy. It is setting … just it’s all
supposed to be pink … it hasn’t set all the way yet. The ingredients to this special kind of
family-made Jell-O are a couple packages o raspberry Jell-O, and then three
small pints of raspberries, and then ½ gallon of vanilla ice cream. REALLY hope it works out, because I’d like to
give the Granddaughters something they will like that is new to them. Besides if it doesn’t work out … it is going
to maybe make a mess in the car! Let’s
hope THAT doesn’t Happen!
It
was kind of splashy when we poured the mix from the pan to the bowl, so we had
to clean everything up after. There was
Jell-O on the cupboard, counter, coffee pot … ALL over the sink AND US! Pswhoo.
Who would have known it would be so splashy!??
Because
we were being such a good Ann, we also emptied the kitty litter without being
told, and we loaded and started the dishwasher.
It’s just finishing drying now.
SEE – SUPER ANN! I sure hope he
uses that coupon today because we’re giving him some of our “best stuff!” HMPF!
Hehehe
… Merry Christmas World!!!
Is
that pretty much of the morning so far?
The kitties were just in here playing.
I think the retribution on our flowers this morning was that we’d gotten
so busy with the Jell-O that we forgot to turn on the sink so Chief could have
water from there. They WERE very naughty
this morning! AND, it’s on CHRISTMAS!??
I
wouldn’t have done that for nothing!
Let’s
see now … anything happening over the last couple of days? I think we wrote into the afternoon on Sunday
… but, I’m not sure if we started then or into Monday, but I think it started
on Sunday. One of the things that had
happened on the Garvey Christmas Saturday was that Austin had been looking at
all of our pictures flashing every different minute on the screen and he’d seen
one of the pictures that contained one of our mind maps AND he’d asked what it
was. We told him we couldn’t remember
the name and that we’d send it to him – now we’re remembering that the name was
pearltrees. I can’t remember if they
cost us something because when we go to pearltrees.com it goes automatically to
our account – basically when that screen opens … we see.
And
then when that gets opened up just a bit … we see …
Do you remember this stuff? Obviously the tree grows around the center “pearl”
which in our case is newsdidmpd, and then after that you just add and add. It was one of the most SUPER memories from the
Saturday Christmas party – is the part where Austin recognized it as something
interesting from just looking at it for that moment. BUT, in trying to recall which Mindmap we
were using … we found ourselves over the last couple of days doing more
exploring trying to find the map that could give you the most and the littlest
cost. Some of them are used in business
and so can get pretty pricey. I’m
thinking we might not have paid for pearltree, because on that initial screen
we just showed you, there was an advertisement for becoming a premium member.
It
looks like the Premium version cost $4.99
per month or $49.99 per year.
AHA! Rich is UP!
Ok,
ok … just a little later … we’ve been just kind of hovering over our life for
the last period of time. It is now 10:25
AM. It has been a VERY good Christmas
morning … we’ve got our sweetie … enjoying the stressless morning and going to
visit some of our Grandchildren!
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