Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Mama's Holiday Wish list....

TodaysMama and GameStop are giving away a sleighful of gifts this holiday season and to enter I’m sharing this meme with you.

Mama’s Holiday Wish List Meme

TodaysMama (link to: http://bit.ly/tmwishlist) and GameStop (link to: http://bit.ly/gamestop10) are giving away a sleighful of gifts this holiday season and to enter I’m sharing this meme with you.


1. What is your holiday wish for your family?
health and happiness
2. What is your Christmas morning tradition?
annoy the kiddos by making them wait until Dad wakes up before opening gifts! hehee -evil elf laugh
3. If you could ask Santa for one, completely decadent wish for yourself, what would it be?
a new custom built home- paid in full of course!
4. How do you make the holidays special without spending any money?
enjoying the company of my family by playing games, watching movies, and telling stories
5. What games did you play with your family growing up?
connect four, sorry, trouble, old maid, memory, atari
6. What holiday tradition have you carried on from your own childhood?
making sure that we are always with family during the holidays
7. Where would you go for a Christmas-away-from-home trip?
somewhere with lots of snow...hmm Colorado?
8. Check out GameStop (link to: http://bit.ly/gamestop10) and tell us, what are the three top items on your GameStop Wish List this year?

zumba for wii, biggest loser challenge, and jillian michaels ultimatium for wiii...notice a pattern? I so need to work out!!!

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Gratitude Day 6 and 7

Day 6...Grateful for "me time"! love spending quiet time at home alone playing with my paper and scissors....woot woot actually worked on my gratitude journal!

Day 7...Grateful for my husband! Today was a great, lazy day spent watching a marathon of Housewives of Atlanta and football! Totally mindless activity, but so fun to laugh and talk all day...no arguements, no drama, no temper tantrums (of course I'm the one that usually brings all these things- lol)! Today was a good day!

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Gratitude Day 4 and 5

Day 4 Still haven't made a choice on how to document...leaning towards a 4x6mini...so anyway today...
I'm grateful for answered prayers! My little cousin Tyler has Cystic Fibrosis and has desperately needed a transplant for his lungs and liver. Family, friends, and everyone who knows Tyler have been praying like warriors that he get this transplant. And finally, today, we got the word that he is listed for the transplant (pending insurance approval, of course). That being said, I'm grateful for organ donors too because that is the next step...waiting for the actual organs! So, if you happen to stop by please add my sweet little cousin, Tyler, to your prayer list.

Day 5 ok...I really, really need to get this mini put together! Today I am grateful for genuinly nice people. I went to the dentist this morning. The assistant at my dentist's office is always supersweet and we always talk about our kiddos, vacations, and the things that are going on in our lives. Each time I come in for an appointment it's like we're old friends catching up. Truely grateful for her kindess. Also grateful for some supersweet ladies who actually read and make time to respond to their blog comments. I think that's one of the most personal/sweet things bloggers can do.

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Less Attitude and More Gratitude....

So I've seen several of my fav scrappy people posting about gratitude and thought this was the perfect incentive for me to really nail down the things that I am grateful for on a daily basis. I have the bad habit of having crazy attitude problems with the people I love most so this is just what I need to keep me focused. I decided to keep my posts documented along with Tessa of Perfectly Precocious (http://precociouspaper.blogspot.com/)and she's supersweet b/c she's even having a giveaway for a gc to her Etsy for peeps that participate in her Attitude of Gratitude Nov 1-30! Cool!

Of course, I'm the most indecisive person ever, so I'm still in limbo as to how to record my gratitude statements. Last night I thought I wanted to make a junque journal so I wrote day 1 & 2 in a composition book that I will alter, but then after looking at Tessa's minibook and the contents of the Nov. Scrapbook Circle kit that I will be receiving soon I started thinking I wanted to make a minibook! Decisions, Decisions! Oh yeah, I even convinced my 13yoa son to take part too- so each night we will sit down together and write down our gratitude statements. He just asked for a sprial notebook to record his;nothing fancy- boys! I must decide tonight for sure (I'm trying to convince myself), but anyway...Here's a recap of my gratitude statments (until I get them all in one place):

November 1....Grateful for my sons' peronalities. Per his request, I took Kyle to the Dollar Tree to buy something today and the cashier complemented him on having so much money in his wallet and saving. He's so cool and calm about everything and barely even acknowledged her compliment, but then when he paid he told her to keep the change! Oh, he steals my heart! Although the change was only 2 cents- the act itself was just so sweet. I'm also grateful that Nic still enjoys reading with me. We finished the Hunger Games last week and started on book two in the trilogy, Catching Fire tonight. I read 3 chapters and he read 1. I prefer reading silently, but put my preference aside to spend time with my son who still likes his mom to read to him. He steals my heart too!

November 2...Grateful for a job/supervisor that is not a stickler about promptness! Seems no matter how hard I try I can rarely get to work on time. I hate being late, but I'm so grateful that I don't work somewhere where I would have gotten the axe by now for my tardiness.

November 3...Grateful for literacy and lunch. Kyle asked me to have lunch with him today because he gets to eat in the library for his book club meeting. I'm so happy that he enjoys reading and learning and also grateful for the opportunity to make his day by stopping by to have lunch with him. His book club discussed Flat Stanley and I still remember how Nic made a Flat Stanley and sent him to our aunt in Marshall for a class assignment a few years ago. Amazing how the same book can touch so many lives!

Ok...wish me luck that I make a decision tonight on how to record my gratitude statements!