Christmas/Holiday Wish List!

wow, wow, & WOW!! One of my favorite bloggers (Cathy Zielske) passed on this great web site (see below) and they asked us to do a posting. Enjoy!


"Lori's" - 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?
That we could all be together. I have a son in the Marines who is married to a Marine that I have not met yet (they live out of state). My daughter married a Marine and he is away for training. So right now they are each in a different state. So... to bring them ALL home and in one place would be great.

2. What is your Christmas morning tradition?
IF we haven't opened our gifts on Christmas Eve, they we open them that morning. They we load up some of our dinner item's & gifts and we drive to my Parent's house where most of the family meet to enjoy dinner, company & gifts.

3. If you could ask Santa for one, completely decadent wish for yourself, what would it be? Hmmm? for myself? That is a hard one. I could say a house-house. I could say a second car/vehicle. But I think for myself it would be someone to teach me all about my camera and to improve my pictures(F-stop, shutter speed, lighting, etc.).

4. How do you make the holidays special without spending any money?
I would have to say hauling out the different Christmas video's, esp. Polar Express, make some snacks and sit around with family to watch them.


5. What games did you play with your family growing up? Card games, some board games. Kerplunk is one I remember, and yes, we got an Atari later on.

6. What holiday tradition have you carried on from your own childhood?
Meeting at my parent's house for Christmas. We use to drive to my Grandparents house when I was lil.


7. Where would you go for a Christmas-away-from-home trip?
To what I call "home away from home" which means my Grandparents house. I love it there.

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?
1) a black & blue DS for my son-in-law
2) a Kinect for my son's Xbox360
3) New accessories for my Wii ( controllers, headset, etc.)

*this blogging thing is somewhat new to me, I will see if I can add some pictures. If you can see them, then I did. :O)

This Friday...

I am home. What? You may be thinking. Why not? Lately during the week I have been going to my parents house to help them get things done. Like spending 3 weeks over hauling their bathroom. This past week (only 2 days so far) I have been helping my Dad measure and remeasure where he would like shelf brackets installed. He wants to put shelves on 3 walls in the seasonal room above the windows, so that he can display all the 1:18 cars that he has collected. Yesterday we got the brackets (16) up with one of the screws provided. Next week we will lay the boards on them to make sure they are level and then install the bottom screw. This will be after we double and triple check the boards. I know, I know... this is just him and I work patiently with him to do it that way.
So now... it is 12:49 p.m. and I have been sitting with my laptop since 9 a.m. I have checked my email, my facebook, emailed a couple people and then did some searching on "Designer Digitals". "Oh no" is what you are thinking right? Nope! I found some overlays by Ali Edwards & Cathy Zielske. They along with Becky Higgins are scrapbook blogs I follow/check everyday. I am going to use one the over lays for my scrapbook pages but the other one I want to print on 4 x 6 recipe cards and send them to my children & their spouses. They will go in 4x6 albums for them to write notes on to each other to remember certain things, to tell each other why they love them, what they do that makes them smile, etc... I thought it was a cute idea. We will have to wait to see what they think. I have printed off some of my new downloads on to white cardstock and should go collect them off my printer. That means that it is time to get up, shut off my laptop and get busy. Esp. since I am having a craft day get together for some girl friends and family members to work on sewing, scrapbooking and more. Have a great day everyone.

Love it, Love it! LOVE IT!!!

Okay, I gotta share. I "love" Becky Higgins! I love her blog, her conception for scrapbooking and so much more. Here is her latest:

A Monday - wow, wow, WOW!!

Where have I been? I will confess - forgot all about my blog. Yep, I did! I have been looking, reading and learning from other bloggers.
Today, I did something I thought I never would. Well...actually it started Saturday. My husband, youngest son who is 20, my grandson and I re-arranged our living room. I requested it. The last couple years we move the couch at an awkward angle when the snow started flying and we put our Christmas tree up. So... the furniture is arranged and the "TREE" is up. Yep, that is something I thought I would never do, put a Christmas tree up "before" Thanksgiving. I had an urge a couple weeks ago to put up decorations. Weird, I know and I do not know why I have been having the urge. Maybe there is something coming like a snow storm and I won't be able to get to my boxes of Christmas items. I don't know. Maybe we will find out.