Happy Christmas To All!!!

Merry Christmas
to all of my faithful readers/followers!
You guy's are awesome for sticking through with me even when the posts were only random thoughts and hardly worth reading.

And for even commenting when there wasn't anything to comment on!
So...

HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT!!!

The Twelve Days Of Christmas

Have you ever thought about the twelve days of Christmas?

When you start to think about it you realize that the anonymous
"True Love"
does not seem to be very wise with their money.
After all have you ever thought about the cost of having 12 partridges,
12 pear trees,
22 turtle doves,
30 french hens,
36 calling birds,
40 golden rings,
42 geese a~laying,
42 swans a~swimming,
40 maids a~milking,
36 ladies dancing,
30 lords a~leaping,
22 pipers piping,
and 12 drummers drumming all shipped to your true love?

Not to mention all of the accessories that are needed:
Cages for the 130 birds(that does not include some for the the partridges and swans),
a pond for the swans to "a~swim" in,
A barn+40 cows+40 stools and buckets for the "a~milking" maids,
22 pipes for the pipers and 12 drums.

This is getting a little crazy!!!

Thanksgiving, Football & Christmas Time!!!

Thanksgiving
A couple of weeks before Thanksgiving we invited 2 families and a grandmother over for Thanksgiving dinner.
One family had a relative pass away and couldn't come.
The other family wasn't sure.
And the grandmother got sick the day before and couldn't come.
We tried another family but they couldn't come.
Oh well.
Then it turned out that Family #2 could come after all!!!
Well Thanksgiving day they came over and stayed most of the day and we had a WONDERFUL time talking to them and getting to know them better.


Football
Then something wonderful happened!!!
They invited us over to their house to see a football game the next day!!!
Now for most people this would not be that big of a deal but for 8 crazy football fans who have never even seen one game this is a BIG deal!!!
After all our favorite team was going to play and they were going to win we were sure!
We were SOOO exited!!!
So we went to our friends house and watched the game and our team pulled through for us and won!!!

Christmas Time
Then the day after that we drove around looking for a tree farm, didn't find one and settled on going to Lowes.
Now for most people this would not be that big of a deal but for a family who has always gotten a tree from a farm this was a new experience!!!
So we looked around, picked one came home and set it up and broke more ornaments than I think we have ever broken(we finally decided that this was not the year for breakable ornaments and just decorated with the more durable ones!!!

Then we had a few gift cards we were going to use on Christmas gifts so we headed out to shop!!!
Now for most people this would not be that big of a deal but for a family who has always gotten all of their clothes and such from the thrift store(and love shopping there) going out to a "real" store is a big event!
Well we went and looked and laughed and had a wonderful time seeing the sights.


And that is the story of Thanksgiving, Football and Christmas Time with my wonderful, fun and hilarious family!!!

In Loving Memory...

I'm probably the person in our family who complains most about the pets.
"They're dirty, they eat everything, etc."

But the other day when Jessica told me that Coca had been missing for several days I realized just how much I liked him.

He would always come and greet me when I walked outside and what did I do?
I would yell: "Shoo, shoo, you dirty cat!"

He was so funny when he would waddle across the yard to the porch everyday at breakfast.
Not anymore.

Sweet "Tubby" as we so fondly called him has run away and I miss him.

I look out the window sometimes hoping to see him waddling across the yard to me but he isn't.
If he ever does I will run to greet him and give him a big bowl of food because I've missed him and that's what he always liked best.

Last night I heard a cat meowing out in the woods so I got a flashlight and ran out to go see if I could find the cat but it was only Susan our other cat that is not lost.

I have a statue of a cat that looks just like he did that I keep to remember him by.
Some people may think it's silly, but it's not.
It's sad that our favorite cat has disappeared.

I pray now that he will come back to the family who loved him most.

We loved you Coca.