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Before I post, someone help me out….The winner of the ornaments was Michelle from http://undeservingyetoverblessed.blogspot.com/
Blogger will not let me comment on her blog nor do I have an email address…
If you know her would you ask her to get in touch with me..annah99@aol.com….
I want to get both sets of ornaments in the mail.
No Thanksgiving post here….
I could fake one but I think I would rather JUST be real.
This has been a hard tree season, a Hard week, a Hard Month, for many reasons, Life has just been hard..
It wont always be that way but today I could not get my head above the Hurts and Sadness.
I have done a lot of thinking about why I cannot seem to smile and this is the list I came up with. I can fake a smile….so its not like the world knows.
1. Last year I was still in shock from Jacks stroke. This year I have lived out the year with so many changes in our life…
so I started trees Totally exhausted this year…BUT I AM THANKFUL I HAVE A JOB AND LOVE all my CLIENTS….
2. There is Family discord (You have it to at times so I am not thinking this is a rare problem)
But it is a weight I have been dragging around everyday.
People let you down and that’s just part of life.
3. I have caught every Bug, cold, you name it, I have worked sick most of the season.
4. I worked today on Thanksgiving.
it was a necessity to get caught up…we are on the downhill push now.
5. The last ten days I averaged 15 hours a day and I am WAY too old to do that. Without me telling you my age, trust me on this one….too old to stay on the ladder for hours…
6. So, so thankful for my elves…This year they have really taken up the slack on Days I wanted to sit in the Floor and Cry.
7. I HAVE a close friend and client that I adore and she has spent the last 11 days in the hospital…I have probably done her tree as long as anyone. She is in Total Kidney failure and there are no answers….Please remember to whisper a prayer for Mischa.
8. I have a blog Buddy who is walking through the Darkest days a wife can.
I cannot even type about it without the tears pouring…Pray for Paige.
I am sorry this is such a downer on Thanksgiving. I am thankful…for so much …..my four little's, my kids, my husband, health, friends that know when I need a lift, great BLOG friends, the ability to still climb a ladder, Epson salt, Marcy who will do my hair at a moments notice, coffee, football (I am finally coming around after Brett and Adopting Tim Tebow),
Thankful that I hate Black Friday and probably could not be Paid to fight the crowds, thankful that we are finished with a house that took a combined total of over 200 hours…I promise pictures are coming..
I have totally Failed at keeping both blogs up this year…
There will be a great POST FULL of PICTURES coming in the next few days on the holiday blog
(an elf is doing it for me)
I will leave you with a few family pictures that will hopefully make you smile..
Gray as Dana was Decorating her Tree
then there is jack trying to get “Stwonga”
then Dana and Greg on their recent Trip to Atlantis
Beautiful Dana
Love This Picture of My Boy!
Love to all my blog friends.
Tell me if you do Black Friday and what great deals you get this year.
Random midnight thoughts!
Announcing a winner of Christmas ornaments here and then hop over to A Baby Changes Everything and winner of more ornaments….plus some tree pictures.
1. Have seen no mice this week
2. Need a Celestone Shot
3. Thankful for the Most Wonderful Elves that will do WHATEVER!
4. the week ahead is Daunting. By this time Next Sunday we will (by Faith) have done 8 mantles, 9 staircases, 20 trees as in some very large ones, set out all decorations at
6 houses, Set dining tables, Decorate, 5 chandeliers and I am sure I am forgetting something.
5. I am not seeing my little’s enough…
6. Along with the elves I decked Amanda's halls this week and we got some pictures hung. So we helped out my girl.
7. I have approximately 3000 ornaments in different bins in my den and living room and have been walking around them for a week. It is getting old.
That’s all the Random I have. I have a sinus headache and I think that diminishes Brain cells
The Winner of the HOLIDAY ORNANMENTS…is Life Blessings
I hope I can stay awake long enough to type this. FOUR more days to get in the ORNAMENT GIVEAWAY.
So comment again and you will get another chance.
We have just finished up a marathon few days in another town…
As in you would not believe all we did in 48 hours. Just Terri and I travel.
We had the weekend all mapped out….Get a little rest and sleep in on Sat and leave in time to get to the first house around lunch.
This happens to be the sweetest gal, a girl my sons age and someone we love spending time with.
We had already planned our slumber party.
Tree decorating, wine and LSU football. She threw in some great EATS. I will even share two new recipes with you that were the BEST. (next post)
We were almost to her house and I called her only to find out her 2 year old had burned her leg on the stove and she was gone to get a script filled.
(her husband was 10 hours away), but is a doctor and knew what Sage needed.
We arrive at her house, start unpacking ornament boxes, trees, garland, ready to go full speed.
I pulled open a black trash bag with a tree in it AND things changed.
Out jumped a Mouse/Rat! It did not matter to us what you called it.
It hit the floor running and sounded like it weighed 50 pounds. (probably weighed 3)
I had no idea that mice were Amberly’s greatest phobia….mine would be snakes, but none of us were interested in seeing the MOUSE and I do not mean MICKEY.
You will have to just imagine this….This is a HUGE GORGEOUS house….
I ran in the laundry room and jumped on the washer, Terri ran outside and was standing on the car in the garage and Amberly holding Sage jumped on the kitchen counter (bruising her ankle) all of us screaming. It was a reality show at its best. NOW WHAT?
We had no clue where it went. Her pest control man just had a message machine.
We then called 1_800 Terminex and they said call back Monday….that would not work.
We had the broom, flashlights, alternating between laughing and feeling like crying….
There was no way I was sticking my hand down in my stuff because it had all been in open containers and the “creature could be in one of the boxes”!
Amberly could not get to her
phone so I finally came out of the laundry room and rescued her phone…while Terri was going door to door in this very prestigious neighborhood trying to find a man to help us.
Amberly called everyone she knew..no one home. Terri found one man home and he said he could not help us as he had an abscess tooth. Remember that excuse if someone ever wants you to help catch a RAT! At this point we still thought it was.
Finally she decided to call her husbands partner and see if he could get him to come help us.
Ran him down and he agreed…By this time we are 3 hours late getting started on the decorating. Terri and I decided to start on the tree by standing on the stairs where we could at least have a good view if the “rat” was near us…
All of a sudden we hear this scream and heard Amberly say “He is running straight for me”!
Now we knew he was at least in the master bedroom and headed either for the closets or the bathroom….
So one of us stood guard to make sure it did not try to exit before her friend arrived…
In the meantime her dogs got out…It was getting funnier by the minute. Our hero arrives, gets on his hands and knees and crawls all over the area we think it is in…NOTHING….Looks like Hampton Inn hear we come.
If the animal was not caught we were not sleeping there.
At this point we are starving and looking for the WINE.
Getting more behind by the minute…FINALLY, I hear “HE FOUND IT”!
Guess where ….in the toilet paper holder in the master bathroom…and it was not huge…but it was a MOUSE.
So the ordeal was over and we proceeded to the wine and decorating and it was a LONG LATE night. LSU got a win….and we were mouse free!
We finished the next day and then headed to the next house. Came home yesterday tired beyond words…
But we did it and at our age that it a BIG DEAL. This is Amberly and Sage.
So that’s our story of the weekend….Tree decorating really is full of funny stories.
Ok, get your comments in and have an extra chance to win the ornaments..
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