tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44542699616777541122024-03-04T23:55:05.221-06:00THIS is what it's all about!Step through the web into my life. Read the ramblings of daily existence. My life, though by no means mundane in the overall picture, possesses such poignant moments that sometimes I just shake my head and wonder where the cameras are because it can't be real. Then I realize -- THIS is what it's all about!**** April ****http://www.blogger.com/profile/08306149618224290028noreply@blogger.comBlogger1612125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4454269961677754112.post-50094960822896436522016-06-16T15:40:00.003-05:002016-06-16T15:52:40.384-05:00Labels<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I always tell my children to use their words. I like to reiterate this by reminding them just how powerful words are. Words can become labels that attach themselves to characteristics in good ways and, unfortunately, (and many times) in bad ways.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">People like to take advantage of the fact that words have different interpretations for all of us. For instance, "bad" can be BAD or "bad" can be <i>very, very good.</i> The context is what's important here. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Advertisers know, too, that words are powerful. Powerfully misleading. They count on this, coupled with an uneducated public, to take advantage of the fact that we (the uneducated masses) have been dumbed down to the point that our society is... numb. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Brain dead anyone? It's so commonplace that people actually buy things with labels because they're so ridiculously brain dead to what they're buying. I mean, GLUTEN FREE doesn't equate to <i>healthy</i> although mainstream nutritional feeds want you to BELIEVE that it's GOOD to be gluten free so they label.... a fucking bag of GUMMY BEARS... as gluten free as if they want you -- the uneducated consumer -- to believe that those a healthy alternative to eating a piece of bread?! </span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So, yeah, labeling -- I'm about to derail my own post going off on the nutritional label rant rather than aiming for the bottom line which is literally what this post is about. The bottom line of labels -- the labels on TOILET PAPER. To which I scream WHAT THE HELL PEOPLE!?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I don't exactly consider myself uneducated by any stretch of the imagination. I do, however, appear to have a general lack of understanding as to the actual definition of the adjectives applied to your average roll of toilet paper. My general understanding is that there is one-ply and there is two-ply. According to my grandmother, you should never buy one ply as it's like rubbing your butt with sandpaper and that will not do.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But...(or should I say <i>butt) </i>what the actual <i>hell </i>does ANY of <i>this </i>really mean?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">quilted ultra plush supreme rolls (24 = 90 regular)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ultra comfort big roll </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1000 sheet rolls (I laughed at this because... well, <i>nevermind</i>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ultra comfortcare family roll</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">mega roll</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ultra soft & strong</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Is there an industry-wide standard for the amount of squares included in a regular roll? If so, does any member of the general public actually <i>know</i> what this magic number is? If you can buy 24 rolls of one that equals 90 rolls of another -- is that compared to the regular or the big rolls? Or, would it be more advantageous to purchase less mega rolls for the same amount of sheets? If someone sells <i>ultra comfort</i> does that mean that the others <i>aren't</i> "ultra" comfortable. Who wipes their ass with tons of random sheets to determine just what <i>defines</i> "ultra" butt wipe? How big <i>IS </i>a BIG roll? Why do you have to declare one a "family" roll? Does it come with a toy in the middle? Is mega more than double or less than big? I mean, shouldn't they <i>all </i>be sensitive? You're utilizing this product on the most delicate parts of your anatomy. You would think that they would <i>all </i>be quilted ultra super comfortable absorbent plush sensitive mega family sized big rolls, right? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I'm curious... what do these labels <i>actually</i> mean.</span></div>
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**** April ****http://www.blogger.com/profile/08306149618224290028noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4454269961677754112.post-85154279169183699632016-06-16T12:21:00.000-05:002016-06-16T15:18:53.800-05:00Thursday 13<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I've never <i>not </i>had music in my life. It's always been the way to put emotion into words when there were none. Music can bring you down. Music can buoy your spirits. It saves, it savages. It's pretty powerful stuff. Music moves. Words are powerful. Words set to music... it's some good stuff people!</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My playlists are plentiful but there are 13 </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">songs I love right now.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: blue; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>1) Justin Timberlake, Can't Stop The Feeling</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It's catchy, it's feel-good. I love him. I love to dance. I love to sing. It's just super great! I can't stop the feeling I get when this song comes on. If you see me and it's on, I'll be dancing in my car. Believe me when I say that I don't give a shit what you think about that. You need to loosen up and live a little. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: blue; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>2) Hinder, All American Nightmare</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">While I'm not a fan of the video because I think the featured bad girl overdoes absolutely everything to the point of it just being ridiculous, I adore this song. Plus, it makes me want to drive fast. <i>Really fast. </i>Plus, it's traditional bad ass party rock and roll. April likey.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: blue; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>3) Rob Thomas, Hold On Forever</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I love Rob Thomas. I love his style. I love his voice. I love his talent. I love him in Matchbox 20. This song, too, speaks to me... It's one of those great matches where the videographer successfully captured the essence of the song in his vision for the video in a way where others can relate. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: blue; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>4) Florida Georgia Line with Nelly, Cruise</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is complete corn-ball "country." (Notice how I put country in quotes? That's because this IS NOT country but it's <i>called </i>country. Trust me, I know the difference.) However, it IS FUN and that's why it's on my list! Plus, I love Nelly so it's just a fun song to blare on the radio and drive to. (Oh, and don't forget the dancing! You must dance in the car when you spill Nelly lines!)</span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: blue; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>5) Shinedown, Sound of Madness</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Another rock and roll staple in my scream-it-at-the-top-of-your-lungs-play-it-as-loud-as-you-can repository. The video fucking rocks, too! Shinedown are badass.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: blue; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>6) Hunter Hayes, I Want Crazy</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hunter looks like he's all of about 16 years old (maybe) but this is just the absolute sweetest song ever. And, face it, who <i>doesn't want </i>that kind of love? I want crazy!</span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: blue; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>7) Sugarland, Stuck On You</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jennifer Nettles is completely adorable in this video. It cracks me up. Again, it's more "pop" than country although it's played on country stations... it's still fun! I like fun. Fun is good. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: blue; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>8) Three Doors Down, Here Without You</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is just a beautiful song that speaks to my heart. I'll leave it at that.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: blue; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>9) The Calling, Wherever You Will Go</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This song was definitely one that got me through losing someone very close to me. I still can't read the lyrics without my eyes flooding. Some holes I suppose are never supposed to be filled; some breaks in your heart may never mend. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: blue; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>10) A Thousand Years, Christina Perri</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I never saw the movie Twilight. In fact, I never ever read the books even. However, when I heard this song and was telling a friend about it she had said OH MUH GARSH -- it's from the Twilight series! I wasn't sure if I should still like it then. Ha! However, it's beautiful. It's timeless. Her voice is amazing. You can't <i>not</i> like this song. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: blue; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>11) Elvis Presley, Jailhouse Rock</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Dude, it's Elvis.... I could have filled this entire LIST with Elvis songs that I love. But I didn't. However, since he's THE KING, he definitely has a place in my 13!</span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: blue; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>12) Frankie Ballard, Sunshine & Whiskey</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I love this song. I'm not a fan of sunshine...but he makes it sound so good that you have to like it. ;) You don't wanna get a DWK... </span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: blue; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>13) Bon Jovi & Jennifer Nettles, Who Says You Can't Go Home</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is another fun sing-a-long songs. Truth be told, I had never seen the videos before today but I love it! I especially love how he incorporated the Habitat for Humanity crew. Too fun. Always been a fan of Bon Jovi... cause, you know.. he wants me to lay my hands on him as he lays me down in a bed of roses. ;)</span><br />
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**** April ****http://www.blogger.com/profile/08306149618224290028noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4454269961677754112.post-255335048625612292016-06-09T21:00:00.000-05:002016-06-10T08:25:04.719-05:00Thursday 13<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have a confession -- I absolutely abhor to see a movie before reading the book. I've tried to explain in great detail to my children the atrocities of giving anyone creative liberty over your imagination by allowing yourself to be sucked into a trailer before giving your imagination a chance to step it up a notch. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Therefore, I have a list of books I'm wanting to read before the movies come out. Besides, books are so much better than movies. Especially since Hollywood is completely impotent when it comes to originatility now as they remake EVERY fucking thing under the sun or create yet ANOTHER sequel rather than... I don't know -- BE ORIGINAL!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, here are thirteen books on my list. If you click on the books, they will take you to the Amazon links where you, too, can buy them and enjoy them with me! </span><br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Me-Before-You-Novel-first/dp/B00BXU9WZK/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1465515372&sr=8-3&keywords=me+before+you" target="_blank"><img height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/512mzQI3YlL._SX329_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" width="132" /></a> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Girl-Train-Paula-Hawkins/dp/1594633665/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1465564217&sr=8-1&keywords=the+girl+on+the+train" target="_blank"><img height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51kf7XbQ2lL._SX336_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" width="135" /></a> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/5th-Wave-First-Book/dp/0142425834/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1465564275&sr=8-2&keywords=the+5+wave" target="_blank"><img height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51vucHDzQ-L._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" width="133" /></a> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Nicholas-published-Central-Publishing-Hardcover/dp/B00ES2841I/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1465564346&sr=8-5&keywords=the+choice+nicholas+sparks" target="_blank"><img height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/514j1NeLyML._SX309_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" width="124" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Into-Forest-Jean-Hegland/dp/0553379615/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1465564411&sr=1-1&keywords=into+the+forest+jean+hegland" target="_blank"><img height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/519flj2cTYL._SX313_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" width="126" /></a> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Nerve-Jeanne-Ryan/dp/0803738323/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1465564468&sr=1-1&keywords=nerve+jeanne+ryan" target="_blank"><img height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61-HtuSfSGL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" width="133" /></a> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Max-Perkins-Editor-Scott-Berg/dp/1573226211/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1465564583&sr=1-2&keywords=max+perkins+a.+scott+berg" target="_blank"><img height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41yHhIG%2B56L._SX328_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" width="132" /></a> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Light-Between-Oceans-M-L-Stedman/dp/1451681755/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1465564665&sr=1-1&keywords=the+light+between+oceans" target="_blank"><img height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51zES0qTvqL._SX320_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" width="129" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Monster-Calls-Inspired-idea-Siobhan/dp/0763660655/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1465564741&sr=1-1&keywords=a+monster+calls" target="_blank"><img height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61vTxJTnOsL._SX371_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" width="149" /></a> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Inferno-Robert-Langdon-Dan-Brown/dp/1400079152/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1465564785&sr=1-1&keywords=dan+brown+inferno" target="_blank"><img height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51-EYeqSWgL._SX277_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" width="112" /></a> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fantastic-Beasts-Where-Harry-Potter/dp/0545850568/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1465564837&sr=1-3&keywords=fantastic+beasts+and+where+to+find+them" target="_blank"><img height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51iMJ%2BzBW8L._SX326_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" width="131" /></a> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Zookeepers-Wife-Publisher-Norton-Company/dp/B004N7MTVO/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1465564932&sr=1-3&keywords=the+zookeepers+wife" target="_blank"><img height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31FJVhjwjbL._BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" width="134" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and last, but certainly not least...</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Allegiant-Divergent-Veronica-Roth/dp/0062024078/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1465565034&sr=1-1&keywords=allegiant" target="_blank"><img height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51wY-L84woL._SX330_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" width="133" /></a><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In short, I'm back.</span><br />
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Today I switched out our Advent Calendar activity cards (much to the chagrin of two eager boys) because I added a few more "make it more meaningful" activities for them to partake in and new family traditions. I'm quite excited about those.<br />
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Would you like to see what we are doing in the Driggers family? Here is a copy of my cute little Advent Cards. It has an action, a movie and the first 12 the tie-ins for the song the 12 Days of Christmas and they also have (bottom right hand corner) the order of the alphabet for the little book we do. Sweet, simple. Happy!<br />
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Grab a copy for your very own <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwMZR6FpRRWGaHdnRm0zSkdQWDg" target="_blank">here</a>, and <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwMZR6FpRRWGbUh1NHZ2VGhQZFk" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Basically what happens is that you print the booklet, You can either cut the pages in half and give them one a day but you'll read the little rhyming word on the bottom and then draw a photo to correspond. The real treat in these is when you can star when they're young and see how their skills grow as they age.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yep, I'm here with my fifth installment on how to get your December off to a grand start of memories and fun! Today we're talking about CHRISTMAS MUSIC!</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Grab a December <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwMZR6FpRRWGdkRuZkthM3EtSDg" target="_blank">calendar</a> online or make one or find one at home</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Plug in the dates you already have plans for (school plays, sports, special gatherings)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Jot down the <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwMZR6FpRRWGV0NBUGVjRnhPVzQ" target="_blank">events</a> that happen in your area that you hold an interest in participating in (Santa visits, tree lightings, parades, etc.)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Find your favorite Christmas <a href="http://mamadriggs.blogspot.com/2015/11/day-two-adventure-of-christmas-part-i.html" target="_blank">books</a> and have those ready</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Gather your collection or set your DVR for your favorite Christmas <a href="http://mamadriggs.blogspot.com/2015/11/day-two-adventure-of-christmas-part-2.html" target="_blank">movies</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Decide what <a href="http://mamadriggs.blogspot.com/2015/11/day-three-adventure-of-christmas.html" target="_blank">activities</a> you want to include.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Tie in your <a href="http://mamadriggs.blogspot.com/2015/11/day-four-adventure-of-christmas.html" target="_blank">faith </a>to your fun!</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Remember, each day you will PLAN to view a movie, complete an activity together, read a book, focus on a letter of the alphabet (for those with little ones like me), and address part of the 12 days of Christmas as it parallels to the Bible. The important thing here is to PLAN. You can always deviate from the plan but at least HAVE a plan.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So, as I stated, today we are compiling those playlists! Nothing can set the mood like good music! Christmastime is no different! So what are your favorites? Do you need a list to download? Want to remember your all-time favorites to be sure you buy on your iTunes list?</span></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here are some of my all time favorite Christmas songs that just <i>make</i> my holiday better! I will, however, start with <i>the</i> end-all-be-all Christmas song for me. **swoon**</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Elvis Presley, "Blue Christmas"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Elton John, "Step Into Christmas"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Michael Buble, "Winter Wonderland"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Bing Crosby, "White Christmas" (Otis Redding does a soulful job too!)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mariah Carey, "All I Want For Christmas"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Jackson 5, "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Harry Connick Jr., "Sleigh Ride"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Alan Jackson, "Let It Be Christmas"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Beach Boys, "Little St. Nick"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Casting Crowns, "I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Martina McBride, "O Holy Night" (Celine Dion does a beautiful job too)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Bing Crosby, "It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Gene Autrey, "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Bobby Helms, "Jingle Bell Rock"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Frank Sinatra, "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" (Martina's version is stellar!)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">James Taylor and Natalie Cole, "Baby It's Cold Outside"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Carrie Underwood, "Do You Hear What I Hear?"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Brenda Lee, "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Bruce Springsteen, "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Andy Williams, "It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Rascal Flatts, "I'll Be Home For Christmas"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Band Aid,"Do They Know It's Christmas"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Madonna, "Santa Baby"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dean Martin, "Let It Snow, Let It Snow"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Beach Boys, "Merry Christmas Baby"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thurl Ravenscroft, "You're A Mean One Mr. Grinch"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mariah Carey, "Joy To The World" (I like that it gets upbeat and makes you wanna dance around!)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Wham, "Last Christmas"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mormon Tabernacle Choir, "Carol of the Bells"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Faith Hill, "Where Are You Christmas"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Brian Setzer Orchestra, "Jingle Bells"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">MercyMe, "I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Natalie Cole and Nat King Cole, "The Christmas Song"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Alabama, "Christmas In Dixie"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Ronettes, "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Charles Brown, "Please Come Home For Christmas"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Martina McBride "Away In A Manger"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Julie Andrew, "My Favorite Things"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Bob Rivers, "12 Pains of Christmas" (this one ALWAYS makes me laugh)</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Paul McCartney "A Wonderful Christmas Time" because frankly this song is just... weird. I can't tell if I like it or if I am trying to figure out if he's on a complete acid trip through the whole thing. I think it just reminds me of the really crappy music of his era. The longer I listen to it, I realize he sucks the joy out of my day. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Elmo and Patsy, "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" because there's nothing like ruining everyone's Christmas and then blaming Santa and his crew. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To be completely honest, there isn't much that Martina McBride, Michael Buble or Harry Connick Jr. could sing that is Christmas-themed that I won't listen to them. They're just simply <i>that good!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Many Christians across the world look for ways to make Christ the center of their Christmas advent activities in an effort to bring their faith to the forefront of their holiday season. Sounds hard, right? I mean, we are inundated daily by sales catalogs, flyers, commercials and the ever-constant bombardment of advertisements for the newest, latest and greatest. The solution? Find a Christmas song everyone knows, find some printables online to coincide with the focus, incorporate it into your daily advent so that while your kiddos are engaged in the coloring, you can have meaningful discussion as to the deeper connection between the symbolism in the song and your faith. It’s proven that while kids are engaged, their minds are more open to dialogue than if you’re just standing there preaching to them. This is a great way to start that dialogue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To download a copy of the printable, click</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwMZR6FpRRWGODI5dG5jaDd2Ylk/view?usp=sharing" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. There are two links at the end that will take you to two sources of an online printable coloring page for each of the 12 days of Christmas. One is</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.instantdisplay.co.uk/daysxmascolouring.pdf" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. The other can be found</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.londonderryimages.com/Londonderry-Hometown-Online/Coloring-Books/Christmas/17897313_Pkg4tq#!i=1113425228&k=4pmmpqH" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Another way to tie in your faith is to create a Jesse Tree. The Jesse Tree is basically an advent devotional calendar. There are ways to really tie it into your advent activities and create a more Christ-centered Christmas for you and your family. The story of the Jesse Tree can be found <a href="http://jessetree.info/" target="_blank">here</a>. That link has a downloadable schedule of devotionals as well as a printable paper ornament to coincide with each lesson. The <a href="http://www.feelslikehomeblog.com/" target="_blank">Feels Like Home Blog</a> has a free downloadable e-book. I think this one is BEAUTIFULLY done and the ornaments they use as a family are just awesome. Another can be found <a href="http://www.jacobswellchurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/A-Jesse-Tree-Devotional-for-Families2.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>. And yet another blogger gave testimony of how the Jesse Tree directly impacted her family and how it really helped solidify the holiday to her children. What a blessing! She included a printable on her blog too. Find that <a href="http://tiredneedsleep.blogspot.com/2011/11/free-printable-jesse-tree-ornaments-and.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Jesse Tree is definitely something that would require some planning if you really wanted to go all out for handmade ornaments and heirloom pieces that you could use year in and out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I hope you're enjoying the series and that your FA-LA-LA is in high gear!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;">In an effort to streamline your ADVENTure activities, I have created some printables for you to use. All you need to do is simply print, cut and use them how you wish on your ADVENTure! </span><br style="font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"><br />The first thing you need are some countdown numbers to attach to whatever you are using to count down your days! I'm having technical difficulties on my laptop getting the new to save as a .jpg file so you can see the font, but the style and layout is the same as below.</span><br style="font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"><br />Printable Advent Numbers can be downloaded <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwMZR6FpRRWGSktGQ3JyQk03bU0" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br style="font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"><br />The next thing you'll need to do is figure out what you want to attach them to. What I like to do is to purchase the SMALLEST plain kraft colored gift bags I can find at my local craft store. They're usually 3/$1 at Hobby Lobby. I simply glue the number to the front, insert the activity cards inside and enclose a sweet treat for the day. Sometimes I buy a big box of mini candy canes and put one in there for each kiddo. I have all of our bags placed beside our second Christmas tree. </span><br style="font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"><br /></span></span><a href="http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/e2/92/25/e29225216d0b5f429c2af92b2ea26d2a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #4d469c; float: left; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img alt="Pin von Lucy Foerster auf „Ideas for when I have "time" - lol“ | Pint… ☺ ✿" border="0" height="640" src="http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/e2/92/25/e29225216d0b5f429c2af92b2ea26d2a.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="425" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;">So, ideas for the advent presentation...I've seen some really cute ones, some elaborate ones and some that are just completely over the top. Mine is so simple, doable in just a matter of minutes and voila. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;">Complete. Others are awesome but somewhat time/labor intensive. However, if you're up for a crafty challenge, check out some of these:</span><br style="font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"><br />I have no idea who to give credit for this (left) but I love the random, earthy feel of it. Red, white and kraft colored display. It's tied on a branch that looks like it's hung with baker's twine to two nails. S-I-M-P-L-E and beautiful! You can't beat that!</span><br style="font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"><br /></span><br style="font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"><a href="http://www.parents.com/fun/arts-crafts/kid/holiday-crafts-for-kids/?socsrc=pmmpin131205xmasmuffinpanadvent&crlt.pid=camp.MoOCSvGdITpU&crlt.pid=camp.Jsf3IyvFcHdZ#page=12" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;">Parent's Magazine</a> (<i>below</i>) posted this one that's a fun, easy and<i>colorful </i>way to celebrate. Cardboard, toilet paper tubes that have been halved, tissue paper and glue. You supply the inserts, obviously, and probably some stickers for the numbers. again, another one that is easy and fun! Don't overthink these!</span><br style="font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"><br /></span></span><a href="http://images.meredith.com/parents/images/2013/10/ss_102132977.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #4d469c; float: right; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img alt="Advent calendar" border="0" height="640" src="http://images.meredith.com/parents/images/2013/10/ss_102132977.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="480" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"><img height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihQq2y-ej_lLeEet19cvvgx-NqC6KBAMI0Laz2_RKyU95IlBYeSgbUHaxMoqW61wgJEC5Mk_Ns4uA-UFk0M1nbxrhvYrpIFj63RQHXJ1uC3CsphrI2-rlpBXTXd9-9I5kpWl9uKjgkqA/s640/diyholidayideas.jpg" style="padding: 8px;" width="640" /></span><br style="font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"><a href="http://www.abubblylife.com/" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;">A Bubbly Life</a> featured <a href="http://www.abubblylife.com/2013/11/diy-advent-calendar.html" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;">this</a> advent calendar. I love how fun and whimiscal it is with the red pompom noses attached to the plastic animals that have all been painted white. She gives step-by-step instructions on how to make this one. Plain kraft boxes with stenciled numbers -- easy, yet impressive presentation. Beautiful job. </span><br style="font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"><br /></span></span><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white;"><img height="640" src="http://assets.inhabitots.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Holiday-Advent-Intro-537x537.jpg" style="padding: 8px;" width="640" /></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"><br />Another colorful way to use up some random colored envelopes means you're not only repurposing but also able to recycle when it's all over! Stickers, envelopes, advent activity cards and a little painter's tape make this a quick and easy decoration for the wall -- always great when you're short on display space! Find <a href="http://www.inhabitots.com/how-to-make-a-last-minute-recycled-envelope-advent-calendar/" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;">instructions</a>here. (Featured above).</span><br style="font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"><br /></span></span><span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white;"><img height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdl3MFH15OesGd4IG80P3VUbDTvCsVsYZ83ICug7hAKmYw3jF11Ztjy4My7GSu1RsPMzP3HTfXwpaEuYtvi05mot5T99g1Ih0CfZ_Auvb2dXyqLQO_e3GqgbnmbC8Az5227iDGRkGtHlg/s640/IMG_3225.JPG" style="padding: 8px;" width="406" /></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />For those awesome people out there that can sew (I sadly am not one of them), <a href="http://racheldenbow.blogspot.com/" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;">Smile and Wave</a> created this adorable felt advent calendar (featured right). Instructions can be found <a href="http://racheldenbow.blogspot.com/2009/12/hello-december.html" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;">here</a>.</span><br style="font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"><br /><img alt="IMG_1089" height="400" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5001/5216693041_29bd07aeef.jpg" style="padding: 8px;" width="350" />I have to admit I get a little jealous seeing things like this... that green-eyed mom-envy monster rears its ugly head because it's SO DAD-GUM <i>cute!</i> <a href="http://trilliumdesign.blogspot.com/" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;">Trillium Design</a> created a <a href="http://trilliumdesign.blogspot.com/2010/11/stocking-advent-calendar-tutorial-part.html" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;">tutorial</a> for this bad boy. </span></span><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-r2SQZTK-tzU/Tt7XjxsWQZI/AAAAAAAAKbc/MQmxGGPbIBc/december%252520009_thumb%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #4d469c; float: right; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img alt="december 009" border="0" height="400" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-r2SQZTK-tzU/Tt7XjxsWQZI/AAAAAAAAKbc/MQmxGGPbIBc/december%252520009_thumb%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="265" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"><br /></span><br style="font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"><br /><br />This one is absolutely adorable, doable and again, you're able to repurpose everyday items for an awesome experience. Mindy Pitcher is the artist of this beautiful creation. You can find it <a href="http://mindypitcher.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/our-countdown-to-christmas.html" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;">here</a>. It looks like full sized toilet paper rolls that have been rolled in tissue paper and have the edges sealed after they were filled and then have a printed paper wrapped around and secured with a number attached. This, too, doesn't take up a great deal of space. Yay for that!</span><br style="font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"><img alt="Christmas Advent Kit - www.stampingjill.com - Created by Jill Olsen, Stampin' Up! Demonstrator" height="400" src="http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/6d/2b/77/6d2b775daadd9957887e3d6dcb855b2b.jpg" style="padding: 8px;" width="223" /></span><br style="font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;">On the left is one of those advent calendars that would cause me to take major pause at the even remote idea that I could actually accomplish something so completely adorable. Boxes, tags, stamps, texture and surprises! It's a recipe for a winner! Come check out <a href="http://stampingjill.com/christmas-advent-calendar-kit/advent-2014-001" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;">Stampin Jill.com</a> To the right is another Pinworthy creation made by <a href="http://honeywerehome.blogspot.com/2011/11/christmas-craft-advent-calendar.html?m=1" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;">Honey We're Home</a> (HWH) and you can find instructions <a href="http://honeywerehome.blogspot.com/2011/11/christmas-craft-advent-calendar.html?m=1" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;">here</a>. Truly adorable. </span><br style="font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"><br /></span></span><a href="http://www.icanteachmychild.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Advent-Collage-2-500x500.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #4d469c; float: right; font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img alt="Advent Collage 2 500x500 Advent Boxes" border="0" height="400" src="http://www.icanteachmychild.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Advent-Collage-2-500x500.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"></span><br style="font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;">I like the idea, too, of just a simple box to open as well. <a href="http://www.icanteachmychild.com/advent-boxes-giveaway/" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;">I Can Teach My Child</a>has this awesome advent creative box delivery method. It does help keep everything universal which allows you to realize your limitations for size and such.</span><br style="font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"><br />So as you can see, the delivery can be as simple as colored envelops or as elaborate as you want to make it! We did envelopes the first year and graduated to the little gift bags. They're just fast, I can reuse them and they're functional. I see no reason to fix what isn't broken. </span><br style="font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"><br />So now that you have your calendar printed, dates blocked off for engagement you've already made, as well as class and work parties; you've created a list of books and movies that you want to incorporate into each day as well. Now it's time to start narrowing down your choices by day so that you can have full action activity cards. </span><br style="font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"><br />You need some of those, too? Well, the list that I created in <a href="http://mamadriggs.blogspot.com/2015/11/day-one-adventure-of-christmas.html" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">this post</a>, I made some printable activity cards for. So you need only print, cut and add them to whatever you are doing for your advent container.</span><br style="font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />Prepping for the ADVENTure of Christmas today features two parts -- part one was books and let us not forget the <i>other </i>media source that is definitely considered entertainment for the whole family -- MOVIES!!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have an extensive Christmas movie collection because... well, I love Christmas movies! However, if you don't, have no fear! Set your DVR to record any of your "must see" movies and you're ready to go! Have NetFlix or Amazon Prime? Many are available for instant streaming! Don't have a DVR? No problem! Borrow the movies from the library, your friends, family or, hey -- go start your own collection RIGHT NOW! And, if all else fails, visit this site and check out their schedule -<a href="https://www.facebook.com/25DaysofChristmas/?fref=photo"> ABC's Family 25 Days of Christmas</a> -they showcase the classics every year! In searching for their timeline, I did find this who provides a <a href="http://www.countdownuntilchristmas.com/christmas-movies-a-to-z/">list</a> of Christmas movies from a-z and it's SCARY long! Some shows just shouldn't be made into Christmas movies -- Kung Fu Panda's Holiday Special? Yeah, I'll pass! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />So, what movies do we watch? When should we schedule them? That's entirely up to you. I have a tradition in my home, however, that we watch certain shows on certain days. But, like I've said, I'm ridiculously anal like that. For instance, Christmas Eve -- <i>every year -- </i>we watch The Polar Express and we READ Twas the Night Before Christmas. The shorter movies I try to schedule for the weekdays and the longer movies for Friday, Saturday or Sundays when we have more time. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />Here are the movies to add to your rotation and/or collection! Our Christmas movies that have made the cut:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEigjRKiR3-NrACVKNX6td1z8q-pKVAdIRqAuR1Iiq3VnS4_F5OVQ3JrETir1xtGO-rWt4ymxiuHWQrn0h94ARYWiM6jn6zwbc5Bap7Gn9u5wKhutGQahwt2LvjNOkzl64SDqi4pDJV2tKszNgUoHxzNMApJAkmXzA=" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="http://content9.flixster.com/movie/29/04/290427_det.jpg" height="200" width="133" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>It's A Wonderful Life</b> - This is probably one of my favorite movies of all time. James Stewart and Donna Reed -- it doesn't <i>get</i> much better than that. This movie is timeless, perfect and teaches so many life lessons. And yes, I cry, every.single.time! It isn't officially Christmas season in my house until this one has played. It has to be in black and white, too. No remakes. No colorized version. The original is the only way to go! James Stewart is just endearing as is his doting wife and children. It's a story of family and forgiveness ad love and bring the Christmas spirit alive. If this doesn't warm your heart, you may have no pulse.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSngRapWoWBZp77iJw4t3YIrQ7RVNzWxVoeDW_LtpmcfNii46ObpA" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSngRapWoWBZp77iJw4t3YIrQ7RVNzWxVoeDW_LtpmcfNii46ObpA" width="135" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Home Alone</b> - You <i>will </i>have Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree stuck in your head for days after watching this! Everyone (including me) loves Macaulay Culkin and Joe Pesci in this movie. My whole family still laugh at the antics of KEVIN (you have to say that as the mom when she realizes he's missing) as he defends his home when he is left... "Home Alone" -- see what I did there? Clever, no? John Candy always cracks me up singing polka music and Kevin's mom just cracks me up as she proclaims she will sell her soul to the devil himself just to get back home to her son. The lengths she goes through to get home is something any mother can relate to! A definite on our play list.</span><br />
<a href="http://s29.photobucket.com/user/BrightEyedTxn/media/NLCV.gif.html" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt=" photo NLCV.gif" border="0" src="http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c268/BrightEyedTxn/NLCV.gif" height="200" width="134" /></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation</b> - I can't say enough about this movie other than... if you haven't seen it, I'm not sure we can be friends. This personifies the angst of every Christmas! The lights, the meal fails, the obligatory get together, the crazy relatives and... lest we forget -- Cousin Eddie! I'm not always one for stupid humor (though, knowing I'm a fan of Dumb and Dumber might make you think otherwise), but this movie is just... epic! If you tell me you haven't seen it, I'm going to ask you "You serious, Clark?" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjrsCQZF5BgKne4xJXTLpwv1bQm_n6SN0ZU7oj_ZSh-68TTMqjC65YSSLVCl9IdQQyYmZN-kC9YyKrOmnRrx0guL03IELuOOE1is3tgaV9g492OgZX-zlLdOl4wyhbg9b584lJ7-mG4WNFyZnQprLaiHmxxAUTB4bWq2rg=" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="http://www.crowncombo.com/articles/2006/049_xmas/grinch.jpg" height="200" width="144" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas</b> - Another timeless Christmas movie that brings the words of Dr. Seuss' book to life. James Earl Jones' deep baritone provides the perfect narration of this seasonal favorite. Everyone in our home just adores it. "San-tee Clause, Why? Why are you taking our Christmas tree, why?" The lines will be forever tattooed to your soul... especially "Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas... perhaps... means a little bit more." One of my favorite sayings. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhurnrl6_c4uwfVPnw_9SViuJguOzbS1P797zI59Womr5o3x-JeZYkz4Myi-7WKs1B5yEBHWF9b4wltzuD_KBpUe8CUXgd_TB1Lk0jfSthBVKQkwDMDiONkux9zOCFqkWbHAqTLhyphenhyphenMGThVx5QU4Z0g9vEsnpyKvoWcqf-Lza9sO59af4NoG7HMVgFc=" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="http://i43.tower.com/images/mm106987714/elf-will-ferrell-dvd-cover-art.jpg" height="200" width="140" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /><b>Elf</b> - I have to preface this selection by stating that I am <i>not </i>a fan of Will Ferrell movies. Like most other SNL cast members make it big -- for me, the schtick gets old. Quick. REEEEEALLY quick! However, Elf.IS.EPIC! I laugh my butt off EVERY.SINGLE.TIME! I quote this movie over and over again!! If you haven't seen it -- you just gotta OR again... I'm not sure we can be friends. Elf. Do it! Now! (No excuse to miss, it's on ABC's list multiple times!)</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuYXI50sqtsWI2qgKP3CiPKQBLTfNqiriMD7yrVwTLo_F6-k-aAGh_r50ygZBLkOphNRRz1Z-Q7PFVcH13z0C5c41Sx0Cg7sTlJ2uMCRm_P5PKO5B-lqDhwa3i7XebaKY-zr78VKrJYV8/s1600/A+Christmas+Story.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuYXI50sqtsWI2qgKP3CiPKQBLTfNqiriMD7yrVwTLo_F6-k-aAGh_r50ygZBLkOphNRRz1Z-Q7PFVcH13z0C5c41Sx0Cg7sTlJ2uMCRm_P5PKO5B-lqDhwa3i7XebaKY-zr78VKrJYV8/s200/A+Christmas+Story.jpg" width="138" /></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>A Christmas Story</b> - Bunny suits, leg lamps, Red Ryder bb guns, bullies, over-zealous layering-for-the-snow mom, what's not to enjoy? ALWAYS at the top of my list. Ralphie just warms your heart with his plot to secure a bb gun for Christmas. Not just <i>any</i>, bb gun, mind you. He wants a Red Ryder Carbine Action 200 shot Range Model air rifle which everyone knows "you'll shoot your eye out" with. If you haven't seen this one, I will pray for you because you've obviously had a really shitty life. </span><br />
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<a href="http://s29.photobucket.com/user/BrightEyedTxn/media/JATW.gif.html" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt=" photo JATW.gif" border="0" src="http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c268/BrightEyedTxn/JATW.gif" height="200" width="141" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjoEoTAVpWBElQoFm11cVqI_VgO-1ghRksvOCYXsPYFmCyY9RmL19121AI2v6PD75p-1G1Wghd_qbhKLOVeUrr6FTe8xb7ioUUxnjfn8sYArGHV8fV2l5nTpX2_JupcRAFtxzii3MUrxuI4Vc2c6NX8SMFul4W0opqEERN3nxcDfqypScz2ku26ZxdMVleW-ilH0ez-t8KIUnyMoBYd3AxRGiDVAXwMWtNQMB__UalThw=" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /><b>Jingle All The Way</b> - The typical workaholic procrastinating dad waiting until the last minute for the hottest toy in town means that all moms can totally relate to, and thus, get a real kick out of this. The multiple shenanigans that Arnold Swarzenegger (the dad) and Sinbad (a pissed off postal worker) get into on their no-holds-barred quest to secure the last of the hottest toy in town are hilarious. I also enjoyed Phil Hartman's performance as the smarmy neighbor. </span><br />
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<b style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">Twice Upon a Christmas</b><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"> - I love both of these movies because... well... I'm a Disney fanatic. Both DVDs feature several small movies each. Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas has three small stories. The first </span><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">one has Mickey and Minnie reminiscing how each gave up what they treasured most for the sake of the other's happiness. Selflessness in a way children can understand. Then a story of Goofy and his son Max and how faith in something (even Santa) is important. The last story is like a Groundhog Day of the worst Christmas for Donald until his nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie learn what the spirit of Christmas is really all about. The second disk is equally awesome, has great animation and face it, if you're a Disney fan, you can't help but like it! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><a href="http://s29.photobucket.com/user/BrightEyedTxn/media/MO34S.gif.html" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt=" photo MO34S.gif" border="0" src="http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c268/BrightEyedTxn/MO34S.gif" height="200" width="137" /></a><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></b><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Miracle on 34th Street</b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> - While the DVD image may be colorized, please note that I'm a true lover of black and white classics, so make no mistake that </span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">my </i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">movie is </span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>not </b></i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the colorized version! I love this tale of how an old man going by the name of Kris Kringle fills in the Macy's day parade because their Santa showed up drunk! Kris gets hired as he is (obviously) perfect for the job. Unfortunately, his sanity is called into play because (GASP!) he believes he </span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">IS </i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"THE" Santa Claus and law suits ensue. In the end he makes a believer out of everyone. Treasure for your collection for sure!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<a href="http://s29.photobucket.com/user/BrightEyedTxn/media/CBC.gif.html" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt=" photo CBC.gif" border="0" src="http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c268/BrightEyedTxn/CBC.gif" height="200" width="138" /></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>A Charlie Brown Christmas</b> - If only we saw all of humanity as Charlie Brown saw his Christmas tree! I have always loved this show and looked forward to watching it every year! I would scope out the TV Guide and highlight the days when the Christmas shows came on so that we would NOT miss them! This was well before the days of DVRs and actually OWNING movies! If you didn't catch it on tv, you didn't catch it at all! Snoopy is awesome! Lucy is obnoxious. What's not to love? This musically animated movie created for television in 1965 still (and always will) hold a place on our viewing list. It touches on commercialism, secularism and then focuses on the real meaning of Christmas. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>The Year Without a Santa Claus</b> - Another stop motion animation that I have loved since childhood. My boys, obviously, don't "get it" but that doesn't mean it's not on our list! Santa wakes up with a cold and decides to take the day off instead of delivering presents because he doesn't believe there really is much Christmas magic alive anymore. In the end, he is proved wrong and Christmas comes to every town. It makes me happy. I have to see it! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEi6ekHR5wh4M9tcy_l7ERffN2JvEad1uWIJKnZINgTS9ZOlEe8BZaZWHLcROb2abYgMzavTjJPZWyjzkq8UFi_CJFQ3cNytGyY71S35xf1G-iluqpbArX0JpdL5ws-VctC4WITwnX9mG-oJz4FBOYomFvF3sJj2XPDvkNZQD1zY7U0VinNo9MUgRXSqR7QFB17i5dQrUw=" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="http://guymanningham.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/santa-claus-is-coming-to-town.jpg" height="200" width="135" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /><b>Santa Claus Is Coming To Town: </b>Another stop motion animation classic from 1970 has been one of my favorites since childhood. It's the story of how Santa originated as Kris Kringle fought to get toys in the hands of needy children at Christmastime. And face it, who can <i>not </i>like a movie with a blue eyed mailman (Fred Astaire) singing Santa Claus is Coming To Town? His voice is truly swoon-worthy. I never would have pegged Santa as a ginger, however, but ya know... whatever.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>The Polar Express</b>: This has always been one of my most favorite books to share with my boys. Having this movie brought to life -- I knew it was a not-to-be-missed feature on our list. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Tom Hanks is just AWESOME as the conductor. The computer animation is out of this world beautiful and the story is... and yes, I realize I'm using the hell out of this word -- but it IS... TIMELESS! This will be one that stays around for ever and ever and ever!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><a href="http://s29.photobucket.com/user/BrightEyedTxn/media/PAL.gif.html" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt=" photo PAL.gif" border="0" src="http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c268/BrightEyedTxn/PAL.gif" height="200" width="128" /></a><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Prep & Landing</b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> - This is a new addition to our list but we enjoyed this movie so much when it initially aired, it was immediately purchased and added to the rotation. This is the story of Wayne, a Christmas elf, who has the job to prep millions of homes around the world for Santa's visit. Wayne wants a promotion. His trainee got it. He is bummed. He is given an new trainee but since he is still really butt-hurt about getting passed over (again) for the promotion, doesn't take his job seriously, lets his trainee take the lead which ultimately gets them both BUSTED by a kid! Couple this with a snowstorm and Santa is about to cancel delivery at this house. Wayne has to fix everything and save the day. </span><br />
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<a href="http://s29.photobucket.com/user/BrightEyedTxn/media/MCC.gif.html" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt=" photo MCC.gif" border="0" src="http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c268/BrightEyedTxn/MCC.gif" height="200" width="142" /></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /><b>The Muppet's Christmas Carol -</b> What's not to love about Kermit playing Bob Cratchit? Charles Dickens holiday classic tale as it's never been told before. I mean, Miss Piggy??? Gonzo? Fozzie Bear! Come on! It's THE MUPPETS! If you don't know the Charles Dickens tale, it's a must read. Go buy it now. The ghosts of Christmas past, present and future help Ebenezer Scrooge see the errors of his ways in true Muppet fashion. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /><br /><br />These are the favorites on MY list. There are ALWAYS others you may want to add to yours.... such as...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>Jack Frost</b>. I don't watch it because it's about the boy's dad being dead and that isn't happy. <b>Fred Claus</b>... because it just wasn't happy enough to make my cut. Jim Carrey in <b>A Christmas Carol</b> because frankly, there were some rather "dark" times and it kind of creeped my kids out when they were younger. Since my boys' ages vary, I'm not adding it to the cut because I want to keep it kind of light. And, <b>Santa Paws</b>. I haven't ever seen it but... it looks like it would be cute.<br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgXaoYEtPHRygqASjlZav0NTM6FqQ_flJ86TsReM6NZ1qxr9gw3Anev3G1773nCSCOuW3QRQcTvLlsBSyW9Jwm9Kxkr71-JnsVZM_2Wlu8NDO72z3BV8RMFkZt25ehIJHNig1acI_qdJtF-kWcvACdcUAXMRZSlaP07KU0s7g=" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lve1gaK4qs1qg4omgo1_500.jpg" height="200" width="133" /></a><img alt="The Search For Santa Paws" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51mQ9bB1wKL._SL160_.jpg" /> </span><br />
<a href="http://s29.photobucket.com/user/BrightEyedTxn/media/WC.gif.html" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><br /></a><a href="http://s29.photobucket.com/user/BrightEyedTxn/media/WC.gif.html" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><br /></a><a href="http://s29.photobucket.com/user/BrightEyedTxn/media/WC.gif.html" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><br /></a><a href="http://s29.photobucket.com/user/BrightEyedTxn/media/WC.gif.html" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt=" photo WC.gif" border="0" src="http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c268/BrightEyedTxn/WC.gif" height="200" width="139" /></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /><br /><b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Honorary mentions</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>White Christmas </b>- This one isn't on the list of my advent, but it's a favorite of mine that I watch alone. I am the only one in my home that is a sucker for the old classic movies (The Bishop's Wife, Holiday Inn, etc.) The movie itself is from 1954 and takes place in a lodge in Vermont where it is almost always a white Christmas. I luff it. It's awesome. End of story!</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEj1H5rDZbgQGt8bxMn4mJ2QJoKHnEUNSjlcIuhTOQQERS_XdtJKJFnV6xfh1A8ED_yR9MqrffQIVrRE3gMjBiM6ZEVsyGBiaHHrjXWY09rHkObQAsK8fuQ6Uq0oUBlsLgPXHypfsVorpaeEE0cJDHwel5LFbOxxJ2dRuEB4wg=" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="The Nightmare Before Christmas (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)" border="0" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61XmviYQr1L._SL160_.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>The Nightmare Before Christmas - </b>Personally, we watch this one all year round because it's just AWESOME! All the songs get stuck in my head. "What's this? What's this? There's color everywhere! What's this? What's this? There's white things in the air"</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjYn9JBCaKtgOcQ6XjXxMUICPGW_Z5_no7L059XqLS8O4VEbH64O3kNnckWi-5UK4NHh88qp8PJ82cne2O6OZymuE_hyphenhyphenVa4ELCThNytYmbPMIYIsJQuO6NY9dtHBhFh3jveyp-OYGWwE-ZE6B4r5zwq_RAVCqonjdGPrSsG=" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjYn9JBCaKtgOcQ6XjXxMUICPGW_Z5_no7L059XqLS8O4VEbH64O3kNnckWi-5UK4NHh88qp8PJ82cne2O6OZymuE_hyphenhyphenVa4ELCThNytYmbPMIYIsJQuO6NY9dtHBhFh3jveyp-OYGWwE-ZE6B4r5zwq_RAVCqonjdGPrSsG=" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Arthur Christmas" border="0" src="http://content6.flixster.com/movie/11/16/74/11167404_det.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>NEW THIS YEAR</b></span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><b>Arthur Christmas - </b>I actually just learned about this movie yesterday so this is going to be my new one to watch this year! Synopsis is that it reveals the incredible, never-before seen answer to every child's question: 'So how does Santa deliver all those presents in one night?' The answer: Santa's exhilarating, ultra-high-tech operation hidden beneath the North Pole. But at the heart of the film is a story with the ingredients of a Christmas classic - a family in a state of comic dysfunction and an unlikely hero, Arthur, with </span><span id="movieSynopsisRemaining" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;">an urgent mission that must be completed before Christmas morning dawns.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><b style="color: red; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">NEVER... IN ANY YEAR</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So, your job is to now go through and get your movies on your calendar! Some are great for 30 minutes of dinner prep, others are great for family viewing. Pick and choose what you want to watch when and get it on the calendar! If you don't own them, find out when they're airing on the networks, schedule your DVR or find out if they have live streaming from Netflix or Amazon Prime! Do it now! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(Oh, and don't forget the popcorn!)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Getting in the spirit! Yes, I am!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />Day two! You still with me? Today is the second installment on how to get your December off to a grand start of memories and fun! Today we're talking about media. And, not just <i>any </i>media --<i>Christmas </i>media! Books and movies! Oh My!<i> </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But before we jump right in, to review, in <a href="http://mamadriggs.blogspot.com/2015/11/day-one-adventure-of-christmas.html">this post</a>, you were told to:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Get something to write on and to write with</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Grab your December calendar (one was provided for you!)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Plug in the dates you already have plans for (school plays, sports, special gatherings)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jot down the events that happen in your area that you hold an interest in participating in (Santa visits, tree lightings, parades, etc.)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Make your list of books and movies</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Brainstorm crafty ideas</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">List any activities you want to do such as acts of service</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now that you have your foundation completed, you can tweak it to your liking! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />Setting things up with my method, each day you should PLAN to view a movie, complete an activity together, read a book, focus on a letter of the alphabet (for those with little ones like me), and address part of the 12 days of Christmas as it parallels to the Bible. The important thing here is to PLAN. You can always deviate from the plan but at least HAVE a plan. Say it with me now... fail to plan, plan to fail.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />Today, we get to talk about books and movies! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />One thing we love in this house is CHRISTMAS! I LOVE all things Christmas! Because of this, I'm a tad of a <strike>hoarder</strike> collector of Christmas books and movies. I mean, I have a slew of them! (If you don't know what a "slew" is, it's more than a lot and less than anything that could potentially qualify me as a bonafide hoarder worthy of my own episode on Intervention.) If you don't own any Christmas books, have no fear -- the library is your <i>friend</i>! And, so are your friends! In a bind? Do a weekly Christmas book swap with your best buds! What a great way to experience new books for no cost!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />So, what books should we read? When should we schedule them? That's entirely up to you. I have a tradition in my home, however, that we read certain books on certain days. Much like movies -- I'm ridiculously OCD in my planning like that. For instance, Christmas Eve -- <i>every single year </i>we read 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. I mean, you just have to! Do you have some favorite Christmas books? If so, share them in the comments! I'm always looking for new books to check out!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />And here are the books that make the cut at our house:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /><img src="http://www.thereadingnook.com/image_manager/attributes/image/image_2/34277637_7724784_thumbnail.jpg" height="200" width="151" /><img alt="The Christmas Story" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61OwjX0NBhL._SL500_AA300_.jpg" height="200" width="200" /><img alt="Slide 5" src="http://fun.familyeducation.com/images/polarexpresslong_V.jpg" height="200" width="129" /><img alt="Slide 8" src="http://fun.familyeducation.com/images/TheBestChristmasPageant_V.jpg" height="200" width="129" /><img src="http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Little-Big-Book-Christmas-Lena-Tabori-1999-Hardcover/00/$T2eC16FHJHIE9nysd9VnBP6qz1YMOw~~_35.JPG" height="198" width="200" /><img src="http://bookscoops.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/what-is-christmas.jpg" height="170" width="200" /><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51pLeaQIPwL._SL500_AA300_.jpg" height="200" width="200" /><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HV5TDYQYL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" height="200" width="200" /><img src="http://www.scholastic.com/content5/media/products/33/0439042933_xlg.jpg" height="200" width="182" /><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MXfkQPSUL._SL500_AA300_.jpg" height="200" width="200" /><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61sAm4x5QQL._SL500_AA300_.jpg" height="200" width="200" /><img src="http://www.perma-bound.com/ws/image/cover/62013/m?ref=vd" height="200" width="192" /><img alt="Santa Calls" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61F4RJAPYNL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" height="200" width="200" /><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EMnM%2B8EDL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" height="200" width="200" /><img height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EoW3Ds4fy34/S_gdCWVHScI/AAAAAAAAABM/vOjMlUXab04/s200/whos_that_knocking_cover_300.jpg" width="182" /><img alt="Bear Stays Up for Christmas" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61Mo7fQmo8L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" height="200" width="200" /><img alt="How Santa Got His Job" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61qVB2cVzRL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" height="200" width="200" /><img alt="Shhh!" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51n-ZtvlFRL._SL500_AA300_.jpg" height="200" width="200" /><img alt="B Is for Bethlehem (Picture Puffins)" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51IHL5aOc3L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" height="200" width="200" /><img alt="I Smell Christmas: Scratch-and-sniff Book (Little Critter Board Books)" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61XS8HEBCXL._SL500_AA300_.jpg" height="200" width="200" /><img src="http://www.terraexperience.com/images/Books/Children's/DePaola,%20Tomie_The%20Legend%20of%20the%20Poinsettia.jpg" height="200" width="156" /><img alt="Slide 0" src="http://fun.familyeducation.com/images/Grinch_V.jpg" height="200" width="129" /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />I will have to add that there are three books that every parent AND grandparent needs. Period. I don't care what your children's ages are:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />This book is such a treasured heirloom for me and my kids. This has seven of Jan Brett's works in it: The Mitten, The Wild Christmas Reindeer, Trouble with Trolls, The Twelve Days of Christmas, The Hat, Christmas Trolls, The Night Before Christmas. The words are timeless.... the illustrations are so detailed, intricate and amazing. This one book will take up a week's time on your list alone...and it is worth the time! What's even BETTER is that you can really bring her characters to life because she has printable activities on her <a href="http://www.janbrett.com/">website</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIb1rPXoXferlDneUpBKScsyBseY215ccZdMBDdjIWe1swLdEvL67PDE-k8BwETt6DuM833XdBG5HWQe-j-lbQwmMaRGLDVXhgvf4c1qcjZkbOT6gpIBxCf5i2ZV0kATrvu3S7AeJ2TmU/s1600/CrippledLamb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIb1rPXoXferlDneUpBKScsyBseY215ccZdMBDdjIWe1swLdEvL67PDE-k8BwETt6DuM833XdBG5HWQe-j-lbQwmMaRGLDVXhgvf4c1qcjZkbOT6gpIBxCf5i2ZV0kATrvu3S7AeJ2TmU/s200/CrippledLamb.jpg" width="160" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />The Crippled Lamb is a timeless story by Max Lucado that is read by someone in our family either ON Christmas or on Christmas eve at our family gathering. It's the story about a little lamb who wants more than nothing to go with his friends to the pasture but being crippled, he can't keep up. As such, he has to stay behind. But then, in the night, visitors come to the stable...and he discovers his purpose was one of great importance. If you can make it through this one with a dry eye -- you've got me beat. It's a definite for every family in my book!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: center;">And, although Jan Brett has The Night Before Christmas in her treasury collection... and it <i>is </i>awesome... I simply LOVE the illustrations in this version as well. The Night Before Christmas by Clement Moore. While sometimes we read this book (The Night Before Christmas, generically) more than once, I save this one for the big night because the pictures are just THAT GOOD!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span>To me, one of the fun aspects of including the tradition of READING to your children is that every year you'll discover something new... or think of another way to bring these books and stories to life. I think the magic of Christmas is completely kept alive in the words we read that fill our hearts.... and minds before bedtime.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />If you're a Pinner, you'll find that some people have found a way to make reading a gift by wrapping each book individually. They label them 1-24 so that each day they have a "present" to open through Christmas Even. Because, let's face it -- kids love to open stuff! Treat them to a gift of books every single day! How fun is that? I, however, won't waste the paper or my time wrapping each book because I like to leave them laying around as part of my Christmas decor.</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Are you guys as excited as I am to plan a December to remember for your entire family? Well, grab your pen and paper and get ready! Cause... here... we... go!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Today is Day One. Today is the day where we take our handy dandy December calendar, print it and get prepared to fill it full of fun! Don't have time to go searching the internet for a printable December calendar? Not to worry, I've got one ready for you right here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Once you have your December calendar printed, it's time to get your own personal calendar front and center so that you can jot down important dates, deadlines and events that you already know that you need to take into account before scheduling something else (that you know will be more fun but obligations are obligations) on that day. You'll see in a bit where that comes into play.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is where you really have to narrow down what you want to accomplish this December and really think about what activities are definite MUST DO's and what activities are just filler. This is a good time to rethink your traditions to find out if you're really having fun or if you're just doing the same old crap just because you've always done it that way. If it's drudgery, it's not worth looking forward to!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For many people this season represents a renewal of their Christian faith and I will have ways to incorporate that into your daily ADVENTure activities as well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So, when you take into account all you want to do, read, watch, taste, and experience... it sure takes a lot of planning, right? Wrong! It just takes a couple of hours of dedication and a little time once a week to make sure all of your ducks are in a row! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Without further delay, here are some easy steps to follow to make the process a little more seamless!</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Grab a spiral notebook, some blank paper, index cards, whatever you want to use... just make sure you have something write on and something to write with!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Print out your blank December calendar. In fact, print TWO. I like to use one as a rough draft. It's inevitable that I will forget something so it's easier to have one to scratch up before making one pretty one!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Plug in your known commitments. Include your kids' class parties, your work party, family commitments, anything and everything you can think of -- pencil it in. If you ALWAYS have dinner with the in-laws the Saturday before Christmas, put that on your calendar NOW! Seeing what you already have on your calendar helps with scheduling your advent activities because you will be aware of your time constraints for activities that may be a little more labor intensive or time consuming.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Check the internet, your newspaper, your church, with your friends... anywhere you can to find lists of local activities that you may want to include in your advent plans. If you're in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, you'll be happy to know that I have included a list of them for you at the bottom of this post.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Make a list of your favorite Christmas books you want to incorporate into your advent. If you don't have one, you will shortly! Tomorrow's post will include a list of our favorite Christmas books and movies! For instance, it's NEVER Christmas at my house until we watch It's A Wonderful Life! I know I'm not the only one that has movies that you just have to watch... the ones you just can't miss each season? Write those down. There are so many awesome movies out there now for Christmas that you will have absolutely no problem filling your entire ADVENTure with one per day. Don't believe me? Be sure to check out tomorrow!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Search Pinterest for your crafty ideas. There is a wealth of information all over the internet. Don't try to recreate the wheel! If someone has done something and you love it and want to do it - DO IT! This is not a competition... this is simply about making opportunities to make memories with your kids. Plain and simple! So, search Pinterest for ways to help YOU bring out the creative side in your kids!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Make a list of things to do... activities and acts of service that you may want to incorporate in your ADVENTUre. This is separate from the places to go and events to attend (number 4 above).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Have kids that like to draw? I have created an entire printable "ABC's of Christmas" book for you to print out and enjoy with your kids. Print a page a day and let their inner artist flow!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Shop! Once you have your list of crafts and activities, you will need to go shopping for supplies. The dollar store IS YOUR FRIEND! And remember, follow the scouting rule of thumb -- KISS. Keep It Simple Silly (I actually say "stupid", but we won't say the "s" word today!)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Finalize. Each day of my December ADVENTure plan includes a book, a movie, an activity, a letter of the alphabet, a bible verse and usually a little piece of candy.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Once you have your December days planned, it will be easy to go with the flow and create your December to remember!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One caveat is to remember that it's better to have planned and failed, than failed to plan. If you have no plan, you're more likely to stalk Pinterest staring at all the awesome ideas you COULD and SHOULD have done but didn't. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">However, simply stated, have a plan because you can always deviate. Things come up, kids get sick, activities change and so does the weather! Be flexible but have a framework!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As promised, if you're in the D/FW area, <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwMZR6FpRRWGV0NBUGVjRnhPVzQ">here is a list</a> of the upcoming events and local activities in my area that you may want to include in your December ADVENTures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So, like I said, what I like to PLAN on my rough draft for each day is a letter of the alphabet, a bible verse, an activity, a movie and a book. So, if you want to incorporate those into your daily plans -- more power to ya and here ya go!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One thing that always brings more fun to our days is to actually create a theme to the day. For instance, if we cut out snowflake ornaments, we may watch Frosty the Snowman and make snowman pancakes for dinner. It's easy and fun to tie it all into everything together. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So, for now, this should hopefully be enough to get you well on your way to planning your best Christmas season ever! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">See you tomorrow! Be warm! Stay jolly!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">...plastered on <i>every </i>governmental institution until <i>someone </i>gets this country back on track. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.fox4news.com/story/29521331/fort-worth-sclc-president-seeks-to-eliminate-confederate-traditions-from-public-schools">This report</a> is what initially got me thinking... This joker wants a local school to change their mascot because "Rebel" is <i>offensive</i>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">People... what have we turned into as a society? Is everyone just a big panty-waste bag of butt hurt whiners that seek to find something anywhere to be offended over so that they can have SOMETHING to complain about? Is <i>everything REALLY </i>so grossly offensive or has every lost the very idea that YOU are responsible for YOUR REACTION. In fact, the only thing that IS in your control <i>is </i>YOUR response to any situation. YOU have to be in control.... of you. However, if you choose to be butt hurt or "offended" over situation, so be it, but don't whine about it because that's <i>your choice.</i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Our government has proven time and again that they are nothing but a bunch of spineless pussies that bends to every squeaky wheel and "offended" person on the planet in the name of political correctness. I have to ask you though-- when did it become your right to NOT be offended? The last time I checked, being offended -- a situational circumstance -- doesn't necessarily mean that anything wrong has actually transpired. Simply stated, you don't <i>have </i>the right to NOT be offended. Yet, it seems that our new national motto should be...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">People were belly aching over a historical flag that has now been <a href="http://video.foxnews.com/v/4348041777001/confederate-flag-removed-from-south-carolina-state-capitol">taken down</a> in South Carolina. Why? Because people were <i>offended</i>. They claim that America was built on the backs of slaves and that flag is a symbol of racism and bigoted hate mongers promoting white supremacy. Look, slavery is bad. In fact, I don't know a single white person alive today that would consider slavery a good thing for an iota of a nanosecond -- EVER. Yet, we - the white people in society - are continually blamed for the wrong-doing of <i>other </i>white people? Did you hear me? I <i>agree</i> with you. Slavery is bad. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I personally believe that <i>all </i>people are inherently good. But don't blame every white person in America for the acts of lunacy of a few. Need I remind anyone that there were black slave owners, too? There are actual fact-based, historical accounts of black slaves that -even when freed- <i>stayed with their slave owners</i> because of the quality of life that they had. I have no doubts that there were many stereotypical racist pig slave owners. I have NO DOUBT, but that doesn't mean that I am one. Nor should I feel any ownership for something any other white person in history has done. I don't feel any connection to them any more than I feel a connection to the crazy asshat that gunned down the people in the church in South Carolina. I <i>don't </i>think like him. I'm <i>not </i>capable of doing anything like him. I'm <i>not </i>him. <i>He </i>isn't <i>me. </i>I shouldn't need to <i>own </i>ANY "white guilt" because of being a white person in America. The color of my skin is the only common trait I share with that monster. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm someone who not only believes that #blacklivesmatter but I believe that #ALLlivesmatter... even the ones the Democratic party wants to abort. Oh yeah, that's right. If you want to go THERE... then YES... let's GO THERE. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6000003814697px;">John Piper gave a <a href="http://www.desiringgod.org/sermons/when-is-abortion-racism">sermon </a>in January 2007 on abortion and racism. "Racism </span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 25.6000003814697px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">might</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6000003814697px;">—and often did—result in the killing of innocent humans; in our history, it often did. But abortion </span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 25.6000003814697px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>always</i></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6000003814697px;"><i> </i>results in the killing of innocent humans. Between 1882 and 1968, 3,446 Black people were lynched in America. Today more Black babies are killed by white abortionists every three days than all who were lynched in those years." One third of the black population has been wiped out before it ever started, because of abortion. Something the Democratic party is hell bent on keeping. Look at the <a href="http://www.abort73.com/abortion/abortion_and_race/">numbers</a> people. You can't argue with cold hard facts. If you don't arm yourself with the truth, you're already part of the problem.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6000003814697px;">Martin Luther King's own daughter, Dr. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6000003814697px;">Alveda C. King, has called abortion the "black genocide." She too, believes that black lives matter... from the beginning.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Along the same lines, though, don't #whitelivesmatter??? and #redlivesmatter??? and #yellowlivesmatter??? and #brownlivesmatter???</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you're a proud black man, you can <i>be </i>a proud black man. If you're a proud Native American, you can say you're a proud Native American. If you're a proud Asian-American, you can <i>be</i> a proud Asian-American. However, if you say you're a "proud white man"... you're racist. Why? Why <i>is </i>there a double standard? Can't everyone be proud of their heritage? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For the love of PETE, we can't even have a woman post her beauty routine to her Instagram followers because someone gets <i>offended</i> as if she's doing something to incite hate and racism. SERIOUSLY? Perhaps they need to take that up to the mask company and ask them to change the color to red. But... but then... Native Americans might be offended. Yet, if you change it to green, the vegans may be offended that we are mocking Mother Earth. If you change it to white, the black population will be offended that you're wanting them to look like Caucasians. Maybe they should have just added glitter. Glitter makes everything fabulous.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">QUIT GETTING SO BUTT HURT OVER EVERYTHING BECAUSE --BELIEVE IT OR NOT-- IT REALLY ISN'T ALL ABOUT YOU!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What about the woman who <i>is </i>white but <i>feels</i> black and was (until recently) a leader of a local NAACP chapter. She's a liar and a fraud and even received government money based on her nonexistent African-American heritage. Where is the uproar people? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We have entire communities rioting over the shooting death of a career criminal with a rap sheet to prove it who was involved in a physical altercation with a police officer. Forensic evidence showed that he was GOING AFTER THE OFFICER'S GUN! And what do you think he was going to do with said gun once he acquired it? Do you think he was going to enter into peaceful discussion? No, the guy was out of control! But he was targeted for being black. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Where is the public outcry for the 11 blacks killed and over 50 wounded JUST over the July 4th weekend in Chicago? This is a city with some of the nation's toughest gun control laws. How can you not look at <a href="http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htus8008.pdf">the data</a> and make the informed decisions for yourself? Guns don't kill people. People kill people. Blacks make up just 13% of the nation's population but are responsible for over half of it's murders. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">White people are twice as likely to be killed by police. Even if someone <i>is</i> killed by police, I can tell you that until an extensive investigation is conducted, you're not going to see <i>me </i>raise a stink over it as if that person was a saint and can do no wrong. I understand the idea of needing to come together to grieve but to try to paint ANYONE as someone that they're CLEARLY not does nothing for your case. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We have a president who bends over backwards at every race event that has anything to do with his black heritage but let's not forget, he's half WHITE, too. I went rounds and rounds with a well educated (post graduate degree) black friend of mine the other day (who shall remain nameless) who happens to be a Republican (I'm not), because she is not a fan of Obama (I'm not either), but someone assumed she was just because she was black! Her contention is what I've read time and again -- people of color think that he's "one of them" and that he understands the plight of the black man. He went to a private college prep school. Then went to school at Occidental College. Private school people. PRIVATE COLLEGE. Elitist snob? Currently, one year at Occidental is about $63,000. Tell me how "in touch" he <i>really</i> is with the common man -- of <i>any </i>color. Oh, but it gets better. Then he went to Columbia. Current tuition is again, about $63,000 per year. (Yes, I realize that there is a HUGE college bubble, but, I implore you to understand and recognize that private school tuition is HIGH and NOT for your poverty-stricken, down-trodden "common man" which seem to think he's one of them). How about Harvard? Again, another high dollar private college. Think about it. His college tuition for one year even back in the day is like... three times the annual poverty level. But he continues to be present at every "black" incident who seems to fit his liberal ideals. Megyn Kelly says this best... watch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But I digress... this is about your right... to <i>not </i>be offended...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As with the story of the gentleman wanting a local high school to change its mascot because it may be considered "offensive," I had recently read <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2015/06/23/every-state-flag-is-wrong-and-here-is-why/">this report</a> as to why there is something wrong with <i>every </i>state flag. I think you'll agree. If you don't, you clearly have no sense of humor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">With everyone being offended about <i>everything</i>, I thought I should jump on the bandwagon and go after the NFL. I mean.... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="Buffalo Bills logo" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/77/Buffalo_Bills_logo.svg/100px-Buffalo_Bills_logo.svg.png" />The <b>Buffalo Bills </b>clearly need to rethink the whole idea of their name. Their logo is that of a Bison, not a buffalo. Plus, the gentleman they're trying to honor actually was partially responsible for killing up to 100 head a day which the Native Americans depended upon for as a main food source. His job led the suppression of an entire population of indigenous people. A caped charging blue BISON symbolizes nothing more than the white man's beat down of the Native American Indian. Tsk, tsk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="Miami Dolphins logo" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/81/Miami_Dolphins_2013_Logo.svg/100px-Miami_Dolphins_2013_Logo.svg.png" />The <b>Miami Dolphins </b>should just be embarrassed to use Flipper as their mascot. Wouldn't the sharks be more intimidating? This just isn't working for me. Look at flipper jumping in front of the sun. Wooohooo! Marine biologists will likely be offended you are not giving other aquatic species the same limelight. Puffer fish anyone? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="New England Patriots logo" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b9/New_England_Patriots_logo.svg/100px-New_England_Patriots_logo.svg.png" />New England Patriots should definitely find a new mascot. I mean, it's a grey man. You can't expect other races to rally around the support of Nosferatu. Someone has coined the term "flying Elvis" and for <i>that </i>and <i>that </i>alone, I am offended. You can, never... EVER... compare this to THE KING. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="New York Jets logo" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6b/New_York_Jets_logo.svg/100px-New_York_Jets_logo.svg.png" />New York Jets should just be DQ'd immediately as they're from and play in Jersey. False advertising! Next?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="Baltimore Ravens logo" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/16/Baltimore_Ravens_logo.svg/100px-Baltimore_Ravens_logo.svg.png" />Baltimore Ravens. Well, if you know anything about them... they were the Browns. They went from an orange helmet to a purple bird. What an improvement, right? I'm fairly certain that ornithologists worldwide would be quite offended at the very idea of you tattooing initials on the side of this poor bird's head. For that, you need to try again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="Cincinnati Bengals logo" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Cincinnati_Bengals.svg/100px-Cincinnati_Bengals.svg.png" />Cincinnati Bengals should change their mascot as while the Bengal tiger is a graceful, powerful predator, it's not indigenous to America. Plus, let's be honest here -- they just suck (the team, not the cat). Couple that with the fact that the very shade of orange is neither indicative of a true Bengal tiger, nor is it flattering on anyone is just grounds for elimination.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="Houston Texans logo" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/28/Houston_Texans_logo.svg/100px-Houston_Texans_logo.svg.png" />Houston Texans should definitely change their logo as vegans world-wide should not have to support the beef-industry if they wanted to get behind this football team. Shame on Houston... shame... shame!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="Jacksonville Jaguars logo" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4e/Jacksonville_Jaguars_2013_logo.png/100px-Jacksonville_Jaguars_2013_logo.png" />Jacksonville Jaguars should be definitely change their logo. Do you see the color of this cat's tongue? It's like... some sort of gangrene. That and their owner looks like Ron Jeremy. That's reason enough to be offended, though mostly just embarrassed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="Tennessee Titans logo" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c1/Tennessee_Titans_logo.svg/100px-Tennessee_Titans_logo.svg.png" />Tennessee Titans should change their logo if for no other reason than it reminds <i>me</i> of the American Gladiators and for that, and that reason alone, they should be embarrassed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="Kansas City Chiefs logo" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e1/Kansas_City_Chiefs_logo.svg/100px-Kansas_City_Chiefs_logo.svg.png" />Kansas City Chiefs <i>clearly </i>need to change their logo as the Native American Indians should definitely be butt hurt over the fact that their hunting tools are glorified in such a way. Oh the humanity!</span><br />
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/>Chicago Bears can't use a C as their logo when their mascot is a bear. It's just... dumb. However, they're likely not to offend anyone other than a handwriting teacher because a true "c" doesn't have that ... that weird point in the center.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="Detroit Lions logo" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3f/New_Lions_Logo.svg/100px-New_Lions_Logo.svg.png" />Detroit Lions logo is no different that the rest of these crazy bastards! They're a mess. I mean, come on ... it's <i>blue... </i>which means it's likely <i>frozen solid </i>from exposure to the elements in their merciless arctic winters. Lions are from Africa people! The savanna! Perhaps this is another reason why they haven't had a championship since the 50's. If for no other reason than that do everyone a favor and freshen your logo up, maybe you'll hit a lucky streak. I'm offended they can't find an American animal worthy of being logo-ized.</span><br />
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<img alt="Green Bay Packers logo" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Green_Bay_Packers_logo.svg/100px-Green_Bay_Packers_logo.svg.png" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Green Bay Packers -- big CAPITAL G. OOOOOOh that's something to be afraid of! Wooooooo! I'm shaking in my boots! Not really, I just wanted to make them feel better. However, I do think again, some vegans may get their panties in a wad when they discover that the Packers are actually referring to --<i>meat </i>packers. Yup, you've got some </span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">major</i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> potential offensive material there. While t</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">heir team name does instill pride in their hometown, and that's a good thing, their fan base (the Cheeseheads) started their group at a local baseball game and carried it over to their football. So, they have also became synonymous with the Green Bay Packer Cheeseheads. Unfortunately, I think those who are lactose intolerant would be offended at this blatant disregard to their intestinal plight and so you should definitely consider something a little less... potentially discomforting. May I suggest... Just Green Bay?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="Minnesota Vikings logo" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b0/Minnesota_Vikings_Logo_2013.png/100px-Minnesota_Vikings_Logo_2013.png" />Minnesota Vikings. I'm offended they're showing horns. What are they? Angry white blonde devils? Why do blondes have all the fun? It's <i>nooooooot faiiiiiir! </i>Plus, there have been reports that the hats were not historically accurate, nor was their complete barbaric behavior so... your entire personification of a viking may very well be a complete historical fraud. Choose again, just for the sake of historical accuracy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="Atlanta Falcons logo" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c5/Atlanta_Falcons_logo.svg/100px-Atlanta_Falcons_logo.svg.png" />Atlanta Falcons' logo looks like two birds mating. If copulating fowl are what you wish to populate your fan base with, I'm thinking parents won't be real excited about that. I mean, when Janet Jackson poped a nip at the Superbowl, you'd have thought that someone had dropped a string of expletives that would have caused your ears to bleed. (People -- IT WAS A MOTHER EFFING NIPPLE. Look around. We all have them. Chandler Bing has three. Why are we more worried about our kids seeing a freaking body part than we are about watching someone get SHOT? What is more natural here? A nipple, or watching your child blow away five army men on their latest Xbox game? Your priorities are completely fucked up. It's a boob. If you don't have any, you are one (if you're offended by this). Get over it.) However... copulating fowl is just... weird.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="Carolina Panthers logo" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7a/Carolina_Panthers_logo_2012.svg/100px-Carolina_Panthers_logo_2012.svg.png" />Carolina Panthers should be ashamed. I mean, their logo is that of a lazy animal that sleeps 18 hours a day and might eat once a week. Wow... what a tough warrior. I think by being a losing team and having a black logo, you're building a bad precedence for all black animals and so you definitely need to change both the name and the logo to something less offensive. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="New Orleans Saints logo" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/New_Orleans_Saints.svg/100px-New_Orleans_Saints.svg.png" />New Orleans Saints. Unless you want to continually be affiliated and associated with the Boy Scouts of American who DO let in gay scouts into their organization, that would definitely be a contention for supporters. This is an extreme likeness to the BSA Fleur Di Lis. Along the same lines, you should just go ahead and put rainbow colors across that so as not to offend anyone. If you want to go back to its true origin... it's a metal depiction of a french flower. How sweet! Maybe you SHOULD keep this and make it rainbow colored. I mean, who can be offended by a flower that represents the heritage of the French royal family and your city. We know how the French are, after all. {insert eye roll} American should be offended you're honoring another country. Pick an alligator... or a hurricane (ooooohhh.. bad joke). Apparently, I'm not the only one jumping on this particular team's <a href="http://buzzpo.com/liberals-say-symbol-of-new-orleans-is-racist">racist bandwagon</a>, either!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="Tampa Bay Buccaneers logo" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Tampa_Bay_Buccaneers_2014.png/100px-Tampa_Bay_Buccaneers_2014.png" />Tampa Bay Buccaneers need to change their logo because I'm sure it's considered blasphmy to depict a pigskin upon their Jolly Roger. Pirates the world over will certainly be offended.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="Arizona Cardinals logo" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/72/Arizona_Cardinals_logo.svg/100px-Arizona_Cardinals_logo.svg.png" />Arizona Cardinals clearly need to find a new mascot. If for no other reason that you're taking a bird that <i>might </i>weigh 1.4 ounces and trying to make it something to fear. I'm fairly certain.... that's not... happy. <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">Ornithologists the world over will likely take issue with this predatory depiction of their beloved feathered friend. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="St. Louis Rams logo" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b8/St_Louis_Rams_logo.svg/100px-St_Louis_Rams_logo.svg.png" />St. Louis Rams is definitely grounds for being considered abusive, angry and offensive. We've done nothing to this Ram and he is clearly hostile. I'm offended. He must change. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="San Francisco 49ers logo" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/49ers_Logo.svg/100px-49ers_Logo.svg.png" />San Francisco 49ers should change their name, move and pick a new logo so we aren't constantly reminded that this is a safe-haven city for illegal immigrants to hide and be given everything and anything they need and the federal government can't touch them. Anything associated with San Fran Sicko really isn't good. It's all bad. Really Really Bad. They have a cool bridge but I have no desire to visit because my tourist dollars will go where they're needed for AMERICANS. Yes, I speak with my money. Kiss my ass if you think that's a bad idea. The Almighty Dollar is the only way to get attention anymore. San Fran-sicko. I just can't support them because they're just offensive being so anti-American.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="Seattle Seahawks logo" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/22/Seattle_Seahawks_Vector_Logo.svg/100px-Seattle_Seahawks_Vector_Logo.svg.png" />Seattle Seahawks have taken one of nature's beautiful birds of prey and turned it into a blue and grey nightmare. Seahawks are brown and ivory. Are they racist? Do they not think that the brown and the ivory can cohesively co-exist? When you think of a tough predator, however, is a bird the first thing that comes to mind? Because, we all know that feathers pack a tough punch! Ouch! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, in conclusion, almost every team name and/or logo is awful and needs to be carefully rethought out and designed, if for no other reason than for my pure enjoyment.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/238/78E8651DD0812C58DBFB6A107D8B072B.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0 !important;" /></span></a>**** April ****http://www.blogger.com/profile/08306149618224290028noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4454269961677754112.post-11309035755697463442015-05-25T22:59:00.000-05:002015-05-25T22:59:39.995-05:00PauseMoments in my life have been causing me to take pause in a not-so-good say. One to not sit still, I've been forced to more times than I care to admit the last few months for the simple fact that something is going on with my health and I can't function even half the level that I'm even remotely functioning at.<br />
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Last effort I went to a neurologist and was put on two meds -- and I'm thinking they're doing more harm than good. Couple that with the constant weather triggering migraines, I've been pretty good for nothing. At this point I'd rather have something TRAGIC just so I knew what I was dealing with.<br />
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Uncertainty sucks.<br />
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Uncertainty breeds stress.<br />
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I've never had stress before but now I'm thinking... I'm having stress. <br />
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So, I need Dr. House here stat to give me a diagnosis in 60 minutes. That would be acceptable. :) Don'tcha think?<br />
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I'll touch base more and more as this week goes on just to make sure I stay ON TOP of my life rather than beneath it. <br />
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I've missed you all... the interactions and e-mails from dear friends. <br />
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<a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/238/78E8651DD0812C58DBFB6A107D8B072B.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0 !important;" /></a>**** April ****http://www.blogger.com/profile/08306149618224290028noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4454269961677754112.post-59349398962107051342015-03-01T21:26:00.004-06:002015-03-01T21:29:24.263-06:00I Hold On<a href="http://sundaystealing.blogspot.com/" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IMCsoHEmcok/SLq7o24PfYI/AAAAAAAAePs/h2LvahE5h7E/s200/SundayStealing.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240707426999565698" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></span></a><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Time for <a href="http://sundaystealing.blogspot.com/2015/02/17-meme.html">Sunday Stealing</a>! </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Are you a jealous person? </b> Meh. Jealousy? Waste of energy. Ain't nobody got time fo' dat!</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>When is the next time you’re traveling out of state? </b>I have absolutely no idea, but if you find a way to get me here real quick...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">... you let me know! Okay? Okay!</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Can you write your name in a foreign language?</b> My name in French is Avril. French. Sigh. Yeah, I wasted years of high school learning French. It has never done me one bit of good. I mean, yeah, I can ask someone to pass me a book or a piece of paper or a pen, but I've never had to ask anyone where the bathroom was in French. I did have a French penpal and we wrote exclusively in French. That was pretty cool. Who needs penpals anymore when you have the likes of Twitter and Facebook? You can talk to anyone with a built in translator. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Oh, but back to Avril. Just so we're clear... although I can write my name in French and it IS "Avril" it shouldn't be confused with THIS Avril... which is the only real "Avril" that I know. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">... I am clearly not her (obviously). I struggle with wearing the most minimal of make up as it is... the thought of having to clean the charcoal off my eyes would cause me heartburn and angina! Though, I do kinda hate that she's married to Chad Kroeger. I'm not jealous. I just hate her for that. {wink wink}</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>When you’re getting ready for something, do you listen to music?</b> It depends on what it is. If I'm getting ready to do a set of lunges on leg day, I like to get pumped up and I listen to this...<br />
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Completely on the other end of the spectrum is my ab music... gotta keep it light and peppy.... I like this rhythm.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>What is your favorite day of the week? </b>I don't have one.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>What is something you did yesterday and wish you could’ve done today? </b>Made breakfast. I was out of sausage. Who lets themselves run out of sausage? On a weekend? GASP! The horror!</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>If you woke up tomorrow and knew/spoke a different language, which language would you want it to be? </b>Spanish. Nothing else makes much sense where I live. I'm in Texas... we have a small illegal immigration situation here if you hadn't heard. I'm all for people coming to America to make a better life, but if you're having to break the law to be here... well, you're a criminal and you're breaking the law. Period. OOOOoh I was almost about to go off on a rant.... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">... but I'll save that for another day. You're welcome.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>What did you last order online?</b> Young Living Essential Oils! :) </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Do you have any specific hobbies?</b> Do you have an hour...maybe two?? YES! Cooking, reading, scrapbooking, blogging, learning, photography, volunteering with Cub Scouts and being a cheerleader for my kids!</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>What’s a song you recently discovered that you want to tell everyone about? </b>Dierks Bentley... I Hold On. He's just awesome and dreamy and I love his voice! Plus, he lets his little girl get up on stage and sing with him and that's super awesome!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>What did you last eat? </b>I ate a deconstructed hamburger from MooYah. Basically... a hamburger salad. (No wheat, you see. No bun.)</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Look to your left. What’s there? </b>A window. Exciting stuff I tell ya!</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>How long does it take you to fall asleep? </b>Depends on how long it takes Ambien to kick in. I have a severe insomnia problem. I will state that I have learned to go to bed within 30 minutes after taking it. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Is there a TV in the room you are in? </b>Yes. I'm in the family room. Where the fam is... the television is usually on. It's usually on SpongeBob. You see, in my household, I let the little one dictate the programming because I at least know that whatever is on... is age appropriate. Teen Titans is pretty hilarious. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>What comes to your mind when I say red? </b>Taylor Swift's lipstick. She's always wearing red lipstick. It looks quite lovely against her porcelain skin. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Name something you think is pointless? </b>Arguing with me.... about anything.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Want to play along? Check it out <a href="http://sundaystealing.blogspot.com/">here</a> each week! Sunday Stealing!<br />
</span> <a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/238/78E8651DD0812C58DBFB6A107D8B072B.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0 !important;" /></span></a>**** April ****http://www.blogger.com/profile/08306149618224290028noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4454269961677754112.post-51168527861223769202015-02-28T21:23:00.000-06:002015-02-28T21:42:35.225-06:00Stop! In The Name of Love<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv0hhMhHKg3LmPyqH09MjpqMgB6nsZv44oWtZKxwcFt7Le_XRMPPB0ZPkiY6PsAAYlGHhCRG51RA8uLHv3uuRL0wQTJ4eQJ7Ox6RJUJzkJMLfSvCVTYQdooBH5Y1jPokCYSNt4fvUM13Ly/s1600/Stop.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv0hhMhHKg3LmPyqH09MjpqMgB6nsZv44oWtZKxwcFt7Le_XRMPPB0ZPkiY6PsAAYlGHhCRG51RA8uLHv3uuRL0wQTJ4eQJ7Ox6RJUJzkJMLfSvCVTYQdooBH5Y1jPokCYSNt4fvUM13Ly/s1600/Stop.png" style="cursor: move;" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Time for <a href="http://samanthasaturday9.blogspot.com/2015/02/stop-in-name-of-love.html">Saturday 9</a>. Have I ever mentioned how much I love Saturday 9. It's music. I love music. In this case if A=C and B=C then A+B=Love Or, stated differently, Stop! In the Name of Love!</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDPjYZxi0n8">here</a>.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>1) When this song was popular, the Supremes were known for their long gloves and full-length gowns. When was the last time you got dressed up? </b> <i>Wow, that's almost too painful to think of. I think the last time I wore gloves was in the 8th grade to my 8th grade dance. The last time I was in a dress was likely 2012 when my father-in-law's induction into the Birdville Athletic Hall of Fame. I'm not a fan of getting duded up. Although, not too terribly long ago I wore a flannel over a long sleeved shirt and a pair of jeans and warm, fuzzy boots and one of my children asked me why I was all dressed up. Clearly, I need to get out more. And by "out" I mean, out of yoga pants. If jeans is considered "dressed up," I may need to have my chick card revoked.</i></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>2) With a record 12 #1 hits, the Supremes remain America's best-selling vocal group. This must have been hard for Betty McGlown, the fourth Supreme, who left the group before they recorded their first song. Can you think of an opportunity you missed?</b> <i>No. Who wants to focus on regret? I don't like to look to the past because it's not like I can go back to do anything about it. I'm not going there. Keep pressing forward.</i></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>3) When "the girls" (Diana Ross, Mary Wilson and Flo Ballard) first started hanging around Motown, founder Berry Gordy was reluctant to let them record. After all, they were still in high school. They refused to give up and eventually convinced him to let them add hand claps and finally back up vocals to recordings by other Motown artists. Tell us about a time when your persistence paid off. </b><i>I'll tell ya when it happens. My life is a work in progress at present. Socially. Physically. Emotionally. Mentally. Plus, a teenager who is about to drive. </i></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>4) 50 years after its release, "Stop! In the Name of Love" is one of the most popular karaoke songs. Do you know the lyrics? </b><i>I know, "Stop... in the name of love. Before you break my heart, think it oooooooooover." That's about the extent of it. I guess that would be a resounding no. </i></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">5) There's a children's playground named in Diana Ross' honor within New York's Central Park. It includes swings, slides, rope bridges and a fountain. When you played in the park, what did you run to first? </b><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The swings... to swing as high as you could with your feet in the air and you could just feel like you were flying.... lean your head back and be free and then.... JUMP! </i><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>6) Diana stumbled in her high heels and broke her ankle as she left the stage after a November 2012 concert. What do you have on your feet right now? </b><i>Fuzzy slippers. Told ya. I'm a professional slacker!</i></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>9) Diana's older sister, Dr. Barbara Ross-Lee, was the first African American woman to be appointed dean of an American medical school. Decades ago, Barbara juggled post-graduate studies and raising small children. Are you good at multi-tasking? </b><i>I could easily hold a PhD in multitasking. I am Batman bitches!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I love lists. I love making lists. I love checking things off lists and I love being able to consider them COMPLETED (though that's a rarity). Enter <a href="http://newthursday13.blogspot.com/">Thursday 13</a>. A blank page for anyone to write about thirteen of anything. Today, I'll disclose 13 places I want to take my children.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I was recently gifted <i>Frommer's 500 Places to Take Your Kids Before They Grow Up</i>. Buy it <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Frommers-Places-Take-Your-Before/dp/047047405X">here</a>. It really got me thinking. We stay SO busy that it's really such a great idea to -- instead of taking the rare down time we do have to just CHILL -- use that time to make some memories and be present in the moment. Since we are really only given a few years when our children WANT to have us around, why not use those years to BE present, to BE aware, to BE intentional with what we do while they're here.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This book covers the globe and while there are LOTS of places I would adore to share with my children abroad:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Big Ben in London -- Peter Pan anyone?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Great Wall of China</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Vatican to see Michelangelo's work</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The beaches of Normandy. <a href="http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/back-on-the-beaches-one-final-time-d-day-heroes-return-to-normandy-to-mark-the-69th-anniversary-of/question-3732293/">Here</a>'s a FANTASTIC article you should read.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Or, and most importantly, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney (lol, I was just seeing if you were paying attention)!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> </span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1) New York City -- I've been to New York City. Josh has been to New York City (last year with his 8th grade class) but I want to show them NYC <i>my </i>way. From the Empire State Building to the Museum of Natural History, from Little Italy to China Town and not forgetting the Staten Island ferry and the Statue of Liberty herself... the Bronx Zoo, Rockefeller Center, the Brooklyn Bridge, Greenwich Village, Central Park, Coney Island, Times Square, Grand Central Station and maybe even Yankee Stadium... maybe (smirk!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">3) Colorado Springs, CO -- Who couldn't be happy with THIS view in their life every day? There are many experiences I want to share here. The US Air Force Academy, Manitou Springs Cliff Dwellings, The Garden of the Gods, Royal Gorge Bridge, Old Colorado City just to name a few. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">6) Washington DC and the surrounding areas. There is SO much to do and experience here, it's almost a tragedy not to share this with your children.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">7) Valley Forge because I have a little history geek that I know would love more insight into some of the battlefronts of our nation.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">8) Pearl Harbor as this would definitely be Drew's dream come true. He LOVES studying WW2.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">9) The Aurora Borealis in Alaska... I've wanted to take a salmon fishing expedition, photograph the grizzlies and see the Northern Lights since I was a child. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">10) Washington state -- kayaking and whale watching along with some beautiful scenic drives... because, who WOULDN'T want to be here? It's GORGEOUS!</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">11) Disney World -- because, you know, I can NEVER get enough of Disney! I'll go there as many times as you let me!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">12) Louisiana -- swamp tours, haunted tours, historical tours, Natchez Riverboat tours, cooking schools.... cajun food but I'll steer clear of the sex shops... because yeah.... no thanks. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">13) Alcatraz... because this scene always makes me laugh. </span><br />
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<br />**** April ****http://www.blogger.com/profile/08306149618224290028noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4454269961677754112.post-67874439841063557542015-02-15T20:28:00.001-06:002015-02-15T20:28:43.603-06:00Cricket Wireless SUCKS<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Attention all Cricket Wireless customers, your information, full legal names, cellular numbers... and who knows what else may be compromised. Do you realize that if the idiots working on their retail stores nation wide accidentally put an incorrect e-mail address in for someone's account, they're sending your information to who knows who.... and who knows what they will do with it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've been receiving someone else's information and notifications for over four months. I've tried repeatedly to get them to actually LISTEN to me and REMOVE my e-mail address from their database.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is an actual conversation held between me and "Juan" this evening:<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Juan: Hello! Welcome to Cricket Chat support, my name is Juan, how can I make your evening better?<br />April Driggers: Hi Juan. I've been trying for over 4 months to get my e-mail address removed from one of your customer's accounts. I keep getting e-mails notifying me that she has reached her full-speed data usage allowance. I think that's great but... I don't care :)<br />April Driggers: Her name is Ashley Driggers<br />April Driggers: My name is April Driggers<br />April Driggers: She has Cricket<br />April Driggers: I have Verizon wireless<br />April Driggers: we apparently have similar e-mail addresses.... and someone didn't put a dash or a period or something that would be HER e-mail address and so mine is associated with her account. I just want my e-mail removed completely from your system<br />Juan: Oh no! That sounds like you're having a difficult time. I understand how frustrating that might feel. But no worries, I'm here to help!<br />April Driggers: ###-###-#### is her number<br />Juan: Thank you. Now, May I have the authorization ID number for your account, please?<br />April Driggers: you're asking for information on an account that I don't own.<br />April Driggers: I don't have a cricket account<br />April Driggers: I'm with Verizon Wireless<br />April Driggers: I don't have her information.... because I'm not her.<br />Juan: May I have the first and last name on the account? </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">CRICKET WIRELESS AT SOME POINT YOU NEED TO TEACH YOUR EMPLOYEES TO USE SOME F'N COMMON SENSE AND STEP AWAY FROM THE SCRIPT. THIS is what is wrong with customer service... THERE IS NONE. I'm not even a CUSTOMER and I would tell everyone not to walk but to RUN AWAY FROM YOU NOW!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Your customers should be worried what other information you're going to share with complete strangers.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What was their suggestion? Their suggestion was for ME to go out of my way to go to a corporate headquarters to get MY information removed from their database. I'm sorry but that is ABSURD. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Cricket... you suck. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">#cricket #yousuck #customerservice #nightmare </span><br />
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<a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/238/78E8651DD0812C58DBFB6A107D8B072B.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0 !important;" /></span></a>**** April ****http://www.blogger.com/profile/08306149618224290028noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4454269961677754112.post-56276349745854424702015-01-02T23:34:00.001-06:002015-01-02T23:34:25.958-06:00Organization - Day 2 - Establishing Weekly Plans<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You made it past day one of your new year! The year you are going to get your stuff together!! Whoop Whoop! You're on a roll now!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yesterday in <a href="http://mamadriggs.blogspot.com/2015/01/happy-new-year-lets-get-organized-for.html">this post</a>, we talked about making a list of tasks you hope to do daily. Today, we are going to get a little more specific. You see, you know your schedule better than <i>anyone</i> else which is why just <i>any</i> home management or personal organizer won't work. You need to customize one JUST FOR YOU! </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEi1yUOPWld323P4Cga-SbcezhPeuC2F9BVgURT8gmRmai_PA7TyQqrVDVtHFdDcrLqqob3pqNgSaxN4e88pKWAWNPEu5fmDHyfpNabeelwjuGKPpvzntuR7E-XO-rBgSnkSAh5mPEra8sC8-y0W-evkvqhTdgrAHys5LwVx9pXS0A=" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="http://cdn.purecountrymusic.com/images/uploads/765_200_large.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Don't let that idea scare you. I can assure you that it is simple and easy! Stay with me.... I promise it all makes sense... just stick with it one day at a time! And yeah, I totally just had this image of a round haired Cristy Lane and that annoying infomercial pop in my head... and people <i>wonder</i> why I don't watch television! Ya know, I bet Olan Mills took this picture too. They always liked the "hand by the chin" pose with the head tilt. Although, at second glance, she could give Glamour Shots a go with that hair and make up. But, she doesn't have on enough bling for it to be a <i>true</i> Glamour Shot, however.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But I digress. Let's get back on topic!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, because of yesterday, you have already made your list of things that you hope to get accomplished every single day. This is your DAILY list. Sometimes referred to as your "daily docket" "daily agenda" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To briefly review, you could have something like -- 30 minutes of exercise, 8 glasses of water, vitamins, 1 load of laundry, lay out your clothes for tomorrow, wipe down the sink, daily devotional, reload the dishwasher, read 30 minutes, etc. Those are all great daily goals to have on your list.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One thing I will say is to make certain that you are making time on your list for YOU specifically.... if your goals this year are to read more, be sure that you're setting yourself up to accomplish that goal. WIthout action, there are only ideas. It's time to make what you want happen.. happen! It can be done! Write it on the list... do it now!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For me, the idea of breaking down my week into specific days HELPS because it develops routine. Routines become habit. When you do things out of routine, it's easy to just put your brain on autopilot and do what needs to get done because you've already established the parameters for getting it done. This helps SO MUCH for someone like me with an autoimmune disease because on the days when I really can't get anything done, I am not only aware what I'm missing, but also, and more importantly, I know what I need to delegate. </span><br />
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<a href="https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRfnwzpeDjWwWey6VLX2W2ASMAOsQZ2CtIveTauMgbmfJ1v28Kzgg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRfnwzpeDjWwWey6VLX2W2ASMAOsQZ2CtIveTauMgbmfJ1v28Kzgg" width="212" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Creating a routine can be hard, especially if you're kind of a free spirit fly by the seat of your pants kinda person. However, for ME, I <i>have </i>to have routine because I have three boys in three very different stages of life (a high school freshman, a 4th grader and a preschooler). Without having a plan in place, I get nothing I want to do done and my life becomes a series of shuttling children between sporting events and social obligations. That in and of itself requires the flexibility on my part to make it happen... especially if anyone wants to eat dinner before 11pm. However, I can do this thing called "super mom" because of having developed routines. Having an idea of what I have going on helps me to establish those daily goals. It also helps me TEACH my CHILDREN the importance of routine. I hate, loathe, abhor, detest nagging. So, if they know every Tuesday they need to do their laundry or every Sunday they can expect to wash their own sheets and remake their beds, it's more likely to get done. Perhaps with just a gentle reminder, but certainly not a nag. We all know when you nag... they all look like this. Can I get an amen?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Your motivation to be organized will help cultivate your routine into a habit which makes you happy and creates calm in your universe. Isn't that an awesome thing to look forward to? I'm going to teach you to take the stress out of your life... one little day at a time. Seriously, this is huge. Hop on board.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Again, I digress (do you see why I need routine? I digress... A LOT!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, while some people may have time on Mondays to do the bulk of all household chores and duties, I do not and can not devote much time because frankly, Mondays suck. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">While some people may want to meal plan on Wednesday nights after they get their supermarket flyers in the mail that day, others may choose a weekend to do that. The beauty of setting up your system is that it is completely personalized to you. This is paramount to putting these things on YOUR schedule for YOU! MAKE THIS WORK FOR YOU!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">By actually having a routine and a plan, you have afforded yourself the flexibility of being able to be more spontaneous! Why? Because now you know when the things that need to get done WILL be done!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #45818e; font-size: large;"><i>So, what system SHOULD you use</i></span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>?</i></span></b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To be honest, you're the only one that can answer that for you. There are SO many out there in the blogosphere that it will make your head spin. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Seriously, if you check out Pinterest your head may explode with all the personal homekeeping binder systems and personal organizer systems that are available. There are thousands of them. Some are free. Some cost... a LOT. Many you can buy from Etsy.com sites but then you have to download them and worse... you have to print them. Do you <i>know </i>how much it costs to print a color copy? I do. It's about a $1... per PAGE! I don't many people that have color laser printers at home that duplex either. So, while they're really PRETTY, they're really just not practical. Inkjet... if you get a drop of water on it... there it goes! I'll make a confession here. I love pretty personalized planners that are FULL of color and design and coordinated stickers and I can use 15 different colored pens to fill them in.... but at the end of the day, if they aren't meeting all my needs, they're actually deterring my progress rather than being an avenue leading toward it. So, until I find something out there that does everything that mine will... I'm just going to keep printing mine out, binding it myself and knowing it's perfect -- just -- for -- me! And you can too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, for now, my plan for you is to help you keep it simple. Get down to basics and then you can pretty it up! Let your planning/organization style emerge and then, and only then, will you have the tools to be able to tweak another system and truly make it yours. In order to avoid all the high prices, here is a printable to help you list what you need to get completed on each day of the week. Click <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwMZR6FpRRWGQmVxZjNXZTNOdFk/view?usp=sharing">here</a>. There is room at the bottom just in case you think of something that MAY need to happen but you're not sure when... at least it's in the right spot, just maybe not assigned a day....but being there on that list is 9/10 of the hard work accomplished!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">While I have my list of DAILY tasks, I also have a list of tasks specific to any given DAY. F</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">or instance, I have some of the following "to do's" on specific days in my week </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sheets <i>(I always wash or have my boys wash their sheets on Sunday)</i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Plan <st1:personname w:st="on">Me</st1:personname>nus <i>(Yes, I grab the sales flyers, my cook books, sit at my computer and use the online software Plan-To-Eat (there's a link to the right). to drag my recipes to a calendar, the software populates the shopping list and bam, you're out the door. It's the biggest time saver in meal planning. Simply amazing.)</i></span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Monday</b></span></div>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mop the kitchen and bath, clean mirrors, and dust.</span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Tuesday</b></span><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Free day</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I will focus in one specific area for whatever challenge group I signed up for</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Spend 15 minutes in my current zone <i>(home is broken down into zones for ease in distributing them throughout the year) </i>more on that later</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Scrapbook <i>(again, the importance of scheduling your personal interests and hobbies into your day)</i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Clean out the refrigerator <i>(notice it's the day before grocery day... just makes sense)</i></span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Wednesday</b></span><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Grocery Day <i>(kids are typically in school on a Wednesday, take the little one and head straight for the store. I hit Starbucks on the way and I do believe I could summon my inner Julie Andrews and belt out The HIIIIIIiiiiiillll are alllllllllllllllllliiiiive with the sound of muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuusiccccccc just for having been to the store sans children. It's a spiritual thing.)</i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Zone Clean </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Write thank you notes, letters or any correspondence that needs to go out</span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>Thursday</b></span><br />
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<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Errand Day</span></li>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Post Office</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Library</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Buy gifts/cards</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Vacuum</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Spend 15 minutes in the current zone</span></li>
<ul>
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</ul>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Friday - </b></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b> </b>Family Fun Day</span><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">GCSML <st1:personname w:st="on">Me</st1:personname>etings (1<sup>st</sup>)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Clean out purse</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Clean out car</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Photography Friday</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sync calendars</span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Saturday</b> - </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Date Night </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This is my typical week. Does everything always happen on the exact day I'd planned? Nope. But, it's easier to work ahead or move things out if there is a plan in place that I know about. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Some of these terms such as "zones" are used by the <a href="http://flylady.net/">Flylady</a> system. While I do love and appreciate the extensive detail, I did found this method a little too time consuming, cumbersome and WAAAAY too many e-mails, testimonials and sales pitches for the cleaning products. I don't want post-it notes all over the place and I don't really need or want a daily routine that tells me to get dressed and make my bed. I do, however, suggest you take a peek because there may be some information to garner from her site. It's free. Some people may need and desire that much detail... but for me, notsomuch. This was one of those where she put hers out there and said to personalize it to your needs but the continual influx of information was still based on what she had set up so it was all just a big cluster @#$@# and made me all splody headed! I do, however, still use the idea of her ZONES for my cleaning habits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Another one that others may be interested in is called <a href="http://www.unfuckyourhabitat.com/">Unfuck Your Habitat</a>. Yeah, the name is a tad harsh but so are the hoarding piles and dustbunnies in some people's lives. Expletives scare me not, so, if you can get past the title, check out the page.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Other items that you may want to include on your specific weekly lists:</span><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Change/wash all bathroom hand towels</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sort through 10 bookmarks or digital files on your computer to cull, delete or organize. Clutter is EVERYWHERE! Digital or otherwise.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Restock your car with supplies.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Cull magazines</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Clean bathroom mirrors</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mop a specific room</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dust (you can go a bit further and specify certain rooms on certain days)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Family game night.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Grocery store</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Clean toilets, sinks and tubs</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Meal plan</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Vacuum</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Errands</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Work on your home inventory with photos, documentation and back-up video for insurance purposes.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Personal filing</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Calendar / schedule check</span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, your task now is to go through what you KNOW your schedule to be and write down those specific items that you know need to be done on specific days. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ready. Set. Go! I would love to know what you've added to your lists!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well, it's the first day of the new year... and man it's been a doozy of a day for me. Crohn's. Sucks. 'Nuff said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">However, with the "down" days, I still try to do, plan, be organized and present. Today is no different.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">With the new year comes the new year's resolutions. As I've stated time and time again, I am <i>not </i>a resolutions maker. Why? Because people tend to make them... screw up once and have the mindset of "well, I gave it a go." Then they go back to their old ways of doing whatever it was they were attempting to change silently thinking "failure" in their mind. What a way to sabotage your motivation!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Friends, I'm here to tell you the ONLY time you FAIL is when you QUIT! Or stated differently by someone I highly admire...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've loved some of the meme's I've seen about that very thing... quitting over one hiccup. Ya just don't need to do it! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm always fascinated by the idea of resolutions for the new year. I don't really understand WHY people feel the need to wait for a whole new year to make positive changes in their lives when they have the option to do that EVERY.SINGLE.DAY.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm thinking of the typical new year's resolutions I hear (in no particular order)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1) lose weight</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2) stop smoking</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">3) stop drinking</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">4) eat healthy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">5) get fit</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">6) further education</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">7) further career (raise, promotion, etc.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">8) take a trip</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">9) get out of debt</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, HEY, if you're on the resolution bandwagon and need the motivation of a new year (which is here now) and want help to get your groove on and plan your a new, blank slate... your time is now! And aren't you lucky? That's what I'm here to help with RIGHT THIS VERY MINUTE! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The easiest place to start with any of your resolutions is by getting organized! Why? Because you can't do <i>any </i>of the other until you actually accomplish that goal. I'm not talking about having color coded bins with all of your children's socks matched, your garage floor squeaky clean and have homemade cleaners whipped up to make your house eco friendly (although, that <i>is</i> coming, if you're interested). I'm talking about simply starting out your day with a plan -- an organization of your time, if you will. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Unless you're a freak of nature, it's not common to wake up ready to roll with a mental list already made, whittle away that list, forget nothing, stay on track, manage all the curve balls thrown at you and feel accomplished at the end of the day with all your i's dotted and your t's crossed with your gold plated calligraphy pen without missing a beat. If so, you <i>could just BE</i> Batman. But, I won't have that preposterous notion floating around in my head so we will focus on the fact that we need to get you organized!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And, lucky you! It's a new year. You have a clean slate so let's move forward with that momentum to get you a plan. The key to everything is to use that momentum to make this into a habit. Once it's a habit, you've worked yourself into your own personalized plan. So, simply stated, to start out -- you <i>need </i>a plan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There are TONS of systems out there... but if you're like ME, they're never just quiiiiiiite right for you. How do you go about having a system in place when you can't find a plan you can use straight out of the (proverbial) box? Well, if you're anything like ME -- you MAKE one! I'm not one for conformity anyway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So it's time to break out your ole pen and paper, grab a cup of something delicious and let's get started! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I like to start out simple and grab a pencil and a spiral binder. It's a GREAT tool to start working on making your plan. It's new, clean, lined paper just waiting for a list! The very first few pieces of paper are going to be the guide to the rest of your life. I'm serious. Take those pages and across the top of the first several ones, write the following headings:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Can you guess what comes next? That's right, you get to have a major brainstorming session of the things that you WANT and HOPE to accomplish during each one of these time periods over the next few days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is YOUR MASTER list. YOU know where YOU live and when things happen in YOUR life so you're not going to be dictated to when something wanted something done because that's when it's printed on your planner. You're going to put it on YOUR planner because THAT is what works for YOU! See? I just can't roll with the other. I don't like or appreciate people telling me what to do when. I like to be in complete control. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, because I do, get to as well! </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Yay us! </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I kind of feel like we should be running in with arms pumped in victory because this will be our plan! It will be good!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Keep that motivation running.... let's start today with a Printable Daily Docket you can get <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwMZR6FpRRWGX1o1aHlYb3hGSjA/view?usp=sharing">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm telling you, you will want to add this snappy shirt to your yoga pant ensemble and you will DESERVE IT! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So, start your "DAILY" brainstorm... What are things that you have to do every day no matter what. This could be something as simple as "take your medicine" or "walk the dog" or "check the mail" or "do a load of laundry"... "set dinner out to thaw"... "journal"... "feed and water the dogs"... "tolerate the cat" (Hahah! I'm not a cat person). But this list... this DAILY list should contain things that you want to do on a daily basis regardless of the day of the week. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've seen plans written out "make bed" on the daily list. Me, personally, I really don't need to waste the space or devote the time to make sure that I check that off of my list because when I get out of bed, I pull my covers up. It's already an engrained habit in my head requiring me no reminder. However, I'm REALLY bad about taking my vitamins at night so I DO keep that one on there as a visual reminder to do what is needed. If you <i>are </i>one of those people who needs the extra nudge via a check box and reminder, to make your bed or to help you establish a HABIT so that it becomes second nature and part of your permanent plan, by all means, throw it on the list. You're certainly not going to offend this girl.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Record your daily goals or goals you HOPE to establish this year to do on a daily basis. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Tomorrow we will work on specific weekday assignments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Get listing people! There's a method behind my madness... want to know why I do what I do? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Because at the end of the day, I want to hold my children's attention longer than I hold my phone. I want the relationships I foster to be ones that are tangible. While my friends on Facebook matter to me... they are not the ones that need my attention. My family is and so by creating a plan of action, everyone's needs will be met and I will feel accomplished, satisfied... and... dare I say it... super!</span><br />
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**** April ****http://www.blogger.com/profile/08306149618224290028noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4454269961677754112.post-46990213652364617342014-12-31T23:47:00.001-06:002014-12-31T23:47:27.239-06:00Bye, bye 2014<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">They say all good things must come to an end and so much the year 2014. I will say this hasn't been my most favorite year (primarily due to health reasons), but it's been a year of blessings nonetheless.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm still not a resolution maker so there's none of that "new year, new me" bullshit. Sorry folks, I keep it real. The truth of the matter is... I hope to have a new me every single day! I don't need a new <i>year </i>for motivation. However, to show I DO have a heart, I <i>get</i> the idea of having a clean slate... a blank page in a 365 page book to write your new story. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My boys... one turned 4, one turned 10 and the other turned 15. I turned 42 and still have the same 8 grey hairs that I pull every few months. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This fall, I became the mother of a high school freshman, a 4th grader and an elephant. (Don't laugh.. they don't just call them "pre-K" rooms, they get assigned animals. It's much more exciting, don't you think?)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I didn't read as many books as I had intended... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I finished my planner project... HUGE accomplishment!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I reread The Hobbit and saw part 3.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've made so many great friends... and am so thankful for those wonderful people in my life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've been to more doctors offices and had more tests run on me than I really want to even consider. Crohn's is not my friend. Some doctors are assholes who think everything spawns from depression -- newsflash -- it DOESN'T! It's totally okay to advocate for yourself and move along (thanks Jennifer!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's been a crazy year and, you know how I love to reflect on crazy so let's delve, shall we? There have been some bizarre and newsworthy events in our world this year as well and... well, ya know, I <i>do </i>have to "go there."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">These are in order from 10 to 1. I want to give commentary on these because... well, it's my damn blog and ya know... I like movies! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">How To Train Your Dragon 2 made me want a Toothless. I haven't seen Interstellar though Josh has... twice and loved it. I haven't seen Mockingjay yet because I was <i>waiting </i>for Josh to have read the book but he spends more time fondling the remote and his phone than a book so I will try to go see it in the next couple of weeks alone! Dawn of the Planet of the Apes... sorry, I think these are stupid ... stupid... stupid. The Amazing Spider-Man 2.... again more with the same characters -- <i>is there an ounce of creativity left in Hollywood?</i> Captain America... yeah, didn't see. X-Men... again, yeah... no. Maleficent. I didn't see it in the theaters but pre-purchased it through Disney and I LOVE IT! It's an amazing backstory and while I'm <i>not </i>on "team Angelina," I thoroughly enjoyed her performance. I just saw Guardians of the Galaxy Christmas day with Josh. I bought it for him as a gift. It's a good flick. I watched it as much as a Benji with a Kindle sitting next to you will allow...and it made me want to be the green chick. No clue what her name is but... she's a badass. And, while I <i>am </i>a fan of Transformers, I haven't seen it. I'm a Marky Mark fan too which is even crazier to think I haven't seen it knowing HE is in it... yeah... just wasn't a priority. I DID see The Hobbit and I fully expect it to make some kind of list!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The sports headlines of the year are that Seattle won the Superbowl and San Fran-sicko won the World Series and Donald Sterling is a racist. Wow, did that one really catch ANYONE by surprise? Yeah, I didn't think so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In true April form, I have slept through some big headlines... (apparently there were some winter Olympics somewhere... yeah.. not a fan... )</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">... in March, an entire Malaysian Airlines airplane went missing. Jason Biggs (actor from American Pie) had a total social media backlash for tweeting </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Anyone wanna buy my Malaysian Airlines frequent flier miles?" Ill-timed? Yes. Lynch mob worthy? No. What's sad.... I thought that was funny. If Joan Rivers had said it, no one would have said a thing. Hypocrites. Then you get the Mythbusters who can find the NOT so proverbial "needle in a haystack". Maybe we should put THEM on the case. It could happen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">... women have come forward claiming Bill Cosby sexually assaulted them THIRTY YEARS AGO. I claim it's a smear campaign. I can understanding the whole idea of harboring that initial fear for a week or two... but after thirty years... you have to get on with your life so you're either making trouble or wanting to make some money. There can be no closure at that point. I'm speaking as a victim... for me to point fingers at this stage in the game... does no one any sort of good.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">... we had an unprecedented influx of illegal immigrants into our country because our sieve-like borders provide no deterrent. Many of these people illegally entering were children. Many of these were very SICK children who were put on buses and taken to various undisclosed locations throughout our country. We have many diseases which should have been eradicated by vaccination starting to reemerge again in our communiites with no explanation why. Coincidence? I think NOT! While I do understand they want to enter America for a better life. Breaking the law is BREAKING THE LAW and we should NOT go bankrupt as a country to attempt to provide a better life for those being here illegally than we do for those who fight and teach and ALREADY... ya know... LIVE here. We are going to penalize our nation's citizens for not having healthcare while giving it away for free to those who are here illegally. Don't even start to ask me about numbers. I live between Fort Worth and Dallas, Texas where the two state hospitals combined give birth to more ILLEGAL BABIES than ANY OTHER HOSPITALS IN THE NATION. Just the two of them! Both less than 30 minutes from me either way. We have to stop the anchor baby laws. OMG this is a rant I could go on for days about!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">... whatever network airs the "Honey Boo Boo" pulled the plug because mom was caught on camera (though (shocker) denied) dating a registered pedophile... who even kept this preposterous show ON the air should have their eyes poked out. How is that even remotely considered entertainment? A bunch of white trash... I just don't understand for one iota of a nanosecond the compulsion our country has with train wrecks. Her mom should have taken the money had has some liposuction on her five necks. The whole thing grosses me out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">... AC/DC's drummer murdered someone. Maybe all those years of drugs actually took away his ability to reason.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">... I could spend weeks talking about the strife in the Middle East. The violence makes my head spin. While I don't fully even claim to understand it all, it does make me take pause to contemplate... do THEY even know what the hell they're fighting about anymore? I do know that everyone seems to think that THEY are right and rightfully entitled. It doesn't take a rocket scientist, however, to understand that not everyone can be right. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">... and amid the atrocities happening every day in Syria, we still have time to rally for public outcry to Denmark where they euthanized a healthy 18-month old giraffe and... fed it to their tigers. They subsequently performed a public autopsy ... great! I know my kids are ALWAYS begging see happy leggy animals killed on public display! Can we go again, Mommy?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">... oh yeah, and there was this little outbreak of EBOLA that hit... DALLAS after our idiot-in-chief claimed that it would be an "unlikely event" that someone infected with Ebola would ever "reach our shores." Yeah, well, buddy, it reached our shores. It reached our STATE.... it reached THIRTY MINUTES FROM ME. I'm no fool in that when the government says ANYTHING In the neighborhood of "highly unlikely" you can bet your ass -- it's GONNA happen. Mark my words. I feel SO much better knowing that the government says we needn't worry about that happening in our country... and then it happened...less than 30 minutes from me. I'm giving an eye roll. It was SO big, I'm sure you heard it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">... there was this movie that came out at the end of 2013...and it's STILL huge. Perhaps you've heard of it? Frozen. I saw part of it for the first time about a month ago. It's cute. Sisters fighting. False love. Ice monsters. Snowmen. Funny thing, the biggest song and I still don't know the words to Let It Go. I just know "let it go." So, the fact that I'll likely never know I, too, should probably just ... ya know... let it go, right? HAHAHAHHA!!! (Bad pun, yes, I realize that!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">... I'm in complete and utter disbelief that someone I'm sure you've ever heard of (Kim Kardashian) posed nude...and her ass was all oiled up and photoshopped ... GASP can you BELIEVE it?! Wow! Such a shocker! Her kids will be so proud to know their mom's shaved girlie bits are out there for the whole world to see. Be proud. I see drug problems in their future. Hell, they'll probably get them from their dad. Loser thug.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">... there was a huge social media frenzy with everyone taking the ALS ice bucket challenge. You were supposed to take a bucket, fill it with ice water, give a speech... challenge friends. They had 24 hours to do the challenge or donate. OR they can donate and still do the challenge. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">... in true Hollywood fashion, several of the big couples got divorced.... one notable one was Kris and Bruce Jenner. Notable why? He has now apparently turned himself into a woman. One UGLY... UUUUUUUUGLY woman. Why, Bruce? WHYYYY????</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">... in Ferguson, Missouri, a thug robbed a convenience store, man-handled the clerk, and subsequently was dubbed a "gentle giant" by the media. The media machine is OUT OF F'N CONTROL! They would go on to report that this "gentle giant" was shot by a police officer as he was surrendering. Forensic evidence and the autopsy confirmed the officer's story and the town rioted and burned shit down. Let me tell you something. 1) teach your children respect 2) do not run from the police 3) do not attempt to go for a police officer's gun and 4) how does looting and burning down your neighborhood stores... the ones that bring TAX DOLLARS INTO YOUR OWN COMMUNITY BENEFIT YOU?! Lives matter -- I don't care if you're green, orange, red, black, white purple or teal with silver polka dots. Lives matter... but there is a thing called respect, restraint, order, law and discipline. Exhibit those and you will NEVER have a problem with the police. Period. They stopped traffic on the INTERSTATES... that is NOT peaceful demonstration. Martin Luther King has to be rolling over in his grave. Anyone standing for this bullshit. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">... a HUGE ferry in South Korea capsized with over 400 people on board. Over 300 students perished in the waters. I just can't imagine... they urged the younger children to go back to their rooms as others were evacuating. HOW HORRIBLE!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">... the US saw a huge tornado outbreak in April. Sorry, I didn't see the reports of wild looting and how they expect tons of governmental handouts. I only heard "we will rebuild" and we will be back. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">... in April over 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped by terrorists in Nigeria. And a social media hashtag war was started. #bringbackourgirls It's rather idiotic, to me, to think a hashtag would have any sort of impact on this incident. In my eyes, the reality is that you're dealing with smartphone toting first-worlders who probably couldn't even locate Nigeria on a map. For anyone to consider that a hashtag would be consequential in actually bringing their girls back anymore than me saying #shootmenow after spending all day with a whiney four-year-old will actually result in me being shot, needs to understand in dealing with terrorists -- a hashtag doesn't mean shit. Hell, they probably don't even have a smart phone or social media accounts to begin with. They sodomize goats for goodness sake! Those girls were abducted because they seek the one thing that can get them out of the situation they find themselves... an education. The cruticial key is to EDUCATE THE FEMALES so that they realize that they are NOT SECOND CLASS CITIZENS but that they are worthy of so much more than they are taught or believe. Their fate was likely being sold as wives to the militants for next to nothing. A hashtag won't bring them back... if it were only that easy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">... Sony pictures was going to release a comedy about two tools who were going to go undercover and kill North Korea's leader. Apparently, Sony was hacked. Claims arose that it was North Korea who hacked Sony. Other developments claim that it was an inside job. The movie never aired for fear of terrorist attacks at the opening. Weenies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">King George set off for his final tour.... sigh... he is... the man... in Wranglers. There is no other...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Did you realize it was a big deal that Justin Beiber unfollowed Selena Gomez on Instagram? Why is that news?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Did you realize that Niki Minaj has a big ass and people feel compelled to talk about it? She's a foul mouthed skank. Zero respect for her. Trash.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Nick Jonas took pics in his skivvies grabbing his junk. Sigh... so much for his wholesome appearance. He's cute but since he's old enough to be like... my kid... I find it gross. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Miley Cyrus probably licked something or showed her butt crack... I'm sure that's up there in someone's "wow" list. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Robin Williams killed himself and everyone seems to just be beside themselves about it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Joan Rivers died during</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">another</i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> plastic surgery at the age of 81. Again... people were just beside themselves about it. The woman was a bitch. I don't get it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Phillip Seymour Hoffman died from a heroin overdose leaving three kids fatherless... I can't even begin to understand addiction so I hold my opinions as a loser as my own. He could have been a fantastic person...but to be so weak that you cant realize your own worth over that of an element that can kill you.... I just have no compassion in me for that ... for anyone. I've known and lost too many weak.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Other celebrity deaths to note.... Lauren Bacall passed away. Maria von Trapp, 91, the last living member of the von Trapp family died. Mickey Rooney (Gus from Night at the Museum series), Ann B. Davis (a.k.a. Alice from The Brady Bunch), Casey Kasem (following a ridiculous dispute where his wife actually HID HIM from his children -- seriously there are just stupid people in the world!), James Garner and Russell Johnson (the professor from Gilligan).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One that is definitely noteworthy is Maya Angelou. The world needs more people like her in it... and her passing definitely made me sad. Do a search for quotes by Maya Angelou... she was such a wise soul.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But, as it always does... life goes on.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />All in all, it wasn't all it could have been...but it was so much more because of who was in it. Now, on to 2015... I'm ready for it. You? Happy New Year friends, family and loved ones. Let's start writing our books! Grab that pen...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Welcome to <a href="http://samanthasaturday9.blogspot.com/">Saturday: 9</a>. What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love memes, however, and here is today's meme! </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Saturday 9: Marshmallow World (1963) </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Unfamiliar with this week's song? Hear it </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubsb2bh0kz8" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1. This song likens fluffy clouds to marshmallows. What does the sky look like where you are today? <i><b>What sky? There is nothing but clouds and they sure don't look marshmallow-y. It looks like London fog!</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2. The lyrics refer to snowballs. Have you ever been in a snowball fight? <i><b>Absolutely. I love the snow!</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">3. Chionophobia is fear of snow. What phobias do you have? <i><b>I have a fear of.... well, I'm not sure I'm actually AFRAID of anything to be honest. </b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">4. In 2004, Canadian school children raised money for charity by setting a new world record: the most snow angels made in 24-hour period. Have you ever participated in a fundraising stunt? <b> <i>Not that I'm aware of.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">5. When marshmallows were first introduced, they were used for medicinal purposes. Specifically to soothe sore throats. What do you take when your throat is bothering you? <b><i>I take out my Young Living Essential Oils and my local honey. On a teaspoon, I put 1 drop of Thieves, 1 drop of orange, 1 drop of lemon, I drop of peppermint, and 1 drop of frankincense. I cover that completely with local honey... stir just a bit with a toothpick to incorporate the oils better and swallow. Cough suppressant, opens nasal passages and soothes sore throats.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">6. Marshmallows are an important ingredient in the Rice Krispies Treat recipe. If you were asked to prepare something for a bake sale, what would you make? <i><b>I would bake my Paradise Bakery Copycat Sugar Cookie recipe... it was given on my Instagram account a couple of days ago. They're THE BOMB!</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">7. Darlene played Danny Glover's wife in the Lethal Weapon movies. Do you enjoy action movies?<b> <i>Absolutely!</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">8. Darlene's father advised her to always, "shoot for the stars." Share some good advice you've received. <b><i>My mom has had a few doozies.... hands me a quarter and says, "Keep this between your knees, use it to call home if you need me to come get you." </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">9. Will you be returning/have you returned any holiday gifts? <b><i>Returning, no. Unless the two flannels Andy got me don't fit, but I haven't tried them on yet. I'm a little "chesty" so it's hard to buy a shirt for me that fits.... hate the boobage. Ain't afraid to admit it.</i></b></span><br />
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So, it's on right now... it's time to contemplate the word, MY word... for my focus. My yearly journey with a constant theme... and frankly, it's something that I'm thinking about when I read the entries on several of the Facebook groups I'm in.<br />
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... the word echoes in my thoughts, deeds and actions.<br />
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... and in the posts and sought after hope from others out there in a land of busy.<br />
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... in a land of over-planned and stressed-out.<br />
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... in the world where we are so plugged in to the insignificant that we miss the very target which we seek because we are so distracted with the chaos around us...<br />
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...with the busy...<br />
...the schedules...<br />
...the technology...<br />
...the demands...<br />
...the kids...<br />
...the sports...<br />
...the lessons...<br />
...the homework...<br />
...the cleaning...<br />
...the volunteering...<br />
...the career...<br />
...the cooking...<br />
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You see all of this is a choice. To BE "busy" is a choice. To BE "overscheduled" is a choice. To FEEL "obligated" is a choice. <br />
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You see, Pinterest makes it LOOK so easy with all these plans of perfection on how to make everything super over the top incredible (the FIRST TIME wink wink) with this aaaaaahhhhhdorable little printable form. Unfortunately, life isn't always able to be contained in one neat little printout.<br />
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My life? My life is what happens in between those neat little organized lines of busy... and my word -- it's something I've started doing toward the end of this year already... and I will have to tell you that this fall has probably been one of the best yet... and why? <br />
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It's because I chose... I CHOSE to put ME first... and <b><span style="color: red;">SIMPLIFY</span></b>.<br />
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Similarly, to <b><span style="color: red;">SIMPLIFY </span></b>is a choice. <br />
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I feel I have chosen well.<br />
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The best part is... I have a way to take you all on this journey too... I hope you enjoy getting down in the trenches to help simplify, organize, plan and maintain your lives too... even when consistently choosing to simplify all along the way.<br />
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My word, my focus, my direction, my goal for this year is to<i> <b><span style="color: red;">simplify</span></b>. </i><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I hate when Josh leaves to visit his dad in Iowa. It makes me sad. I do love accompanying him to the airport, however. We always share a meal together and usually pick up the tab for any traveling soldiers we spy. Today, we saw no traveling soldiers... but I saw some neat randomness on the wall of TGI Fridays and it made me smile.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I had my first Starbucks in four days today. They didn't screw it up. It was good. </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I hate the smell of Lysol.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I don't understand how someone can have and spend most of their adult live with a last name that ends in "s" With ALL that "s" experience, and then make their last name POSSESSIVE when they send out a Christmas card. For instance, My name is April Driggers. My name ends in an "s." Yet, I don't say "Merry Christmas from the Drigger's" now would I? No, because that'd be absurd. Is common sense with the proper usage really so difficult? It makes my eye twitch. </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My Young Living diffuser is awesomeness. Josh thinks it's a volcano. Drew doesn't think anything. Benji seems to think they are trying to diffuse his brainwaves and </span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">constantly</i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> shuts it off. It's an epic battle. Some days he wins. Most days I do. We're trying. That's what counts. Right?</span><img src="http://cdn2.bigcommerce.com/server5400/1259779/products/1163/images/628/4683__03237.1407819297.1280.1280.jpg?c=2" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" /></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I lost my voice yesterday. Today I sound better but my throat still hurts like hell.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Drew could eat his weight in my Paradise Bakery Copycat sugar cookies. The recipe was posted on my Instagram account. </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have the urge to take down all of my Christmas decor NOW because I want to dust my house without having to move it all to dust... and then dust again in a few days when it comes down because of all the random bits of greenery that pops off.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I want my tree flocked. So you could scream MERRY FLOCKING CHRISTMAS!</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I miss the gym.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I hate having boobs. HATE them.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Next year for my birthday and Christmas, I want a boobectomy.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My friend April is a badass and built her boys one of those Nerf gun storage walls. She's awesome!</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I didn't shop today or Christmas Eve. Not sure you could pay me to. </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I do have a 40% off coupon to use at Michael's however, and I want some of their collage frames.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I love having a fresh new calendar to start off my new year. It's one of my most treasured gifts I receive each year from a dear friend and AMAZINGLY WICKEDLY CRAZY talented nature photographer, Bob Falcone. <a href="http://www.hikingbob.com/2015-photo-calendar.html">You should get one, too</a>. If you ask nicely, he may even sign it for you too.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm about to spend the next few days in major list making mode as I get ready to fine-tune and tweak my labor of love... more details to come.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My kitchen is clean (except for the cabinet tops. I hate cleaning that... it's like... so dusty... and then I get up there and feel like I have to start all over again cleaning. Denial is good. besides, I'm short... I can't reach up there even if I stand on the counters. Vertically challenged and completely in denial.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I need to wash my sheets. The boys ate pretzels in my bed. That can't be good. I'll brush it all over to Andy's side.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I had a great Christmas. I love watching the boys open gifts. Watching the way Benji is SO excited at just opening things. Seriously, I think you could wrap individual markers and he would get excited to just open each.and.every.one! Drew savors each gift... totally freaked out on the WWII DVD set we got him... I knew he'd have a geek-seizure over that one. He did. Major points for momma bear! Josh takes his time opening as if tearing the paper at the seams makes the moment more significant or makes him seem less greedy.... but you get that little smile of approval and you know ya done good. </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We got all three boys Kindle HDs. The little ones got them so that I could have mine back. I'm kinda sick of them on mine always running the battery down. Pisses me off to be honest. I can never use it at night and that's when i want to read and surf pinterest to find the exact recipe for whatever it is I"m searching for at the moment.... and how can I remember to look for it and be side tracked 725 times by awesome pins if I don't have my fully charged Kindle at the ready? Impossible I say! Get yer own!</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm not drinking enough water. That's bad. Starting back on tracking on myfitnesspal app so that I can hold myself accountable. Going to adhere to this shitty diet of restriction... more like a paleo on crack for autoimmune diseases. I have to get the gut in check. I will say the throat issue has been MUCH less the last week or two... so I'm actually savoring the small victories while still having my eye on total healing. </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I want to launch my<a href="https://www.mythirtyone.com/603734/"> Thirty-One supplies</a> because it's such an awesome product that sells itself. Just need the time. Ha! What's that?!</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I keep getting signed up for people's crap under my e-mail address. Right now it's some clown named JERRY who is using MY e-mail address to refinance his house and search for the best insurance rates at the same time. </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm happy. No explanation necessary.... but in this current moment.... even with the chaos around me.... I choose to be and am ... happy.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I went to the grocery store because I was planning to make my meatballs with chili sauce and grape jelly. I'm a snob, I want Heinz Chili Sauce. There is no substitute. They were out... I grabbed a bottle of store brand chili sauce (lesser quality I'm certain). Yet a few short steps away, I walk by the meat counter and there is a WHOLE ENTIRE SHELF OF Chili Sauce bottles just smiling at me. They were so happy to be near me... I think they all secretly wanted to go with me.....They were near their chili meat cuts. I grab one and promptly replace it with the knock off brand in my basket. I took that lesser condiment but really didn't want to purchase because it was NOT Heinz. So, now my inner turmoil begins... I'm conflicted because I really don't want to just LEAVE it where it doesn't go but again, I don't want to have to walk all over the damn store yet again (my list was just .. well, it was COMPLETELY DISJOINTED and I'd been all over the store and back 2 times already. I was DONE!) So... shamefully, I did... I left that shit right there next to the others right where it didn't belong and it ate at me the ENTIRE REST OF MY GROCERY TRIP. I mean... this kind of guilt drives me absolutely insane! :( I can't hand lit. When I go back to Kroger I will likely go back to see if it's still there and I could move it back to where it goes or I could apologize. Yeah... I'm that girl with the conscience the size of the elephant in the room... but I'll also b the first one to tell you about it.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've seen some of the AWESOME decorations everyone has done on their christmas tree. They've helped provide ideas on how to accessorize mantles, entries, foyers, bathrooms... you name it. The women are a WEALTH of resources. Decorating isn't always my thing so I tend to just read and be inspired. However, today someone posted requesting information on meal planning. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hey... I CAN HELP! <yea></yea></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I don't know why I haven't ever shared it on here, but I have a pretty good system and even led a class about it at the Grapevine, Colleyville, Southlake Mom's League. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I believe information is power so the more we share, the more powerful we all become.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thus, here is my information download for you all!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><u>Meal Planning - 101</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I would think that people would be more prone to </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">want </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to feed their families whole, nutritious food. While it’s not always possible, it’s obviously the best choice. Meal planning helps you alleviate fast food, processed food and allows you to have more time to plan what you want, rather than eat what you have to.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Because I’m busy </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Because if you fail to plan, you plan to fail</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As a mom, I feel a responsibility to feed my family fresh, wholesome REAL food… focusing on removing the processed garbage from our diets</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">With a plan in place, we eat out less… which means I know what is IN the food we are eating</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We ALWAYS have on hand what we need for the recipes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You will eat a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">VARIETY OF MEALS</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Your </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FAMILY HAS A SAY</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in what you are going to eat that week -kids are more likely to eat what you have cooked for them, since they may have requested it</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">TIP: Let them pick the meal that corresponds with THEIR birthday DAY of each month</span></span></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; white-space: pre-wrap;">Menu planning may seem like a daunting task but you do it just the same way you’d eat an elephant, one bite at a time. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There are plans out there that suggest a 2 week rotation or even planning a full month’s worth of meals at a time. I don’t have time for that because of practices and other commitments. For me, a week at a time WORKS for me NOW. If you look at some of the freezer cooking menus, they actually give you a FULL MONTH's worth of meals to plan but, like I said, I can't plan a month at a time. It just won't work. Having a month's worth of meals in the freezer, however, DOES help for those nights when everything in your plan goes awry. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">TOOLS for weekly meal planning</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Plus, to be quite honest, when your kids get busy, you HAVE to have a plan. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You need your calendar</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You need something to meal plan WITH.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Time</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> -- you need a solid chunk of time that is quiet so you may focus. IT should be the SAME DAY each week. Why? This makes it a habit. Once it becomes habit and you get your routine down, it can be done in as little as 8 minutes (that’s the truth). Plus, if you routinely plan your meals around the sales fliers, and those come in the mail on Wednesday -- you know to plan on Wednesday and shop soon thereafter. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Recipes</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> -- start with a list of your family favorites, not beef wellington</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Something to plan WITH</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> -- this can be a blank weekly calendar, a small weekly day timer, software, a piece of notebook paper… SOMETHING. Pinterest is FILLED with hundreds of printable menu planner sheets. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My routine has evolved over the last 12 years. I started doing this when my son was 2. When he was 5, we brought another kiddo and more chaos into the house. When he was 10, we brought yet another little person into the world… so I have three boys, all in very different stages of life from the age of 14 to 3. Meal planning changes and evolves into what we need it to as a family. As it stands, I’m planning around three baseball teams, cub scouts where I’m a parent of one plus the Committee Chair, boy scouts as a parent, and as a Committee Member, active in my son’s school’s PTO, webmaster, GCS Mom’s League plus I am battling a chronic autoimmune disease which many times leaves me exhausted and drained. But even at the most basic level -- it’s a blessing and a benefit to your family and you to have a plan.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There is no wrong/right way to do it. I’ll explain what works for me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Tuesday- pull out calendar to see what we have going… and I adapt my menu based on our family’s needs…. easier meals for busier days. Meals that require more prep are on days with less scheduled.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I happen to use a software program that I’ll discuss in a minute… pull recipes into breakfast/lunch/dinner/dessert sections of my calendar (or you could easily hand write them)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This software populates a grocery list (seriously, it makes me giddy for the grocery list to just create itself!). I “shop” my pantry and cross anything off the list I already have. Shop and then I’m good to go for the week. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sounds easy, right? Sure…. but THIS is when it can really get BORING! No one wants the same meals every week. So it’s our jobs to make it creative and nutritious. Find new ways to make sides or to incorporate variety into our diets.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Designing particular nights as certain types of cuisine. This sounds great, but my kids won't <i>eat</i> French food regularly. Not everyone is a fan of Asian cuisine, etc. So, in theory, unless you have some kids with no picky palates, this won't necessarily be the best place to start.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Another variation is below. This is what I do.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">****I always include a leftovers day on a weekend -- we </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">all </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">need a break!!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You can tweak your plan for summer or winter, too. For instance, in the summer, we grill out a LOT. I typically will also grill a lot of meat on Sunday and then I use it all week. Take advantage of the in season produce in your menu, too, to keep costs down. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">****Bountiful Baskets is a fruit and veggie co-op that offers fresh, usually locally grown produce for $15 a week. Their pickups are on Saturday and Sundays so that would be something you’d plan around. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So you have your themes… now you need your recipes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Pinterest (I'm on Pinterest, I'm a Pinterest whore. I'll admit it. Follow me for lots of yummy recipes. If you see "PTE" on any of my recipes, you'll know that I've added them to my Plan To Eat software (discussed below) so if you 'friend' me on PTE, you have access to these recipes too! </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Pick ONE day a week or every 2 weeks to try a new recipe. Don’t collect anymore until you start using what you already have. Don’t be a digital hoarder! Once you’ve tried it, if everyone likes it put it in a new binder that is now titled “family favorites” and you have started YOUR family’s cookbook. If you don’t like it or something was too strong, too much, too this or too that … note that ON the recipe and put it back in your rotation to try again. If the second time it still isn’t up to par -- pitch it. There are too many good recipes out there to waste your time trying to tweak one.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">spaghetti (sauce, noodles, mushrooms, diced tomatoes, frozen meatballs) - BAM instant meal</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Double your entrees and you’ll ALWAYS have a home cooked meal ready in the freezer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Typically I will pick ONE set of days every month where I will create a list of “freezer meals” I want and I will list and shop one day. The second day I will prep. THIS is another way I have a back up plan. </span></span></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />First and foremost, THIS is my go-to source:</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.plantoeat.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.plantoeat.com</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You import all your recipes into it and can use it to meal plan. There is a calendar feature where you can "queue" your recipes and then drag them into the calendar. You choose breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack -- whatever -- and it populates a categorized grocery list for you. THIS IS A LIFESAFE FOR ME! I use it every week! There is a link in the right hand menu on my blog. If you "friend" me on this software, you can have access to all my recipes. I think I have close to 800 in it now. If you follow any of my food boards on Pinterest and see a "PTE" in the description, you'll know that THIS particular pin has been uploaded to my Plan To Eat recipe book. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This service has you do meal prep so that it helps save time in the kitchen. I've had some good meals from here.</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.menusbymesadevida.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">www.menusbymesadevida.com</span></span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Gluten Free or Healthy Family</span></span></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">While a little pricey for the service, her meals are GOURMET and DELICIOUS. Gluten free!</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I certainly hope this has given you some ideas on how to start!</span><br />
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