Frou Frou Gypsy in Combat Boots

As a kid, my Papaw always "played Santa" and handed out the gifts. He would always sit on the floor next to the tree and say a hearty "HO, HO, HO!" as he called out names and passed presents around. I guess i never really thought much about it; that is until now. Now he's gone and who passes out the gifts? who has the honor of filling his Santa boots? The answer really is, no one. Now it is more of a casual thing with most of the adults just passing out things from under the tree. We try and make the kids (no longer us...they're our kids now!) unwrap one by one so we can actually see what everyone gets! We typically go youngest to oldest..but they get antsy waiting on their turn. there are 9 of them! It's interesting to me how two people, my grandparents, got married, had three kids, who had 6 kids, who had 9 kids! so what use to be a family of 5, is now a family of 28, minus three who have passed, leaving us at 25 people! That in and of itself is a ...

Hark! how the bells, sweet silver bells All seem to say, throw cares away. Christmas is here, bringing good cheer To young and old, meek and the bold Ding, dong, ding, dong, that is their song, With joyful ring, all caroling One seems to hear words of good cheer From everywhere, filling the air O, how they pound, raising the sound Oer hill and dale, telling their tale Gaily they ring, while people sing Songs of good cheer, christmas is here! Merry, merry, merry, merry christmas! Merry, merry, merry, merry christmas! On, on they send, on without end Their joyful tone to every home Ding dong ding dong

Well, in case you haven't noticed i am Very behind on my "journal your Christmas. " Our little trip this weekend set me a few days behind and i have had a sick little one, so my Monday groove got thrown off. In the meantime, i have this to show you! tah dah! I made this little goodie for my son's Teacher as part of her Christmas gift. It is a re-purposed altoids tin and some paper, a chip board letter and some bling! voila! and on the inside.... six cute little magnets that i made at a girl's night. She loves frogs, it is their class "mascot". I thought it was cute and something that she might be able to put to use in the room. always cyndi

When i was a kid, Christmas was somehow different. it wasn't that i was the one getting all the gifts instead of giving them...it was a feeling. It was the family. Way back then, there were obviously less of us. The 6 "grandchildren" were kids , so that takes out the extra husbands and wives as well as the "great-grand kids" so that's 14 people of our "little group" who didn't exist yet, at least in our world. Every year we would go to one of the 3 "kids" houses, my mom's or one of her brother's homes. We'd go and have a big Christmas lunch, turkey and dressing, ham and potato salad, green bean casserole, and all the other sides you can imagine. The Grandchildren were always keyed up wanting to see and hear what Santa had brought the others. Not so patiently waiting to open Christmas gifts after lunch. As the grandchildren grew older we began to realize that the aunts and uncles weren't getting gifts and we didn't...

This is MY Christmas tree. Not the family tree, but MINE! ALL MINE! (We have 5 trees in this house you know) I have always wanted a white tree, but not for the "main" one. A few years ago someone ran a sale and i got this little beauty for about $20. It is not a GREAT tree, but come on, its white, I am not fooling anyone that it's real! It is just the perfect size for me to have in my room. I was VERY specific about what can and can't go on this tree. It has to be blue, white, or purple..maybe a bit of pink, but that's it! It matches our bedroom. first i cleaned out our existing ornaments and took the ones that were color appropriate...then i got to go shopping! That was fun! I got to get some things too from IKEA (man i love that place) which is cool, and they always have funky (to me) Christmas things. I will take any excuse to drive the 2.5 hours to go to IKEA! So this is MY little tree. DH bought it for me several years ago and i lay in bed and look at...

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