Meet Me on Monday

Questions:

1. I really need to clean my oven!!



2. What food makes you think of Christmas?  When I think of all of the goodies my mama and I used to make every year, I know it's Christmas!  We made chocolate fudge, divinity, seafoam, mints, cheese biscuits, sausage balls, "trash", salted pecans, sugar and spice pecans, and pralines, to name just a few of the tasty treats....

3. If you could choose to stay a certain age forever, what age would it be?  I'd probably choose to be 29 or 30....I was still young, but independent and still care-free....ahhhh, those were the days!



4. What was your first paying job?  I was a steady babysitter to two the best children I had ever known....Carl and Krista!  They were my first babies, and I love them to this day!

5. Have you read the Twilight series?  No, I haven't...maybe one day though....

 

(go link up with Java and let us get to know you better :)

Monday's Music Moves Me

It's Monday! 

We are back in school and have fifteen days before our Christmas break! 

WOO-HOOOO!!

Well, it's time again to link up with Dolly for this week's edition of

MONDAY'S MUSIC MOVES ME...and this week's theme is

all things

CHRISTMAS!!

(I'll admit....I'm not in the Christmas mood yet, so maybe linking up will help me along...)

For your Christmas listening pleasure,
my three favorite (radio) Christmas songs...



P.S....I am hosting a Christmas Blog Challenge....go "here" to check it out!

I'd love for all of you MMMM fans to join in!

2011 Christmas Blog Challenge

I have decided to host a Christmas blog challenge!

Each day, starting December 1st, there will be a different topic to blog about.  All you have to do is write your post and then come back here to link it up. 

Each day the post will be up at 5 AM with the linky remaining open for approximately 48 hours. 

Be sure and tell your friends about it so that they can link up and join in on the Christmas fun!

Just use my button to share about it. I cannot wait for it to start!!!

 

12-1 ~~ Day 1

Christmas and Holiday Traditions

12-2 ~~ Day 2

What do you say....

"Merry Christmas" or "Happy Holiday"??

12-3 ~~ Day 3

"All I want for Christmas is...."

12-4 ~~ Day 4

Show us a Christmas craft or DIY

12-5 ~~ Day 5

Best gift for Moms

12-6 ~~ Day 6

Best gift for Dads

12-7 ~~ Day 7

Best gift for teens

12-8 ~~ Day 8

Best toys of 2011

12-9 ~~ Day 9

Favorite Christmas party snack (recipe)

12-10 ~~ Day 10

Favorite Christmas song, carol or hymn 

12-11~~ Day 11

Show us your church at Christmas

12-12 ~~ Day 12

Favorite Christmas cookie (recipe)

12-13 ~~ Day 13

Favorite holiday movie/TV special

12-14 ~~ Day 14

Most meaningful or best gift ever received

12-15 ~~ Day 15

Show us your outside Christmas decorations

12-16~~ Day 16

Show us your inside Christmas decorations

12-17 ~~ Day 17

Show us your Christmas tree

12-18 ~~ Day 18

Christmas picture of your family and/or your special people

December 19 - 25

ENJOY time spent with

those that you love!

M E R R Y   C H R I S T M A S ! ! !

These are my people...

"Other things may change us,

but we start and end with the family."

We had a wonderful lunch and visit with my side of the family today.  Everyone gathered at Larry and Gayle's house and enjoyed

great food and good company. 

It was so good to see my brothers and sisters-in-law,

my nieces and nephews,

 AND my great-nieces and nephews....and GREAT they are!

Larry's family
Victoria, Jeff, Gayle, Mary, Law, Douglas,
 Harvey, Larry, and John

Frank and Teresa

John, Kit, and Kathy

Happy, Robert, and Isabella

My niece Happy and
great-niece Isabella

Mary, Douglas, Harvey, and John
and
Jeff, Law, and Victoria

All of the nieces and nephews
(and my children too!)

My sweet great-nephew Law and me..

John, Larry, me, and Frank

Josh, Charles, MJ, me, Chuck, and Lawren

 "You don't choose your family. 

They are God's gift to you, as you are to them."

-Desmond Tutu

We Want to Know Wednesday

1. What is your favorite food item at Thanksgiving?  I love dressing, rice, gravy, and cranberry sauce....

2. What is your least favorite?  I am not crazy about sweet potatoes...

3. Do you have a favorite pie? (Share a recipe if you want or just tell us about it and make us drool)  I love chocolate chess pie.  My mama made them for every Thanksgiving and Christmas!  YUMMY!!

4. Do you have any Thanksgiving traditions?  When I was growing up, our family went to Charlotte to my sister's house.  In later years, we went to my brother's house in Chester.  Since I've been married, we get together with Chuck's family at Bethel church on Thanksgiving night for supper. 

5. Black Friday shopping? Do you participate in the delightful running through the stores in the wee hours or the morning madness or hibernate at home and shop online? I definitely DO NOT participate!  I'm not crazy~~~

Buzz...

1. As a child, did you have one item/toy you were attached to?  I had a stuffed tiger and a stuffed bear that I was particularily attached to....

2. What would you consider to be your top three favorite holidays?  I love Thanksgiving, Easter, and Christmas...

3. What is your earliest memory?  I remember playing in the backyard in my sandbox, and my daddy sitting in a chair under the sweet gum tree....

4. Name three features about yourself you think is sexy.  Ummmmm....nothing!

5. What was your very first pet?  We had two beagles named Pete and Sam....

What I'm Loving Wednesday

Happy Wednesday before Thanksgiving! 

I'm linking up with Jamie for this week's edition of

WHAT I'M LOVING WEDNESDAY!

I'm loving...

that we have today and then next four days off from school!!   Hooray for two day work weeks!!

I'm loving...

that the household teenagers and their friends WANT me to play board games with them on a pretty regular basis.

I'm loving....

all of the new and repeat episodes of the Food Network's "Chopped,"  especially the Thanksgiving themed shows.

I'm loving...

Sugar Babies!

(thanks Penny, for getting me "hooked" on them!)

I'm loving...

that L and MJ will soon get their MCHS class rings!  How exciting for them...

and thanks Aunt Vivian!  You are the best!

(and of course, and as always)

I'm loving...

..these silly girls

..and these two guys!