Author: Dackel Princess
Wednesday Hodgepodge
1. Share a favorite moment from your Christmas holiday celebration.
Watching Savannah open her gifts. She was so sweet and focused and it was fabulous to see her interest in each gift. She also played with each gift for quite a while before we mentioned oping another.
2. What would you say has been the biggest news event during your life so far?
Personal or world wide? World wide, 9/11. That event will haunt us all for the rest of our lives.
3. The Pantone Color of the Year for 2015 is Marsala. What say you-like or no like? Would I find this color anywhere in your home or wardrobe? Will you add something in this shade to either?
I do like the color and I actually have a room which is painted very closely to this color.
4. Would you rather meet your ancestors or your great grandchildren? Explain why.
My great grandchildren. Because they are, our future!
5. Share one life lesson learned in 2014?
Love between man and beast is not always instant or easy. I’ve always gotten dogs and there was an instant love. With Lili, I know she loves me, as she follows me everywhere, but she was sick so much the first few months and it made it very hard to bond. She is doing better, and I finally feel like I m making headway with her.
6. What was your best or favorite purchase made in 2014?
I got Savi a little doll nursery set. She started using it right away. It’s adorable. Hubby got her a dancing Minnie Mouse and she uses the doll set with Minnie.
7. What is one thing you’re looking forward to in the new year?
Right now I have no plans. I think I need to put on my thinking cap and do some planning!
8. Insert your own random thought here.
We had a wonderful time with Mel, Ron, Janet and Dave at our sister/cousin Christmas Party. The food was good, the company better and we all enjoyed the Yankee Swap!
Christmas 2014
Christmas was a wonderful thing this year. It was Savannah’s third Christmas, and the first one where she was really into Santa Claus, and PRESENTS! However, I must mention that Savi was really sweet. She really appreciated each and every gift that she was given.
Savannah wearing her Princess Elsa hat, complete with her braid!
Savannah also loved her dolls, the high chair for the dolls, and the tea and cupcake set that she got. (I think that was from her other grandparents)
I gave her the nursery set for the dolls and Hubby gave her the dancing Minnie Mouse!
I really loved watching her open and play with all of her toys. I have to admit that she could have cared less about the clothes I gave her, but heck, kids always need clothes!
This was also the first year that the whole family got together. Mandy and Matt opened up their new home to all of us and it was wonderful!
Making new memories, in Mandy’s new home!
Merry Christmas To All!
Christmas Eve
Here I am wrapping like crazy, all the treasures I have gotten over the last year, for my family. I’m only half way done. So much more to do tomorrow.
But as I wrapped I began to think about Christmas’s past. In my youth and teen years. Mom always made sure we had things under the tree. But when we got into our teen years something wonderful happened.
Dad, who had previously not known what to get us, did his mad dash to the Pharmacy. There he would shop and get us his gifts to us. Dolls, life savers, crossword puzzles, chap stick, funny hats, books, etc.
Here I am at age age 12.
All these years later, I look back and I realize how wonderfully special this was. No, Dad didn’t spend a lot of money, and almost no time, but he did, every year go out and buy me gifts just from him.
Most of you know, Dad was a music teacher. At Christmas he played concerts with the schools, the churches, and even on the local village green.
I didn’t know it then, but I do now. I was a lucky girl. My Dad loved me and showed me the only way he knew how.
Happy Birthday, Mandy!
Today is my daughter, Mandy’s birthday. The day she was born was so magical for her father and me. We were amazed that our love had made one so small, so perfect, so amazing. Now all these years later, sharing her life, watching her as a mother, I am even more amazed at my beautiful daughter. If I wasn’t her mother, I would still want to be her friend.
Happy Birthday, Sweetheart!
Tis The Season Of Busy-ness!
I went to the dentist today. He thinks I have a sinus infect on top of an overly sensitive tooth, so I have prescription tooth paste (?) and an anti-biotic for the sinus problem. I think in the new year I am going to make an appointment to see the Ear, Nose & Throat Doctor about these recurrent infections.
Meanwhile, the last few days have been full ones. Wednesday was Weight Watchers, and then a Ladies Luncheon, Thursday was a lunch with my girl friend, Laurie and the visit with my dentist. I have an admission to make. While he was checking for the aching tooth, he hit the tooth and I snapped my jaw shut, and bit him!
I really felt bad and I started to apologize all over the place and he laughed and told me that the first thing they teach in dental school is not to leave your fingers in patients mouths for long!
Please pray for a healthy tooth that will not need to be root canaled!
Tomorrow Hubby and I finish our Christmas shopping. Not too much left to buy. Then Saturday I get my locks dipped into the fountain of youth, and come home to wrap gifts. (Note to self: must get out the wrapping video on You Tube and watch again.)
Yay For Me!
Today I went back to Weight Watchers, after a week of journaling and being super careful about what I ate. I was really worried that I would not have lost any weight, but I stepped on the scale and found that I had lost two pounds! Yay for me!
Last week in class they spoke about how losing weight is really hard. It sure is! And once you are over 50 I think it gets even harder! But I am not going to give up!
Our last two cruises Hubby has taken pictures of me, and between my weight, and my new face, I have been one, very unhappy girl!
I know the next couple of weeks will be tough, due to the holidays, but I am not giving up. I really want to look good, and feel good in my body.
You know, the last time I saw my Mom before she died, she said to me: “Don’t be like me, Maribeth. Don’t give up! You can do it!”
Mom was probably my biggest critic in life, so this unprecedented encouragement was a real shock.
I do miss Mom. She may not have been a “Fairy Tale” mother, but I think she did her best. At least, right now, I am hearing her kind words and that is such a gift.
Wednesday Hodgepodge
1. Time magazine has selected The Ebola Fighters as their person of the year for 2014. Do you agree, and if so who would you say is a close second? If you disagree with their choice, who do you think should have been chosen?
That’s difficult. How does one determine who is the person of the year? I just think it is really presumptuous to say that one person is above all others.
2. This question comes to you courtesy of Susan who blogs over at Stew Mama Says. She knows we have a wedding happening any minute now, and she asks, ‘What’s your favorite-something old? something new? something borrowed? something blue in your home? Be sure you hop over and say hi to Susan today!
Something old, is the Noah’s Ark that was my grandfathers. He brought it over with himself, as a child from Germany. Something new, Sheesh, all my new refrigerators! Both our regular and drink fridges dies at the same time. Something borrowed? Mmmmm, not sure. I don’t think I have a something borrowed. Something blue? Lots of blue in my house, so people can take their pick!
3. Fudge-yay or nay? Your favorite flavor? Do you make it yourself? With nuts or without?
I love fudge chocolate with nuts. However, I stopped eating it for two reasons. First, it is bad for my teeth. Second, I am allergic…I break out in fat! lol!
4. December 17th is Wright Brothers Day, commemorating the first successful flights made by Orville and Wilbur Wright in 1903 in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. How old were you when you made your first flight? Do you like to fly? Have you ever been to Kitty Hawk or other parts of the North Carolina Outer Banks?
I have been to Kitty Hawk. I’m married to a pilot! I think my first flight was 13 or 14 years old. My parents and I flew on a Pan Am jet to Bermuda. Loved it!
5. Do the people in your family tend to follow a particular career path, and if so what’s the path?
Not really, although we seem to have had our share of teachers.
6. What is one thing you absolutely, positively must accomplish today?
Pay the taxes, and pay for another year of having a mailbox!
7. This Christmas I hope:
That there will be peace, love and joy in the world.
8. Insert your own random thought here.
We’ve been searching for baby sitters for the pups on Christmas and finally today I found them! Yay! Now we can go down and visit with Mandy and Savannah and Matt and enjoy the day!
Wonderful Christmas Time!
Last night I finished addressing, writing and stamping our Christmas cards. We’re late this year because of our vacation. What a good reason. After last years, rather disaster filled year, I told Hubby that this year we were going to keep it light.
Actually, we’ve had a good year. Mostly. I mean, there was some sadness, with the loss of dear Fritz, but also much happiness with wonderful trips and my daughter buying the home of her dreams.
And the continued wonder and happiness of sweet Savannah Rose! What a lucky Oma I am!
My dearest friend Carol, here in New Hampshire, is out of the hospital. Thankfully, they were able to treat her quickly and saved her life. It’s been touch and go for a week.
My dear Uschi, in Germany will go home tomorrow. She has been in the hospital since I was on my trip in November, after falling and injuring her back. It was very serious, but she will come home on Tuesday.
So the people in my life that have been having trouble, will soon be better. That gives me what I wanted the very most for Christmas!