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I'm working on some Aprons this weekend, please check back...these are ready made & will ship out immediately!

Happy Thanksgiving!

So Thankful...

Yes, I promised shopping goodness in my last post...but, apparently when I was blogging the fact that I would be home with three kids today had just totally slipped my mind...

Nothing.



Accomplished.



At.



All.



But, alas...I am still so very thankful this year.



God has blessed us with three beautiful, healthy children...a loving family...
wonderful friends that feel like family...

and three precious fur children to love.







We have so many blessings to count...

We are so very lucky...

and so very thankful.

I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

A GIVE AWAY!

This is so seriously tempting...

but, I think my family would for sure think I had gone off the deep end!
LOL



If I were a teenage girl, this life size Edward Cullen cardboard stand up would definitely be on my Christmas list!!! ;)

Ahem...but since I'm not...LOL
I guess I'll have to think of some more age appropriate gifts to ask for. (Although, he would look SO very nice standing right here next to me in the craft room...) Baha!

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I've got to get some (busywork...er, I mean) classwork done...ARGH! Just wanted to pop in here real quick & tell you about this GIVE AWAY!

Check out THESE adorable Christmas Countdown Cookie Sheets!







they are ADORABLE!!
I love handmade holiday goodness!

You can WIN ONE over on Jen's site...Tater Tots & Jello!
She makes these precious handmade advent calendars...do check them out!

Ok, getting busy...
Be back later with more shopping goodness later!

Have a Terrific Tuesday!

RECOVERY!

HOLY cow....

Mama P is just TOO OLD to be up THAT late!!!
I spent the entire weekend in RECOVERY!

I had THE BEST time Thursday night going out with the girls & getting to see Twilight AND NEW MOON at the movie theater! However, it was 3 AM when these old bones melted into the sheets of my beloved bed...MERCY!

The movie was...EVEN BETTER...than I expected!
It was AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME!



I'm making Daddy P take me to see it again while he's off this weekend...gotta love a man who will take his wife on a date with Edward Cullen! ;)

We had a house full of family on Saturday...a good visit with my favorite boys...







and got to meet the newest baby in the family, sweet...SWEET little Eli!





Is he not precious!!

It's Crazytown here...I'm thinking of running for mayor of Crazytown, perhaps things would calm down...

Ha...

I doubt that!

Looks like I'm ordering a pizza...Christmas has blown up downstairs & there is no way I am cooking around that mess! And, speaking of mess...while I was typing this blog post, Sneaky E decided to "mop" the hardwood floor in the foyer using softsoap (the whole bottle, of course) from the hall bathroom...*sigh*....

maybe I will run for mayor of Crazytown after all...

Be back tomorrow to share some new giftie finds!

Happy Monday!

The Last 48 Hours...

Two days...just TWO more days!!!!





In a little over 48 hours, I will be heading out wearing my brand new Twilight Junkie shirt to join the girls (who will also be wearing THEIR Twilight Junkie shirts) for dinner...the 9pm showing of Twilight, followed by the 12:01 premiere of NEW MOON!



Eeeeeeekkkkkkk!!!


I'm SOOOOO excited! ;)

I borrowed this pic from my new favorite blog...hop over & visit Jen at Tatortots & Jello...she's giving away NEW MOON inspired jewelry over there today!!

Unfortunate...

*Sigh*

You know, every now & then EVERYONE does something stupid that they regret...it's just part of life.

Maybe that stupid thing happened because a person was in a hurry...or maybe they were FURIOUS, hurt & very angry...maybe they just weren't using their head and made a simple MISTAKE. However it occurs, it's always unfortunate.

Let me tell you a story...

Once upon a time, this sassy 18 year old girl got into her car...
she was LATE (as usual), she was distracted (I mean, her boyfriend WAS a hunk), she was driving WAY fast on a wet, curvy road...

out of nowhere, she realized that in her BIG distracted HURRY she didn't have her seatbelt on & she quickly buckled it up.

Exactly three minutes later,

she had a wreck.

And she walked away without a scratch.

Do you think she ever gets in a car without wearing her seatbelt now?
HA!
Let's just say they call me Seatbelt Drill Sergeant in these parts...



Here's another story
about that girl's hunk of a boyfriend...

One night, late...hunk of a boyfriend and his pals were out...it was a FOGGY night...and they were out on a DANGEROUS road. The pals were in the front seat and he was seated in the back, in the very middle so that he could lean up and chat. Distracted driving pal missed a very sharp curve in this fog...his car ran off the road and met head on with a telephone pole.

Luckily, these guys were all ok...
and hunk of a boyfriend DID have some injuries that required surgery...
but, without his seatbelt
he would have been thrown through the windshield...

Let's just say, these days they call him Seatbelt Drill Sergeant's husband...

Now, that you have a little
background information...

(and I did not even mention that "Click it or Ticket" LAW)

you can probably understand how I MIGHT dive off the flippin' deep end if I thought that one of these little people had been riding in a car WITHOUT their seatbelt on...even if they were just going 3 little miles down the road...



I regret..

that I did...

indeed,

dive off the flippin' deep end...

about that.

And, I apologize for that and for any hurt feelings that it may have caused.

However, I do not apologize for having rules for my children at my house...they may be about the food they are allowed to eat, tv/movies they are allowed to see (or not), books they are allowed to read (or not), manners, bedtime...or even seatbelts.

Those are my rules and they are my children.
Period.
And that's all I feel that I need to say.

Every now and then, EVERYONE does something stupid that they regret.

Me...
You...
Everyone.

The best thing to do is apologize and move on.
Don't let some unfortunate mistake eat you up on the inside.

Make peace and forgive...

life is way too short.

Happy Tuesday,

Well, Round ONE Was a Bust...

Dog-Gone-It!

Here's a highlight from my first attempt at Christmas card pics 2009....



*sigh*

I'll try again, I guess.

Although, I did get few decent shots of them separately...I may have to do a scenario like that instead. I'll see what I can savage. I did get this one good one of E...what a biscuit he was!



So irritating....but, certainly not shocking! ;)

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On a happier note...LOL...I am having GREAT LUCK with the handsoap project from Chris, Just a Girl's website...the Goo Gone ROCKS!

AND...

this morning while I was in Publix, I found the Softsoap handsoap on sale for $0.79 EACH!

Needless to say...I stocked! ;)

What a NICE little giftie for VERY little $$!

Speaking of giftie...Megan has her shop restocked...HURRY, those scarves & aprons won't last long (I snatched up three this morning, myself)!