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happy new year to you all

this is in case i get to lazy to blog before new years hehe, actually the next couple days are going to be kind of crazy, tomorrow we are celebrating fil's birthday , it actually was the 28th but no one really felt well enough to go over there , and he really didn't care. he was busy anyways cleaning mil's bedroom out. wow what a undertaking. holy cow the treasures she has. now of course poor mom don't stress over him going through her stuff but its mainly because of her mind not working properly. he found a cool stamp sheet of john lennon, its from the country of chad, and while its not worth a great deal of money. hubby loved it as john lennon was his hero. when he was killed i thought my hubby would go over the edge. my hubby truly is a child of the 60's and 70's hehe

we had a nice christmas, although christmas day was sad for me, i kept it to myself as i didn't want to bring everyone down. the highlight of the day for me was when kristy my dd opened her skull sweater. it soooo made it all worth the hard work and stress of making the sweater. right now am working on more hand warmers for kathy(losing my mind) my package somehow got over looked so now am making more of the hand warmers to send with the package, will get it out next week i promise.

today was paying bills and chatting with the receptionist at our ins company , she looked so cold i asked her sara are ou cold and she said yes i am always cold , so i am going to make her a black shawl. , also have the yarn to make jessie her poncho, see sweetie i told ya would not be toooo long., am going to make your poncho first before saras shawl. also think i want to make my sister sue a shawl for her b-day which is janurary 20th.


tonight i saw on the news. the dictator who killed thousands and thousands of innocent people now has lost his own life tonight. sadam hussein is now dead. i am asking ya all for your opionond in his life and death. do you think the death penalty was to harsh, or do you think he deserved to die alot more painfully, or are you just down in the dumps about more killing. me personally think he deserved to die, but i also think that all hell is going to break loose now, i guess will have to wait and see. i am so sick of war, i just want our troops home and let the iraqi people rule their own life now. i hear more and more of our citizens being killed over there, its time to bring them home, and let th wounds heal.


k enough sad depressing stuff,

what is your next project going to be, is it for yourself or a gift, are you going to spoil someone special/ if so whats the special occasion? i want soooo bad to finish the statue of liberty, but ya know after setting it aside all this
time i will have to start over i am almost positive, thats alright, that will make sure its done right,


well am off to crochet abit before dd gets home,(if i can stay awake long enough.) thankfully is friday i almost forgot it how stupid can i be.


oh on another note. while not intentional i managed to make it 10 hours between pain meds, am trying to cut back a little as they cost sooo much and if i can do withut one of them would be great, although tonight i am sooooooooo paying for it, so maybe not

chatted tonight with friends, glad to hear from so many tonight was worried about a couple as i had not heard from them and thought i would, when i didn't was worried but all is well now :)

new years eve will have our annual party,. today got all the stuff to make it a fun evening. for food i bought the makings for sandwiches, bought both turkey and ham and roast beef, also some fresh veggies , will make a veggie platter, going to make potato salad even though not everyone likes it I like it hehe, so there hehe, also will make a mac salad, and have chips and dips of all kinds cheeses, and crackers asome goodie snacks too like candy, and licorice and well lots of good food, now tomorrow will clean the house up as much as possible and then sunday wait and vaccum, why bother to do that before hand, it just will get nasty again.

not sure as to what to have for like deserrt
i would do cookies but never baked any (blushing here) and not really in the mood to, do we need dessert/ its a buffet so i suppose we do, maybe can whip up some brownies fast, or cake mix cookies, those are fast or i know, no bake cookies, or ice box ones, all those are fast. alright that takes care of dessert, now am i missing anything in the food department, i bought 3 different kinds of cheeses, american in slices, medium cheddar and pepper jack, maybe will get some pavlone, thats also good cheese. oh well am not going to stress about the food anymore, drinks wise we have everything under control, i think its basicly going to be soft drinks, beer and champain for midnight . other than that they can have water, we decided not to do mixed drinks because its to easy for kids to sneak if you have that.although almost all of the kids coming are over 21, i still worry so am taking steps to stop it before it starts. smart right? :D

well i am about worn out now and need to go and crochet some of the stress away i have tonight, my goal for 2007 is to be stress free as much possible.

i am not a youngster anymore despite what that maniac kathy says lol,

my goal also is to not just impulse shop anymore. trying to save up some money since we have nada and thats just not cool in our situation. some day will be debt free once more. might take me a milliom years to do it , but i will

here are some pics from through out the year, thought perhaps you might enjoy them. god bless all of you my dear friends. may your 2007 year be filled with good health happiness and peace on this earth, may you all get your desires and not suffer in anyways that is preventable, to all of you my dear friends i send you hugs , we never outgrow hugs and can always use them so am depositing you a few here so should you need one, just pop inand het one. god bless and keep you, good health and happpiness. and lots of love for your fellow man. god speed to you all and now for the pics hehe well i will have to add them seperate cause blogger is being silly, thats cool will do that
love ya all and ciao for now

merry christmas to you all

tonight is christmas eve, the day before the blessed event that over 2 thousand years ago when christ our saviour was born. this day i give thanks to god in the highest and on earth peace on earth good will toward our fellow mankind.


i hope you all have a wonderful christmas, tonight i sat here and thought about all the christmas eves we spent with my parents and grandparents. i remember one year in particular, i was about 12 i guess, we were on our way to grandmas house and while we didn't have a horse and sleigh we should have, as it had snowed well over 2 1/2 feet the previous night, and while we were not scared to be driving in it(hey we were kids what did we know) my grandparents lived on the side of a cliff basicly, the street was a narrow winding 2 lane road that left no room for error, daddy was driving we were all singing christmas songs and all of a sudden our tire slipped. and while i was so sure we were going to plunge over that cliff to our deaths, my dear old daddy was able to get out of it with not even a inch to spare. we got to grandmas house and all we could talk about was the car and the snow and all of a sudden we realized hey its christmas eve, family was there and there was presents. well we had to wait our turns and the little ones got the presents first. my youngest sister was a bout 2 and she had just gotten her new baby doll, then the next to the youngest sister opened hers, she also had gotten a doll but was not a baby was a barbie, now that was what i wanted more than anything in my life and here my little sister had gotten one., but it wasn;t barbie, it was skipper, so next came the next sister,. she opened her present and it was you guessed it another barbie. now i was chomping at the bit cause there was one particular barbie i wanted and it was no where to be found. sort of like the nintendo Wii and the tickle me elmo, well finally it was my turn, i had sat nice and quiet the whole time, only saying ohhh and ahh when they opened their presents. so i opened my present and it was the dream doll, it was the barbie bride doll that no one had around kitsap county washington , anywhere , how do i know this, i over heard my parents talking about how i was going to be so dissapointed. well my grandmother was a crafty woman and had sisters in several states. so she finally had gotten one tracked down down in orange county california where my gr aunts grace and mayme both lived. when i opened that doll up you could here me screaming clear across the street, the neighbor came out and said whats wrong lol grandpa said oh nothing, just a excited grand daughter. now most of you think of 12 as a age where girls don't play with dolls anymore, and while that might be true now, it certainly was not true then,. i played with that barbie till i moved out and she somehow got given to my youngest sister. when it came time to divide the stuff from dads house after he died, i asked where all my barbies were(i had all of them that were the best ones, even had a original midge, my sister told me that when dad had moved the last time, he threw all of the dolls into the dump, i cried buckets over that, not because i wanted to play with them but because of the rarity of some of them would have probably paid for a new car for me. and he threw them away. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, whyyyy why why why i asked. cause he was a guy and i didn't play with dolls anymore
sheeesh, that was the one time i got angry at my dad, because he could have asked before doing it but he didnt and of course when he passed away i could not be angry with him at all. i think that christmas and the time daddy made the furniture for mom(thats what he told us) were the most memoriable,as a child. we were at the age when sting ray bikes were the "in' thing. we wanted one sooooooo bad, 3 of us girls, my brother already had one being the oldest, we wanted one in the most fiercestways. but dad said santa could not bring something that big for all of us., we would have to wait till we could afford it. well all of a sudden 3 big boxes were stacked up against the wall, we asked dad, daddy what is that, he said shhhhhh don't tell your mother but i made her a coffee table and end table, but in order to suprise her, i had to put your girls names on it. boy was we suckers lol, so come christmas eve(we always opened everything christmas eve) when we were all excited cause we knew how much mom wanted new furniture and we could not afford any, so we opened them all together and instead of a coffee table and end tables we saw 3 sting ray bikes. we loved those bikes with all of our young hearts. was wonderful and i stil to this day remember the excitement of that evening. mom was laughing cause she knew how much we wanted them. she did get her furniture for her b-day the next feburary , she was born on valentines day, mom and dad i miss you guys sooooooo much, i miss the grandparents too of course, but parents are special rest in peace mom and dad and daddy stop playing games with the vacumm cleaner like turning it on by itselt withouth being plugged in. i know its dad. when i say stop it dad he does. while some will think i am crazy, i swear it really did happen. freaked me out big time


am off to stuff stockings and maybe get a little shut eye before good old santa claws comes and wakes me up wanting to be fed and such, little itsy is the worst. she is always hungry always . she is a growing bundle of energy who runs circles around the rest of the kitties. merry christmas my friends and god bless

december days

today was the official first full day of winter and i am soooooooooo not looking forward to it,

well this evening as i sit here blogging i am thinking about the crew of the blackhawk helicopter which went down just east of enumclaw, sadly 3 brave soldiers lost their lives in another training mission, i pray for their families that while they might not be out there in iraq or afghanistan or someplace, those men didn't die in vain.that people realize training accidents are just as bad as being in combat because they are training for combat. i am very saddened by this happening 2 young boys saw it happen, i can't imagine seeing something of that magnitude of and not having problems dealing with the stress of knowing someone died in that crash. its just sad


i know i would carry that with me the rest of my life, i pray for the family members and the 3 who lost their lifes, rest in peace brave soldiers

i think this year alot of people are cutting back, yet i saw on the news tonight about a women who boarded a bus in spokane who handed each passenger a envelope with a 50.00 bill in each one. all told it was a very happy thing. i feel so awful this year that while i try and do what i can,its no where near what i use to do, but guess its better than nothing.things this year have just been so bad i wish it was better


i had a scary moment today when my hubbys hip popped out of joint and he fell down,. it scared the crud out of me and i almost had a heart attack myself, had to yell for my son and between us we were able to get him back on the couch, says that his leg is seizing up so i started massage it, it finally let the cramp loose. oh man i felt bad for him i just felt so dang helpless, knowing if he got down on the floor, that i would have to call 9-11 thankfully he was fine but still a tad sore.

my poor dd she made the mistake of not paying enough attention to the hours posted, she was suppose to work from 8:30 am to 1 pm she thought, well they asked her last night if she could work a little earlier around 7 so off to work she went at 7 am, just to find it was not till 7 pm, luckily the manager had her work till 11:30 this morning then she is back there tonight a so she went back at 8:30 till closing., which i hate that shift as its dark and not many people around, but she walks out with security or her fellow coworkers. poor kid she has not had a decent rest in so long, hopefully soon.


i hope everyone i raoked and sent to got their stuff only 1 person so far has said she got it so am hoping that they all get it by tomorrow. the mail is sooooo slow
well am off to get some rest, i wish you all the best of the holidays merry christmas for those who celebrate for those who celebrate yule, happy yule, happy hanukkah,happy kwanzah happy whatever you celebrate.


god bless and keep you always. hugs and love ya all dear friends.

its finished wooohooo

i finally finished the jolly roger for my daughter for christmas, she is into the goth look and likes sculls at the moment(don't ask me why) but i saw it and she saw it and then i decided to make it a skull christmas, lol i have actually fould located several smaller skulls, i found earrings and tote bags and even purses and wallets, see told ya a skull christmas. i suppose alarge part of it has to do with the movies about pirates hehe anyways without farther adeu' here it is

wow i am sooo lucky

been a couple days since i blogged, been so darn busy i don't know where start. i guess at the beginning lol, today son woke me abour 9 ish this morning, I WAS MAD!!! til i realised they were probably hungry, so off i went to get my hungry cats food for them, well anyways i fed them and got started on my day i have been running around in circles, knowing i had a ton of stuff to do yet not doing it, so i finnaly was able t, almost finish cleaning the house, i figured i better get some of the raoks out so i did that and now am done pretty much until after the new years

well today i finally did it, i managed to get all of the cards out, well made out, tomorrow they get mailed, also finished the angels and also made the ever alusive fudge done yipiiiiiiieeeee,, so now thats done. got hubbsters crew's stuff ready, tomorrow , next its crochet till i am done with the sweater sleeve for daughters jolly roger sweater, and no i am not don't yet, but i will be, if i have to wrap it up half done and give it to her bewahahahahaha, naw its almost done, heck i haVE 4 MORE DAYS LEFTs HAHAHAHAHAHAH


not much else going on, just thought i would pop in and say hello. will blog more tomorrow god bless you all love ya too

what a day

omg today i had a horrible day. its not enough that we are going to be hammered tonight and tomorrow with nasty wind storm with wind gsts to over 70 mph. so today while knowing this was going to happen, i decide to go out to the store and stock up on the batterys and maybe get a few other items,. so i go to k-mart, no problem, then i go to the store while i am getting grocerys, this stupid old man decided that i "stole" his parking spot, i should be ashamed of myself blablabla, all because he wanted my handicap spot that i had waited on for over 10 min, he figured he would just chew me out. omgosh people make me sick. so now i have gotten my batteries and grocerys and decide i will stop at the po since i have a package i want to raok out and need to get it in the mail. well instead of going into the driveway of the post office, there has been so much rain that it looked like a small puddle but was actually a ditch filled with water. yes you got it, i drove into that blasted ditch. and of course was stuck, so now am freaking out thinking hubby is going to kill me since i do sometimes do stupid things, so i call the auto club, am on the phone with them for over a hour, in the mean time
i see police go by, i see fire department go by, lots of people lookie lookie lookie at the stupid woman. finally this very very kind man comes up to me and says mam, can i help you, i started crying, he probably thought i was nuts. but i had lost it, just lost it, then another guy came and tried to jack my car up but it was to stuck. i finally get ahead of the auto club, they say oh will be 2 hours, grrrrr this very nice young man in a 350 ford 4-wheel drive pickup with a tow rope, pulled me out, thanksfully no damage to car, and while i am and was shook up, i thank god it wasn;t worse.i thanked him profusly and tried to pay him he said merry christmas tonight this weather is scarying the crap out of me, the wind is picking up now
my kids are both at work
hubby is at dentist, and i need to clean the area away from our fireplace , but am to tired, is not much stuff anyways, just a couple things and dd's guitar. we are suppose to be hammer bad from this storm, they said will
it is going to be almost hurrican strength, thank god everyone should be home,. hopefully but its starting to come in and my dd dont get off until 10. please god don't let it hit till after that. i am soooo tired and worn out, i need a vacation, while this day has not been my worst it comes close, but it was made better by the kindness of strangers who without a thought knew i needed help and that they could do it. i wish i could tell them how much their kindness means to me,. today i felt awful anyways, this storm must be a bad one cause my bones are throbbing, my arthritis is so bad that i can't hardly stand it.,i need to get off here now cause i need to make some dinner for all of us so that even if the lights go out i can feed my family, sorry for the rant, but i needed to get it out of my system. all is well i guess other than we still face the storm, please pray for us and all of the people in the area, there has been so much bad things happen this year. we need more rain like we need to get stuck in a ditch (sticking tounge out)sorry to vent so bad, just am glad ya all care enough to read it hehehe. all is well that ends well, and car is fine, now to ride out this storm, only thing that bothers me is it is suppose to hit after midnight when we all will be sleeping. HA like i could. anyways if ya all would please think good thoughts for me and pray if you do i thank you. i need it right now. life tonight is stressful, i know its short term but its stressful anyways. thanks for listening to me (reading) god bless you all my friends. love ya all

pics

i am sooo blessed

yesterday i got a package in the mail from fran who lives down texas way, she sent me the most incredibly bewautiful oblong stole that i have ever seen, will post pics in a minute. she also sent me some yummmyyarn from hobby lobby a place we don't have here, and if that was not enough, she also bought me a awesome flower motif pattern book
i can not thank you enough my friend, i have been busy working on christmas ornaments for hubbys work, got those done and now need to finish kristys sweater. i started that dang thing , sooo excited and now i just want it done. that is a sad sad thing, while i know it will get done before christmas i wish it was done now. oh well maybe will get off here and work on it now, she is gone to chris's her bf and won't be home for a bit more so will have some time to work on it. maybe when i get done with it i will be happier. talked with fran tonight and while we enjoyed chatting with each other , she was tired and so am i.

i found myself today humming along with the christmas carols playing in the stores, went to best buy, looking for a cd for hubby rye cooder, but no luck, so went over to borders, and while i found one there i didn't buy it., it was 22.00, and while i know he would have enjoyed it, not sure he would have with that one it was mostly in spanish. i don't think he would have liked it. so while i was there i decided to mosy over to the magazine section and look and see if i could find the new crochet today i didn't think i would find it, but guess what i did in fact got 4 of them as raok, well 3 will be, anyways here are the pics and am off to crochet the sleeve on the skull sweater . maybe will finish the one and get the other done too hehe hugs to ya all god bless and merry christmas, happy hannaka, happy yule, happy kwanza or happy whatever you celebrate. if i misspelled anything please forgive me i am tired and its late. god bless ya all hugs

i did it woohooo

today i finished all of the angels i need for hubbys work, yes they are angels and i made 9 of those babies. now its my turn to make some for who I want. people who love my ornaments and wish for them every year, this is something i have done at christmas time for well over 30 years now, only 1 year was i unable to make and give my ornaments out and that was in the year 2000 when i was hurt in a car accident. although hubby helped me make enough that we were able to give those out. sooooooo to make a long story short, it looks like i will able to do it this year too wooohooo hugs ya all

a couple things i have made

more interesting facts

i pinched this from michelles blog lol





1. FIRST NAME?vicki
2. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? mydad
3. WHEN DID YOU LAST CRY? Hmm.. saturday
4. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING?
no it hurts my hands

5. YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT? chicken
6. KIDS? 2
7. IF YOU WERE AN
OTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? yes
8. DO YOU HAVE A JOURNAL? yes
9. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT? No, not a great deal
10. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS? Yep
11. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP? no freaking wayI'd ever do that
12. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL? cinnamon toast crunch
13. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF? yes
14. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM FLAVOR? peanut butter
15. DO YOU THINK THAT YOU ARE A STRONG PERSON? I use to be

16. SHOE SIZE? 8
17. RED OR PINK? red
18. WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF? i care to much
19. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST? My dad
20. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO SEND THIS BACK TO YOU? no, only if they wanted t
21. WHAT COLOR PANTS ARE YOU WEARING NOW? black
22 YOU COULD BE 18 AGAIN WOULD YOU? yes
23. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? christmas music
24. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE? Metallic Blue
25. FAVORITE SMELL? Jasmine flowers in bloom
26. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED ON THE PHONE? My sister
27. THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE THAT YOU ARE ATTRACTED TO? Their laughter
28. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON THAT SENT THIS TO YOU? yes, but she didn't send it i swiped it lol
29. FAVORITE DRINK? dr. pepper

30. FAVORITE SPORT? basketball
31. EYE COLOR? brown
32. HAT SIZE? medium
33. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS? no
34. FAVORITE FOOD? pizza
35. WHAT WAS THE LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED AT THE MOVIE THEATER? can't remember36. SCARY MOVIE OR HAPPY ENDING? Happy Ending
37. WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING? grey
38. SUMMER OR WINTER?
summer
39. HUGS OR KISSES? HUGS!
40. FAVORITE DESSERT? fruit
41. WHO WILL MOST LIKELY RESPOND? n/a
42. LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND? n/a
43. WHAT BOOKS are you READING NOW?none
44. WHAT'S ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? Don't got one
45. WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON TV LAST NIGHT? CSI and CSI Miami
46. FAVORITE SOUNDS? Spring (daytime: birds etc, evenings: crickets, frogs etc)
47. ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES? both
48. THE FURTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME? california los angelas
49. WHAT IS YOU PRESENT OCCUPATION? none
50. WHERE WERE YOU BORN? washington state
51. WHO SENT THIS TO YOU?
no one

why are people mean

today i have been having a very hard day,. a sad day a day filled with anger and nasty shouting at me,. why i don't have a clue, today started out stressed, hubby was grumpy as usual, son was on a lets see how much i can agrevate my parents day and for some reason, even the cats were mean and grumpy. why can't i have a day filled with niceness instead people being so darn mean, i wanted to just cry today, my hubby and i while we have not been getting along really well, i thought we had reached a understanding. guess i was wrong, i know i am not perfect, and maybe i could do more but why does he have to be so mean, i am sad this year anyways, i found myself the other day buying my mother her favorite perfume, only when the clerk asked me if i wanted it gift wrapped did i realize what i had done, then of course i felt like a idiot,.

it seems that the more stress there is the more it happens, know what i mean? i honestly feel that no one gives a darn anymore in my family, my gosh i have more care and concern from my online friends than anyone, people who i have never and probably never will ever get to meet, treat me with more kindness and care than my own family, thats so sad, i sometimes wish i could walk out on my family, just pick up and leave, leave the anger and pain away. it seems that ever since i got hurt(6 1/2 years ago) that my life has become a living hell, this isn;'t a pity party either, i know things happen and you deal with it, but why does it have to be sooooo angryand things said with such meanness and hatred, yes hatred, thats how i feel, guess its because i am a burden on my family, i try sooo hard not to b a burden and ask for their help, but i also am human and i need some care and love. i want to thank all of my friends who while we don't see each other and most likely never will meet, a thank you from the bottom of my heart for cheering me up. you are why i get up in the morning with a smile on my face,. not my family who gives me nothing but grief. thanks for caring my friends. i wish i could give you a bunch of hugs abd return to you what you have done for me, k enough whining and yes i know it was. i guess some day things will be better i hope. just thinking that the world is this bad is just about more than i can deal with, k signing off with tears. god bless you my friends, i love you all


p.s the shawl you see at the top of this page was made by one of my best online friends, she knew i needed a hug and she made this out of her own pattern to cheer me up. thanks tammie love, i love it sooo much

a tribute to those who serve and protect

A Soldier's Christmas

'Twas the night before Christmas, he lived all alone,
in a one bedroom house made of plaster and stone.
I had come down the chimney with presents to give,
and to see just who in this home did live.

I looked all about, a strange sight I did see,
no tinsel, no presents, not even a tree.
No stockings by mantle, just boots filled with sand,
on the wall hung pictures of far distant lands.

With medals and badges, awards of all kinds,
A sober thought came through my mind.
For this house was different, it was dark and dreary,
I found the home of a soldier, once I could see clearly.

The soldier lay sleeping, silent, alone,
curled up on the floor in this one bedroom home.
The face was so gentle, the room in such disorder,
not how I pictured a United States Solider.

Was this the hero of whom I'd just read?
curled up on a poncho, the floor for a bed?
I realized the families that I saw this night,
owed their lives to these soldiers who were willing to fight.

Soon round the world, the children would plan,
and grownups would celebrate a bright Christmas Day.
They all enjoyed freedom each month of the year,
because of the soldiers, like the one lying here.

I couldn't help wonder how many lay alone,
on a cold Christmas Eve in a land far from home.
The very thought brought a tear to my eye,
I dropped to my knees and started to cry.

The soldier awakened and I heard a rough voice,
Santa don't cry, this life is my choice.
I fight for freedom, I don't ask for more,
my life is my God, my country, my corps.

The soldier rolled over and drifted to sleep,
I couldn't control it, I continued to weep.
I kept watch for hours, so silent and still
and we both shivered from the cold night's chill.

I didn't want to leave on that cold, dark night,
this Guardian of Honor, so willing to fight.
Then the soldier rolled over, with a voice soft and pure,
whispered, carry on Santa, it's Christmas Day, all is secure.

One look at my watch. and I knew he was right.
Merry Christmas my friend, and to all a good night.

This poem was written by
Major Bruce Lovely

I found the poem A Soldier's Christmas here: http://www.luvscreations.com/holiday7.htm

fudge for hilary

hilary rhis is for you, no marshmellow cream lol hugs honey enjoy your veggie fudge

microwave fudge, (this is a semi soft fudge)








3 cps chocolate chips,
1 can sweetened condensed milk,
1/3 cup powdered sugar,
and 1 tsp vanilla

you can add any other ingredients that you want such as nuts or marshmallows(for rocky road) marchino cherries,(yum) or pretty anything that will be solid.
Or nothing at all if you choose



Add milk chocolate chips, sweeted condensed milk, and microwave on high for 2 minutes stir and add powdered sugar and vanilla , add any extra ingredients, put into 9x13 pan until firm, note this must be kept in the fridge otherwise will be extremely soft.

the count is on

well my friends , the countdown is on, on till that magical moment that always hits on december 25th, cultivating in all of our hard work, blood sweat and tears.


this christmas i told myself, i was not going to stress about anything, so if th packages don't quite get wrapped like a proffesional , if my fudge doesn't get cut and wrapped until after christmas, if that one package you truly wanted from me didn't happen, well guess what, it does not matter!!!! i celebrate christmas to celebrate gods only son being born and brought to this earth at a way for all of us to come together and worship in his name. christmas is not about how many people did you wrong, but about how you were able to forgive and forget. and move on in your life, not to get me wrong, i do still spoil the little stinkers, well little and bit by bit i gatheres round items i think my nieces and nephew who will love what i give them, for my son who went all out today and helped his dad bring the christmas tree and then string lights on until they shined so loud it made my day i come true, christms is about giving and not about wanting for others to give to you, soooooo not happeneing in my neck of the woods..



christmas fudge has always been a staple in our family and my gift to you is to share with you, my hogs delight truly is a special fudge enjoy my friends and god bless you all and hope you enjoy my special fudge., hog s delight
HOGS DELIGHT !!!

2 Cups walnuts broken

2 jars marshmallow crème

3 small pkgs of chocolate chips 18 0z

4 big hersheys bars, I use the special dark chocolate with 2 and then 2 with milk choco with almonds

¼ tsp salt

1 tblsp vanilla
set aside


in med sauce pan, add 1 can evaporated milk and 4 ½ cups sugar, 1/4 cube butter

boil 4 ½ minutes in the large bowl(I recommend not using glass as the sugar milk mixture is really hot and can cause breakage I know it happened to me lol


pour hot sugar mixture into the bowl with the other ingredients and mix until smooth,grease pans with butter then spread in large cake pan(or 2 if they are smaller, I use one size 10x13 and on 11x 14, if you have a larger pan can be put into it to avoid dishes but I sometimes even have had to add another 9x9 dish, so anything that will hold it and also depending on how thick you want it, I try for about 3/4in as that’s a lot to put in ones mouth all at once and I find most people do hehe


bon apetite 