Things I treasure

are from those that mean the most in my life! Thank you and back at you! You had my favorite colored tissue and my favorite candy minus the butterfinger(you probably kept it for yourself)! You are the best you should of included some tissue right on top cause you know you had me in tears! I LOVE YOU I don't know what I would do with out you! You are one crafty Momma!

Oh Christmas Tree

We have a real tree this year it smells so good, but drinks a lot. We are not used to having to worry about that, I hope it makes it till Christmas. It went three days with just lights and I couldn't wait to make it into a hallmark tree. I could not believe how many "special" ornaments we have. (I did limit the use of mickey ones) well I guess it just seemed like we had a lot due to us only decorating a third of the tree. In years past we have used our rotating tree stand but this year the tree wouldn't fit so we are back to the boring standard one. We bought the best one we could find (the display model)and it didn't fit in the house. We had to cut a foot off of it and it was so big around that it didn't fit in front of the window like years past. This year it is in the dinning room which is open to the living room so it works out great cause with all these needles I don't have to pull out the sweeper a broom works just fine.

As you see in the picture there is one lone present under there and B will not stop asking questions. Who is it for? Will it be the best present I get? Can I open it early? Man now I know why Steve doesn't like to put the presents under there till X-mas eve. As a kid we always had presents under the tree it looks so nice with all the pretty wrappings. Is it only my kid that can't wait! She acts like she is deprived! We also don't have gifts for our out of state families so that would make up for a lot of pretty boxes.

Now on a more serious note.......oh to be young again. Last week the day we got the tree. Steve and I got it while B was in school so we took her the house key just in case we didn't get back in time. Which we didn't she was home alone for a hour. I walked in the house and she is in her room. She walks out crying and I ask her if she was scared. She says "No, I'm sad" why I ask. And with B it is NEVER a straight answer. "I lost something" what I ask. "It doesn't mean anything to you only me" Okay what is it I ask again. By then I'm getting mad just tell me! "A ring" she says. And at that point I'm think whats knew she is always loosing earrings so why not a ring.(NOTE: I buy all of B's jewelry at Clair's off the clearance rack 10 items for 5$ so loosing them is NO big deal) that's why I buy from there cause I know she is bound to loose something.

Anyways back to the story...... What ring the ring off the key chain? I could not think of a ring cause although she has some she never wears them. "No someone gave it to me". She realized she lost it while she was walking home from the bus. It was on the key ring and when she was trying to get the key ring off her bag it fell off. Why wasn't she wearing it, why wasn't it in her pocket, why didn't she put it in her bag? These are all questions I asked. It was to big for her finger, it hurt her while in her pocket. yadda yadda yadda. So when she realized it she looked for it and she asked her friend to help her with no luck. By the time we got home it was dark out but when I realized who it was that gave it to her (her boyfriend cause you know she never said) being a girl I just knew. I took her up the road and with flash lights we tried to look for it with no luck. I told her if she wanted to not ride the bus we could look for it in the morning when the sun comes up. So off we go in the morning to look for the ring and I am happy to say we found it nowhere near where we looked the night before! It got ran over (our road is chip and seal so nothing but little rocks basically) and it wasn't much of a ring. I was able to re bend it with pliers I carry in my car just in case. It isn't perfect but its better than nothing. She is now wearing it around her neck. I told her if he asks what happened to it tell him the truth. Like I said to be young again! LOL I'm afraid of what the future holds with this girl! Nothing but DRAMA at 10!

Friday night B was at a birthday party so Steve took me to the movies, for my birthday I got to pick the movie! We saw 4 Christmases, it wasn't that good but better then seeing the other choice James Bond, in my book. It was nice to get out just the two of us, and it was even nicer when he put his arm around me awwwww! He just doesn't do that kind of thing! So I Cherish every little thing.

Well for me not writing for a couple weeks I sure made up for it today!