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I haven't written a lot recently about being grateful.  And probably this time of year, more than ever - I find a lot of things to be grateful for.
For the things I do have and not the things I don't have For girlfriends, lots of girlfriends that help me in ways they don't even know. For a daughter who tries to help when she knows I'm going through a rough time.
What more could you want when...

Day 19

our frozen lake

I wanted to come up with a list of my top 10's for 2007.  But it seems some of the things I can't even come up with ten?  I'm going to add when I think of more
 
Movies:
Pirates of the caribbean: At World’s End Night at the Museum I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry The Simpsons movie  
Books
A thousand splendid suns The kite runner My sisters keeper The Road Water for Elephants U2...

Day 18

A project I'm doing with my Work in Progress kit

Had a great time at stamp club and a much needed getaway from "life".  We made a fun gift with these acrylic frames.  On the one side there is a stamped image and on the other you would put a stack of post it notes.  Very cute and very easy to do!

This is the other the other card we made

Then my sister told me about these switches for your tree and I had to go find them.  You mean we...

Okay I have the day home - since no kids in school means mom has day off work, right?
So I need to make a list of all the things I'm going to accomplish today:
Clean my bedroom!  It seems to be the room where everything goes when it doesn't have a place to go. wrap gifts (that would help in the clean my bedroom part too) package cookies so I can freeze gift certificates for Jeannie's store in...

Day 17

Zach found this on our tree.  Had to put in his bug catcher...

  I so needed this day with my busy weekend!  Whew!  Now a day home to get some stuff done.  Now that's what I call perfect timing!

                             That's what my day today was filled with...
 
   Today Chelsea and I went over to Trish's for some mom and me time building gingerbread houses.  The weather started turning bad just as it was time to leave, but we figured as long as we take it slow, we'll be fine... and we were.

  We had a blast making our gingerbread house...

  As usual we had a great time at the cookie exchange yesterday.  The weather started getting bad at the end of the day which caused for slow travel on the way home, but what a fun day to remember.
  To begin with you have a group of friends who get to spend the day together.
  




  
My sister, Kim, my cousin Mary and my mom



  
 








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