May 10, 2008 Ship of Thieves! Stealing the Magic..AGAIN!!! Panama Canal FL to CA!!! Part 9

[EllaEnchanted]

Marilyn, I think you might have to wait for that photo. John fell asleep.....took a little nap after dinner. The photo is on the old desktop that's now our server. John has to email it to me from there. We're both on wireless DSL with our laptops at home.

I'll definitely try to get it for you, but it won't be tonight. Sorry.

 

[EllaEnchanted]

Ella is going after Mickey (turtle) right now. Mickey is going after Minnie (turtle) right now. Ella is standing on top of the tank with her two front paws nose to nose with them. Mickey and Minnie just jumpted off their sunning spot back into the water. Ella loves when they come out of the water and move around.

Yes, Deborah, it's a crazy animal house around here and yes, Holly, I never get bored. Somebody is always doing something, probably something they shouldn't be doing.

 

[EllaEnchanted]

I don't need a house full of kids, I have a house full of pets. I have one dog, one cat and six turtles.

Who else has pets? What are they and how many do you have?

 

[EllaEnchanted]

Sandi called this morning to say that they arrived just after midnight last night. They slept overnight at a hotel in Virginia. They said they had traffic all the way to Georgia.

But they're there and everyone is safe. That's a good thing. Even though I have lost some faith in them, I still love Sandi and the boys and I wouldn't want anything to happen to them, not even to Joe, who I am not fond of.

 

[EllaEnchanted]

Kaylee's Hawks are winning 27-0. She told us that she's at that game. She must be thrilled. GO HAWKS!!!

 

[EllaEnchanted]

Marilyn, John woke up....just a little nappy nappy. He's looking through years of photos in the computer and trying to find the right folder where Gandalf's snow pic is. He'll find it! We will post it on here tonight. John said he's going down memory lane and just found a pic of me and gandalf sleeping on the floor together. Maybe I can post that one too. John said it's his all time favorite.

 

[EllaEnchanted]

Karen's 49ers 21 Bucs 13....sorry V....but Karen is happy and it is her birthday weekend!

Lisa's Skins play the late game tonight.

 

[HollyTyler]

Poor Tyler! He woke me up at 5am today because he was sure Santa came early! Did we leave cookies & milk out the night before? No! Did we leave magic oatmeal for the reindeer? No! Then why on earth would he have come early?! Tyler said, "I don't know....I'm just checking!" So since he dragged me out of bed so early, I figured we might as well get a start on our day. We were shopping like crazy all over town when I saw that things are 1/2 off almost everywhere! Tyler was wanting to go to bed at 5pm because of getting up so darned early and told me he was too tired to make cookies, so we just left Santa some that my aunt had sent us. He was in bed, bedtime book read, songs sung, SOUND ASLEEP by 6:45!!!!! So he'll probably wake me at 4am looking for Santa's gifts!

Holly, nice snowglobe. Got tired of the disappearing pickles?!

Yes! They were driving me nuts!

 

[HollyTyler]

I intended to watch the Dallas game last night, but fell asleep early and missed the whole game. Prior to that I was chatting with Holly on here. Holly.....sorry I just fell off the face of the earth like that without saying goodnight.

I love the magic oatmeal stories....I had never heard of that before....the milk duds story was even better. Is Tyler happy now because he has some presents to open. YEAH the terrible Tyler is gone and the sweet and funny one is back.

Yes, he was happy to open a few presents today. The present he got in the mail from my aunt is something he already has, so he was a bit sad, but then he said, "Oh no! What do we tell her?" I told him not to worry, He's never even met her because she lives a couple hours away and doesn't allow visitors because she has a skin condition and she's embarrassed by how it looks (scleroderma). Long story, but we stay in contact by e-mail. Well, I took him to see her only once, when he was a few months old, and she nicely told me she prefers not to have visitors. Strange, but it's fine....we make it work by e-mail. Anyway, I told him we'd be able to exchange it without bothering her about it being a duplicate. Toys R Us is good about that even without a receipt as long as it's something they sell.

Then he got to open the 3 small gifts I got for him. He was pretty happy. He put his Sparty ornament on our tree right away, he put his new Spiderman shoes on, and took his craft supplies into his room and came out with a card he made me and told me he made it because I'm "the best mom in the world". I told him I love it so much because he's the best kid in the world!

Then he said, "Would you like to open your present from me?" He bought me a harmonica. Too funny! The reason he bought that is because he wanted the box it came in to put his own harmonica in!

 

[EllaEnchanted]

I couldn't find the one pic that I was looking for, but I found some others to share.

These are pics of my chicks when I had chickens at the house a few years ago.

Chickies getting older out in their pen.

 

[EllaEnchanted]

Here's John's favorite of me and gandalf sleeping nose to nose. I knew he wasn't happy because he wasn't at home. We were in a house rental in FL at the time and took him with us. He never wanted to leave home and he wanted everyone home with him. He was not happy so I laid down on the floor with him to comfort him and I happened to fall asleep.

Here's one of gandalf outside in the snow when we used to get huge snowstorms a few years ago.

 

[HollyTyler]

Cute chicks Deb!

 

[LisaG520]

John is wrapping my presents, the kid already wrapped Ray's. The tree looks so much better with presents under it.

Tomorrow I'm going to the Bethlehem hotel and we'll watch movies and swim and do hot tub. It's a great little get away locally. We'll eat out and drive by main street Bethlehem, Christmas City as they call it around here. It's old and historic and beautifully decorated with lights. I love it there, especially at this time of year.

We'll come home about 11am on Christmas morning and the kid will go pick up Ray around 11am then we'll all meet at my house and open presents. I'll make some calls to Ray's brother and sister and daughter and if any of them are available to talk to him, it will make his day. They all have his phone number at Mrs. Bush's (personal home care), but none of them ever call him. They never called him when he was at home with mom either. I can't accept how they can just abandon him, especially now. If it wasn't for mom's family, he wouldn't have any.

We have dinner reservations for 3pm on Christmas day.....so we'll go out to eat and then drop Ray back off at Mrs. Bush's. He loves having his own room now, without having a roommate to deal with. He's very happy. My disposable income just went down because Ray can only afford a shared room. I will be picking up the difference for the private room.....and it ain't cheep!!

What's everyone else doing for Christmas eve and day? When do you open presents? This is the first time in my life that I will open presents on Christmas day. I like doing it on Christmas eve and think that I will go back to doing it that way again next year.

Think of your own happiness doing something nice for someone else and knowing your making him happy in the process.


Christmas eve we're going to the Olive Garden then go see Charlie Wilson's War. Christmas Day we'll have breakfast, open gifts, go see Alien vs. Predator Requiem then come home and have dinner.

We always opened up one gift on Christmas Eve from mom & dad - pj's. Plus my sister and I always exchanged gitfts Christmas Eve. Then Christmas morning we were allowed to open our stockings before mom & dad got up. Then after we had breakfast we would open the rest of our gifts.

 

[EllaEnchanted]

Here's some pics of our house when we used to get snowfalls.

Gandalf playing with his big toy, a tire, in the snow.

Gandalf wearing his big toy around his waist in the snow.

Our driveway in the snow.

Our back steps in the snow.

Looking out our side yard across the farm field....plowing out, one car out another still burried.

 

[LisaG520]

I don't need a house full of kids, I have a house full of pets. I have one dog, one cat and six turtles.

Who else has pets? What are they and how many do you have?

3 cats - Sassy who is 15, Sweetie and Jasper - both 6

 

[LisaG520]

Here's some pics of our house when we used to get snowfalls.

Gandalf playing with his big toy, a tire, in the snow.

Gandalf wearing his big toy around his waist in the snow.

Our driveway in the snow.

Our back steps in the snow.

Looking out our side yard across the farm field....plowing out, one car out another still burried.

Love all the pictures - helps remind me why I love (and miss) PA sooo much!!!

 

[HollyTyler]

Deb, HOLY COW that's a lot of snow! Yikes! Makes me shiver just looking at the pics! LOVED the pics of Gandalf in the snow!

 

[HollyTyler]

Brrrrr!!! The weather guy said it was up to 50 degrees earlier today (so of course, all our snow is long gone), but we have a wind advisory warning with gusts up to 57mph through morning and the temp has dropped to 30. I was just outside lugging stuff into my garage, which is back behind the house, so it's not attached. Needed to make room to build the Flying Dutchman because I'm sure that will be my first big job of the day. Then I had to lug all the presents inside from the trunk of my car. Well, there aren't a ton, only like six I think, but that wind about blew me over! Brrrrrr! I can hear it roaring outside and it's pretty creepy.

 

[HollyTyler]

Looking out our side yard across the farm field....plowing out, one car out another still burried.

OK.....wait a minute! After looking closer, is that mound straight ahead in the pic actually a buried car?!

 

[HollyTyler]

Bored, bored, bored......so I decided a beer was in order!

Guess I'll go clean the bathroom now. Get that over with before my mom comes tomorrow.