October 20th 2007 Western Magic Part 9

[MinnMick01]

I'm still here

I thought you left me. I am only on L in my address book. It looks like this might take awhile.

 

[minnieandmickey]

Sean is going to get the Christmas stuff out of the shed tomorrow so hopefully I will have the tree up. I also made a mickey head wreath a few years back that I put over my fireplace. I'll post pics of it when I take them.

 

[MinnMick01]

We're watching the Rockett's Christmas Show

A football game is on here. Everyone is watching it while I sit in the other room on the computer and doing Christmas cards

 

[MinnMick01]

Sean is going to get the Christmas stuff out of the shed tomorrow so hopefully I will have the tree up. I also made a mickey head wreath a few years back that I put over my fireplace. I'll post pics of it when I take them.

I want to see the wreath. I can not wait to see it.

 

[Tart Annihilator]

Yeah wasn't always that way. He comes from a very prim and proper household. Then married me and my very southern borderline hee haw family. Loosened him up a bit. I am probably the only born and raised CA girl with a slight southern accent and says hey ya'll to people.

I hear ya. Mike was raised in a small city. Homes very close together. I was raised in a small town in the country. We had horses and a couple of cows. Our school consisted of grades 1 through 12 in the same building. Just under 1000 students in the whole school.

Mike's Dad was a city policeman when Mike was young and then got a job in the 70's at the newly opened GM plant in Lordstown. Mike's family were more prim and proper than we were.

When we started dating... Mike would bring me over to his house. I didn't like wearing shoes when it was nice out, so I always left my shoes in his car. When I walked in... his dad always teased me..."Where are your shoes?" "Do you own any?"


The first time Mike came to my house. My dad walked into the house carrying a burlap sack. He dumped it out on the floor and 3 baby pigs fell out squeeling. (A friend of my dad's had a mother pig that died, so he gave the 13babies away so they wouldn't die and we helped bottle feed them) I was rather embarrassed. Mike sure wasn't used to this. I can only imagine the look on Mike's dad's face when he told him about those pigs.


So our families were very different too.

 

[Tart Annihilator]

This dis board is crazy... I posted and got timed out, I logged back in, then I got the 40 sec rule. So I waited... and it posted the same thing twice.

Crazy.

 

[minnieandmickey]

I thought you left me. I am only on L in my address book. It looks like this might take awhile.

I don't send to many of those out anymore. Used to send them to everyone, but now only send them to the people we are closest too.

 

[MinnMick01]

I hear ya. Mike was raised in a small city. Homes very close together. I was raised in a small town in the country. We had horses and a couple of cows. Our school consisted of grades 1 through 12 in the same building. Just under 1000 students in the whole school.

Mike's Dad was a city policeman when Mike was young and then got a job in the 70's at the newly opened GM plant in Lordstown. Mike's family were more prim and proper than we were.

When we started dating... Mike would bring me over to his house. I didn't like wearing shoes when it was nice out, so I always left my shoes in his car. When I walked in... his dad always teased me..."Where are your shoes?" "Do you own any?"


The first time Mike came to my house. My dad walked into the house carrying a burlap sack. He dumped it out on the floor and 3 baby pigs fell out squeeling. (A friend of my dad's had a mother pig that died, so he gave the 13babies away so they wouldn't die and we helped bottle feed them) I was rather embarrassed. Mike sure wasn't used to this. I can only imagine the look on Mike's dad's face when he told him about those pigs.


So our families were very different too.

So what did Mike think of the pigs?

Scott did not meet my parents until our wedding day when we had to run down the isle to catch them before the disappeared when the ceremony was over.

 

[minnieandmickey]

My whole family (grandparent down to grandkids) are that, a whole family. Where as Sean's are like little pods that very rarely come together. He was a little shell shocked when I took him to the first "family" function. Dad is 1 of 6 , with 13 of us cousins, didn't even had the great-grandkids yet so we are even bigger. We are so big now we don't do it that much, but when we do it is grand. He loves it though, he wishes his family was more like that.

 

[Tart Annihilator]

Where did everybody go again

I am sitting her addressing Christmas cards and everyone left me.

If I disappear, it's because I get timed out. It usually takes a little while before I realize it.

If someone else is on here, I always say good bye before I get off.

 

[MinnMick01]

I don't send to many of those out anymore. Used to send them to everyone, but now only send them to the people we are closest too.

The first few years that we were together I was sending out about 50. I think I am down to about 20 now. If that. I will tell you when I am completly done.

 

[MinnMick01]

My whole family (grandparent down to grandkids) are that, a whole family. Where as Sean's are like little pods that very rarely come together. He was a little shell shocked when I took him to the first "family" function. Dad is 1 of 6 , with 13 of us cousins, didn't even had the great-grandkids yet so we are even bigger. We are so big now we don't do it that much, but when we do it is grand. He loves it though, he wishes his family was more like that.

What is family? Scott and I are both only children. We have my parents, and Scotts Dad and step mom

 

[Tart Annihilator]

So what did Mike think of the pigs?

Scott did not meet my parents until our wedding day when we had to run down the isle to catch them before the disappeared when the ceremony was over.

If I remember right...his eyes got kinda big. He would never feed them. He likes animals, but isn't a lover like I am.

He was already hooked on me. He wasn't going anywhere at that point. yeah, right.

 

[MinnMick01]

I finished one address book and only have 10 cards going out. I have one more book to do but that will not be tonight.

 

[minnieandmickey]

What is family? Scott and I are both only children. We have my parents, and Scotts Dad and step mom

Truly I feel that family is what you make it. Even though I love my cousins, and their families. It is my parents, my brother and his family, and my very close friends who I consider family. I think the great thing is that even though you God gives you a family, it's even greater that he gives you the option of who you want to be your family.

 

[MinnMick01]

I think I am leaving you guys for the night. I am exhusted and Mackenzie is sleeping at the moment and the older two just went to bed. So I think I am going to go crawl into bed also.

 

[MinnMick01]

Truly I feel that family is what you make it. Even though I love my cousins, and their families. It is my parents, my brother and his family, and my very close friends who I consider family. I think the great thing is that even though you God gives you a family, it's even greater that he gives you the option of who you want to be your family.

That is very true. We don't have many friends because we don't get out much. But when we started posting on this thread I kept telling Scott that everyone excepted us like we were family and that everyone is always there for each other. When we all finally met up it was like a huge family that we have never had.

 

[Tart Annihilator]

My whole family (grandparent down to grandkids) are that, a whole family. Where as Sean's are like little pods that very rarely come together. He was a little shell shocked when I took him to the first "family" function. Dad is 1 of 6 , with 13 of us cousins, didn't even had the great-grandkids yet so we are even bigger. We are so big now we don't do it that much, but when we do it is grand. He loves it though, he wishes his family was more like that.

What is family? Scott and I are both only children. We have my parents, and Scotts Dad and step mom

I have 1 sister and 2 brothers. Mike has 3 brothers and 1 sister. Then there is their kids. His sister and parents are the only ones that live around us. The others live all over the state. We always get together for nieces and nephews b-days and xmas though. We have a blast when we get together.

 

[minnieandmickey]

This is my Dad's side of the family. Both of my parents Mothers are in the picture. It was taken the day of my Grandfather's funeral on the steps of the church across the street my dad grew up in. All of my aunt's and uncles were married in this church, as well as my parents. My brother and I were baptized as a baby in this church.

 

[MinnMick01]

Oh by the way the rain did stop when I said it did earlier. But we drove by a temp reading around 3:00 and it said 58 degrees. Which is cold for our area.