Going, Going, Gone baby.......

Wow. That's it, its over.

Christmas came and went and what I took away from the event was, that as an adult, its not all its cracked up to be. Now, maybe I'm talking more as a parent than that of and adult. You see I woke up Christmas morning at 7 am (I only slept for about 4-5 hours), didn't get a chance to have some coffee, watched them open gifts at the same exact moment, each of them begging for my attention, then sat and actually opened their gifts, then made breakfast, walked the dog, got coffee, and cleaned up a whole entire mess. That was it basically. Later that day we went to my cousins place for dinner, that was nice and then back home again.

Honestly, I cant wait for Christmas exchange with my girls.....
O, yeah, that is when the real joy of Christmas comes for me. Tons of presents, TONS!!! I love them chicks. <3

Magic Carpet Ride

Do you know that song?
I really love that song. Did you know that "Stepehn Wolf" has never been inducted to the Hall of Fame? I learned that from a really cool show called History Rocks on the what else, the History Channel. It brings forth my love of music and history all in 1 hour covering a decade, its most memorable moments and its music. So that is something worth DVRing. Ahhhh, DVR, such a wonderful thing. I am very fond of mine even though after a month of it, it crashed (cable is coming to replace it today) my son stuck a game card in the slot and just ruined the chip, but really its the best thing ever! I get to watch my hand full of selected programming when ever I want, so you know at 9 on a Thursday I dont have to stop what Im doing to watch and dream of the way Dr. Shepard looks into Merideths eyes over and over, each time as if it were the first. le sigh. That look kills me everytime! Well, I dont really have much more to say today. I hope that everyone has a wonderful, wonderful CHRISTMAS!!! I hope that the gifts you give make people happy and that the gifts you recieve make you happy.
* picture not of the way he looks at her, but of just how good he is to look at.

Working it out....

I have just began to gather some ideas for my much anticipated trip to New Orleans. Yes, the trip I have wanted to go on is finally close enough that I can start planning. Very exciting.
So I know that we (Tara, myself and maybe Kas) will be going during Jazz fest. Which is sometime between the end of April and beginning of May. I checked into the line up so far nothing good is coming out of that but, really just to walk down streets with such rich history is going to be very exciting for me. I have wanted to go since I was a little girl with a pen pal, who I found through one of the BOP magazines. haha. Funny to think about that. But her name was Jamie and she was from New Orleans and told me about her upcoming annual Mardi Gras dance (we were in junior high) she told me that becasue she was young she couldnt exactly attend Mardi Gras. After the dance she sent me some photos and I was just so entralled by what I saw!! To think it wasnt even the real thing. At any rate Im not going to Mardi Gras but I am going to something, in my opinion that is so much richer. For I do have a fond love of music. Hopefully the line up gets better. However, I know the experience will be so benificial for my soul, that the line up may not even matter.

Live and Learn

Ugh. Christmas has been giving me the ultimate licking. I seriously, and I mean seriously am over it. I have been shopping and spending money that really I don't want to spend. *insert sad face*

At any rate other aspects of life are going really well for me. The Liberation Movement of '07 is in full force and I have been getting to spend alot of time with myself. Which is something I haven't done in years. It is both familiar and foreign, but definitely positive. I have been thinking about what kind of habits I would like to pursue in life and what kind of habits I need to release. At moments, I sit back and think "Wow, the whole world is yours." Then at other moments I think "I'm crazy", but I am trying to enforce the positive. A friend of mine recently told me he tries to never verbalize or think negatively, because when he does, he is putting that into the universe and then he should expect negativity to follow. So with that I have been trying (and teaching yourself new tricks can sometimes be hard at first) but I have been trying to be conscious of my thoughts and what I have been putting into the universe. With that I would like to thank my friend for his insight and putting that perspective into my universe.
Another friend, if that is what you would call her (as to me she is sooo much more) has been keeping me in line with enjoying the process of all that has been going on around me. When I get to caught up and forget to stop and breathe, she has reminded me that this encounter is something to learn from and to use it as that. So to you babe: thank you: 1000x's over.

OMG I simply love this commercial

I love the dad, love the kids face, I just love it and it makes me laugh every single time I see it.

Enjoy.



I think whoever's idea this was is a genius. This is actually the same way my mind would work, maybe I love it so much because its pretty much a scene from my own house.

I think this sums me up lately

Well except that I'm not a dude and I don't play sports, but I certainly love beer (not Bud, usually a dark draft) and "dude" is my word for everything.

It's beggining to look a lot like Christmas

This was a beautiful weekend, spent with some of the most wonderful people in my life:

MY FAMILY.

Not just my close family, but extended as well, in my cousins new home.

The setting was perfect as she decorated with Christmas cheer for our annual "Ornament Exchange" gathering. The food was superb. There were finger foods, salads, veggie platters, dips, Joe Mazzati (my families very own), pizza for the kids, chips with more dips, muffins, cookies, cakes, martinis, beer (and a great selection, might I add) and coffee. Free flowing conversation (perhaps too much for some... hahaha) endless laughs, the habitual sharing of old stories and seeing our children build their future memories and "old" stories.

After all of that enjoyment me and the kiddies headed back to Grams house where when we awoke we were greeted with the seasons first snow fall. When Xavier opened the front door, gazing out past the glass door, he shouted "Oh my goodness, mom its Christmas!" ha. He is so cute. At any rate my mom, myself and the boys took a nice long walk, made snow angels and had snowball fights. Good times.

P.S. Tom and Mom just got the house done, doesn't it look beautiful?