Archive for December 2009


Time Out Tuesdays: Link Up Your Giveaways

December 29th, 2009 — 11:26am
Well, it’s the last Tuesday of 2009! Can you believe it? I just can’t believe how fast time flies. Every year seems to go quicker and quicker. Enjoy today’s featured posts, and link up your giveaways below!
Under the Golden Apple Tree has a hilarious post on Shop Vac Wrestling. I actually laughed out loud….
Regan Family Farm is calling all homemakers to help her with the task of frugality vs. clutter.  Can you help her out?
Who Put Me In Charge of These People??? has a post on Parking Lot Etiquette.
Author, Jody Hedlund has a wonderful post on What A Writer Wants Most.
YaYa Stuff has a beautiful post called 2010=Hope.  Don’t miss it.
One more site I want to share with you is DotMine.  I actually purchased one of their family_time.mine planners (for 50% off) last night at Borders.  So far, I really like it and wanted to share their site with you, since we have a new year coming.
Short, but sweet this week. Don’t forget to link up your giveaways.


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Motivate Me Monday- Be a Friend

December 28th, 2009 — 3:13pm

Some friends come and go, but then there are friends who are there with you through thick and thin.  These particular friends might live close to you, or they may live far away.  Whatever the case, knowing who your true friends are is nothing short of a blessing.

These true friends may be as close as sisters to you.  They may be the ones, who when you were sick back in college, held your hair back while you puked.  They may be the ones whom you shared your most secret thoughts with.  They may know all your flaws, but they still love you anyway.  Friends may be the ones you lean on when the hard times come…..
But have you ever stopped to think, “What kind of friend am I?  Would I hold her hair back while she puked?  Do I pray for her daily?  Do I truly take the time to just sit back and listen without speaking?  Do I refrain from voicing my concerns/worries/opinions, just to open my ears and heart to her needs?”  I’ve been asking myself this a lot lately….

Lately, I’ve been angry at God, and I can’t explain fully right now, but He just keeps working on me, even when I fail over and over.  Believe me, sometimes I feel like a genuine fraud on here.  I strive so hard to let everything I say and do be “real.”  But I realized something this weekend.  I may not have a lot of friends, but the friends that I do have are true, and they are ones that God has sent into my life.  It’s like I can feel a fresh breeze from Him when talking with them or writing back and forth.  It’s as if He is right there, speaking to me through them.  This probably doesn’t make any sense at all, but it does to me.  I’m learning what it means to not just have friends, but to be a friend.  Are you a true friend?

For more Motivate Me Monday, visit Sarah at The Fifth Street Palace.

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Daybook for Monday, December 28, 2009

December 28th, 2009 — 12:52pm

FOR TODAY… from Mel’s Daybook…

Outside my window… cold with a dusting of snow still left on the ground; it is sunny, though.
I am thinking… about my to do list and how it keeps growing….I guess it’s just a life thing, ya know?
I am thankful for… shows like Road to Avonlea that just take my mind off of things and help me relax.:)
I am wearing… dark jeans with a red shirt and white tank underneath….my shirts are fitting a little bigger these days, as I’ve lost quite a bit of weight in a short time (not sure why); and I just bought this shirt too.  Oh well.
I am remembering… my two hour phone call with Nancy the other day and how blessed and thankful I am to have her as a friend/sister.
I am going… to Tae Kwon Do tonight with Jacob, and we’re hopefully going to return a couple things that didn’t fit.  Oh, and we’re combining gift cards to get a Wii Fit Plus; I’m so excited….don’t worry, we’ve talked it over with the kids, and they are agreeable.
I am currently reading… still the same book, but I’m starting Levi’s Will this week.
I am hoping… that God will show Dan what to do, the right thing to do; and I’m hoping to get things reorganized/regrouped for school, just need some reevaluation.
On my mind… Nancy and Aaron and what they will face this week at the doctor’s….I love you guys.
Noticing that… somehow, even though there’s a lot of uncertainty right now, there’s also a sort of peace, maybe not a whole feeling of peace, but a small inkling of it is there.
Pondering these words…ok, I’m actually laughing at these words from Mrs. Rachel Lynde in Avonlea yesterday: “Not so long as I draw breath, you two-faced son of a beehive.”  LOL  I don’t know why that cracks me up, but it does.
From the kitchen… I’m thinking the Dollar Menu tonight, as we’ll be gone most of the evening.
Around the house… already cleaned, but still have more to clean up from Christmas, and since laundry hasn’t been done in about 4 days, am catching up on that.:)  I love Christmas!  It was a much needed break.
One of my favorite things… definitely snow, a fire in the fireplace, The Polar Express with the kids, and a warm cup of hot chocolate with marshmallows and a candy cane to stir it with.  Mmmmmm….
From my picture journal… (Christmas Eve in our house)…
For more Daybook, visit The Simple Woman.

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Merry Christmas!

December 25th, 2009 — 1:00am

Just wanted to share a couple favorites with you this Christmas Day!  I love Andrea Bocelli and Mary J. Blige’s version of What Child Is This?.  It’s just so beautiful.  Even though a certain Scrooge, who shall remain nameless, has enlightened us concerning the story behind the Nativity, I am still posting this.  (You know who you are.)  LOL  No, seriously, Merry Christmas, and I sincerely hope that you all have a blessed holiday with your families.  Enjoy every second….

And, of course, who can have Christmas without It’s A Wonderful Life?


Merry Christmas!

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