Filled Boxes

Bo and I like to participate in Samaritan's Purse Operation Christmas Child.

Our boxes are filled and ready to be dropped off during next weeks collection week.

Southern Savers Workshop

Southern Savers is a new website to me, but I greatly enjoyed the workshop tonight. My friend Amanda asked me to go with her. Even though I already use coupons and look for deals, I still learned a few things. I even won a prize for guessing the closest amount for the cost of four items. The workshop was well worth the $10.00 it cost. Thanks Amanda for invinting me to go along.

Jenny of Southern Savers and Me.

Peanut Festival Parade

Bo watched his first peanut parade this weekend.

To start the parade was the dumping of the peanuts out of the cement truck on to the road.
Nephew and Brother picked up peanuts on the street.
These were some of the best green peanuts I have ever eaten.

I even got into the act of picking up peanuts.

We ended up with two quarts full of peanuts.

The parade had huge gaps in it. So we ended up not staying for the entire thing. It was really long. We did have fun sitting out on a sunny day with our family. We saw several people we knew both in the parade and watching the parade.

And we have a winner...

Last night was pajama bunko. It was a lot of fun to play bunko in my Mickey Mouse Christmas pajamas, even if it was a little weird driving around town in them. Anyway, I came out the big winner after a bunko off. Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner keeps repeating in my head. I have no idea what that means or where it came from, but Bo says it all the time.

Turning 51!

No, I’m not turning 51, but a friend of mine at work did today. Happy Birthday!

It was amazing you would think in this time of recession people wouldn’t want to celebrate, but we celebrated her birthday with grandeur. Instead of a birthday cake I brought a fruit and cheese tray and a veggie tray as a healthy alternative. One of her friends surprised her with a bouquet of flowers and another is making her dinner tonight. It is rumored that they are going to use the good china. I made the comment today that she was parting like she was turning 50 instead of 51.

It got me to thinking, why in this year of recession, partisan politics, and tragic things happening all the time are we making a big deal out of birthdays.

I mean for my 32 birthday this year I had a party. Okay it was my family and Bo’s family, but I still made homemade lasagna and had birthday cake. I consider that a party.

Then I realized as much as we as human being want to be cynical there is just something special about celebrating. Especially when it is a birthday because for that one day you remind the birthday person how special they are to you. The bad stuff is pushed to the back. Both the party goers and the Birthday Person have a few moments to reflect on the fact that life is good and the years in between the beginning and end of the decade are what make those special round number birthdays so special.

Fun With Wigs!

Yesterday, we went to Wal-mart looking for some Halloween deals. We found all of this stuff for 75%. I think we got some good deals especially on the wigs.
Bo and I both had fun trying on the wigs. I have no clue what I was doing here.

Bo just looks so funny. I think he looks like a member of an 80's hair band.

Cross Stitch

I wanted to make a quick and easy project. I thought about some cross stitch kits that I had. I immediately thought of this Lightning McQueen kit. My nephew has a small tree in his room at Christmas and I thought this would be a cute ornament for him.

But instead I found this kit.

And I had a Santa that was almost finished. All I have to do are the outlines and the detail work. I think it will be great to finish this project. It will be a UFO that I have forgetten that I even had.

I'll show you the finished project in a few days.