Monday Mingle - December 06

If you'd like to join in the fun, do a short vlog on your blog, the go to Eight MPH Mom. Each week we will have questions, subjects or ideas that we can all talk about on our vlog. Visit the other participants, learn about them and have fun! It's not too late - you can link up anytime during the week.

I apologize for no video from me today - but I did a 5 minute video and my daughter had shut off the microphone option... so it was just a whole 5 minutes of me just blabbing to MYSELF!

I am NOT gonna go through it all again... because I wanna snuggle with Dave.
So.. this week... No video. Next week... video... PROMISE :)

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS - PLEASE READ:

Next week's mingle will be the last for this year, and we will resume in January.

I am going to do another installment of Dave and I for a Monday Mingle in between.. if you have any questions to ask of Dave and I we would LOVE to answer them!

See ya'll next week!

Target and Christmas Happiness

"What was the most surprising gift you've ever received?"

It was 5:30am on Christmas day. It was perfect, the storm of the century was in between blizzards and our neighbors had shoveled us out knowing I couldn’t make it if they didn’t.

I was 9 months pregnant, exhausted from having stayed up late eating cookies and doing “santas” dirty work. It’s a yearly thing for he and I. The kids sit on HIS lap, tell HIM what they want, and then Mommy wraps it.

I must have pulled the short straw.

I had finally dragged my sore back, grumbly LARGE butt out of bed to go to the bathroom, for the umpteenth time…. When it happened.

My water broke.

Off to the hospital we went, contractions in full force, a 30 minute drive to the hospital and with it being baby #5, I knew that time was of the essence. (Lois)

By 7:20am, Christmas morning 2006, I had my beautiful baby girl Jacqueline Skylar Isolde (Issa) and was given the GREATEST surprise Christmas gift ever!!

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Christmas MeMe

Christmas Meme - Getting To Know You

I found this MeMe on Moving On from the Drama.

1.) Have you started your Christmas shopping? No, I have not. Not even a single one. I am lucky enough to have won a few giveaways. Money is a bit tight this year, so we are waiting to see what’s going to happen for gift buying.

2.) Tell me about one of your special traditions. Every Christmas Eve, I make sure Santa has her… Uh… his favorite cookies set out with some chocolate milk (it has more protein… Santa likes chocolate milk!) Then I call all the kids together and we read “T’was the Night before Christmas” from an old book I used to read from as a kid. I cry… everytime.

3.) When do you put up your Tree? We try and get the tree the week after Thanksgiving. We cut it down in one of the forest areas of Colorado.

4.) Are you a Black Friday shopper? No… never, I was not that person.

5.) Do you Travel at Christmas or Stay home? I try to stay home. It is crazy to try and cart six kids around.

6.) What is your funniest Christmas memory? I was a kid and there was a huge box in the room for all of us kids. None of us knew what it was, so I kept thinking… Microwave.. Microwave!.. It was a new dog… My mother and father kept laughing at me that I wanted a microwave more than a dog.

7.) What is your favorite Christmas Movie of All time? Charlie Brown Christmas. Period!

8.)Do you do your own Christmas Baking? What’s your favorite treat? Yes, I love holiday baking. I make my Mom’s pumpkin bread!! It’s the BEST out there.

9.) Fake or Real Tree? Real.

10.) What day (as a Mom) does the actual panic set in to get it all done? November 26^th, I’m a mess this year.

11.) Are you still wrapping presents on Christmas Eve? Yes, I love Christmas Eve, the kids are in bed with anticipation and I get to wrap, place out gifts, eat cookies and curl up in a chair next to the tree and just be happy remembering the excitement I had as a kid.

12.) What is your favorite family fun time at Christmas? I love baking, decorating cookies and the tree. Oh.. and watching Charlie Brown with my kids. I also hold a Yule celebration every year, this year it’ll be quieter, but still nice. I love the feeling of being with friends and family during that time.

13.) What Christmas craft do you like the best? I love cloves inside of oranges. It is a WONDERFUL smell and my kids love doing this!

14.) Christmas music? Yes or No. And if yes, What is your favorite song? Yes. but I won’t listen before Thanksgiving! My favorite songs are “Charlie Brown Christmas” and “Baby it’s cold outside”

15.) When do you plan to finish all your shopping? No idea…


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Just simply copy and paste the questions into your blog, and then answer them.
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