COUNTING THE DAYS.......

As you can see I am already looking forward to next weekend and it is only Monday morning????  This getting up in the dark is for the birds......one more month of the days getting shorter......then we start working on the days getting longer....YEA.
                    Do you realize......Life is just an Echo?
                    What we send out, comes back.......What we sow......we reap.......What we give .....we get,.....What bothers us in others also exists in us.....SCAREY.....So now and then stop and remember, Life is an Echo and always gives back to us.....so give lots of goodness each day.
               Well lets see todays list......clean the fish bowl, empty the dish washer, do the floors, Relief Society ladies coming, get showed and dressed before they do........call Patty and Shirley about tomorrows movie date, make dentist appointment.....finish wrapping  Christmas gifts and decorating the house.....Boy this list will take me ALL week!......IS IT TOO EARLY TO BE LOOKING FORWARD TO FRIDAY?

LESSON FOR WOMEN.....

LISTEN UP GIRLS.......

He didn't like the casserole and he didn't like my cake.......

He said my biscuits were to hard.....not like Mother use to make.......

I didn't make the coffee right, he didn't like my stew......

I didn't fold his pants the way.....his mother used to do.......

I pondered for an answer....I was looking for  clue.......

Then I turned around and smacked the shit out of him......

Like his mother use to do!!!!!!!

With the news so full of women coming forth with harassment charges against so many men I think it is time for all you girls to step up and say....."you don't own me, treat me like you would your mother, sister or daughter".......I look back with many regrets of not speaking up!  Women are not just for sex and having babies......we are people too!

Last Friday my sweet Relief Society teacher's grandson was killed in a car wreck......she lives at the end of my street......I am so sad for her.....he was only 17.  Knitting a Christmas sock for Libby......

NOTHING LASTS FOREVER........

How time flies when you are having fun.......or doing just what you want!

Fun evening at the Spaghetti Factory with my daughter and her family Wednesday night.......slept in Thanksgiving and went to two movies and ate left over from Speg Factory.......Friday.....slept in...... a fun black Friday shopping spree.......Saturday.....slept in and started my Christmas decorating and present wrapping.......Sunday....slept in.....off to church and a visit from Patty......This sleeping until eight or eight thirty could become a habit.......BUT I guess back to the old routine in the morning.....One nice thing our weather has been breaking records for warm and sunny and I am loving it.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING.........

HAPPY THANKSGIVING............

So much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving.......

What am I doing to celebrate????

Just what I want to!

I planned on going to McDonalds for a Happy Meal with extra fry sauce, but so many people felt sorry for me and invited me to join their family dinners....guess I won't do that.  Two neighbors invited me.....two different good friends.....my cousin.....they all think it is about the FOOD, BUT to me Thanksgiving is about family and love.  Last night the Christensons took me and Darren's mother to the Spaghetti Factory for dinner and just being with Sher and her kids is what I love.  They invited me to go up to the cabin with them......but they had plans to hit the stores at 6;00 for Black Friday shopping tonight and it would be for the whole weekend...... and they were going to have a house full........which would be nice to be with them, but now days......with the dog.....home is easier.  I will eat my left overs from last night and go to a movie......or two this weekend and get on  with my Christmas decorating and wrapping.  So nice to to feel free to say "NO THANKS"......without guilt or obligation.

With the past history of my HAPPY THANKSGIVINGS.......No really good memories.   Don was always flying and none of the Petersons included the girls and I......it just became another day in our lives alone and so today the tradition goes on........but I will be thinking of all my sweet family and hope they have the best day ever! 

BORN WITH CHOICE OF EVIL OR GOOD??

Watching Morgan Freeman on National Geographic.........and he is traveling the world asking people about their Gods and beliefs........One of the decisions was we are born with both the choice of evil and good to go forth in our life.....and the choices are ours!  Thank goodness I was born into a family and town that instilled in me that good choices made your life better........I am struggling with this religious thing....up to Brigham Young......I believe....BUT I feel he was a leturouse old man who wanted a lot of wives to screw and thus started polygamy......which worked in other places in the world but has ruined many lives in America.  The word of wisdom ......well, I understand smoking and drinking for your health......coffee , tea and caffeine.....not so much!!!  And the garments...... a great way to start an industry he could make lots of money on......CONTROL, CONTROL, CONTROL!

Take the places in EUROPE where thousands of men were killed during he war .....They did not start Polygamy to have someone take care of all the single women and children that were alone???   So many poor widows in Holland....... They helped them but women were not free game to the men left around.  I can't decide if these programs are good for my thinking or not........I do agree we are born with both good and evil choices in our lives.....

EXCITED..........

  Slept in.......!  Then up to my coffee and Face Book.....And put on a roast in the Crock Pot before Church.......Church was OK.....BUT if I had remembered it was the Primary Program.....may have skipped it!.....
   Sherrie and Ken are coming in to stay all night with me.......and maybe Alex..... Nice sunny day, but cold.  Decorating the house and have the Christmas Tree up.....Don't know if Pam is coming for her dog tonight or not...... The weeks are flying till Thanksgiving.....I plan on just staying around and grabbing  some fast food and a movie.....The First Counselor at church invited me to have dinner with them if I didn't go with family.....I have such a great ward......what  people don't understand is I have spent more Thanksgivings alone......than with family......it is just another day to me.......and it doesn't bother me.
            "THE HARDEST WALK YOU CAN MAKE IS THE WALK YOU MAKE ALONE.....BUT THAT IS THE WALK THAT MAKES YOU THE STRONGEST!"

PONDERING........

PONDERING.......can be good and bad......As I ponder why I am the way I am.....I think back to where and how my life began......My father being a Bell TELEPHONE Foreman was always on the move with his job......Mom, my sister and I went along....until I had gone to 7 different schools in the first grade and they decided that was no way to raise a family!!!!  As I look back....I had no trouble making new friends and fitting in as I was moved from school to school......and it may be the reason I just thought the way to get through life was to travel.....travel.....travel..... and become a people person which seems to be what my life ended up being with my stewardess job and marrying an airline pilot and after my divorce I later met a travel agent......Ann Moseley...... that shared my love of travel.......I continued to see the world with the great deals she could get us.

I was fortune enough to be able to show my three girls some of the world.....Europe, Mexico, Hawaii, Canada, Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, Bangkok, Tahiti, Moorea, Alaska etc. Travel is the best education you can get.

My next chapter of pondering will be when we moved to Mancos, Colorado when I was 7 and my few years of life on the farm.....what effect or influence did it have on my life?????