SLOW POKE IN ACTION...

STILL WORKING ON CHRISTMAS CARDS.  Stamps bought.  Letter written and printed out.  Will drop in the mail on Monday.  Christmas shopping completed.  Goodies in the making.  Tree up.  Nativity Scene out.  Figuring the rest of the meals.  SWEETS need to be made. More grocery shopping needs to happen.  

Christmas Program watched and listened to.  Hubby's Retirement Party at work completed.  His birthday is on Christmas Eve.  Company coming.  Christmas Day midweek. 

Dear LORD JESUS...Happy Birthday.  Thank you for being there for us.

Crank up the Christmas Music.  Sing some songs.  Light some candles.  Prepare a big meal.  Have fellowship and call it good.  Relaxation time to come before New Year's Eve.  Then hopefully it will snow like mad.  

Hunker down for WINTER. 
d  

CHRISTMAS WISHES

Happy Friday and may you have a blessed week-end.  
I'm looking forward to Christmas.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

d

What Matters?

You know what?  

WHAT DOES IT MATTAH (matter)?

Being real is what matters.

Life passes by so quickly.

The TIME we do have

needs to be lived to the fullest.

THIS MATTERS.

Have a blessed day,

d

HAVE YOU BEEN NAUGHTY OR NICE?

Middle of the week and CHRISTMAS is coming.

Middle of the week as well.

Many blessings to you.

Planning on fixing some sweets for next week this week-end.

Still working on the presents and Christmas cards.

Taking up some of my time took place as I did watch some of the IMPEACHMENT VOTE on facebook's PBS.

Pretty sure I have this one figured out.

Shall remain quiet about this to see how this will actually unfold.

Plenty of naughty going on...

Have you been naughty or nice?
A little of both?
Yep.  I am a lil of both.
It helps when my hormones are balanced.

I had some more blood work done and I continue to be low in the VITAMIN D department.
Prescription Vit D has been ordered up and like I expected my TSH isn't stable.  Humpf.  

I swing from being too high to being too low on the thyroid stimulating hormone.  Too high AGAIN.  Will check TSH in 3 months.

Personally, and since this is me I'm talking about, I know this is too long to go between TSH checks.

This is an ongoing DRAMA.  Makes me naughty.
I suspect if I can get my Vitamin D leveled out that I will be more energetic and my blood pressure will lower.  I'll stop sweating so much.  My hair won't fall out so much.  My fingernails will grow out and not break so easily.  All those aches and pains will vanish. The weight will just fall right off.....Well I can hope can't I?

BLESSINGS TO YOU,

d

THRIFTY CHRISTMASES

Went through old pictures/images of Christmas PAST.  Made me smile.  Made me more sentimentally weepy.  Made me HAPPY.  Made me sad.  Memories came to the surface.  Good memories.  Sweet and encouraging memories of CHRISTMAS past.    

Working on Christmas GIFTS and cards.  Not sure I'll bother with a letter this year.  Not sure.  Maybe.  Maybe not.  The other day I jotted down some things that happened in 2019 for a letter.  Have mercy.  I scratched my head wishing I had started saving up for Christmas all year long.  I don't seem to be able to do this.  I think about it then other expenses get in the way making saving for Christmas next to nothing.

This year medical bills came down around our heads.  Even with health insurance there is pressure to pay a balance.  Thankful for health insurance.  Thankful for health we have.  Working at getting healthier is an on going business.  

Thinking about HUBBY retiring and I wonder what next CHRISTMAS will be like.  I may have to lower the dollar amount that goes out for family gifts.  Frequently I look for bargains...I don't see this changing any.  Focusing on CHRIST should make everything better.  SHOPPING throughout the year might just get more attractive than ever. 

STARTING A NEW CHRISTMAS TRADITION:  I think we may have to start a new tradition and wait until the AFTER CHRISTMAS SALES begin to purchase gifts for loved ones and present the presents on EPIPHANY, January 6th.  OR SAVE UP CASH throughout the year as BEST we can and have money ready to go as a gift.    

Displaying our Nativity Scene is a highlight.  Using our artificial tree helps the expenses out.  Buying AFTER CHRISTMAS SALE items always helps.  Including Christmas cards.  Also the half off sales on food items makes the NEW YEAR's CELEBRATION a hit.  

OUR outdoor decorations seldom make it outside.  Using already made up wreaths cuts the cost of decorating.  Hanging wreaths on an interior door or setting them on a stand up stand cuts cost.  

Making decorating simple has an advantage.  Ribbon goes a long long ways.  Buying it half off or more makes this type of decorating affordable.  Candles and Christmas music warm the atmosphere.  Hot chocolate, Hot Apple Cider or WASSAIL and movies checked out from the Public Library or HOME LIBRARY don't cost very much.  

Attending School programs and Church programs add to the Spirit of the season.  Driving around town at night to look at CHRISTMAS lights adds entertainment and fun to the calendar.  OPEN HOUSES and gathering with friends/families makes CHRISTMAS.

It may not be what you don't have, but what you do have that becomes frosting on the cake.
d           

TANNENBAUM

TANNENBAUM THROUGH THE YEARS

2019

CHRISTMAS 2009

CHRISTMAS PARLOUR 2010

 CHRISTMAS 2010

CHRISTMAS 2010

CHRISTMAS 2011

CHRISTMAS 2011

CHRISTMAS 2011 Hallmark Tree

CHRISTMAS 2011

CHRISTMAS 2012

CHRISTMAS 2012

CHRISTMAS 2012

CHRISTMAS 2012

CHRISTMAS 2013

CHRISTMAS 2013

CHRISTMAS 2014

CHRISTMAS 2014

CHRISTMAS 2015

CHRISTMAS 2015

   

In the year of 2016, we did have a tree due to the October 25th house fire.  

We relocated to the Cottage that year.  No tree.  First time in a long time.

CHRISTMAS 2017

CHRISTMAS 2017

CHRISTMAS 2017

CHRISTMAS 2018

CHRISTMAS 2018

CHRISTMAS COTTAGE 2018

CHRISTMAS COTTAGE 2018

Christmas 2019

CHRISTMAS 2019

Time At Our Prairie House

I heard that the snow began to fall around six this morning.  I was fast asleep and knew nothing about this until waking later in the morning.  Peace came over me when I saw the SNOW.  Meaning I would be snowed in not going anywhere today as I would stay HOME to rest.  Comfortable and cozy.    

PEACEFUL.  Quiet outside.  So pleasant.  A white blanket covers everything in sight.  Wish this was CHRISTMAS morning.  

My obligations changed as I wrapped my thick flannel housecoat about my body.  No meeting up with THE GIRLS for LUNCH to exchange CHRISTMAS GIFTS.  Fluffy snow continued to fall all day.  Some of the major roads and highways were closed.  Not a great time to go somewhere. Sliding in the ditch isn't fun nor is it safe.

Snowing in Kansas.   

Indoors the colorful CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS came on with a surge of electrical power.  Sparkling.  The tree is so pretty and cheery to me.  LOVELY.

The tree was decorated yesterday and so it will be enjoyed until after January 6th's EPIPHANY.  We'll still enjoy the glow for 3 to 4 weeks to come.  Christmas SHOPPING will continue this week.  A Christmas letter will be composed and cards mailed.  I bought the stamps already and I continue to focus on this season.  BAKING will take place in a few days.

I don't suppose I'll make it to the POST OFFICE tomorrow to mail some more small packages. Shall see.  Bundling up to make my way to the car will take some time.  I no longer have Galoshes to keep my feet dry.

Long gone are my days of wearing rubbery boots.  Time to resurrect these.  Will be on the look-out for some.  If everything goes well, they could last twenty years or so!  Have mercy...I would be a 84 year old woman.  SO be it.

SUNDAY EVENING, I telephoned my MOM visiting about an hour with her. She sounded tired.  Sharing that one of the symptoms of Vitamin D deficiency is fatigue.  Wishing that she'd have this checked...she doesn't like being told what to do.  A characteristically, rebellious spirit that runs in the family.

Watched a decent 2008 Cowboy movie last night starring Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen, and Renee Zellweger.   APPALOOSA.  When Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch arrive in Appaloosa, they find a town suffering at the hands of a renegade rancher who’s already left the city marshal and one of his deputies dead. Cole and Hitch are used to cleaning up after scavengers, but this one raises the stakes by playing not with the rules—but with emotion.   

Popcorn tasted really good.  Costumes, interior scenes, acting, story line all very good.  SPOILER ALERT:  One scene of a man and a woman bathing in the river.  Might find this offensive.
    

Widow Allie French with newly hired City Marshall Virgil Cole.

A fast moving woman looking for a home, money and security in the Wild West with a City Marshall taken by her beauty and personality.  She gets what she wants with many.

THINK we'll watch it again for our Sunday Night At The Movies.  

TODAY, I stayed in my housecoat surfing the internet just occasionally doing a chore and thinking about what I need to do this coming week.  Slow paced.  Checked out Victorian houses. Vitamin news.  Tried to take a nap, but wasn't successful.  Victorian dishes and toured Anne of Green Gables house in Prince Edward Island.  Read up on Lucy Montgomery and her unhappy life as a Pastor's wife.  I am not a Calvinist who believes that those who are going to heaven are already selected.  Praise God for HIS Salvation which is available to all in whosoever believes on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ is saved.  

I have a hobby of studying some branches of religion and looking for the errors.  Hours of entertainment.  I do not agree with The New Apostolic Reformation MOVEMENT also known as the NAR.  

P a u l a. W h i t e. C a i n.  is involved with this movement as she believes that she is a modern day apostle.  A self appointed one.   Our DEAR President's spiritual advisor is P a u l a.   He believes she has the IT FACTOR.  P a u l a  says the IT FACTOR is the Holy Spirit.  I question her sincerity.  

I question a great deal about Mrs. White-Cain.  Watching videos with her in actual services is troubling especially when she says to place your jewelry in the offering plate.  Yo what?  Yo jewelry.    

Is the NAR invading the White House?  Many are impressed that there are Christian prayers going on inside the White House without taking into account what NAR believers believe.    

The new week is upon me.  The clock keeps ticking.  CHRISTMAS will be here soon.  

Oh come, oh come, oh come, Emmanuel,

d