Treat your self

So we are now in the christmas season. rushing about to get stuff done for the holidays. I know I am, I am doing my best ( as holding a fussy baby) to make stockings to sell and also today we are putting up the tree! one of my favorite traditions ( along with pretty much every thing else.). So here is todays challenge. ( inspired by one of my drear friends). With all the shopping and fussing over others take a moment to do something for you! Any thing. Treat yourself.
Ideas:
Take your self out to your favorite restaurant
Buy yourself something new.
Take a relaxing bubble bath.
Take an extra hour or so to get ready.
Heck by your self a gift for under the tree.

SO that is the challenge. do something you normally would not do for you to treat your self.

Stay

so I found this on an old blog of mine. I had written it and wanted to share it once again I feel I did pretty good with this poem


I want someone to want me to stay.
Don't let me walk away.
Hold me back, chase me down.
Kiss me when I want to scream.
Take my hand and stay with me.
Teach me how to stay.

Blow me away so I never need the wind under my wings.
Show me what is to be someones dream.
Drive me crazy just to know my name.
Throw pebbles at my window till I hate you.Make me see you.
Tell me you love me when I cant stand you.
Reach out for me as I turn away. 
I'll try to run,
To take my leave,
I'll hide my heart,
I will tell you to leave,
 when I want you to stay.
I've built these walls tall and strong, 
Tear them down
leave my heart bare
Don't leave me here.
Hold me back.
Don't let me go.
Love me, Bug me, Drive me crazy.
Stay with me.
Teach me how to stay.

left over turkey?

got leftover turkey? here is a new way to eat it...

left over turkey
1 cup Bread Crumbs
8 ounces Cream Cheese
2 Eggs
12 Refrigerator Biscuits


Instructions:
1.) Mix together cream cheese and shredded turkey til evenly mixed.
2.) Scoop some of mixture into each flattened biscuit and form biscuit into a ball to cover all of mixture.
3.) Beat eggs into a bowl and dip each biscuit in eggs and then coat with bread crumbs.
4.) Line a greased cookie sheet with biscuits and bake at 375 for about 12 minutes.
5.) Any leftovers can be frozen until ready use.

Thanksgiving Trivia

( Answers below )
Questions
1. What percentage of a typical turkey is white meat vs dark meat?
2.What is the average weight of a turkey purchased for Thanksgiving dinner?

3.When was Thanksgiving declared a national holiday? And by which President?

4. Name the top pumpkin-producing state in the U.S.

5.What percentage of cranberries eaten in the U.S. are eaten on Thanksgiving?

Answers. 

1~ 70% white meat, 30% dark meat

2~ 16 pounds

3~ 1863, Abraham Lincoln

4~ Illinois

5~ 20%

I am thankful

For friends who love me dear.
Assisting me in facing each fear.
For food to fill me.
for the lovely skies I see.
For My little baby Boy
who brings me such Joy.
For my mom and dad
they are so rad.
My papa and Granny
who both can be abit uncanny
For the one I love
who I think the world of.
for water free flowing
For the peace I am Knowing.
For my bad Rhyming
 It could send you Mountain Climbing.
For the music I love to Hear
it always brings me cheer
For soft blankets at night
for A man who for me is willing to fight
For kisses and cuddles
as the rain makes puddles.
for cats and dogs
and all those animals even frogs
for Sunsets and moon light
that make the mood just right.
for Who I am
Im no shelled clam
for a roof over head
where I am fed.
For Internet
To feed my interest.
for yummy treats
that From I should retreat
For plenty of wipes
for those diapers that are more than Ripe,
For my crazy family
who drive me to insanity
For every passing day
beautiful in every way.
For plants and Blooms
And of course for spoons .
No but really
I'm not just being Silly
this is every thing that I am thankful for
and there there are even more that i adore.

 ~me

My cute boy ( my little mouse)

This is what the cutest boy in the universe looks like!

Dear Malaki

Mommy sees more sun rises with you than she ever had in her whole life. I thank you for choosing me to share them with. Some one accused me of being a bad mom yesterday. It broke my heart. I do all that i know how to do for you. but because I care very deeply for a man ( not your father) and  want to see if maybe he can be part of our lives I am a bad mom? I did not plan any of this!  I promise. I did every thing I could to stay with your birth father. I just feel you deserve a happy Mommy and a Daddy who will love you as much as I do. I don't care what they say! I still can be the best mommy yet!

Dreams and Daydreams

I am thankful for dream and daydreams.I can travel any where be with any one i wish to by with. Of course i am talking about the happy ones lol. but i will admit that the other ones show you what it would feel like in those odd situations. I love drifting off into happy dreams where i can see friends and family especially those i am missing.
So if I am missing you I shall see you in my dreams!

Cherished Moments.

~Hearing my baby cry for the first time.
~Christmas with my whole family even when it was so hectic.
~Seeing the words "Baby Im coming home" on my Ipod screen
~ That moment I finish a really good book
~ Lighting up the christmas tree.
~ The moment I realized I deserved more.
~ Drumming under the moon for the first time.
~ Meeting my baby sister for the first time.
~ Daddy sitting at the table on christmas night telling me his testimony
~ Sitting at the hot tub with Alveda, feet in as it snowed, and she opened up to me more then ever before
~ That moment I start to enter a beautiful dream
~ The moment I took a stand for me.
~ Any time I sing opera infront of an audience
~ Hitting that really high note perfectly.
~ Finding a comfy spot in bed.
~ The first snow fall of the year
~ That moment you see every thing is working out just right.
~ That moment I am laughing so hard I almost cry.
~ Seeing my Baby smile at me.

E-thanks Challenge

Express your thanks to someone in your life by sending them a brief e-mail or text message. Or, get fancy and send a free e-card that are offered on many websites. If you aren’t into technology, just give or send a hand-written note. This week I am doing this with several people in a few different ways. There is the face book video for one. ( here is that link so that you may use it as well for your challenge https://www.facebook.com/thanks) and then also here on my blog.
So I now challenge you to let some one know that you are thankful for them.


I my self would like to thank you for reading this blog. Your support means the world to me... Please let me know if there is any subject you would like to hear about from me!

Sunsets, star light, and full moons

I am so thankful for the skies many beauties. The sky is breath taking in every phase it brings, some more than other. The softly falling snow that enchants, the golden and pink sunsets, star filled leaving me in a silent Aw, the nostalgic pour of a rain storm, or the moon inviting me to dance, they all touch my heart so. I am so grateful to live in a world with such beautiful skies! 

Christmas Money

Some times it feels like money gets tighter and tighter as years go by. This year as a single mom with no income I get to come up with new ways to come up with money. I am not going to get to be a stay at home mom for long tho. My family can not afford to take care of me, there are bills that deserve to be payed and I will admit there is a few things that I deserve for my self.. such as shoes, haha, I am the woman with almost no shoes when I know some that have closets full, William had more shoes than I did. The funny thing is I have two extremes I have flipflops or Snow boots. Since I probably will wait a little bit longer to look for a job, most likely the new year, I am doing something different to come up with christmas money. I am making these really cute jean patch work stockings. See my mom made me one when I was little and then another when my sister was born to have them match, They are nice size, not too hard to make and sturdy. Along with those I am making some aprons and blanket pals and selling them and my wrapped stones at the christmas fair coming up in a week or so. I am really creating that I do really well so that I can get a few things for Malaki like a crib mirror and a Mobile. He loves to spend time in his crib and I have taken giant pipe cleaner like things and made them so he has something to look at, But i know he would love a Mobile and Crib mirror, Also I am creating to have enough to by him a floor gym like thing. I also plan to make enough to by my family I live with christmas as well. I know I can do it. I always make do!

Beautiful

It is amazing how when some one loves you for you it can cause the side effect of feeling beautiful. Its like you can some what see through their eyes and know that they see you. Perhaps that is it but its a wonderful feeling to feel beautiful, to be told you are beautiful to them no matter what. Today I feel this beauty and I am so thankful to feel this was after not feeling this way in a long time.
Yes there are days I feel beautiful just because I know I am. It is still nice to have that feeling because there is some one special that loves you for who you are and things you are beautiful.

so while riding home from choir tonight a song was played on the cd  it was one I sang in choir in college and I had vowed to sing it to my babies when I had some well I have one time to get memorizing again.
I wanted to post the song so this time i will not forget.

The New Challenge.

the challenge I have for you is very easy and simple. Are you ready for it?  

Listen to this song ad sing along, out loud for you! If you don't know the words watch once then again to sing with . Then for the rest of the day when ever you start to get stressed, upset or down think of this song. Even sing it again if you deserve to! 

SING ALONG 

When I was in high school My best friend and I would listen to this on an old cassette in my beat up little car as we drove home from school and would sing it out. Our bad days usually turned into laughing and goofing off by the time we got home. To me this song works like magic! 

Let me know if it works for you! 

I am so thankful to be a mommy

The day Malaki was born every thing changed. My whole view on life changed, I realized there was so much more to life than me. I found purpose and love the day he was born. I found a whole new side to me. The Mommy.

I am thankful for his coos.
I am thankful for his smiles.
for when he sleeps so peacefully.
for the feeling I get holding my Baby.
For all the moments I think I can not go on and I do.
I am thankful for the chance to be a mommy.

I dont want him to grow up yet i am so excited to see what he will look like, to play with him on the swings, to hear his laugh. I am so proud of him already I cant imagine how much more I will be as he grows.
 

I will never love some one as much as I love you Malaki.
To be a mom is to be every thing. I have learned so much in these first 8 weeks.
Thank you for choosing me to be your mommy.

Thank you Mom

My mom is so sweet and caring, She has always been there for me from the time I was born til my son was born and on. I love my moms quirkiness. She is so fun to be around! I guess I got lucky because I have met some moms that are all uptight and pruned out while mine dances around the grocery store and bobs back and forth with windshield wipers.

Thank you mom for all the laughs.
Thank you mom for being there.
Thank you for crying with my tears,
for being a perfect example for me.
for standing up for me.
thank you for being a great Grammy to my son
Thank you for being you.


You see I have a new view on moms now that I am one. I have seen the sleepless nights, felt the worry, and now get what all the fuss was about. I once said I did not want to be any thing like my mom, now I strive to be!

She has always supported me even when my decisions were a little less than smart. I would call her on the phone about every thing, she is my best friend. I would call her about boys or about any thing.
I love my mom she is my role model,