Christmas Traditions

So I have been sitting here thinking of my Christmas traditions from when I was growing and which ones we have kept for our own family.

When I was younger my brother and I would get to open one present on Christmas Eve, but the gift had to be from each other.  It was always exciting even though days or maybe weeks before we had taken a butter knife slide it under the tape careful enough not to rip the paper and slide the gift out and check out our present while our parents were at work.  Now that was so much fun and then make sure we had great SURPRISE faces for Christmas morning.  LOL

Another one was where we would go to my Grandma's house Christmas Eve and my dads whole side of the family was there and we would exchange gifts and have lots of appetizers and some great laughs. Lets just say with 9 cousins it was always a big mess afterwards.

The only thing I carried on from my childhood was going to Grandma's now we go to my moms house which is my kids Grandma and have Christmas Eve.  It is a lot smaller and low key but I can tell you I love it so much more.  We still have appetizers and great laughs.  The one thing we have added is the reading of Jesus' birth and a Happy Birthday Jesus cake and explain what each part of the cake means.

So what are some of your favorite childhood traditions or not so favorite.  Which ones have you continued or new ones you have incorporated into your family.

When I Grow Up

So when I was little I thought when I grew up I would be a nurse, crime scene investigator, or a hairdresser.  Now I went to college well half a semester and dropped out and lost my scholarship.  That is neither here nor there.

I did become a nurse.  How you ask?  Well I have 3 beautiful daughters and I am always having to fix boo-boos, diagnose sickness, and even now giving daily shots to one of my girls.

I also became a crime scene investigator go ahead I know the question but "how".  Well on a daily basis a crime has been committed in my house and I the awesome investigator that I am has to figure out what happened, how it happened, and who did it.

I also became a hairdresser.  On a daily even multiple times a day I am brushes, fixing, doing a up do or 2 and even cutting hair.  That job also includes trimming and painting lots of fingers and toes.

Long story is sometimes we may think that we did not complete our childhood dreams.  But look around and I am sure you will see that you are all those and more. God always has a bigger plan for us and sometimes it takes looking back to see them.

Be Blessed My Friends

OK, so a few of my friends blog and of course I wanted to see what it is all about. Here is the thing I am not a very good writer or speller. Even worse than that I also seem to write things in weird rambles hint the name of my blog. If I write a letter I also look back and say I should have put that sentence up there and that one down here did I use proper grammar and punctuations. Does my writing even make sense to others. Anyway I sometimes just have funny thoughts or saying that I would like to jot down and remember or just give someone a great laugh.