Mama's Holiday Wish List Meme

TodaysMama and Provo Craft are giving away a sleighful of gifts this holiday season and to enter I’m sharing this meme with you.

1. What 5 items are on your holiday wish list this year?

1. New pillows for my bed
2. A steam cleaner for my carpet
3. A KitchenAide mixer
4. Something made of bamboo velour in my size
5. New pots & pans
   

2. What is your favorite handmade gift you have received? hand crocheted blanket
3. What handmade gift have you always wanted to tackle? quilts for the kids
4. What was the best Christmas gift you received as a child? my Baby Crissy doll
5. What items are on your kid’s wish list this year? DSi, American Girl doll, Tag reader, stuffed dog
6. What is your favorite holiday food? Fudge!!!!
7. What will you be hand-crafting for the holidays? cookies, fudge, tamales
8. What is your favorite holiday movie? Frosty the Snowman
9. Favorite holiday song? O'come all ye Faithful
10. Favorite holiday pastime? baking cookies & singing Christmas carols

Take Me Back Tuesday...Christmas 2007

Melanie was 7 months old for her first Christmas. She was sitting up, crawling & generally finding ways to get into things. She looks so tiny here, but at 7 months, she was already wearing 18 month clothes.

Music Monday--Let it SNOW

Saturday morning we got about 3 inches of snow! Of course it was gone by early afternoon, but it was lots of FUN while it lasted. Our forecast for the coming weeks is predicting more snow Wednesday night, so you know my kids are already hoping for a snow day on Thursday....it doesn't usually take much snow to shut down all of Knoxville. More snow would also go a long way in helping me get into the holiday spirit, so far absolutely no decorating or cookie baking has gotten done.


This is such a FUN song from Celtic Woman!! Hubby & I watched their new PBS special last week & we will be going to see them when they come to Knoxville in April!!! I can't wait.

Rest in Peace Slippery

Yesterday was a very sad day in our house. Our cat, Slippery, had been "missing" since Friday evening and we were very worried that he had gotten locked in one of the neighbors garage. Instead we discovered that he had died in his sleep in a corner of one of the bedrooms. All pets are special, but Slippery was an especially special cat. Slippery was born in Marvin & Mason's bedroom closet in the Spring of 2001. His mother Destiny has always been an ill tempered cat, but Slippery was always sweet & loving.From the time he was a very small kitten, he has been Maggie's cat. She was less than a year old when he was born & they have always been inseparable. He would let her hold & cuddle him for hours on end. He rode in the doll stroller, he wore hats, whatever Maggie wanted, Slippery was the her willing playmate.
Our house feels very empty without his presence. The little girls are comforted by the idea that he is with our beloved dog, Star, in Heaven. The rest of us are still really struggling with the suddenness of this loss.

Pink Saturday...Snow

Happy Pink Saturday!!! Be sure to stop by How Sweet the Sound to check out all the links for Pink Saturday & say Hi to Beverly, our lovely host.

Look what we woke up to this morning in East Tennessee!!!
This is Sheba's first snow & she was very excited!!


The flash caught the snowflakes just right as they were coming down & some of them look HUGE.
This week we are supposed to be sharing one of our childhood memories about a special holiday....the one that keeps coming to mind for me is the first Christmas that my Mom, my little brother & I spent in California. We were thousands of miles from all our relatives and on a very small budget. We had a little tree in our apartment, but it was so warm & nice (not what we were used to for Christmas weather since we had moved from New Jersey the previous March) that my Mom decided we would go to my brother's favorite park to open our Christmas presents under the pine trees on the nice GREEN grass. I wore shorts & sandals and my Mom took pictures to send to our relatives.

What's your favorite holiday memory?

And the Sugar Dipes Gift Certificate winner is....

Random.Org chose Attila & Tamara from Szogedi Home

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Take Me Back Tuesday...What a difference a year makes

This was Thanksgiving last year. Check out this post to see what they look like now.