Jennelle,

I KNOW exactly how you feel!! Here it is 10 days before Christmas and I'm only half way done shopping! I still need to finish, bake & wrap! Working 2 jobs with no help around here doesn't help either!

I was telling Debbie last night that by the time we do everything that needs to be done, WE ARE WORN OUT!!!! I DO love Christmas but it seems like we are under so much stress to get it all done!!

One of my New Year's Resolutions is lose weight once and for all!!!! ALSO....to have everything done next Christmas by Thanksgiving!!! I want to be able to enjoy it.

Hang in there and do what you can.Try not to let it stress you out like it has me.

Love you,
Sherry

I'm the anal one, I have all my gifts bought, just not wrapped yet!!! I try to buy throughout the year if I can. I have two kids with birthdays within one month of Christmas, so I have to budget throughout the year so I have something left in the pocketbook!!!

Jennelle: My new Years resolution is to finish the first 49 things on my list before I start the 50th!!! I have so many projects going on that it becomes overwhelming, then I finish nothing!!!! On a good note: I do have neat, organized piles here and there.

I hear you girls on the no help at home woes!!! I have plans of "fun" stuff I want to do after I finish my "work". Instead it is a vicious cycle of laundry, cooking, housework...... I never get to do the fun stuff!!!!!

Enough boo-hooing!!! Have a great day!!

Dear Debbie, so glad to see ya post!!! I hope I'm not the one who hurt your feelings, it is so easy to take something out of context when just reading and not seeing the persons reactions. If I was the one, then I am sorry...you are such a dear and I think the world of you!!!!!

I will post my Christmas memories and traditions later when I have more time. BTW: GREAT IDEA!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAROL!!!!!!! I HOPE YOU HAVE A SPECIAL ONE!!!!!!!

Debbie: A family tradition that I grew up with would be that my Mother had a lamb shaped cake pan, every Christmas we would bake a birthday cake for Jesus for the dinner. Some years we left it as a lamb using coconut to create the wool, other years we created a reindeer by using brown pipe cleaners as the antlers. Last year my Mother passed on the pan to me. This year I am making two reindeers... one for the dinner I'm having with my family and one to share at Steve's folk' home.

We try to have a pizza family night the evening we put up the tree and sometimes we let the kids pick out one gift from under the tree to open Christmas eve. The biggest gift/most expensive that they want comes Christmas morning and is from Santa. Up until Steve married me, he never received a Santa gift other then just a few things in his stocking. It's interesting to see how other families traditions differ from your own.

Debbie I really hope that I have not affended you in anyway. If I have I am very sorry, and I would never intentionally do that to you. I am glad that you have come back. We miss you. Hope to see a lot less of you in weeks to come(as in weight) and a lot more of you on the board. Love ya lots.

DEE

Debbie-I hope I wasn't the one that hurt your feelings. I have a way of putting my foot in my mouth all the time!! I love you!!!

I haven't stopped eating!! My weight is waaay up. I am trying to journal today. On Xmas Eve, it will be 1 year that I started WW. I have to get off these 5-7 lbs. that I have gained!! Too many goodies everywhere right now!!

Great picture Debbie and Sherry. I hope to see many more. Love the beach in the background. Only dreams for us girls except Shelley.
Well Larry is home. I am so happy. They want him to go back really soon. I don't think I like that much. They are thinking of this week. He is trying to push this trip off on someone else.
This morning I am going to a historical meeting place. It is wear the indians camped and did a lot of trading. It is very christmasy there. It is an old market beside the river. My 2 walking girlfriends will be with me. We are going for a walk first and then for coffee beside a wall of windows looking out onto the skating pond. Christmas music will be playing and there is decorations everywhere. Going to buy some specialty loose tea for christmas. Jay already bought me my Jamaican coffee. It sells for $100 a pound here but he got it off ebay for $30. What a treat. Then after that I will be off to my tea time friends for tea this afternoon. We also have a family meeting downtown tonight so the day will be very busy.
Hope you all enjoy the day.
Gayle I will try to be on msn around 12-1:30 if you are free maybe we could chat.

DEE

Good Morning!!

Hey...This is one TIRED FLOOZIE!!!!!!! I'm like Debbie, I'm getting too old to work 18 hour shifts! My legs were hurting so bad and I was too tired to sleep when I got home at 1:10 this morning!! I slept about 2 hours. I'm about to get ready and go shopping! I took the day off at School too! No telling what I might buy today being this tired!

Oh My Gosh! I can't believe Debbie posted that picture!!!!!
My hair is standing straight up!!!!!! That is from the OCEAN BREEZE!! I guess Debbie had too much HAIRSPRAY on hers!!!!

Well it seems like everyone is doing good!! Maybe we'll get some of our "lurkers" back soon!! HINT-HINT!!

I'll post my favorite Christmas memories later...too tired now to think! LOL

Have a GREAT day........I'll post again after Waynes Christmas work party tonight!!

Love,
Sherry (Sher-Bear)


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