renoirnbluejeans's blog: "Just a simple girl"

So..it's like what..12 days till that wonderful day of wrapping paper being ripped open. I have NO clue what I'm getting the kids... and sat. I have to shop. Man I hate that feeling.. I would really just rather take them away for a weekend and have a memory they wouldn't forget. Instead... I have a house that is decorated... and the cookie hoarding is starting... all for the day my family comes over to share some good times and gifts. I cherish the good times more than anything. THAT is what makes my christmas. Forget the gifts.... unless of course it's a bottle of Captain Morgan. :o) Happy holiday shopping to all of you.

SO.. here we are just a short hop from thanksgiving. Todays agenda... to get the house out of it fall jacket and into it's Santa Suit. Christmas has always been special to me. My mother was a big one for getting it all together usually the day after thanksgiving. I didn't quite do that yesterday.. though all the fall stuff is down and put away... the christmas stuff is laying all over the place. Today I will get the tree... and make my house festive. Simple elegance.... LMAO.. are you joking.. I do it up country simple. Quilted wall hangings and stockings, folk art nicknacks abound. Oh.. did I mention my love of REINDEER, Gingerbread and MOOSE>...lol. Keep those freaking snowmen away from me. Not real exciting huh? But you know.. when I decorate Captain Morgan likes to help out.... sometimes he even brings a big of Eggnog along with him. (Vanilla Spice is the best...thank you southern comfort. LOL) So.. enjoy your day.. I will be enjoying mine.

Well.. here we are.. being thankful for all the great things in our lives. Not a bad thing to take some time and be appreciative of the gifts we have. I came to the realization tonight that in the town I live in.. I'M RICH.. but in another town.. well..I would probably be nearer the lower middle class. Not that status means much to me. I moved to my town to be in the town I teach in... nothing more.. nothing less. When you're about to go it alone and have to think about finances with three kids... where you live is a big one. I have grown to love this little "city." I don't know of many other places where you can have total strangers treat you like long time friends. I am thankful for that. I am as laid back as this place is in terms of material life. Give me a warm summer evening, a set of horseshoe pits and a camp fire... ( we dont need to mention a frosty cold beverage) and life is good. So to whom it may concern... I am thankful for my life... may it continue to be as wonderful as it has been lately. On a sadder note.. On this day I was thankful to have my family together for dinner. It's been 27 years since my mother sat with us to enjoy a thanksgiving.. and this year is the hardest for me because I am the age she was when we shared our last thanksgiving with her. 41 is way to young... and I realize now how "YOUNG" my mom was. I know today she was with us.... and I know each day she blesses us. We just don't always realize it. SO thank you mom.. for raising me well.. for being the woman I still idolize 27 years later.. and for your love. I can't wait to see you again one day in heaven. I LOVE YOU.

SO... thanksgiving is upon us. Not a bad thing but wow has this year flown by or what. Let's see... what simple things am I greatful for. A roof over my head, the love of my family and friends, enough money to not really worry tooooo much each month, my job, my health, my ability to keep semi-clad photos of myself off-line. LMAO. I am thankful for the simple things in life. Walking outside and watching the sun set...or rise for that matter. Smelling fresh cut grass, picking veggies out of my own garden, or even the apples off my trees. TO enjoy a tody for the body and the company of good friends. Yes.. I am indeed blessed... and for that I am thankful

WOW.. I have to retype this whole thing cause I timed out... this sucks. SO.. I'm sitting here.. really relatively new to this whole idea. Especially new to fubar... and I"m thinking to myself.. what the heck. I am really out of the loop. Being a 41 year old divorced mom is nothing like it was 20 years ago when I could saunter into a bar and be the biggest flirt there. I dont know if it's the unconscious feeling of realizing I'm 41 and OMG I'm going to say it, "middle aged," or is it that I've gotten a whole new perspective on how I present myself to the world. I grew up somewhere and gained a more respectable sense of self. I am not just out for a guy for his six packs... unless it's the liquid kind.. lol. I'm also alot more than a set of boobs and sexy knees...lol. I have an education, a mind ( yes it functions very well) and a great sense of humor. SO you'll have to forgive me for not flaunting the exterior...cause I feel the interior is so much more important.