Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

I am heading to my beloved North Carolina for the Holiday and just wanted to say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of my blogger peeps.  I am really going to try to be electronic free this Holiday so I will catch up with everyone after January 2nd or 3rd.  I hope that all of you know how happy you make me with your comments and acknowledgements on a weekly basis.  At the end of a long day, I love that ya'll can put a smile on my face.  Thank you for that and here is looking toward a really great 2012!  Love you all...

Happy Monday

3 more days of work people and then almost 3 weeks off.  Have a wonderful Monday!

Damn Elf...

For those of you with kids, you know what an "elf on a shelf" is...for those of you without, be thankful.  The premise of the "elf on the shelf" is that he watches the kids during the day and then reports back to Santa at night.  But the damn elf cannot always make it to his shelf when he comes back from seeing Santa so every morning he is in a different spot in the house.  So every night, Santa's little helpers (aka me) have to put the elf in new places for the kids to discover.  The elf does not care if you forget or if you are hungover or if you remember at 3am and then fall back asleep, he must be moved.  I gotta tell you, it is wearing me out and we still have another week of it. 

I kind of want to wipe that smile right off Willie's face (oh that's the name of our elf). 

Laughing about this....

This was the headline in the Charlotte, NC (my old homeplace) today...

Shoplifter takes $3K worth of bras at SouthPark Mall

and by the way the bras were fur.  For some reason this just made me laugh.  What does one do with over $3000 worth of bras.  This is what I imagine they looked like.

 

 

Happy Monday everyone...

Favorite Line from Modern Family last night...

Modern Family is always good for quotables and last night's Christmas (ok December 16th) episode was no exception.  My favorite line of the night was when Manny and Phil walked in with the groceries and Claire looked up and said..."oh here is Phil with the Butterball", Manny "I have a name Claire".  Loved it.  A close second was when Jay looked at Cam and said, "put a cork in it"...I know, I know you had to see it but still thanks for the laughs Modern Family.  Oh and favorite moment...when Phil, who was still feeling the aftereffects of the taser" was helping Cam fix the tree from behind.  Hilarious.  What was your favorite line?  Sad that the show is done for the year but at least they celebrated with a good one.

Did anyone watch Glee last night...

OK, I know that I have had some complaints this year about Glee.  I felt that it had lost some of the joy.  Well last night, I am not sure if it was the return trip to Sectionals or that Sam is back (thank goodness) or that it was a Jackson family spectactular (Man in the Mirror is one of my favorites) but last nights episode was so great.  I loved it.  I really, really loved it.  I hope that this is the beginning of a return to the Glee of it all.  What did you think?  Did you like it as much as I did or did I just get lost in the Jackson extravaganza?

This is what I have been working on...

Someone at the preschool decided that it made perfect sense to hand paint t-shirts for all the kids in our classes for their Christmas presents.  So for the last 3 days I have been trying to paint 12 t-shirts for my class.  Not at all time consuming by the way (sarcasm sarcasm....)  Here is what I came up with.  Be gentle...

I am a little overwhelmed....

I don't know about the rest of you but I am feeling a little stressed out.  This time of year does it to me every time.  I am working on making lists and checking it twice but as most of you know we all have way too much going on.  I am checking in so let me know how you are.  I am going to be better about updating.  I promise...

This is how I feel about Monday this week...