Ooooh, what are their names?!

The weather here has been windy and dark. Creepy. Bright stars.

I have become considerably lankier, crazier and more random since the last time I posted here, see the writer’s thread for my return-most-triumphant. I think forced writing does indeed turn people’s heads somewhat.

What is it about teens that they think just because their “older” means they can’t sleep with stuffed toys??? I am not accusing anyone here if you don’t, I’m just saying don’t be ashamed to. I have several very special toys sitting grinning at the foot of my bed.

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We’ve started posting again!

Eh, what are people’s opinions here about CCM and/or live online chatting?

Christmas Eve we caroled to our neighbor, had a snacky supper and watched “It’s a Wonderful Life”, which we do every year. My two little sisters and I stayed up til five in the morning watching movies, reading books aloud, giggling over inside jokes and generally having a wonderful time! Then they finally went to sleep in pallets in my room, and we all groggily got up two hours later. (I think I break the record at having been the only person alive at four on Christmas morning taking a shower…) We stampeded downstairs and mayhem erupted!!! We were very blessed this year and Mom and Dad shocked us into incredulous silence by actually getting a Wii machine. It’s great fun to watch my little sisters nearly get hit in the face by Dad when he’s “playing tennis”, haha. Amongst the doodads and goodies most glorious I got come books (YAY!), a CD I’ve been eyeing with eagerness and…get this…an MP3 player! I was totally shocked, I still haven’t taken it out of the package! *sobs* Anyone know how to maneuver one of those things?! I call it my Blackberry, it’s really cute. We went to a friend’s house for supper, which was weird because we hardly ever go anywhere for Christmas, we drove around listening to the Christmas carols on the radio, and I stayed up late eating ham, listening to new CDs and immersed in a book. Ah, glorious, most glorious!!!

How glorious! I wanna attic…

I recently took part inna drive-through Nativity! Basically we got dressed up like Biblical folkses, stood beside some props for thirty minutes while cars drove through, then went inside for thirty minutes to warm up and feast. We did all that three times and then once more the next day. It wus COLD but fun! I’m surprised we didn’t all get the flu, going out into the frosty air and then back into the toasty church gymnasium. Yet it is a good ministry, several people handed out tracts, so it was something new we all enjoyed.

It’s raining. 8O The statement in and of itself is self-explanatory!

Busy with Christmas? Eh, somewhat. There’s the usual card-sending bonanza that always drives me nuts, the book to write, Algebra 2 to scratch my head over, a nutty puppy that has learned the secret of flying into our faces whenever we sit down on the couch, a drive-through Nativity to take part in, a friend to bother here and there, the funeral of some friend’s relative, and a recent family tragedy that threw us all off line.

Anyone celebrate Hannukah? We aren’t Jewish but we fry up a buncha latkas and watch Fidddler on the Roof.

Mom had a good idea of opening one present fer twelve days, according to the song, but the Girls booed it! :roll:

True to mah word, we put up our (fake, because once mah older sister was playing under a real tree and looked up…right into a baby-spider’s nest!) tree and ate those turkey-and-cranberry sauce-and-Miracle-Whip doodads.

Ah, you have an attic, Sarah???