It's been a while and I'm ready to tell you all I know again. Here it is,
Life is a picnic, eat outside once in a while,
Life is rough sometimes, Cover your head when it rains,
and be grateful, it helps when you eat outside and it rains.
Thanks for listening, I hope you got as much out of this as I did, it's deep.

Christmas Shopping is almost done!!!! Dad and I braved a snow storm just to make sure it was a wonderful holiday for y'all. It would have been great but I was supposed to be home enjoying my weekend with Josh & Reagan before they leave on their Christmas Cruise. I guess I really don't like December because I get too rattled and forget things and it's pretty bad when you forget your own children are staying at your house. I guess the day isn't that far off that I'll be buying that motor home for you kids to drive me from house to house so you can take care of me. I expect dad to just stay here and farm till he's around 85 then he'll join me in the nursing motor home. You guys will have to feed him, do his laundry and find things for him though because I am trying to keep him completely dependent so he thinks he can't live without me. I worked on that again this weekend so we'll see how it goes. I do appreciate all your comments and I want to assure you I have been buying Christmas presents appropriate to replies. Well, It's neigh on to 8:30 and dad is watching survivor man, (I think he watches that so he can survive anything I dish out) so I think it's about time for me to go to bed. Big shopping day, slick roads, lots of money gone, Tired!
MOM

Whew! What a week

What a great week this is going to be. Not a lot of stress to confuse life. Share week is over, the money is earned now we just have to find the people to spend it on. Not a problem, people are calling the school and I have been on the phone a lot. That's not the most interesting thing I learned this week though.
We had a great Bastian party on Saturday. I started at 12 and got over at 1:55 on the dot. That included the cleaning of the Scout Cabin. That was good, but again, not the most interesting thing
I learned this last week. I learned that you can live with a person for thirty nine years and still not know things about them. Sure, I know what he likes to eat, that he likes to go to sleep at 5 and wake up at 5, and just because I sleep later than him he thinks I sleep too much (someday I will tell him what I think of that!) I'm still on the 8am schedule in case any of you were wondering, but, back to my story, I also know that he doesn't hang Christmas lights willingly, (once in his lifetime) but I now know that he hates my two red berry wreaths with a passion and thinks they look like weeds with berries on them. I have hung them for Christmas for at least two years and not a word, I wonder what else he hates, but there again, I just found out that he hates poinsettia's, you know the big red flowers I always buy at Christmas and hope they live until New Years. Last year I had 5, count them 5 poinsettia's and not a word from the big guy.
This year all of a sudden he has an opinion on all the Christmas decorations and most of them are just plain ugly. He does like the tree with all the accumulated ornaments from the past 39 years and he doesn't even mind that there is a space in the middle of the tree with no lights! That is no problem at all but all those red decorations are just over the top and weedy. Oh well, I just bought a new berry wreath, this one with frosty stuff on it, I did put it on the outside of the door
so he only has to see it when he comes in the front door. That's what he gets for not telling me sooner that he hated my berry wreaths. What will he hate next? Well, I will try harder to keep up with this blog so Dad and I are off, we are going to Steve's Steakhouse for dinner. Don't worry though, the government is paying for it so I plan to get steak and shrimp and a drink and dessert and probably an appetizer plate and whatever else they have available. You know how it is with the government, they can afford it!

Is This Really A BLOG?

I know I pretend to be extremely computer literate but I'm really struggling with this blog thing. Maybe I started it a little prematurely, that is before I really knew what I was doing but I guess we will all learn together. That is if you can stay around for a while until I really get an idea on it. I do have some advice for you all though. Here it is, Trust your mother, she knows what she's doing. This whole thing will work out in the end! Things can only go up from here, I promise. Today is a crazy day, it was supposed to be the day I cleaned my bedroom good but I can see that isn't going to happen because Sherry called and we're taking food to Joanne Shaw because Arva Shaw died. Alisa called and was going to come over but she dogged me just to go and get a Christmas tree with her family, then dad came home for breakfast and reminded me that we are going to Alfredo's sons birthday party this afternoon and of course it is my week to teach Sunday School and the lesson is not in good shape yet. So, the bedroom will have to be another day. That is the problem it has been another day for quite a while now and things aren't looking up because it is Thanksgiving soon then Christmas and of course it is birthday season in between and after and Oh I am doing Share Week again this year. Yes I know I said I wasn't doing it anymore but here I am doing share week. I will give you an update on that later because I have to go now and make up a song about a toilet and get the games ready for the faculty Christmas party. Why!!!! I think I need another NO sign.
I just had a talk with Rusty and he thinks I just need to get up an hour earlier every day and I think he might be right. If that works out for me I'll let you know and you can start calling me after 7:am but don't start until I let you know for sure because the transition might take a day or two. Well, I'm off now to get busy, Olah (practicing my spanish for the birthday party)

Doris Exposed

Some say my life is an opened book, just out there for everyone to read. Up until now, however, I have kept much to myself. I have secrets, I just usually can't keep them for very long! I have a need to tell the world what's wrong, how to fix it, and how things could be better. I have been encouraged to have a blog by my six children because they think if I put all of my valuable advice on my blog I can get it all out without nagging them. Duke came right out and cheered because he is convinced that now he can just find the solutions to all his problems on this blog without having to actually listen to me( I don't really think that's why he was cheering). Someday I will tell you more about my precious family but for now just know, I have one. Anyway, I do have things to say and now I have the world at my feet! Thank you world. Remember, I'm always here for you!
Doris