Friendly Fill-Ins

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Here are the fill-in-the-blanks:

1. The highlight of my Christmas was ___________________________.

2. My New Year's resolution is __________________________.

3. This year, 2016, ______________.

4. Next year, 2017, ______________.

Here are my responses:

The highlight of my Christmas was having the girls home, getting to Skype with Davey, and having David make it to the 7-month stroke-a-versary without another event.

My New Year’s resolution is to do my best to no longer put off things that I want to do for “someday”. My vision clock is ticking and there are some pictures that I really, really want to take before I can’t.

This year, 2016, has been a very hard year.  Davey didn’t get to come home. David had 3 strokes within 2.5 days. Our daughters had some struggles. And I got cheated out of something that was due me and a diagnosis of cataracts. I am glad that 2016 is leaving! I couldn’t take another month of it.

Next year, 2017, promises to hold some changes in our lives.  I hope that it includes a visit with our Marine.  I sure hope he will get to come home. He is so good at what he does for the Marine Corps, his upline wants to keep him there in Japan. I hope that it also includes a lot of picture-taking opportunities for me.

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Currently…A Life List

Looking out my window....I see an overcast day.

As I ponder....what the coming year holds and what I will have to let go.

What I am learning...is that I am never going to know my purpose for being. Everything that fulfills me has had a major obstacle placed in its way.

What I’m creating...ancestor ornaments. Actually, I have made 16 ornaments already. What I’m trying to figure out is exactly how to do a tutorial on making them. I had planned to make the post this past weekend, but time got away from me and my perfectionist tendencies got in the way of me. I’m afraid I’ll say something wrong and mess someone up while they’re trying to follow my directions.

What I’m reading....The Four Agreements that was sent to me by a blogging friend. I am also reading a book in the Kindle about something called Merch by Amazon.

What I'm watching...people eat leftovers while doing various things on their computers.

What I’m hearing...I am hearing the air conditioner and the clicking of keyboards and a sneeze here and there.

What’s on my camera...

Davey via Skype, #1, Christmas Day 2016

Davey via Skype, #2, Christmas Day 2016

Davey via Skype, #3, Christmas Day 2016

Beautiful Reindeer on Resident Street, 27 Dec 2016

Tree Shadow & Christmas Lights, FM 102, 27 Dec 2016

What I’m drinking....Diet Coke, iced tea, and water are never far from me.

What’s happening in the kitchen...Argh! It’s a disaster area in there. The dishes are getting used way faster than I can wash them.

A quote I want to share...

“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.” Maya Angelou

A final thought...

I hope that you all have a wonderful New Year blessed with peace, hope, love, good health, happiness, and surrounded by family.

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Who Do YOU Think You Are?

Suz, 29 April 2011

What do you do when you find out that you are not fully who you thought you were?

What would you do, think, or feel if that happened to you?

Sometimes our body fluids have a way of telling us something different than what we grew up believing about ourselves.

For instance, I was raised as a white person and have done a pretty good job of passing, though some of my features have indicated that I was not fully white.

I knew that I had a Native American heritage, specifically Cherokee ancestry.

My spit says otherwise.

According to the AncestryDNA test, I am 0% Native American and 0% Caucasian.  The test indicated that I am 97% European and 3% Middle Eastern.

So, I am mixed, but apparently not fully the mix that I thought I was, at least not according to this test. The test also indicates potential error when it comes to Native American ethnicity, as I understand it.  I am still holding onto that Cherokee heritage until I can find absolute proof that I am not part Cherokee.

And, the Middle Eastern bit is an absolute, total surprise!

Are YOU really who you think you are?


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Merry Christmas!

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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun-- My Santa Claus Memories

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1)  Answer these questions:

a) Did you ever send a letter to Santa Claus?
b) Did you ever visit Santa and "make a list?"
c) Do you still believe in Santa Claus?
d) When did you find out "the truth" about Santa Claus?

2)  Tell us your answers in a blog post of your own, in a Facebook post or Google+ post.  Be sure to leave a comment on this post with a link to your answers.

1.  While I don’t remember any specific letter, I am sure that I sent many letters to Santa as a very little girl.

2.  Yes, we went to visit Santa, sat on his lap, and told him our list of “wants”.

3.  I believe in what Santa stands for, but I know that no guy in a beautiful velvet suit comes down my chimney with goodies each year.  I don’t have a chimney. J

4.  I found out the “truth” about Santa when I was a little girl. My daddy was facing a layoff at work and Mama was afraid that we wouldn’t be getting any presents that year. She told us the deal, that there was no Santa, because she didn’t want us to be upset with Santa when we didn’t get any presents.  I didn’t believe her, so I set about to search the house for presents.  If I found presents in the house, then I would know that she was telling me the truth. If I didn’t find a stash hidden, then there was a chance that there was still a Santa Claus.  The logic worked for my little girl mind.  However, now I see the flawed logic.  If there wasn’t any money for presents, there would be no presents for me to find.  

I don’t remember if Daddy ended up getting laid off that year or not, but we had presents. I don’t remember any Christmases from my childhood without presents.  I do remember one Christmas without my daddy.  He was a trucker that year and was snowbound in Oklahoma. That was the saddest Christmas in my childhood.  The presents weren’t the most important part of Christmas anyway.  Family and what Christmas stands for are the important things.  Our Heavenly Father gave us the gift of His Son, who gave us the gift of eternal life by sacrificing His own.   

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Friendly Fill-Ins 23 December 2016

This is a fun meme co-hosted by McGuffy's Reader and 15 and Meowing. Be sure to visit and join in the fun!


Here are the fill-in-the-blanks:

1. I still need to _____________________ before Christmas.

2. My favorite episode of Seinfeld is ___________________.

3. What I really would like for Christmas is ___________ .

4. My favourite part of Christmastime is ____________________.

Here are my responses:

I really need to get the kitchen in order before the weekend. No matter what I do, there is never enough room in there for a full-on kitchen production.

I do not have a favorite episode of Seinfeld.

I would really like a day of peace, no self-doubt, in a place of total beauty so that I could take the photo of a lifetime, for what could be my last time.

My very favorite part of Christmastime is remembering why there is a Christmas in the first place. On an earthly level, my favorite parts are the beautiful decorations and the laughter of happy children.

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