Santa and Jesus

I saw this on Tangle - a Christian site and thought it was a good way of explaining Christmas vs Jesus for our kids or grand kids.

Hope you enjoy.
Chatty

Today is Emily Dickinson's birthday - what a gal! She wrote with passion and beauty, capturing the essence of the heart.

"Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the souls. And sings the tune without the words. and never stops at all."

"In this short Life that only lasts an hour. How much - how little - is within our power"

There are some really nice people out there. . .

Debbie at 'There's An Angel On My Front Porch' (click here) gave me this award. I appreciate it.

"THESE ARE THE INSTRUCTIONS FOR THIS AWESOME AWARD:

GRAB THE BUTTON
POST IT ON YOUR BLOG
MAKE SURE YOU TELL YOUR FRIENDS I (DEBBIE) GAVE YOU THE AWARD
(THIS WOULD SURELY MAKE SENSE, BECAUSE IT IS ABOUT "FRIENDS")
MAKE SURE YOU SHARE THE AWARD WITH AT LEAST 5 OTHER "FRIENDS"

SHARE 5 THINGS YOU LIKE TO DO:

1. I LIKE/LOVE TO RUMMAGE THROUGH THRIFT STORES - me too! It's fun to see what you can find.
2. I like to go out to eat and try new places and go to movies with my girlfriends.
3. I LIKE/LOVE TO READ MAGAZINES, newspapers, and books and listen to books on tape while I'm driving - anything I can get my hands on - that's interesting to me of course.
4. I LOVE TO BLOG AND MAKE NEW FRIENDS.
5. I like to travel.

So now I'm throwing it out to every one who checks my blog -

What are your favorite things to do?

Happy Birthday Donnie Osmond:

Osmond married Debbie Glenn, on May 8, 1978. Together they have five sons: Donald Clark Osmond Jr., Jeremy James Osmond, Brandon Michael Osmond, Christopher Glenn Osmond, and Joshua Davis Osmond.

Osmond became a grandfather on August 21, 2005, when his second son Jeremy and daughter-in-law Melisa had a son, Dylan James Osmond. His granddaughter Emery was born on February 25, 2008. Osmond's third son Brandon married Shelby Hansen in 2008.

Donnie Osmond - in his 50's - Dancing With The Stars and winning - and he's a grandpa??? Impressive.

Love,
Chatty

Pugs - Tuesday's Show and Tail

Welcome to the Tenth Weekly Segment of Tuesdays' Show & Tail! I hope everyone will join Angela (click here) every Tuesday to post a picture or two of your pets, wildlife or visit to the zoo and tell a little about them!

Tuesdays' Show & Tail is about having fun, and giving us a chance to meet other pet owners in the blogging community. If you are visiting and would like to join in on the fun, please do so! Everyone is welcome.

Now I copied this from Angela's web site - I have been asked to blog about Tuesday's Show and Tail.

Therefore it is true that everyone is welcome, because I don't have any pets. I did, but every time we got a dog I got so sick I had to give them to one of my friends - and yes they are still my friends, but I keep breaking my families heart. I tried so hard to get them a pet, but my immune system - allergies were just too strong for a pet.

Therefore I have no current pet stories, but I do have a couple of old ones and a couple of funny stories.

So here is my first Show and Tail.

I am a pug lover - now I have found from blogging the world of Corgi's. They are pretty cute too.

I'm going to talk about pugs tonight. Our first pug was a girl named Irma. She was my dog and I loved her so very much. It like to have killed me to give her away, but she went to a great home and we did get to see and visit with her once in awhile.

We lived in Chicago and it was one of the worst winters ever - extremely cold with the bitter windchill and snow that didn't melt until April. It was in the 80's sometime.

So we purchased two sets of doggie boots. His paws would freeze in the snow and she couldn't go out and use the bathroom fast enough before she would freeze. So boots seemed like the answer.

I don't have a picture of this, but let me tell you - it was one of the funniest days of my life. Rick and I laughed so hard we woke the kids up and they came downstairs to see what was happening.



Irma lost all brain knowledge of how her feet worked. She couldn't move them. They went out every where. You had to see it - so funny.



Hugs and kisses,
Chatty


Happy Birthday to Mary Queen of Scotts.

Some of my favorite things.

My house is full of things. I'd LOVE to get rid of half my 'things'. I'm beginning to feel so cluttered. Anyway - the things on this table I would keep - they are some of my favorite things.

This table was my mother's. She had exquisite taste. Smooth on the top and hand carved on the front. And on it I have a few of my favorite things.

Pictures of my mom, dad, and brother.

The three Wise Men - again they were my mother's.
Pictures of my kids when they were younger, my family now, my brother's and mine baby pictures, and my grandmother as a young girl. My mom made those praying hands in ceramic class - SHE had the craft talent in the family.


Now I was blessed a couple of times since I've been blogging. I just won Molly's give away and she sent me these four glasses with snowmen on the bottom and one smaller glass - a reindeer - for Andy. Please check out her blog - you'll enjoy it. Molly (click here) is a wonderful lady.



She hand painted these. So thank you very much Molly.
She also send a night light - isn't it nice? I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much.

I also won awhile ago - for guessing how many hinges were in a box - a gift from Barb (click here) so check out her site too. She wrote and asked me what I would like and one of them was some of her miscellaneous remnants of her craft items. They were wonderful. A lot of nice scrape booking items, flowers, dolie, etc. So thank you too Jean. I always put them with my things before I took a picture.

Anyway thanks.
Chatty

Happy Birthday Harry Chapin - Cats in the Cradle - I think that was one of the most moving songs ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlHdjjHNEC8

And Ellen Burstyn-
"What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be."

From Wikipedia:

Burstyn was born Edna Rae Gillooly in Detroit. She describes herself as "Irish, French, Pennsylvania Dutch, a little Canadian Indian". She was raised Catholic but is now known to practice Sufi Islam.Her parents divorced when she was young. She would later refer to her mother as tough, violent and controlling. She left home at age 18.

When is a bow a bow?

Oh, what woes can one bow make? My husband is out of work right now so I have him 'hired/working' here at home. I have been 'helping' him get motivated to do jobs around the house - ones that need being done and ones that have been put off for years (literally). So we were getting the Christmas decorations out and I asked him to bring up THE bow and to please put it on the mailbox. It is the same bow we have had for years - he has always hung it up in the basement instead of storing it in a box where it could get smashed. So I go out for awhile and this the bow he found and put on our mailbox.



I seriously think he found a wrapping bow - a small one - and put it on the mailbox.



I get home and I am literally astonished. I asked him about it and he said, "I didn't think you were going to be happy with this bow."
I asked him, "Then why did you put it up? This is not THE bow." He has put THE bow up for years. Go figure.
(Apparently THE bow had gone AWOL and he used this one instead).

I immediately went over to Micheal's and bought a spool of ribbon for half price and made this bow for $5.00.


Now that's a bow - THE new bow! Hope it will survive for next year, but who knows !
And this ends my tale of woe (lol).



Happy Birthday Agnes Moorehead better known as Endora, in the situation comedy Bewitched. She later commented that she had not expected it to succeed and that she ultimately felt trapped by its success.

Moorehead received six Emmy Award nominations, but was quick to remind interviewers that she had enjoyed a long and distinguished career. Despite her ambivalence, she remained with Bewitched until its run ended in 1972.

She commented to the New York Times, "I've been in movies and played theater from coast to coast, so I was quite well known before Bewitched, and I don't particularly want to be identified as a witch." Later that year she said that she had enjoyed playing the role, but that it was not challenging and the show itself was "not breathtaking" although her flamboyant and colorful character appealed to children.

She expressed a fondness for the show's star, Elizabeth Montgomery, and said that she had enjoyed working with her. Co-star Dick Sargent, who in 1969 replaced the ill Dick York as Samantha's husband, Darrin Stephens, had a more difficult relationship with Moorehead, and described her as "a tough old bird...very self-involved."

Love, Chatty
Remember:
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. - Albert Einstein
I can think of no time it is so true - as Christmas time. Chatty

A Red Neck Rudolph or Christmas in Dixie!

This is what Rudolph looks like down here in HotLanta! (Only for my grandson would I do this).

The official Rudolph Mobile and my cool grandson.


He's holding his lego men up for you to see and look at the end of the car - there is Rudolph's bottom!


It's almost winter here. We have a possibility of snow today!

The Christmas season - with plants in bloom.


“All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.”—Walt Disney Happy Birthday - because of you so many of our dreams have come through!

Love, Chatty
Got yah - You've been mooned!

Fun Friday - Take a laugh break . . .

“I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, 'Ain't that the truth.'” —Quincy Jones



Questions and Answers from an AARP Forum

Q: Where can men over the age of 60 find younger, sexy women who are interested in them?
A: Try a bookstore under fiction.

Q: What can a man do while his wife is going through menopause?
A: Keep busy. If you're handy with tools, you can finish the basement.
When you're done you'll have a place to live.

Q: Someone has told me that menopause is mentioned in the bible. Is that true? Where can it be found?
A: Yes. Matthew 14:92: "And Mary rode Joseph's donkey all the way to Egypt."

Q: How can you increase the heart rate of your 60-plus year old husband?
A: Tell him you're pregnant.

Q: How can you avoid that terrible curse of the elderly wrinkles?
A: Take off your glasses.

Q: Seriously! What can I do for these Crow's feet and all those wrinkles on my face?
A: Go braless. It will usually pull them out.

Q: Why should 60-plus year old people use valet parking?
A: Valets don't forget where they park your car.

Q: Is it common for 60-plus year olds to have problems with short term memory storage?
A: Storing memory is not a problem. Retrieving it is the problem.

Q: As people age, do they sleep more soundly?
A: Yes, but usually in the afternoon.

Q: Where should 60-plus year olds look for eye glasses?
A: On their foreheads.

Q: What is the most common remark made by 60-plus year olds when they enter antique stores?
A: "Gosh, I remember these!"



THREE WOMEN, TWO YOUNGER, AND ONE SENIOR CITIZEN, WERE SITTING NAKED IN A SAUNA. SUDDENLY THERE WAS A BEEPING SOUND.
THE YOUNG WOMAN PRESSED HER FOREARM AND THE BEEP STOPPED.
THE OTHERS LOOKED AT HER QUESTIONINGLY.
'THAT WAS MY PAGER,' SHE SAID. I HAVE A MICROCHIP UNDER THE SKIN OF MY ARM.
A FEW MINUTES LATER, A PHONE RANG.
THE SECOND YOUNG WOMAN LIFTED HER PALM TO HER EAR.. WHEN SHE FINISHED, SHE EXPLAINED, 'THAT WAS MY MOBILE PHONE. I HAVE A MICROCHIP IN MY HAND.'
THE OLDER WOMAN FELT VERY LOW -TECH. NOT TO BE OUT DONE, SHE DECIDED SHE HAD TO DO SOMETHING JUST AS IMPRESSIVE.
SHE STEPPED OUT OF THE SAUNA AND WENT TO THE BATHROOM.
SHE RETURNED WITH A PIECE OF TOILET PAPER HANGING FROM HER REAR END.
THE OTHERS RAISED THEIR EYEBROWS AND STARED AT HER.
THE OLDER WOMAN FINALLY SAID.........WELL, WILL YOU LOOK AT THAT.......I'M GETTING A FAX!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdJT5hjRSR4&feature=email You Tube - The Power of a Story



2009’s First Christmas Joke

Three men died on Christmas Eve and were met by Saint Peter at the pearly gates.

'In honor of this holy season' Saint Peter said,
'You must each possess something that symbolizes Christmas to get into heaven.'

The first man fumbled through his pockets and pulled out a lighter. He flicked it on.
'It represents a candle', he said.

'You may pass through the pearly gates' Saint Peter said.

The second man reached into his pocket and pulled out a set of keys. He shook them and said, 'They're bells.'

Saint Peter said 'You may pass through the pearly gates'.

The third man started searching desperately through his pockets and finally pulled out a pair of women's panties.

St. Peter looked at the man with a raised eyebrow and asked, 'And just what do those symbolize?'

The man replied, 'These are Carol's.' .......

And So The Christmas Season Begins......



Oh one of my favorite writers and philosophers was born today in 1875! I should devote the world blog to him. Rainer Maria Rilke is considered one of the German language's greatest 20th-century poets. His haunting images focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety.

"I beg you…to have patience with everything unsolved within your heart

and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books

written in a very foreign language,

don’t search for the answers,

which could not be given to you now,

because you would not be able to live them,

and the point is,

to live everything,

live the questions now,

perhaps then,

someday in the future,

you will gradually,

without even noticing it,

live your way into the answer."


Love, chatty

My little Santa Claus - Get R Done

It's Get R Done! Please visit our gracious host, ClassyChassy, at Expressly Corgi to see all of the others who are participating in this weekly event! Feel free to join in if you have a project that you are working on or have just finished! Everyone is welcome! Just sign in with Mr. Linky and you are good to go! Visit all the participates and leave a comment so they know you have stopped by.

Now everyone else in blog land has fabulous crafter talents. I've been saying to myself - self what is the matter with you. Where are your talents? Where are you putting your time in at - your nurturing. Then it hit me - my life is wonderfully irregular because my daughter and grandson live here - so my nurturing is still going to them. And I'm glad - what I have to learn - is how to do both - and hopefully I will soon. But for the time being -

My little Santa Claus is going to be a great husband one day. I hate showing my house. It is so jam packed with 'stuff'. Andy has about every toy imaginable and there is so much stuff my cabinets the top of my cabinets are growing - I think it's alive. There are three hoarders here - I spend half my day following them around to see if and what I can throw - that'll have to be another Get R Done Project - emptying my house.

We got the Christmas up and even though it is artificial it still drops needles so I asked Andy to vacuum and he said okay (he loves to vacuum).

My little Santa starts to vacuum.



I had music on - country of course - and "Let's Dance' was on by Josh Turner - and here he is - vacuuming the living room where we had just put up the tree. And he's dancing - isn't that the cutest thing ever!



He's still working away vacuuming. He did the whole livingroom and did a great job!

We have our tree up, the floor is clean - now to the rest of the decorations. We got it done!



"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time." ~ Anna Freud

Happy Birthday to Anna Freud (wikipedia).

Anna Freud was the sixth and last child of Sigmund and Martha Freud. Born in Vienna, she followed the path of her father and contributed to the newly born field of psychoanalysis. With Melanie Klein, she is the cofounder of psychoanalytic child psychology.Compared to her father, her work emphasized the importance of the ego and its ability to be trained socially.

Love,
Chatty