Christmas Memories

Remember the silver tinsel from the 60's? The lovely silver strings that you hung on your dried up real tree in big clumps? And then the cat would eat it and crap it out.
One year our tree was so crooked that my Dad strung up fishing line from the tree to the ceiling to straighten it out.
The time I dropped the huge metal scissors into the punch bowl and cracked it but did not know until the punch started leaking all over the counter.
The flat plastic sled with a rope on it that were surely death traps on the sledding hills but one of the best gifts ever?
Christmas parties at school with presents and everything!
The year my parents went out and tied one on and then had to come home and put out gifts.. and they tried to be quiet. (They were not!)
Sitting in the living room and gazing at the tree at 3:00, arguing about who would wake up our parents the first time. 5:30 was their limit, really and God bless them for it.
The year all the adult kids with their kids crashed at our parents and stayed up watching "Ghostbusters!"
Every year that my Dad crabbed but my Mom did everything to give us a good Christmas when there was no money for them to do it. She pulled it off every year. We made cookies and watched movies and had ribbon candy. And she was up fixing turkey and baking for days. The pies would line the counter and and the tree would be loaded with candy canes. My Mom loved Christmas and she passed it on to all of us. This is when I miss her most and not because it's a holiday, because it was her holiday.
But when I am baking cookies or wrapping gifts I may be missing her but I am also thanking her for giving me this magic season. Thank you Mom and Dad for making us giving and loving. For giving us joy and laughter. I love you forever! Merry Christmas!

R U KIDDING ME?

The roads are slick and snow covered and you are driving in traffic texting or on your phone.
When you say you don't talk on the phone when your kids are in the car. What about other people's kids in their cars?
You are standing on a street corner begging and have the nerve to pull out a pack of cigarettes to smoke (not even generic cigarettes).
A middle school student gets a disability check when he is not even employable..he's 13 for God's sake.
My Dad is in the donut hole for meds while same student gets a monthly check.
Our new health care will cover your child until they are 26 as long as they stay unemployed. If their job offers them crap insurance they have to take it and your insurance cannot even be secondary. Doesn't matter if they are a full time student. My insurance told me to tell her to quit her job.
Nachos and cheese as a school lunch? When did that become a healthy options? Okay, I lied, any school lunch served is not a healthy option.
School breakfast on Fridays? Pop Tarts 400 calories and chocolate milk 170 calories.
Snookie.
Anything Kardashian, come on people.
Television censors...really? Do your job!
Gas that goes up 20 cents but never down 20.
Celebrities that scream they are Christians and then dress and dance like porno stars. If you wouldn't act like that in front of Jesus don't act like that. period.
And don't thank God for your awards when all your cds have parental warnings on them.
It's Sesame Street, put the girls away.
People who hang in the left hand lane and won't let you pass. Get out of my way.
People who get pets and then leave them out to cry and yelp all night..if you aren't going to love it don't get it.
People who don't donate blood, it's a life you are saving and you get a really good cookie.
Okay, I feel better now.