Snow?

I awoke to the high pitched enthusiasm of my 8 year old, Grace shouting “Mom! it’s snowing!”  And in fact, it was.  Giant snowflakes silently but furiously drifting down to the ground, determined to pile up.   I remember being her age and thinking, if only the snow will last until after school.  But it hardly ever does.  The ephemeral nature of snow in Texas is part of the angst of childhood and the magic of Christmases gone by for those of us who have lived here long enough to see the snow some and then go just as quickly as it arrived.

Still, it has put me more in the spirit of the season than any of the rotten, singing, stomping, in your face advertising on television.  Thanks snow, I needed that!

Post Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving post?

I am not really commenting about Thanksgiving here, hence the title of the post. I am really just signing in to say, I have started some tutorials to learn some new software to make my technical side more marketable.  I am treating each day as if I am attending school for the tutorials (3 classes) and then my fourth class is job hunting, not graded,  mind you, but a BIG bonus if job is actually achieved!  Also included in the new curriculum is a bit of the old P.E. ….don’t want to end up the way I am headed.

So, well wishers, wish away! I will be checking in regularly with progress reports!

Amy

Symmetry

Tinsel

This is the book signing I went to last week with my mom, Jody and a few people from our church. Click Here

 

The book my mother wrote…

Red and White Roses

Product Description

Author, Wilma Sanders Huber, passes on the important lesson that taking pride in ourselves and teaching this pride to our children is both valuable and sustaining. Red and White Roses is more than a memoir of courage and resolve; it is an uplifting reminder that the love generated throughout a family can sustain us through the most tragic events. Ms. Huber writes with unbridled love and admiration, and well she should: Mamie Sanders was her mother and Huber carries with her those lessons so lovingly and industriously taught. In this paean to her mother, we are reminded that anything is possible, if we believe in ourselves. Ms Huber carries us through the beginnings and endings of Dwight Cotton Mill and other historical events of this area, and the era in which her mother lived.

- Amazon.com

Horsey Rides…this is the way the lady rides…lady rides…lady rides…

Alrighty then.  Guess What? Grace is still small enough for horsey rides.  Guess what else? I am TOO OLD to give the horsey rides.  The knees have gone, an era has past….or wait, maybe it is because she is 8 YEARS OLD.  C’mon!   Cut me a break!  Not that I want to bounce any grandbabies any time soon, but REALLY?  I now know why my cousin who is 10 years older than me always introduces me as “the cousin who made him carry her everywhere on his shoulders”.  OW.  Although I did stop at 5 years old.  Eeeeesh.

Communication and Quick Action are Key

Jim Tuggey’s Prostate/Proton Blog

I was under the impression that due to an overage of spamming, that Jim had shut down his blog about cancer and proton therapy.  I am happy to spread the word that the blog is alive and well, and renamed!

Please pass this blog link on to anyone you know with cancer, of any kind.  If they can be helped with non-invasive protons instead of tortuous and destructive  chemo and radiation, I am sure they would much rather take the proton route.

How to Help Folks Have Fun

I found this book at the resale shop.  It was published in 1954, by the National Board of Young Men’s Christian Association…the YMCA for those of you     who are to young to know that is what all those letters stand for.

I was cleaning my bookcase out the other day and ran across it.  It’s original price was $1.00, I got it for ¢.25.  Not bad.  It is a book on how to have parties and entertain.

I just like the title.

Tinsel and F-town

My mom told me about an article she read in last Sunday’s Dallas Morning News about a man named Hank Stuever who had written a book about Christmas, commercialism and that it was based on three families from Frisco called Tinsel.  Yeah, knock me over with a feather, commercialism and Christmas in Frisco? say it ain’t so!

So, I told my friend Jody about the book, she went and bought the book and read it in one day, with annotations and highlighted sections. WOW.

This book has inspired her to create a theme for our church for Christmas, the result?  Tinselectomy.

• There is a Facebook site for those of you on Facebook:  Become a FAN!
• There is a blog to share or read stories of people who have also been inspired to defy and deny commercialism and choose instead to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas: http://tinselectomy.wordpress.com/
• If you Twitter – well, you know..
• And finally, a website www.tinselectomy.com

Hank is going to be at the Barnes and Noble in Frisco on Tuesday, November 17, 2009, at 7:00PM at the Stonebriar Mall. He has already emailed Jody to tell her he loves the concept she has created and will be talking about it at his event Tuesday at B&N.

I can’t wait!

Trying times

Okay, things are getting a bit rough around here, but we are surrounded by incredible family and friends who support us in SO many ways, I can be nothing but grateful.  That is about all I can say, I should really go back to sleep, it is 4:00 am.  Good….morning? night??  More later – love to all!

Amy