Sometimes Facebook can surprise you with memories you may have forgotten about. I must admit I am often surprised! The older I get, the more of the past I seem to have forgotten. Last night, well technically this morning about 2 a.m. I was looking at the memories from November 1st on Facebook, and in those beside all the ones about NaNoWriMo, (yes, I am torturing myself again this year) was a long forgotten "gem" from 2012! An old blog I had completely forgotten about! I wonder now how many other blogs are out there that I no longer remember doing? So for your entertainment (and mostly mine) I’m going to re-publish those old blog posts under this blog. I will edit them a bit, but I’ll leave them mostly the way I originally published them. So here is the first installment from what was:
"Nama TT’s Corner"
About the author:
My name is Toni, my grandson Willie calls me "nama" and my two granddaughters Charlie & Evie call me "grandma TT" I am rushing toward 60, live in the Heartland on a farm acreage and am now semi-retired. I write children’s books for a hobby and maybe one day will get to see them published.
Christmas Time is Near….
10-30-2012
Looking Forward to Christmas!! If you happen to follow me on Pinterest you will notice a trend lately – Christmas pins!! I LOVE Christmas and everything about it!! Here it is almost the end of October and while everyone else is plotting tomorrows plans for Trick or Treat night tomorrow – I am dreaming of a white Christmas! I am not a big fan of Halloween – no reason, it just always seemed like a lot of work to me! My poor kids only actually carved a pumpkin once that I can remember, and after that – it was paint a face on the pumpkin with magic markers!! Their costumes were always pretty lame too! Their dad’s plaid shirt, blue jeans = I’m a farmer! White sheet = ghost, black material and mask = I’m a ninja! Living in the Midwest (Iowa) it never fails to be crummy weather, cold, rainy, icy, or snow. I’ve been through it all with my kids. Seldom have I seen the end of October be a nice calm warm evening. The funny thing is, today all my kids love Halloween and go to great lengths to celebrate with fun costumes, carving pumpkins with their children, etc. I guess they didn’t suffer too much by my lack of enthusiasm. I don’t know if the fact that I was born in the winter – Jan 2nd – (if you want a bit of history factoid – first baby born in 1955 in Denison, IA (Crawford County). Yup, that was me! Same town Donna Reed was from – for those of you over 50!)
Anyway – I have always had a love affair with winter, snow and cold weather! The more it snows the happier I get! Although I will confess that now that I am racing headlong into 60 – the arthritis in my left knee is getting very annoying on cold damp days! So that is hampering my love affair with winter just a tad. But Christmas is the best of the best!! Christmas has always been a wonderful holiday to me and no I am never going to wish anyone "Happy Holidays!" – it is "Merry Christmas!!" – the birth of Christ Jesus. Own it, be proud of it, celebrate it!! If I know what holiday you celebrate then I will greet you appropriately, for me it’s Christmas, I mean no offense.
Christmas warms my heart – so I start thinking about it as soon as there is even a hint of cooler temperatures in the air. I have even been known to sing Christmas Carols all year long… This year for Christmas my kids are going to do all handmade gifts to each other. I think that is a wonderful idea! The economy has not been good for most of them, so in order to make Christmas less stressful and less about the money, they are going to paint, make, bake, re-purpose gifts this year! I want to make some gifts to give each "family" too – but am still searching for that right one.
Of course Santa will bring them all their gifts from the lists they create, can’t break all the traditions, but I want to do a little something extra. I won’t be able to tell you what crafts/things I come up with ahead of time, because that will take all the surprise out of it! But you can keep an eye on my "Christmas and Other Holidays" board* and you will see the ideas I am looking into! I will keep you up to date on my recipes and new ones I try from Pinterest. If you want to follow me or see my Pinterest boards*, I pasted in the link below. So for now, Merry Christmas everyone!! (* – note: no longer a public board)
End Notes:
I don’t remember what I made for each family, but I hope it was something nice – I want to say I baked each family a variety of Christmas cookies? My apologies to my children about the costumes. 🙂
Until next time….Toni