12/31/10
12/30/10
I just have to ask WHY sometimes....
So I have been working for days, and got the photos all backed up. And I have been clearing space on the desk top. So I figured it would start working BETTER. Instead it's NOT - to say it in as few words as possible.
Last night I was downloading the christmas day photos off my camera, and I thought I was being super careful, and I thought I double checked - then I deleted them off the camera. Well, something went wrong - the computer won't recognize about 50 photos. So now I have been spending several hours trying to recover what I deleted. I hate to be whiney, but why can't things just be simple? I don't feel good enough to deal with all these complications. UGH.
Last night I was downloading the christmas day photos off my camera, and I thought I was being super careful, and I thought I double checked - then I deleted them off the camera. Well, something went wrong - the computer won't recognize about 50 photos. So now I have been spending several hours trying to recover what I deleted. I hate to be whiney, but why can't things just be simple? I don't feel good enough to deal with all these complications. UGH.
12/29/10
just a few thoughts I had collected...
I am working on cleaning out the "MY Documents" on the computer and had several articles accumulated from several years. I saved them while searching for an answer to what I wanted Christmas to be in our home.
So to keep them and also share them, I am putting the quotes on here, so I can refer back to them later if I need a reminder.
Gifts
Advent/ What is Christmas
a list of Christmas Activities to Do
"While it's nice to find a thoughtful gift for that special someone, what they really want is you. The people that are most important in your life want your time and attention. They want your happiness."
"Whether you consider this time of year to be an important part of your faith or just a time of goodwill, rushing from store to store will take your mind from the real meaning of the season. You will be focused on things. Not on the relationships that are important to your life."
When angels came that holy night,
They did not visit kings;
A large and glorious army
Never heard them sing.
It was not in a palace
The angels came to earth—
But on a lonely hillside
They told of Jesus’s birth.
They appeared to humble shepherds
Tending their flocks by night
And told them of the Christ child
While the star shone so bright.
If we can be like shepherds,
Humble, pure, and mild,
We, too, can know the Savior,
Once the blessed Christ child.
So to keep them and also share them, I am putting the quotes on here, so I can refer back to them later if I need a reminder.
Gifts
Advent/ What is Christmas
a list of Christmas Activities to Do
"While it's nice to find a thoughtful gift for that special someone, what they really want is you. The people that are most important in your life want your time and attention. They want your happiness."
"Whether you consider this time of year to be an important part of your faith or just a time of goodwill, rushing from store to store will take your mind from the real meaning of the season. You will be focused on things. Not on the relationships that are important to your life."
When angels came that holy night,
They did not visit kings;
A large and glorious army
Never heard them sing.
It was not in a palace
The angels came to earth—
But on a lonely hillside
They told of Jesus’s birth.
They appeared to humble shepherds
Tending their flocks by night
And told them of the Christ child
While the star shone so bright.
If we can be like shepherds,
Humble, pure, and mild,
We, too, can know the Savior,
Once the blessed Christ child.
12/27/10
I will be back
I will be back to blog later on. I have LOTS of fun pictures from christmas day. The boys truely acted like "kids on christmas morning". So excited, so happy. It was wonderful.
(I just wish I could have rested a bit - next year, we are scheduling in NAP TIME!)
I have a little bit of computer file rearranging to do. I got all our photos backed up onto our external hard drive, and need to also add them to the lap top. Then we will be deleting them off our desktop, in order to free up some disc space, because our 5 year old, 250 GB, computer is FULL. And my photo taking really takes up ALOT of space. Maybe next year we will get ourselves a new computer, cuz this one has several disadvantages.
so as soon as I can get my photos moved, then I can put the christmas photos from the cameras on here and upload all the good ones here :) - maybe I should do a slideshow!! haven't done one of those in a while.
(I just wish I could have rested a bit - next year, we are scheduling in NAP TIME!)
I have a little bit of computer file rearranging to do. I got all our photos backed up onto our external hard drive, and need to also add them to the lap top. Then we will be deleting them off our desktop, in order to free up some disc space, because our 5 year old, 250 GB, computer is FULL. And my photo taking really takes up ALOT of space. Maybe next year we will get ourselves a new computer, cuz this one has several disadvantages.
so as soon as I can get my photos moved, then I can put the christmas photos from the cameras on here and upload all the good ones here :) - maybe I should do a slideshow!! haven't done one of those in a while.
12/24/10
it's christmas eve.
Merry Christmas everyone!
I have things I haven't blogged about, but tonight is not the night, so I guess I will do several more on sunday and get all caught up.
I am happy to say that even though I was sick for a while, and missed several of the Journal Your Christmas prompts, I have blogged 24 posts this month! I can't wait to turn several of these entries into scrapbook pages in my christmas 2010 album. I think I may have to take a hiatus in Jan to scrap instead of blog. I don't think we have much going on in Jan until Grayson's birthday at the end of the month, but if we do something exciting, I guess I can fill ya in.
We don't do santa.
I know I have explained this to everyone we associate with every year, but I still get surprized looks (gasp) when I say it, so I will explain again.
We skip santa because:
- Thomas is a bit different, and wouldn't understand it if we tried to explain it to him, so we just never started. Plus, I don't know why I would want to spend the time and effort convincing my kids that a lie is true.
- I want to focus our christmas celebrations around Christ's birth. I do this with the decorations I choose, and with the music we hear, and the activities we do. it's not just for the kids. it is for me too.
- kids are kinda scared of santa. why are parents so mean to put a poor screaming child on the stanger in the red suits lap, just for a picture, when they clearly are not comfortable with this plan?
we went to a "kindergarten round up" on Wed, and they had santa and mrs. claus handing out candy canes to the kids. Grayson was just sitting on my lap, and he was scared when he was all the way across the room. Thomas didn't even give him a second look.
- and one big reason is because I don't want the kids thinking they can ask for a rediculously expensive gift, and say "well, I will ask Santa for it". Like I said at the beginning of this journaling experience, I don't want christmas to be focused around the gifts - they are a cool part - and they are fun to give, but they can't be IT.
so there ya go. it's not a big deal. I hope you can understand and maybe even support us, instead of trying to convince us we have made a bad decision.
Merry Christmas (mas =more = More Christ)
I have things I haven't blogged about, but tonight is not the night, so I guess I will do several more on sunday and get all caught up.
I am happy to say that even though I was sick for a while, and missed several of the Journal Your Christmas prompts, I have blogged 24 posts this month! I can't wait to turn several of these entries into scrapbook pages in my christmas 2010 album. I think I may have to take a hiatus in Jan to scrap instead of blog. I don't think we have much going on in Jan until Grayson's birthday at the end of the month, but if we do something exciting, I guess I can fill ya in.
We don't do santa.
I know I have explained this to everyone we associate with every year, but I still get surprized looks (gasp) when I say it, so I will explain again.
We skip santa because:
- Thomas is a bit different, and wouldn't understand it if we tried to explain it to him, so we just never started. Plus, I don't know why I would want to spend the time and effort convincing my kids that a lie is true.
- I want to focus our christmas celebrations around Christ's birth. I do this with the decorations I choose, and with the music we hear, and the activities we do. it's not just for the kids. it is for me too.
- kids are kinda scared of santa. why are parents so mean to put a poor screaming child on the stanger in the red suits lap, just for a picture, when they clearly are not comfortable with this plan?
we went to a "kindergarten round up" on Wed, and they had santa and mrs. claus handing out candy canes to the kids. Grayson was just sitting on my lap, and he was scared when he was all the way across the room. Thomas didn't even give him a second look.
- and one big reason is because I don't want the kids thinking they can ask for a rediculously expensive gift, and say "well, I will ask Santa for it". Like I said at the beginning of this journaling experience, I don't want christmas to be focused around the gifts - they are a cool part - and they are fun to give, but they can't be IT.
so there ya go. it's not a big deal. I hope you can understand and maybe even support us, instead of trying to convince us we have made a bad decision.
Merry Christmas (mas =more = More Christ)
12/23/10
Crispy Treats
I saw these online and thought it would be fun to make them with the boys.
Well, ours didn't quite turn out, it wasn't quite as easy as it seemed, so I said "heck with that", and put them in a pan. But they were still tastey.
Thomas loved them.
But Grayson doesn't like his hands to be dirty, so he had some concerns. LOL. He kept picking the stuff up, and then getting mad. And both Thomas and I were laughing, so that made him even madder. But he was very upset with me, when I ran and got the camera, instead of cleaning off his hands (after he had stuck them in there for the third time).
So much for doing an activity to keep the kids happy. LOL
Tomorrow, the boys will get to help make pies. They really like helping mommy in the kitchen. :)
12/22/10
Christmas music
what are you favorite songs or albums?
I remember, as a kid, listening to christmas music on RECORDS. I am sure my parents cautioned us to be careful with them, cuz they were fragile, or could be scratched easily as we tried to reset the needle to play them over and over and over again.
I think I will have to go to Newton and raid my dads albums, just so I can record what the albums were that I used to listen to, and maybe I can find them on cd now.
I do remember one with the nutcracker music, and dancing all around our huge living room in Trier.
I don't remember having too many christmas albums on tapes, except for one German one that had the Kling, Glöckchen, klinglelingeling. I learned how to sing that song in one of my german classes, that is why it's special to me.
Most people get irritated when the radio station starts playing the holiday songs too early. But I LOVE it. Sometimes I can start listening around halloween ;)
I also love seeing the christmas stuff arrive in store early too - I know that is strange, but that is my perogitive. LOL
Since being married to Tyson, though, we wait until after Thanksgiving to start anything christmasy. Because he doesn't believe in "skipping holidays".
So the first music I can play around the house on Thanksgiving Day is an album by Liona Boyd - A guitar for Christmas. I don't know what it is about this album, but when I listen to it, I feel so peaceful and festive.
Another album that I could never live without at christmas time is the Carpenters - A Christmas collection.
all other stuff is secondary to these two albums. They are MY christmas music.
One other album I recommend is The Gibbons "come Let us Adore Him".
I used to sing in the choir when I was younger. That made every song even more meaningful. I don't sing anymore, because I lost my soprano singing voice several years ago, with a bad case of acid reflux. I can do alto sometimes, but I was never trained with it. And I can only really sing one octive now.
Anyway, several titles of songs I loved that you won't hear most anywhere were: Shine for me again/Star of Bethlehem, From Swaddling Wrap to Crimson Robe, Were you there on that Christmas night, Candlelight Carol and of course singing Silent Night in German (Stille Nacht).
I remember, as a kid, listening to christmas music on RECORDS. I am sure my parents cautioned us to be careful with them, cuz they were fragile, or could be scratched easily as we tried to reset the needle to play them over and over and over again.
I think I will have to go to Newton and raid my dads albums, just so I can record what the albums were that I used to listen to, and maybe I can find them on cd now.
I do remember one with the nutcracker music, and dancing all around our huge living room in Trier.
I don't remember having too many christmas albums on tapes, except for one German one that had the Kling, Glöckchen, klinglelingeling. I learned how to sing that song in one of my german classes, that is why it's special to me.
Most people get irritated when the radio station starts playing the holiday songs too early. But I LOVE it. Sometimes I can start listening around halloween ;)
I also love seeing the christmas stuff arrive in store early too - I know that is strange, but that is my perogitive. LOL
Since being married to Tyson, though, we wait until after Thanksgiving to start anything christmasy. Because he doesn't believe in "skipping holidays".
So the first music I can play around the house on Thanksgiving Day is an album by Liona Boyd - A guitar for Christmas. I don't know what it is about this album, but when I listen to it, I feel so peaceful and festive.
Another album that I could never live without at christmas time is the Carpenters - A Christmas collection.
all other stuff is secondary to these two albums. They are MY christmas music.
One other album I recommend is The Gibbons "come Let us Adore Him".
I used to sing in the choir when I was younger. That made every song even more meaningful. I don't sing anymore, because I lost my soprano singing voice several years ago, with a bad case of acid reflux. I can do alto sometimes, but I was never trained with it. And I can only really sing one octive now.
Anyway, several titles of songs I loved that you won't hear most anywhere were: Shine for me again/Star of Bethlehem, From Swaddling Wrap to Crimson Robe, Were you there on that Christmas night, Candlelight Carol and of course singing Silent Night in German (Stille Nacht).
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
