A little post for my cabin girlfriends :)

Here's a pic of Chloe crawling inside of the bag from gramma and papa...

and pics when Chloe and Lex found the Monster High stuff that sweet Mary sent for them :) They loved all of the wonderful things she sent for them!

After they finished with the presents inside of the bags....we told them there was another surprise and had them close their eyes and walk into the dining area with their eyes closed for the "big reveal"...Sarah caught this pic of the look on their faces when they opened their eyes...

and their excitement and laughter filled up the room...and made me so happy that they loved it so much!

as long as we believe in magic....
it just might keep happening every now and then.
That's all I know at this point :)
peace ya'll

Chloe Girl my little Christmas angel baking helper

Chloe came over bright and early this morning and was so eager to get some baking and making done....I cracked up and smiled so many times throughout the day with her eagerness to help and also her impatience to get-er-done.
When she told me that she needed an apron because I always wear one when I am cooking special things...I went out into the closet --found a small one---and tied it on her LOL!
Really gave me flash backs to the days I spent with Mamaw helping her with the Holiday baking...
Chloe kept chiming in how much she loved me and it was such a wonderful day...
then we got some family news that was not so happy.... but being with Chloe....just kind of got me right through it....and when she told me that she loves me bigger than 3 universes that haven't even happened yet----
that just about made my day :) and I knew that any bad news....
in the future we would ever receive-we can always know we are so lucky to have what is right in front of us and this would also make us so happy to realize how blessed we are to have so many good loving things right here in our life each and every day---
this little munchkin told me about 50 times today how much she loves me...and I guess I trumped her on that one :D

The White elephant society....

Dear sweet Mary sent me a box of her Monster High Fabulous goodies to share with the grand babies this Christmas....
https://www.etsy.com/shop/CuteWeirdFluffy


my white elephant gift came in a bag that was labeled "For Stress"...and inside.....

chocolates....
she always tells me that a glass of red wine and some dark chocolate is a winner winner for good health.
Thank you Mary.....
good friends like you and all the smiles we have shared have surely in itself added to my longevity.
Cheers to the
White elephant gang!
xoxo

9 days till Christmas doings

Hubby was rained out at work today so we got to spend some more quality time together :=)
We went out to the cemetery this morning & left some flowers .
His parents---Momma Jo and Warren..... hard to believe it has been almost 7 years since they passed...

And my Momma Linda Darlene.....still seems like yesterday when I was chatting up a storm with her and confiding everything about my day and listening about hers...I will say that this is the first time I haven't left that place blubbering with tears...I don't think missing our parents has gotten any easier......it just seems more real at this point

After that we went and did a little Christmas shopping and I have to say that people didn't seem quite as stressed or frantic this year.............and of course having my silly hubby around who compliments my own cray-cray and helps to always remind me that every day vertical is a good one.....

why else would today have not been another good one?

sending out positive thoughts and hugs to everyone out there who is missing their loved ones this Holiday Season. It's hard not having them here..and yet the wonderful thing is that we were blessed to have been a part of their lives in the first place.

Peace ya'll. 

Upcycled kids play wardrobe closet from old TV Stand

Haven't been doing much painting lately with the wet weather and all but almost finished this project today and got a couple of pics before the rain comes in again. 
Sarah had sent me a link from Pinterest awhile back with a chest of drawers that had been turned into a kids play wardrobe closet and asked if I could do something similar for the girls for Christmas..
hubby and I found this old TV stand at a thrift store recently for $19.....

So after a bit of pink and purple chalk paint..some gold glaze and a bit of glitter...some paper and fabric decoupage and some watercolors and sharpies...
I think it's coming along pretty well...

Now all that's left is for Gamma to fill it up with the rest of the goodies....
my friend Mary has this awesome shop called
CuteWeirdFluffy
she recently sent me some Monster High stuff for the girls that I am going to add in some baskets---so I plan on making this a place for the girls to do some doll make-overs as well :) I think they'll be pleased with it.

gheez just had a flash back from days gone by when the older bro decided to give me a makeover and suddenly turned into some sort of Vidal Sassoon wannabe  and he cut off a bunch of my curls on one side of my poor little head Hah!
Momma wasn't too pleased with that no-sir-ee
hee-hee.
Hope ya'll are having a stress free holiday season so far....
W-o-W
only 10 more days till Christmas and then onto a New Year. 
cheers to dat!

Photo bomber Bill Dance Jr.

There's a reason round our house we always feel like somebody's watching....
Bill Dance Jr..keeping an eye on things
always LOL!