Everyone is home for the holidays!  Christmas will be spent with my family and New Year's will be spent with Mike's family coming in town.  We are truely blessed this holiday season.

May all of you have a very Blessed Christmas and a Happy New Year! 

Today was the last day of preschool until the new year.  As much as I love teaching, I'm looking forward to the break!  Today all the teachers went out to lunch at Franco's.  It's located in Soulard, next to the market in the old Welch's Baby Furniture Factory.  The food was outstanding!  It just so happens that I'm going there Thursday night with friends before the Fox Theatre.  I'm going to see White Christmas.  I'm looking forward to the show because the movie is one of my favorite Christmas movie.  I cry every time the general walks in the room and sees all the guys who came to support him.  Gets me every time!

The November Card Class was my last card class at FKS.  I loved teaching the classes and I loved the ladies who took the classes.  After much thought I came to this decision for several reasons.  My son is finally healthy enough to play baseball and I want to be able to travel and watch him play Wed. games and weekend games. He is in his 4th year of college and the opportunity to watch him is coming to an end soon and I don't want to miss it.  The other reason is my trip to France comes at a time when I should be holding Easter and Mother's Day card classes.  For the next 6-7 months my plate is overflowing.  I have always been a person who, if I can't give a 110% to a project or job, I won't commit to it.  I am aware in these hard economic times, that you spend your hard earned money to take classes at FKS and I feel honored you choose to take mine.  I also want to publicly thank Timi and Nancy N. for giving me the opportunity to teach at FKS.

For right now, I'm enjoying teaching preschool, taking time to decorate my home for Christmas and making my own Christmas Cards.  I am going to keep my blog going and I will display my projects and activites in my life. I would like to teach again but for right now this is the best decision for myself and my family.

I'm So Excited...I Just Can't Hide It...

Does anyone remember that song?  I got an email today that has sent me over the moon!  I placed an order with Coture Cardstock and recieved my order.  The email they sent tells me that I was randomly choosen to get my paper order FREE!  They took the cost off my charge!  I can't believe it.  Does anyone else get excited over free stuff?  Back to decorating...

P.S.  I will take pictures this weekend and post early next week.  I redid the front of our home this year and I must say it looks mar-vel-ous!!

Copic Marker Paper That Doesn't Bleed Thru...

I had a second and thought I'd share a product that Sally Lynn has endorsed.  Check out her blog.  It's called One Sheet Wonder.  The paper has been developed to use with Copic Markers.  It DOESN'T BLEED THROUGH TO THE OTHER SIDE!  Think of the possibilities!  Since we spend alot of money on our markers why not use great paper!  It's pretty reasonable, too.  The website is http://www.coturecardstock.com/  . They also have a new paper for blending called Detail Blending Paper.  I've ordered mine.  Let me know what you think of it.

We took Greg back to school last night.  No mono...yeah!  He is doing better and he hasn't had a fever for over 24 hours. Yeah, Yeah!!!!  Playing catch-up today.  Got the Christmas decorations out of storage and got all the trees assembled.  Tomorrow is the Thanksgiving feast at school.  The children are so darn cute with their Pilgrim hats!  I might not be blogging the rest of the week so have a safe and very Happy Thanksgiving!

Today I was suppose to go to FKS for a class with Debbie Schuh.  Well, plans changed pretty quickly at my home.  Mke went down Friday night and picked up Greg from SEMO. He's not been feeling good the last couple days but got really bad Friday.  He was too sick to drive home.  Soooo... Saturday he was worse than Friday so, I spent Sat. afternoon at the Urgent Care Center. Greg was tested for flu, negative. Yeah!  Tested for strep, negative but could still be strep because he's been on antibiotics for 24 hours.  And got a blood test for mono.   We should hear the results tomorrow.  All he's been doing is sleeping and studying. I'm giving him some mother's TLC and doing laundry. Mike brought all of his bedding and towels home at my suggestion.  I'm hoping he can go back Monday to finish out his last 2 days before Thanksgiving break.

Tonight I went to a surprise birthday party for my Great Aunt Gladys.  She turned 85 today!  I hope I have a mind like her as I age.  She is an amazing woman and looked like Doris Day with dark hair when she was young.  She has been (my dad's side) the keeper of the family history.  She was overwhelmed by all the people and said how blessed she is for such a wonderful family.  In truth, I'm the one who has been blessed having someone like Aunt Gladys in my life.  She is an amazing person!