tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45492087139657926142024-03-13T23:21:46.780-07:00Colorful Conjectures of a Crafty MomAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06851088602433102641noreply@blogger.comBlogger175125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4549208713965792614.post-85644713563895245682013-10-16T23:55:00.000-07:002013-10-16T23:55:19.309-07:00Steroids<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has been over a year since I had to take steroids in any form other than IV. Last week I stared a new regime for my chemo. I have spent months feeling like I was just treading water...not actively battling the cancer...just holding up my arms keeping it at bay. This new regime is me actively battling that cancer. I am back on the front lone treatment so I am back on oral steroids. Day before, day of, and day after treatment...I get to take 8mg of dexamethasone 2x a day. Let me just say I HATE steroids. They upset my stomach....I've been told that they can't upset my stomach...because I am taking them to control nausea...but the steroids stop the crappy stomach feeling goes with it. They also make me hungry as hell. I mean constantly eating for 3 days hungry. Funny thing is...I feel good to be back on the front line. This way when my daughter asks if I'm terminal...and I have to say yes...I can ad that I doing EVERYTHING I can do to kick cancers ass! When she sets a goal for me to still be around to see her first baby graduate from kindergarten, I can tell her that I will do my best and mean it. I may have to feel crummy because I the drugs...I may have to feel crummy because of the steroids...I may gain in fat the 40 pounds of fluid I have managed to get rid of because of the eating...but I am actively fighting.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's all...I'm back..and I'm fighting,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To the moon and back,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06851088602433102641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4549208713965792614.post-45676278826324611962013-08-21T10:19:00.000-07:002013-08-21T10:26:08.136-07:00Long Time no Type!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It turns out having chemo only once a month makes my life so much better. I actually have energy. I get out of bed. I can breath easier. I can be an effective mother who is actually on the clue bus. The last one is the most valuable to me. It feels somewhat foreign to be able to weigh in with a decent opinion when our teen gets a little rowdy. I'll be honest I do still get cross more quickly than before. I'm working on that. It isn't her fault that chemo still makes me extra tired in the afternoons. It isn't her fault that she doesn't talk as fast as I do (or as fast as her Mimi does)...so I need to practice listening to stories told slowly. I need not to get exasperated if she starts telling a story in the middle of my favorite show (isn't that why there is a pause button). So there it is...new chemo has lifted my quality of life to a place I have not seen in a very long time. Oh I forgot to tell you....the chemo is Doxil...I was terrified of this drug for over 2 years. If i was given a choice Doxil was always on the list and I ALWAYS chose something else. I started this drug...I had one treatment (it did nothing...but allow my CA-125 to go up)...I had the second treatment (it started to work...like I said above... energy ... breathing ... mothering ... it all got a little bit better), so Doxil isn't all that bad...actually it is a little bit amazing. So with my CA dropping...I am off to Austin this weekend.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To the and back my lovelies,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">love </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">that </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">my lips match the hat.</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">I think this could be perfect!</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">you try saying no to those eyes.</span></td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06851088602433102641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4549208713965792614.post-52081937755088099432013-05-31T10:57:00.000-07:002013-05-31T10:57:13.022-07:00Happy Birthday to Me<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yup...I made it another year. I thought I was turning 36...but my parents let me know that I am actually turning 37. I swear the year of Taxotere and Carboplatin I lost time. I have been a year behind for my last 2 birthdays. No matter...I am turning 37...and that feels good. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tonight I will be enjoying the company of my family and friends in the only way I know how...surrounded by rainbows. I have tried to pinpoint when my love affair with rainbows began. I collected stickers as a child and I was always so so happy when I would get a new rainbow sticker. I liked them even better than the scratch and sniff stickers I got for having a fit free allergy shot (I didn't have very many scratch and sniff stickers.) </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seeing a rainbow in the sky makes me giddy and the few times I have been lucky enough to see a double rainbow I thought I might pass out on the spot...it's a good thing I did't pass out because I saw one of my double rainbows while driving. I love making rainbow cakes where the icing is plain old white but the cake inside is all the colors of the rainbow. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If I take the time to organize anything...I organize in rainbow order (nail polish, clothes in my closet, colored pencils, stuffed animals, etc.) </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Bug insisted I get a pillow pet. She was convinced my life cold not possibly be complete without a pillow pet. So for about a year I told her the only pillow pet I wanted was the moose. The moose had been discontinued, so it was a good way for me to get out of getting a pillow pet without hurting "The Bug's" feelings. Then we were walking through the mall and there it was the only pillow pet that could ever hope to trump moose...rainbow...tie dye...unicorn. I mean really...it is like the pillow pet people opened up my brain and took three of my favorite things and mashed them together. so now I have that pillow pet and if I get scared she makes it a little better. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also love how many of my friends are also enamored with all things rainbow. I guess we rainbow folks tend to seek each other out. At least 2 of my closest friends have the same OCD tendencies as I do when it comes to the rainbow. There is an order to a rainbow in the sky...so there should be an order to all other rainbow things. If I find something rainbow hued but the colors are in the wrond order or there is a color missing I keep on walking. It seems silly, but his name is ROY G. BIV. Not YOG R. VIB or any other silly variation. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So there you have it...one of the many quirks I have picked up along the way during my 37 on this planet. Hopefully I will have another 37 to pick up many many more odd little things that make me unique.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My great news is that the chemo that I am on (Doxil) is working. The ascites is GONE and my belly is flat, my digestion has improved so significantly that I can eat normal quantities and no longer do I randomly puke when I had planned on doing something entirely different with my time. When treatment works in this dramatic way, it is nothing short of a miracle. Three months ago I was so debilitated that I had difficulty with basic daily routines. In contrast, I am in fantastic shape. It is hard to express what it is to be "going down" and then miraculously bob back up to the surface. It's the ultimate in second chances and for anyone who has ever had one of these experiences, whether it was physical, emotional or spiritual, you remember. It goes without saying that my gratitude for this drug is immense.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But before you lift Doxil up on your shoulders and sing what a jolly good fellow he is, let me tell you that at my IV League support group meeting yesterday, we nicknamed Doxil "The Asshole Drug". It is by far the roughest chemo I have ever been on. Two weeks after my last treatment, I developed burns on my thighs that made it painful to sit, stand, walk, or sleep. Once the burns started, they became increasingly severe each day. It was as if I had the worst sunburn ever and then doused myself in suntan oil to return to the beach every single day for another two weeks. I used every numbing spray, every lotion and potion from aloe vera to silver sulfadiazine to lanolin to urea cream. (Don't ask me whose urine it was. I don't know!) The only effective treatment has been icepacks and time. My friend who is also on Doxil gets burns on her palms and the soles of her feet that are so severe that she is bedridden for six days out of the four week cycle. She describes the feeling as "walking on glass". We swap war stories and we both feel incredibly lucky to have someone to compare notes with. There is tremendous power in not feeling alone. This I have learned.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So in spite of my declaration that Doxil is the asshole of the chemo world, it is like an aggressive sales person who you wouldn't want to hang out with, but is undeniably successful. Had I never had symptoms of cancer perhaps I would say, "To hell with it! I'm not putting this poison in my body!" But I have been near the bottom and I know what that looks like now, so I will stay with the asshole because the payoff is golden. The guy knows how to get things done. And yet we must be cautious to balance between dangerous side effects and effective treatment. To die of a skin infection would just be outrageous so we tread delicately and observe closely.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And now the balancing really begins: With Dr. Kampe as my co-pilot, we will try our best to reintroduce the drug before the cancer starts causing symptoms but after good healing has happened for my skin. We will try to give enough of a dose so as to be effective but not so much as to cause side effects that can be potentially life threatening. We will do our best to observe whether this is acting like a toxicity issue or more of an allergy. We will follow the science and we will follow our intuition, all the while understanding the need to be open and flexible, as my body gives us information on which direction to go.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The whole world is a very narrow bridge and the most important thing is to not fear at all." I'm not sure if truer words have ever been uttered.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See so eloquently explained. in the comments on this note it was also decided that our chemo regime is a tad like a marriage. Maybe an abusive marriage that at times all I wish is to escape, but a marriage none the less. And as said in the comments this one is definitely a "til death do us part" type marriage...no divorce as an option...unless death is the goal. I have often wanted to give some sort of insight into how it feel to battle this disease and I think this does that for me. So read and enjoy...I will post something original soon...I swear.</span></div>
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I got out more this week than normal on a chemo week. My chemo is behaving in a rather odd manner. I had my treatment on Tuesday and had the typical steroid stomach, but then nothing. I actually felt as close to normal as I had in weeks, so I decided to take advantage. Around Thursday night I had to have a bit of a slow down, because I started to feel fluey...tight joints painful muscles...chills...hot flashes the whole bit....but never any fever. This seems to be par for late in the cycle Abraxane, but with my chair and a pushy aunt I was still able to have a great week! So here they are...I hope you enjoy the photos as much as I enjoyed taking them!<br />
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Tuesday: Another treatment day...another day for me to spend being silly to pass the time. I cannot figure out why people are not snatching up these hair hats...I mean really you can choose any hat an be any hair color you choose! I also wore my dayglo NOCC walk shoes. Whenever I wear these shoes at least one person comments on them.<br />
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Wednesday: I think I might have a slightly unhealthy obsession to gnomes. This is my orange gnome hiding in my new mint growth. <br />
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Thursday: Throwback Thursday...this is throwing it back to 2006...my precious angel's first year at camp. This was the only year she rode the bus, because I was a nervous wreck wating to hear if they had mad it safely to camp. Of course sweet Rosie stayed with me while the Bug had a big time at camp.<br />
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Friday: I had my very first accupuncure appointment. I was a little bit nervous...but it was so relaxing and did help with my back pain. I don't mean that I am cured or anyhing...but I can walk around a little bit more than I could beofre...and that is freaking amazing...all done with these tiny pins. <br />
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Saturday: My aunt picked me up and took me to see my Aunt and Uncle's tent in this litle pop up market. In my opinion they had some of the most amazing stuff to sell...but some of the other booths were alright. I got this lovely dragonfly for one of my new flowerbeds. The pictures doesn't relly do the insiect justice. It is amazing when the sun hits it just right it lights up like a prism with all the colors of the rainbow. Then I took some shots in the King's Whimsy tent. My Aunt and Uncle are so talemtned and I love looking at all the new ways they have found to create amazing works of art The rainbow cable braid wins it for me!<br />
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Sunday: I cheated and used a Saturday picture...but I didn't edit it ntil Sunday. I was so ired and by this day my chemo pains had totally gotten the upper hand. So I had to dig through some other pics from this week...it is onlu one extra day old...oh weell...it has to be o.k. this project is ultimately for mr so I can fudge a little on the ruls. Anyhoo...this is a pic of the color coded books at Brewed...arent's they lovely?<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06851088602433102641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4549208713965792614.post-21122462699194831972013-04-08T10:12:00.003-07:002013-04-08T10:13:25.150-07:00March 25-31 Week in Review<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="goog_1190390050"></span><span id="goog_1190390051"></span>This week was so much fun. I didn't have chemo...my sweet babies were in town for Easter...and I got to spend two fabulous days with both sides of my family! I love getting to hear about things that happened as they were growing up. Easily the most interesting story was about when my dad was home alone and had fallen asleep on the couch when a group of people broke into the house and milled about. He said they left without taking anything...he was alone...on the couch (with no blanket)...and someone broke into his house!!!!! I can't even count the number of times I would lay paralyzed under the covers thinking there were definitely people in my house (I was never right)...and all this time my dad had braved people ACTUALLY being in his house...EEK! Oh well that is a tad off subject. Here are the pics from Easter weekend.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06851088602433102641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4549208713965792614.post-41097674938004068792013-04-02T13:00:00.000-07:002013-04-02T13:00:53.165-07:00Week in Review: March 18-24<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Sorry...I missed a week...but I didn't miss taking pictures. This was Spring Break for The Bug, and even though I would have to have chemo I wanted to do something fun with her. We took a mini vacay to Dallas, and visited the Arboretum. I think I might need to have a post devoted to that trip, because the flowers looked amazing...they had over 500,000 tulips! Oh well onto this week in review!</div>
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Monday - Here is a selfie I took at the Arboretum. I was sitting on some really cold concrete, but I didn't care I was right in front of an amazing bed of tulips and daffodils. Let me just say...having a bald head on a windy day a person really should wear a hat with ear flaps. I had to borrow a scarf and wrap it around my head then top it off with my favorite hat. After doing this I could have spent another 6 hours tiptoeing through the tulips!</div>
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Tuesday - This was just another infusion day. I think you guys might be exposed to several pics of the shoes I choose to wear to chemo. This was an uneventful day...I showed up...sat in my recliner... received my drugs...and went home. I had one the nurse that supervised my first chemo with my port. She is very thorough...while being hilarious as well. It is always nice to have a sweet, funny or talkative nurse. It makes the infusion process go so much quicker. Wow for a simple infusion day I had lots to say!<br />
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Wednesday - My Mom finished this puzzle...and she had been working on it for a WHILE! She was very excited when she completed the puzzle so I thought it could be part of my Project 365. Also I love the puzzle...the colors were amazing, and I am a huge fan of ribbon candy. I also left the glasses on top of the puzzle, because my mom has glasses everywhere. There are at least 2 pair in the kitchen...3 or 4 in the living room. One pair next to each computer...2 in the car...one in her purse...you get the idea. It just tickles me...no matter where I go in the house I am sure to find a pair of reading glasses. Once my small print vision goes I will be covered in reading glasses...at least 20 different pair!</div>
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Thursday - I love Throwback Thursday. This was just one short year ago. I was taking a pill form of my chemo and we took a road trip to St. Louis. This pic tickles me because my mom is planking in a turtle mouth. I also love this one because my sweet daughter is looking especially sweet in the turtle's head. Best part we stumbled upon this turtle park because the line to go to the zoo was IN-SANE!!! We headed to the zoo early the next day...but I wouldn't trade our time at Turtle Park for anything!</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sunday we headed to Dallas for a visit. I love the Dallas skyline. It is so unique and since I have spent every Thanksgiving in Dallas...since forever...once I catch a glimpse of "Buddy Ball" I know we are close to our final destination. We spent Sunday night in Dallas so we could head out to The Arboretum...bright and early...but those pics will be part of next weeks review!</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06851088602433102641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4549208713965792614.post-90081232796581165682013-03-04T14:27:00.000-08:002013-03-04T14:27:06.951-08:00Week in Review<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am doing something with my pictures this year. I am trying to take a picture each day that sums up the day. It is called Project 365, and so far I have not missed a day. I thought I might post my weeks photos here for all to see. I don't have lots to say...chemo...cancer wise so I thought this would be a way to keep this blog active. I also have some crafty things in the works and will share those here also. Sorry I haven't been around...I just haven't had much to say!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This might turn into a venting type blog....yeah...I feel very venty. I am super excited that my meds are working...let me just start there. Without success in the chemo department I would be getting to enjoy weekly thoracenteses, and climbing CA-125s. So I am very thankful for successful chemo...however...my head looks like a pubescent teens face. This happened with other chemos, but I at least had a covering on my scalp so no one could see it. It was painful and hard to resolve, but only I knew that the head zits existed. Now I am bald...and instead of having a lovely round bald head...I have a slightly less lovely bald head covered in huge painful pimples. </span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06851088602433102641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4549208713965792614.post-58810978690290905652013-02-21T11:27:00.000-08:002013-02-21T11:27:28.826-08:00Well Hello<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been gone for a bit...and I am sorry for that. My little family unit is working into the new schedule with my new chemo schedule. I am on a new treatment that is on for three weeks nad then I get a week off. It is a little rigorous and I seem to use the week off to rest up for the three weeks on...but it is bringing my numbers down and that is a GREAT thing. All the chemos give me lots of time to find new cool blogs to read...so I wanted to share some of my new faves with you. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This lady is adorable and I am totally jealous of her hair. I love her vintage style and she loves color almost as much as I do. She is also doing Project 365...so I enjoy seeing what she chooses to photograph each day!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am breathing so much better. The thoracentesis they did last week took 1.5 liters of fluid out of my left lung. I still need oxygen sometimes, but not all the time. I'll take any improvement I can get where breathing is concerned. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So for now...my lungs are able to inflate almost like a normal person's lungs. My CA-125 is coming down. My hair started to come out in clumps so I am sporting my naked noggin. I have a halo of baby soft skin and stubble on top. Things are good!</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06851088602433102641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4549208713965792614.post-48960078804913275022012-12-23T12:36:00.000-08:002012-12-23T12:36:40.558-08:00Warming the Heart - Journal Your Christmas<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is time to take a minute and think about the spirit of this season. How many times has something happened this season that caused my heart to grow a few sizes? It would be so easy for my heart to shrink to the size of the Grinch's. If i focus to long and too hard on my cancer or chemo path it is easy...so easy to lose sight of all the other good working in my life. So this is the post I will devote to looking for the good. Finding the ways christmas spirit has worked its way into my days. </span><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am having trouble with my back and my breathing so I use a wheelchair to get around on longer outings. My mom and I were trying to get into Dillards...the store has double doors with no automation for the handicapped. Each time (on the way in and on the way out) somebody was nice enough to hold the door for us. </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Usually the family spend time closed up in our rooms doing whatever we want. This month we had some time together. It might have been a simple chinese dinner spent together at the kitchen table...or an episode of something we all like to watch. Whatever it was we were together enjoying each others company!</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An afternoon spent with my aunt decorating my house for the season. She didn't have to help, but she did. Sometimes I have a hard time motivating myself, and she took time to motivate me into making my house happy.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My dad also spent his afternoon decorating. He put my aluminum tree together and hung all my 12 days of christmas ornaments on it. He helped wrap my big tree with a strand of colored lights and the garland that I love. I'm not sure what I would have done without my two little elves. Actually I do know and I makes me a little sad...I would have hung the stockings and maybe decorated the tree. I don't have to be sad...because my dad knows what this holiday means to me and he would never let it go undecorated!</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I get to live with my parents...feels weird to type that. People are usually happy to get away from their parents...that sounds really harsh...I was happy to be independent and create my own home. Then I got sick...I needed help...my parents moved into my home...they left everything behind...my dad added a 2 and a half hour drive to work...when he could get to work in about 15 minutes...my mom gave up a job she loved...no second thoughts...no bitter feelings. If I do express any guilt about them leaving these things behind...they simply say...we are family...that's what family does.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My puppy warms my heart daily...but today she was a little bit underfoot for the decorating process. The highlight for me was when she found my felted ball garland. To her it just looked like lots of little balls ripe for the taking...and take she did. Shortly after the taking came the dropping and then the rasping so that she could get the felt fibers out of her mouth. She finally settled on a large helping of water to wash them down. Maybe in a few days she will make a colorful present in the back yard! </span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06851088602433102641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4549208713965792614.post-43792164669743953752012-12-23T12:21:00.000-08:002012-12-23T12:27:46.719-08:00Stockings Are Hung - Journal Your Christmas 2012<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For years my stocking was hung on the mantle at my parent's house. IT was understood that no matter what, our Christmas mornings would be spent with them. I had apartments along the way, but none of them had a proper mantle for hanging a stocking. I think I had one Christmas where I confiscated my stocking and had my own Christmas morning. The Bug was one year old and we had a little house that had a little mantle. I carefully hung the stocking that had been made for me as a "birth"day present...and created stockings for The Bug and the Bug's daddy. I covered the mantle with garland and lights...even some ornaments...because we did not have a tree. I was an odd, but very grown up feeling to wake up in my own home and watch The Bug pull all her little treasures from her stocking, and then put the stocking on her head. That feeling and family unit only lasted the one Christmas...and then it was back to dear old Mom and Dad's. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After that is was several years before I had the opportunity to hang my stocking in my own home. The Bug and I moved out of my parent's house, but it still made sense to have Christmas morning with them. My house had no mantle...my brother and his fiance had a place to sleep at the parentals home...so The Bug and I waited patiently for a time when we would have our own place to hang our stockings with care. During the time we stayed with my parents my mom made a stocking for The Bug. It was very similar to the style of my Mom and Dad's stockings. So her original Eeyore stocking made its way to storage. I missed that stocking the first couple of Christmases it was out of use. It was one of the Bug's first Christmas presents...I think I even bought it before she was born. It was time for change and that way my stocking could match my brother's and The Bug could match my Mom and Dad. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally about three years ago we moved to Fort Worth. We moved into a house complete with fireplace and mantle. My mom was happy to hand over our stockings and again I took great pride in hanging them over our fireplace. Our first year in this house I realized without my parents to fill my stocking...and without a husband to do the honors...I would totally have to fill it myself. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My mom offered an idea that Christmas I was on my own..."Sweetie why don't you just tell Robin Santa doesn't fill a grown up's stocking." To that I replied..."Mom...The Bug has watched you and PawPaw empty your stockings...lovingly filled by Santa. Now all of a sudden her Mom doesn't deserve the same treatment?" </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I left the comfort of my home on Christmas Eve and found little trinkets to fill my stocking. I must say...it was kind of fun picking out my own stocking gifts. After that first year I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and my Mom moved into my house. Yipee someone to fill my stocking...i guess I did miss the surprise of what might be in there. So no matter what...even if I have to go back to filling my own stocking at some point...stockings are a must in my house on Christmas morning!</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06851088602433102641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4549208713965792614.post-25348289611365228402012-12-23T11:28:00.000-08:002012-12-23T11:28:09.887-08:00Hippopotamus - Journal Your Christmas 2012<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At a time when every store in the retail universe stats in with Silent Night...oh sometime around Halloween...it is easy to get burned out on the typical Christmas songs. I think that's why my favorite carol is a bit left of center. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had never heard this amazing song until my daughters 7th birthday. This was the second year she invited friends to the house to decorate our tree...and then head out for some christmas light love. For this birthday I had heard of a house that synced its light show to popular Christmas carols and even took over a radio station so the people could admire the show without catching cold. We arrived at the house...actually arrived about 2 blocks from the house and somewhat patiently waited our turn. I mean I did have ten 7 year old girls in the car...they are not usually the picture of patience. My song came on the radio before we made it to the house. It sounded like a little girl belting out a song about a Hippo. Yes that's right a Hippo. SHe wanted a hippopotamus for Christmas...and went through an entire set of instructions for how Santa could make her dream come true. It was an adorable...catchy...carol...that I had NEVER heard before. The girls were also enamored with this ditty. By the time we made it to the house we had heard the song at least 3 times. So when the house started to light up along with the tune we were able to sing right along. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I mean the house danced to Silent Night...Jingle Bell Rock...there was even some little song about not eating yellow snow....but I was in love with a Hippo. "Mom says a Hippo will eat me up but then, teacher says a Hippo is a vegetarian." I mean come on...even better after the party The Bg and I spent some time searching the internet for the story behind the carol. Turns out a little girl wrote the song, because their zoo was without Hippo. She thought she woudl write this song as a little fundraiser to help purchase a hippo for their zoo. Awwww...I just looked up what zoo got the hippo...and I am a little bit sad. Gayla Peevey recorded the song first and then a promoter heard the song and decided launch a campaign to give the ten year old Peevey a hippo. She got her hippo and donated it to the Ponca City Zoo...the hippo's name was Matilda. Nuts...I have spent the last seven years loving the endearing story behind this carol...now I find out that the story is bunk.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh well I still love the song... a local zoo still got a hippo because of the song. I think I might try to forget the promoter part, and just believe Gayla wanted a hippo so bad she wrote a song about it. Anyway...at least my favorite carol isn't one that has made it to the popular muzak reel the spins through all store during the holidays. So there you have it...my favorite Christmas carol is about a hippo and how easy it would be for Santa to deliver on Christmas morning. If you haven't heard it it is a must listen!</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06851088602433102641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4549208713965792614.post-70707542866796748462012-12-20T19:17:00.003-08:002012-12-20T19:18:26.152-08:00That One Special Gift - Journal Your Christmas<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This year has been a rough one. My counts have bounced up and down like a yo-yo...taking my emotions with them. I wanted to make something special for everyone in my family, but as the months slipped by I fell back on purchased gifts. Even those have taken longer than I wanted to purchase. Last year was a good year. I made the perfect gift and was there to watch my Bug open it. I had talked for at least a couple of years about making a T-shirt quilt for the Bug. We collect T-shirts everywhere we go and because she keeps growing she was sure to grow out of some of them. I made a trip to the local JoAnn's and picked up some basic quilting supplies. I think I have said before that I am not worth much behind a sewing machine. I can sew in a straight line and now I can make a few curves....but that's it. It was important to me for the Bug to have something to snuggle up under...a tangible memory of our most treasured vacations. The Bug spent a week with her Dad so that gave me plenty of time to cut each shirt and lay them out so that the colors looked nice together. I had time to sit in from of the sewing machine and stitch all the squares together into one huge square. Then in modern day quilting bee style I enlisted the help of my aunt and my mom to stitch the top to the bottom. We used some of my favorite buttons and stitched the corner of every other square. It was lovely to sit together...look at all the shirts...tell stories about the trips...laugh at nothing in particular. It was a good day. Then the quilt was finished and boxed up in the largest box I could find. Once I had it wrapped and under the tree I got nervous. I thought will she care as much about these shirts as I do...will she even want this gift? I had to wait. Christmas morning she opened the biggest box first...and she was excited. Really and truly excited about the gift. I made it, and she will have it forever. Right now it sits on the back of a chair in her room...she cover up with it when she doesn't feel like unmaking her bed. so for now that is the special gift I planned for and gave to a loved one! What about you guys?</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06851088602433102641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4549208713965792614.post-24536230399088266592012-12-20T18:34:00.001-08:002012-12-20T18:34:53.286-08:00Deck the Walls - Journal Your Christmas<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am saving the tree for another post. I mean all the different ornaments...lights...and garlands...can be a blog all on their own. I want to talk about everything else. I started collecting Christmas decorations long before I had a house to decorate. The very first thing I bought came from an estate sale. It is a small ceramic christmas tree...ya know the ones that have little peg lights and a bulb inside to make them glow. I might not have given this one another thought...it was missing all its lights...and like I said it was small...it was also royal blue. I have seen my fair share of these trees and I have never seen one in blue...never before and never since. So this little lone tree started my collection. That is really all it takes. One item...and a desire to find more so you can create a family. Now with the help of another one of my aunts I have about 15 trees...all different sizes...all different colors (O.K. mostly green)...even different shaped lights. Some have their original base some have a base made loving by my dad. They take over my hearth every season and in the evening when the timer clicks and the trees light up...there is a place in my heart that lights up too! I collect other types of trees also. I have a few stuffed fabric trees...some trees meant to display any special ornaments you might want to show off...I even have a Charlie Brown tree (complete with one ornament). I also have the trees I made for myself. I have a set made of pushpins...and then I have the ribbon trees that were the subject of a tutorial last year. That's all for now...see you tomorrow!</span><br />
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The Chesapeake building in close to downtown Fort Worth and they have put on an unbelievably light show for the last two years. This ear they scaled back a bit, but it was still amazing! I am very anti covering a tree with lights...unless the person commits 100%. I mean the trunk and the branches even the little branches all the way up. Chesapeake gets it so right. Every branch is dripping in color...all the way down to the trunk...I can't even imagine how many strands are used on each tree. This year all the ginormous trees got their lights...but they took away my favorite piece of the lighting. They have a sidewalk that winds down to the larger trees and that walk is bordered on both sides with pine trees. Red, pink, green, blue, purple, white...maybe even orange. They were breathtaking. I look forward to the trip to see these trees...this year...wasn't a let down...but sort of it was. At least the lights on top of the building are still the same. The top fades from green to red and back again. the top is also sort of arrow shaped...so it is like Chesapeake has a huge lighted sign guiding the way to their trees. I hope next year we get the sidewalk trees back!<br />
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Another place that gets a yearly visit from my unique little family is our church. One Saturday in Decamber...they open their doors...provide a preassembled house...and all the necesarry goodies to make the perfect gingerbread house. When living in Beaumont, we made due, and made the houses ourselves. We never had the preassembled goodness we found at the church. We had to cover our hands in sticky, icky, frosting...cross our fingers and hope when we let go the house with remain standing. If it was a lazy holiday season we might buy a gingerbread Christmas tree. Incredibley simple...but the completed effect was always beautiful. No matter what, the church is hands down the perfect place to decorate a house big enough for a tiny fairy. Without the drain for figuring out how to make the stupid pieces hold together...there is time to create something very fancy. The Bug, Mimi and I all had our own houses so even within our family we chose very different directions for our decoration. The room also smelled amazing. They had cider and cocoa to drink and all the premade houses still made the room smell very gingerbready!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06851088602433102641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4549208713965792614.post-25545397745822849432012-12-14T04:19:00.003-08:002012-12-14T04:19:37.088-08:00Christmas Past - Journal Your Christmas 2012<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I remember the Christmas of my youth fondly, but I cannot put my finger on one year where everything shifted. I still think our family celebration is fun...some years it is a tad smaller than others, but that is alright. I guess that big extended family Christmas has changed, but not one big drastic change from one year to the next. It was tiny, little shifts each year...until one day I turned around and was like "WOW!" that is different.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For most of my youth, I celebrated with my family in Beaumont. We looked at our Santa gift...if it was small it came with us in the car. If it was a big present...like a bike...we got to ride it up and down the street a couple of times...then it was time to load up in the station wagon and head to Granny and Paw Paw's house. We would have just enough time to get cleaned up and family started arriving. My Granny would have her tree up in the living room...a ham warming in the oven...and a plate of sweet and dill pickles, and olives for snacking. The first change wasnt' a huge deal. Well to me it wasn't a huge deal. Instead of putting up the typical tree...7.5 feet...artificial...branches that needed fluffing...Granny chose to drape a table in a Christmas tablecloth and place her lovely ceramic tree in the center. We piled our gifts for family around the table and didn't ask any questions. Looking back...remembering that tiny tree surrounded by an avalanche of gifts...it did look silly (sorry Granny)...but it did. I know she was doing the best she could do...and this started when my grandfather began to need extra care. I'm sure with everything she had going on in her day to day life....getting the tree out of the attic and putting it up for us to enjoy for one day...was just a ridiculous waste of her precious time.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next change was humongous. Every year my Aunt Sissy hosts Thanksgiving...and my Granny hosted Christmas and Easter. I wish I could remember the year...but well over 15 years ago...Christmas moved to my Aunt Maa's house. Dunh...Dunh...Dunh!!!! I think the tiny tree facilitated the conversation about changing tradition. Everything else stayed the same for a few years. The food was the same. The people were the same. We were just in a different house.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As the years drifted by other things started to change. Both of my grandparents have passed away, so for a while I was just waiting for our big extended family Christmas to disintegrate. I saw my grandparents as the glue that was holding our family together. Turns out we hold ourselves together pretty well. Things did change...we started having tamales AND ham...now sometimes we just have tamales. Nothing says Merry Christmas like a piping hot spicy tamale. Well I guess I shouldn't be too shocked, she does have a sombrero on top of her tree. Then as cousins married we started the rotation of Thanksgiving this year, Christmas the next. No problem as long as I get to see some people at each holiday I am good to go. I am lucky...never getting married means I get to celebrate both holidays with my family every year. The majority of my cousins are one one year and my brother and his family are on the other. So one year is a smallish Christmas...and the next my aunt's house is bursting at the seams. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The final change happened last year. My aunt felt bad asking children to leave toys that were barely unwrapped to come to her house for Christmas...so last year she moved our celebration to the day after Christmas. That way everyone can have their own small immediate family Christmases. The children can enjoy their gifts...once the parents untwist every twist-tie holding the toy SECURELY in place. I'm not sure what changes the future will bring, but even though our Christmas may look a little different...all the love is still present and that is all that really matters.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06851088602433102641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4549208713965792614.post-7042699326764447052012-12-12T14:56:00.004-08:002012-12-12T14:56:44.574-08:00My Merry Mentor - Journal Your Christmas 2012<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I did not have to look far to find my mentor. She is hands down the fullest of Christmas cheer. She rejoices in decorating each room of her house...starting the day after Thanksgiving. She lovingly places all 96 nativity sets in their specific place (she probably as more sets now...but that was the last count)...changes out linens...and finally places the tree under the Christmas Sombrero that acts as a place holder for her amazing tree throughout the non holiday days. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I come from a family that loves Christmas and had the obligatory lights around the roof...tree decorated and in the window. We had other decorations around the house, but it was still our house dressed up for the holidays. It was great and considering the fact that my mom had to do it all on her own without much help once my brother and I hit our teens...it was perfect. It just was not the same as Christmas at my aunt's house. Every room was completely transformed into a winter wonderland. Beds had new coverings...sometimes new curtains too. Bathrooms had new towel sets and new pictures decked out in holiday frames. I mean everywhere I turned the holiday was displayed. It isn't just her house it is her entire person. She carries Christmas cheer in her pockets and doles it out whenever needed. She knows I love the holidays and I love to have my house decked out...I mean I have 4 different Christmas trees. Since I was diagnosed with cancer and have been having chemo on a very regular basis...I am wiped out most of the time. Last year she went to storage...dug out some of my Christmas boxes...brought them to my house and decorated my living room for me. It was a half speed Christmas for me, but I appreciated that she did that for me. Just seeing my decorations loving placed around the main living area lifted my spirits on the regular. I need my spirits lifted more often than I would like to admit, and the sight of my "Charlie Brown Village...complete with tree" just does something special for me.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She is also the person I go to if I want permission to spend money on more holiday cheer. One year I went to the "cattle barns"...a local flea market type place....and I found a 6 foot tinsel tree complete with light. The man wanted $100, and at the time I just could not see spending that money. It was an amazing tree...absolutely beautiful. I went to visit my aunt later that day and we talked about the tree. In a matter of minutes she had me convinced that the tree had to be mine. We drove over the next morning...I offered the man $75 and left with the tree. It was amazing...and every year when I take each branch out of the box and put it in place I am reminded of my Holiday mentor. To banish bad cheer or the bah-humbug spirit that may take up residence in my cluttered subconscious...I remember my Maa...and I might even sing a verse or two of "Must be Santa." For now that is all I need...my growing collection of holiday goodness..."Must be Santa"...a house nearby that is dripping with holiday cheer in every nook and cranny...and my Maa. Thank you Maa for being all I need to make my spirit bright!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06851088602433102641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4549208713965792614.post-87690742756062245722012-12-11T18:03:00.000-08:002012-12-11T18:03:29.998-08:00Sensory Overload - Journal You Christmas 2012<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This time of year is unlike any other for me. I mean no matter where you look sights of the season smack you in the face...christmas carols can be heard in almost any store or elevator...Starbucks starts using their special christmas cups and their beverages have that special holiday aroma...you can feel the chill in the air, and the wind starts to have a little bite to it...it is even O.K. to indulge every so often in the sweet treats people inevitably bring in to the workplace. This time of year as each of my senses cry uncle I find myself begging for more. More sights, smells, sounds, tastes and touches. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will take a detour in the twilight hours to see what types of decorations my neighbors have out. I will tell the Bug to put on her pajamas, grab a cup of cocoa and meet me in the car. We will drive up and down all the streets in our neighborhood looking for the most festive...the tackiest...the most colorful...the house with the most inflatable decorations (7 is the max so far), and just let the pure delight of each twinkling light wash over us.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christmas is the time to give all the people you love an extra squeeze. Go ahead and buy that toy that makes LOTS of noise...and give it to your favorite niece or nephew...when else is it acceptable to drive family member bonkers. Remember how it feels to get real hugs...to be completely enveloped in a loved ones arms...those kind of hugs can warm you from the inside out. When you wrap up in your favorite coat and scarf...but then remember that the wool of the scarf is almost too scratchy to bear...wear it anyway because it reminds you of the christmas you received it as a gift from a treasured friend. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Make the cookie that take hours to chill. Roll out the dough...preheat the oven...revel in the fact that for the rest of the day the house will smell like the finest bakery in town. Mix batch upon batch of colorful icing to decorate each cookie for Santa. Use some of the icing to build a gingerbread house. Take the time to hold each piece in place even if it means the house ends up a tad lopsided. Take a trip to Bath and Body Works and spend the money on the candle that just screams holiday cheer. Actually burn the candle...instead of saving it for a special occasion. Make some random regular day a special occasion. Fill the house with all different kinds of smells. Cinnamon will always remind me of the holidays, because my mom would buy the cinnamon scented pinecones and put them all over the house. The Macintosh scented candles are another scent memory I will carry with me forever. The mixture of sweet apples and the cinnamon of the pinecones would blend together in my mind to create the perfect scent of the season.</span><br />
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