Ad Ode to.........

(to the tune of "Oh Christmas Tree)

Oh Chick-fil-A, Oh Chick-fil-A

how much we love to see you!

You are clean, and you are kind

you have a Christian state of mind

Oh Chick-fil-A, Oh Chick-fil-A

how much we love to see you!

Today your heat & air was broke

you offered free warm drinks to all the folk

Oh Chick-fil-A, Oh Chick-fil-A

how much we love to see you!

Your food is good

not like the clown's

the golden arches

make us frown

Oh Chick-fil-A, Oh Chick-fil A

how much we love to see you!

As if your food were not enough

you have handy wipes and sweet stuff
(butter mints)

we love to eat and play at your store

we will love Chick-fil-A forevermore

Oh Chick-fil-A, Oh Chick-fil-A

how much we love to see you!

(seriously.....it was kinda chilly in there today and they were offering warm free drinks to whomever might wish for one! The staff is ALWAYS so nice. I love the way they base their business on GOD and are closed on Sundays.....they are doing SOMETHING RIGHT!)

Christmas wishes 2009

Gracie in her Christmas frock the Sunday before Jesus' birthday
loving the lights on the tree.....

loving our new Elf on the Shelf, Elton

2009 has been a year of changes for us. The biggest change, of course, is taking on the joy of homeschooling. We both love it (at least at this point we do!) and are looking forward to our second semester in January.....Gracie has already completed all of her 2nd grade Language Arts, so we are going to work the rest of the semester on 3rd grade, cursive drills and creative writing. Gracie has done a beautiful job on her cursive and practices every day. We are on track with all of our subjects, most of them being a bit ahead. In January, Gracie will be starting something else new: Rhythmic Gymnastics. Now, the child LOVES her gymnastics and this is a combo of ballet and gymnastics....floor work with ribbons, rings, balls....it's quite beautiful and I think she will dive right in and be a pro in no time!!!!

When the new year arrives, I hope to be purging and organizing (I think this is my goal EVERY year!) and also I hope to start back up BLOGGING again.....I think I've come to a stand still because of 2 things: 1) Facebook and 2) backlog of blogs/posts to print into books! I need to save me a stash of "Blurb book" money and get these suckers PRINTED!!! That will be quite an expense, and along with that expense, I have some antique posters that I bought in China that I need to have framed.....sigh.....I guess another 7 years won't make much difference! hee hee

In January, I will turn the big 4-0! I'm less worried about turning 40 than I was turning 30! I'd really prefer to go out of town to celebrate, as I don't like "all eyes on me parties"! I'm not shy but I get embarassed about that kinda stuff! I'm not counting on a "birthday vaca" though. I feel like I should be about 22-23 years old. ha....very far from it!

We pray that 2010 will be a better year......economically, especially. The first decade of this century has taken some major blows, but here's to looking up with a positive attitude for the second decade!

Arts for Life finale!

Gigi & her drama teacher, Ms. Anna

Gigi and the owner of Arts for Life, Ms. Karen
(who was also a teacher for part of the semester)

Gigi and her Art Teacher, Ms. Stacy

(I think they coordinated their outfits! hee hee)

Gigi with her world cultures teacher, Ms. Roseanne

The kiddos surprise ending of their performance.....I lucked up that I got a photo of the confetti flying, 'cause I had no clue!

Arts for Life ended it's 5 year run last night. We made some special friends in our short time there....that makes it worth every second. Gigi is going to get back into gymnastics, and is excited that she is going into a "specialty" of Rhythmic Gymnastics.

Be looking for her training for the Olympics soon......;)