Hey Janice,

I’m so glad you got the heat back on in your apartment! I’m sure you were much more comfortable last night. Our temperatures actually went up a couple degrees overnight, but the top of my car was still a little icy this morning. A tractor trailer jackknifed on the highway yesterday afternoon because of that ugly mixture we had. What a difference a day makes. Today the sun is shining bright and it’s around 37 degrees. The sun will melt the ice patches I saw this morning. I hate ice!

Hey Gang,

I have a link to share with you and everyone should check it out this holiday season. Those with kids or grandkids will especially want to check out the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s web site because they let you know about all kinds of recalls, especially dangerous toys. They have a “most wanted” list and all the items are for children, whether it’s a toy or a crib.

Here’s the link: http://www.cpsc.gov/

I hope you all checked out my link from yesterday with all kinds of holiday safety and nutrition information. The community relations department at the health system did a great job of posting information on various safety topics and stress reduction tips. I provided information on food safety and healthy holiday eating. Make sure you check it out since Thanksgiving and Christmas can be a challenge!

Have a great day everyone.

Margie

Hey Gang,

I forgot to mention something in my last post that just got sucked into the spam filter. I think it was Guillaume on another thread who mentioned the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. I’ve never been there in person but it’s a tradition that every year my parents and I watch that on TV. I don’t think we’ll be going to my brother’s place until the middle of the afternoon so I think we’ll be able to watch the whole parade. It’s definitely a tradition and I always love seeing the Rockettes! I love the balloons, too. Watching it on TV is nice because it’s nice and warm inside and you don’t have to battle large crowds. I like that!

Margie

Hey Janice…

Glad your heat is back on..

Rain is gone here..and the sun is shining..but the wind is cold and snappy…local forecaster say a high of 60 for Turkey Day…

I’ll be having Thanksgiving dinner at my daughter’s…3 of us share the cooking, which is a welcome change..because for years I cooked every morsel myself…It’s much more enjoyable now, that I have some energy left to eat…

I’ll have Fox on as usual, and I will definitely check in on the blog.

Have a great day
Deb

Good morning fellow bloggers!

I usually go to the Macys parade when I’m up in NYC. I have also went to see the Christmas show at Radio City Music Hall a few times. This year, I will also be working on Thanksgiving so I have a hockey game on Weds night (Caps vs Atlanta) and Fri night (Caps vs Montreal) while the family is at the Grandparents. I will get my Turkey later

Last week-end was the 145th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address so we went up and watched the re-enactors parade and saw the speech given by a pretty good Lincoln which we do every year. Did a bit of the Battlefield tour and thought of Gwen when we passed the Mississippi monument. I took some pics which I’ll download for Janice to put in. Just about every State and Territory are represented there. We go up twice a year for work as we volunteer to clean and upkeep the grounds like the Adopt-a-highway program. It’s quite a feeling to stand where Pickets charge began, look to where you would have had to get to (under heavy fire), and wonder how they did it.

Hey Janice,

The weather has changed a little bit. We have been under a downslope regime for the past few days. This brings us increased temps and high winds through the glacial valley’s. We have been in the mid to upper 30’s around the Anchorage Bowl. So with the increase in temps that means a lot of melting and a lot of dirty headlights and windshields. But it looks like today and tonight we should get a total of 3-4″ of new snow.

Allison is doing great. She has started to really grab onto things and she is started to respond with little squeals and yells when we talk to her. Its the greatest thing ever.

(Just got back from the grocery store…hopefully this time I have everything I need)

VERY overcast with dark dark dreary clouds…but mild in temp…(upper 40s…)

Blues has given me that look she really would like a firelog…But nope….not with it being like this…She is just gonna have to be patient and wait…

(Guillaume…you are going to enjoy watching AN tonight….Bill and Megyn were having a LOT of fun bantering back and forth…They had me in stitches over the “Megyn tries to lower her credit card rates” role play…LOL….)

You know which FNC contributed I have come to really appreciate?…..Dave Ramsey…very calm with a boatload of common sense…..clear in what he says a out day to day and family economics…reminds me of my mother….

Hey David…just wait until she says “Dada” for the first time. My husband just melted. Elizabeth now has him wrapped around her little pinkie (just like her brother, especially when she said “Bubba”). She also says “Mama”. The scary thing is that she’s only 6 months old. She also sits pretty well and will stand up if you help her, then she’ll hold on for a few minutes. This is her new crib trick. I’m in big trouble with her. She’s doing stuff earlier and faster than either of her brothers. (And she’s very pretty, so we’re going to have to make sure to have weaponry and ammo when she’s a teenager to keep those boys away.)

Margie, can you email me the link you were talking about? I wasn’t able to get on yesterday. My address is jen_brownlee_97@yahoo.com. I need all of the stress reduction I can get these days.

I-45 needs to be good from north of Houston all the way up to Dallas and we’ll be good for Thursday. The afternoon and evening will be spent watching football. Cowgirls in the afternoon, Aggies that night (on ESPN so that everyone can watch us get clobbered by the hated teasippers). If you do watch the game, hopefully they’ll at least show snippets of the Aggie Band. They do amazing stuff. My husband was in there, and both boys have already decided to follow in Daddy’s footsteps.

Hey Jennifer,

Don’t feel too bad–the Cowgirls did win their game last weekend! At least the Redskins won their game because they had lost a couple in a row and I was getting rather bummed out.

I’d post my stress reduction link again for everyone except that it got sucked up in the spam filter yesterday so I don’t want that to happen again. I don’t even remember what thread I posted that on. I was on a roll for a while with links going through but the last two got sucked up. Oh well, that’s life.

Margie

Yeah, I think I got sucked into the vortex as well when I tried to post one earlier. I watched most of the Cowgirls game. It was nice to beat the 49ers. Reminded me of the days of late high school/early college when the road to the Super Bowl went through either Dallas, San Fran, or Green Bay. In fact, I’ll never forget the NFC Championship game in January of ‘93. That day, I got my acceptance letter from A&M. (Little did I know at the time that I’d meet my husband there.) Now the 1-15 season was REALLY painful. That was 8th or 9th grade I think. (It’s been a while.)

Now A&M is the one that I worry about this week. We have to play tu (Texas). We hate them. They hate us. Luckily, we are on a 2 year winning streak against them. I hope we make it 3. If not, at least I can have a beverage or 2.

Time to glue some stuff together to make Scooter’s lapbook for literature. The boy can’t stand to do arts and crafts type stuff, so I compromise and do the cutting and pasting, he does the research. That and get Kyle to finish his math. He’s working on column addition with carrying. (2nd day on it, and he gets it with no problem. Tomorrow we move on.)

Glad my Seahawks were there for you Margie! The Skins better start playing whole games though or they may be done! I was bummed out…….oh well….I’m ok now!

Thanks for the great links you send to us!

Oh I remember those days well. My two favorite teams were the Bears and whichever one of those teams were going to beat Green Bay. That was my first go around in college. Great times. I still look forward to those games in Detroit and Dallas always thought they were so cool because not only would you get a game always wondered how Thanksgiving Dinner was done there especially since the Cowboy game never gets done till 6 or 7 at night

Don, I think we play your Seahawks on Thursday. I hope they are as generous with us as they were with Margie’s Redskins.

I remember ‘Da Bears back in ‘85. I was just a baby back then (not really, but). Jim McMahon, the Fridge, and the Superbowl Shuffle. Ditka. The SNL skit was absolute greatness. I hope I can find it on the SNL site to let my kids see it. They know about some of that stuff, even though we don’t let them watch it regularly. (The only skit they have seen is the one from ‘92 ish that makes fun of Bubba jogging to McD’s for his egg mcmuffin and his policy on Somalia.)

Glad to hear your heat was on JD. 3 inchs aprox. of snow fell today. Could make nice snowballs.

Don, I think we play your Seahawks on Thursday. I hope they are as generous with us as they were with Margie’s Redskins

A hunch and thats all I will call it for now till I do my picks tomorrow night in lieu of the Thanksgiving games (usually do them on Friday) Titans should run the Lions to 0-12 although Lions have a bad habit of playing like world beaters on Thanksgiving (the Detroit Super Bowl) Cowboys over Seahawks we’ll throw that third game in as a wild guess Cards over Eagles