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Annual Family Holiday Party

We had a very nice, calm night Celebrating the Season together like we do each year. It was great to simply be together...















...well...

most of the time.

HO! HO! HO!

Favorite Things

I LOVE to Tease! It's one of my favorite things to do. So, here it goes:

I have a little bag
that holds a tiny box
in which lies a gift...

...for a certain graduate.

Any guesses who that could be? Whoever it is, she LOVES a Surprise as much as I Love to Tease. :)

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You Are All Invited!

We don't care how far away you are...PARTY WITH US!!!

I have an idea for those of you who won't be able to make it to THE CHILD'S RESIDENCE for the Annual Family Christmas - and this year Graduation - PARTY. If you want to share in the festivities with us, have your own celebration at your own place. Take lots of pictures and post them on your blogs. At our party we are going to EAT, PLAY the White Elephant Gift Exchange game, SING Happy Birthday to Lauren, Ashley, Cari, Natalie (and all other December Brithday people - but you have to let us know who you are if I didn't name you already), TAKE lots of PICTURES, LAUGH, and especially SING "For She's A Jolly Good Graduate" to a Certain Someone.

If you want to join in the Celebration with us, Please Do! How Fun to visit all the blogs to see how everyone celebrated! Wish You Could All Be Here With Us.

Cameron's Perception

A few days ago, Cameron went with me to run errands. As we drove from place to place, we chatted about this and that. Eventually the conversation came around to me asking him what he wanted for Christmas. While he was quietly thinking, I stole the opportunity to tease him - as I usually do - and said something to effect of, "Now, I know you really want a Barbie, but you need to tell me which one you'd like." Since he is used to my teasing, he simply rolled his eyes and said, "Mom, that's not funny." He then proceeded to tell me what he wanted for Christmas.

It didn't sit well with me that my teasing didn't get a better reaction from him; so I thought I would tell him something - a Shocking, but True, story -that would get more than an eye roll out of him. I told him that when I was growing up, my dad would not let any of us girls have Barbie dolls.

Well, that story gave me what I was looking for. With lifted eyebrows and a look of disbelief, he asked, "What? Why not?!" I said, because Barbie was too "Bossomy". His "Aw, Mo-O-om!" was the bonus reaction I was not counting on, but delighted in anyway. I was about to tell him that Grandpa Pederson also didn't like us watching the TV shows "I Dream of Genie"

or, "Bewitched"

but decided that I would save that information for another day of errand running with him. Hey, a mom's got to have something to look forward to!

As Cameron was contemplating this new information about what it must have been like when I was a child - you know, "Back Then" - he giggled to himself and then said, "You know how Judy likes to make those funny Christmas cards with other peoples bodies but with her head? Well, that's the only way I can imagine her as a little girl."

This time it was my turn to give him a reaction by throwing my head back and laughing from the bottom of my belly. Judy HAS always been able to leave an impression on people!

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