Merry Christmas!

Yep, its a little early, but I thought I better post this before I got too busy.
Tonight DD is in a play at church and tom'w. is full of cleaning, laundry, packing and grocery shopping for oldest DS who has to stay behind....we leave for Ohio bright and early Friday morning through Jan. 1st.

I wanted to wish you all a VERY Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

DD's Worship dance

Last Sunday our church had its Christmas contata...sorry this is terrible video...but you can at least see what a good job these girls did. Led by the Pastor's wife...our DD is the girl 4th from the right. The ribbons they used were pretty gold, red and silver. I would show you the other video, but they look like *ghostly angels*!

BPS...Gift of Words

Thanks, Andrea, for the post to ask how this class went....

I really enjoy BPS classes...I decided to use my $5 coupon I received in an email from them on this class taught by Amy Sorensen called a "Gift of Words". It was only a two week class, which is all I could handle at this Christmas time.
I had already written our Christmas letter for this year, but the reason I took the class was to stretch my mind and to think and write better to those closest to me. Amy's class was about writing word gifts on how to go about that. She gave us "prompts" to help encourage the word gift we needed to share. I was encouraged by her class though, to share now with my family and not wait for a tragedy to strike when it will be too late for those family and friends who are close to me to know what they mean to me.

If you want to check out Am's blog...she has some wonderful writing prompts to get those thoughts flowing... Amy's blog

DS asked his boss...

...BUT the answer was "no". At least he asked...which is all I wanted him to do.
But, I wonder if he had asked a month ago...maybe he would have been given the time off??

I got to get use to the idea that our kids are growing up and can't always do what I want them to do. I am going to miss him at Christmas though!

Just signed up for a class at BPS...

Big Picture Scrapbooking, called "The Gift of Words" by Amy Sorensen...hoping it will springboard the Christmas letter I have yet to write!

Our oldest DS...his school and work

...he is an employee of UPS(hired last March) that was promoted to a supervisor position. Am I proud of him, YES! But at the same time I see how much he has to work(night shift) and he also is a FT student finishing up his second year at AACC. His father and I want him to get his diploma and DS wants to work so he can pay for his own school. I am proud that he is taking on this responsibility and is doing both.

So, why am I posting this...well, its like this: every year we go to Ohio to vacation at Christmas time. We have done this since our oldest DS was 8 weeks old! Except for a couple of Christmas we couldn't make it due to a DD being born and another time when the in-laws weren't going to be there and my mom told us she didn't need us to come home just for her.

We told DS over a month ago to settle up and get the time off for Christmas.
Its almost time to go to Ohio and DS hasn't asked his boss for the time off, yet. He says he knows he can't get the time off, that all UPS employees have to work the whole month of December. Well, I want my family together at Christmas time...I just want him to ask his boss. If the boss says no, then fine...but I want him to ask. I understand he maybe afraid to ask...whats the boss going to say "No"? Well, so be it, then at least, I know he tried to get it off.

We don't want him to spend Christmas by himself..and if he ends up staying here, has he thought about how much we will worry over him?? Is he getting enough to eat, rest, keeping busy with the right stuff...? We don't want him to be alone.
...and all I ask is for him to ask his boss.