kitty's claws

For more than just a few reasons i have had a rough couple of months. i am not going to whine or complain or ask for sympathy.

i am instead going to thank the many people in my life who have been there for be regardless of my ever changing mood.

my family tends to hover and worry and sometimes i tend to overreact to their helpful suggestions. i am reminded time and again that they are only trying to help and that they do what they do because they love me.

my friends too have been patient with me. i didn't mean to break our plans or to ruin our weekends because sometimes pain happens. They have kept me smiling and making me remember that i am still the same girl who threw up at Wonderland and fell asleep on the car ride home.

my boy has seen me at my best and worst and remarkably, he still loves me. He doesn't care that i complain or that i whine or that i want His sympathy, he gives me everything. He means the world to me.

In order to appreciate how good i feel today, i need to thank those who helped me get here. There are many people people who deserve to know i appreciate them, including my doctors, the nurses, my boss, the girls in the office, and the very kind people at CKA ... you know who you are.



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and lets not forget the good food and wine too

Welcome to the Christmas edition of getting to know your friends.
Okay, here's what you're supposed to do, and try not to be a SCROOGE!!!
Just copy this and paste it into a new email that you can send. Change all the answers so that they apply to you.

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags?
Gift Wrapping… it’s an art
2. Real tree or Artificial?
Both, I have already decorated 3 trees this year and I still have 2 more to do
3. When do you put up the tree?
Second weekend in December
4. When do you take the tree down?
After January 6
5. Do you like egg nog?
Yes please
6. Favorite gift received as a child?
Roller skates
7. Do you have a nativity scene?
Quite a few … this year we put up the large one
8. Hardest person to buy for?
My sister Nancy, she has everything
9. Easiest person to buy for?
me, i know what i like and i end up buying my own gifts
10. Mail or email Christmas cards?
Both
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received?
Re-gifted Group of Seven print … I bought it for him in the first place
12. Favorite Christmas movie?
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas?
A couple of weeks before
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present?
yes
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas?
Walnut stuffed wine soaked figs with honey
16. Clear lights or colored on the tree?
Both for different trees
17. Fav...

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I spent a wonderful night with an even more wonderful man. Pyjamas, socks and hot chocolate with marshmallows… these are the makings of a perfect evening. We cuddled together and talked and told stories about Christmas past. We laughed at some of the crazy things we both have done and smiled at the shared memories of similar experiences.

He asked me about my favourite Christmas present and immediately i thought about my crazy ceramic Christmas Shop that looked like it came right out of Whoville. It’s whimsical and funny with the sign that reads “gift wrap” with a cute little pig. i was not sure why i cried when i thought about it but i did.

i told him about all the trees that i would decorate at Christmas and how much i used to love laying under the tree when it was all done. The room would be dark except for the Christmas tree lights and the Christmas music would play and everything was right in the world… in my world anyways.

Every year, ever since i was a little girl, i bought special Christmas ornaments for my mom and dad and for all my sisters. All their trees show a little token of my love for them throughout the years. When my dad died, my mom gave me all the “dad” ornaments. i put them on my tree and smiled when i saw them mixed in with all of my trimmings. Last year my nephew gave me all of the “sister” ornaments that i gave to his mom so that i could add them to my tree of happy memories.

i did not put up my tree last year. My mom was still too sad and Christmas was just not quite the same. i bought her an ornament anyways. It was a beautiful angel with “Mother” written across the ribbon in her hands. She asked me to save the ornament and to give it to her when she felt a little happier. i understood what she meant so i left it on my dresser in the pretty box that it came in waiting for just that right day. That day never came and my mom passed away and that pretty angel in that pretty box is still on my dresser.

i am still not sure if i w...

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