Monthly Archives:December 2010

Bobbie fell asleep during the rosary again. Well, not really asleep. Her eyes were open and she was still kneeling upright. She groggily looked around at the others. Her classmates were staring at her, mouths open wide and eyes wider.

It wouldn’t have been so bad, but she was leading the devotions and the rest of the class had been following her lead.

She looked down at the beads trying to make sense of where she had left off. Sighing, she crossed herself – started over. In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
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This is in response to Velvet Verbosity’s 100 Word Challenge. This week’s prompt is Spirit.

Hope that you all had a delightful Christmas – full of family, fun, and food. (All things in moderation, of course)

We spent Christmas eve with youngest daughter and family. She is recovering from shoulder surgery and her adopted teen daughter made pizza for everyone – yummo! Thanks, Ms. F.

Hubbymoose had to work from 11 p.m. Christmas Eve until 10 a.m. Christmas Day, so he and I left the festivities a bit earlier than others so he could get in a few more hours of zzzzzs before heading in.

As you can imagine, he was beat when he got home Christmas mornings. After breakfast he headed off to bed while I puttered around quietly readying the evening meal for older daughter and her brood.

Presents were exchanged – and much love was put into the items given. We are blessed beyond words with our loved ones.

The highlight of Christmas each year is the requisite “Amazing Shrinking Gramma” pictures. All but the very youngest are not taller than I – or very close to being taller than I. Next year? I think all but the two youngest will be “towering” above me. Enjoy:

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first of all – scuse the hat hair. I live in Alaska, you know. 🙂

Left to right in the first picture: D-Bug, me, TAT, with K-Bug and Bugget in front of us. Now, D-Bug LOOKS like he is taller than I am here – but he still has about 1/2 an inch – and, yes, I WILL take that half, thank you very much.

In the second picture – that humongo person next to me? My first-born grand”baby” boy, McDonster! And, yes, he IS that much taller than I. On the other side are his sisters, the Pup and Riah. Yes, Riah is taller also – with the Pup closely behind.




These two pictures just REALLY show how much shrinkage there is in me in Alaska’s cold. (Props if you know the show to which I am referring). McDonster palmed my head while his mama shot this one. He can hold his arm out straight and I just about fit under it – sigh.

Then he asked me to fake swing at him – that’s a swing and a miss, Gramma. LOL Funny man that one, funny man.

The people of Quinhagak, Alaska . . . awesome! Thanks for sharing. 🙂

Merry Christmas, friends!

What you do speaks louder than anything you say.

Proper young ladies ALWAYS sit with their knees together!

When I was a girl a proper young lady would NEVER be seen without her gloves.

Children should be seen and not heard.

Grandma Abbott bustled about making tea. All the while she muttered to herself and then looked over her shoulder to make sure I was listening to every word.

I was, of course, but it was an act. Inside I was a rebel. Inside, I was the BAD girl mamas warned their baby boys about. On the outside I obeyed.


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This is in response to Velvet Verbosity’s 100 Word challenge: ACT.

p.s. hubby laughed when I read this to him and reminded me that there was NO bad girl in me – the nuns (and Grandma Abbott) buried it so far down inside that he has not been able to get her out in the 45 years he’s known me. He says that like it’s a bad thing – haha