Last Friday before...

Christmas!  I can't believe it's the 20th.  Where has this month gone??

I had the grandkids decorate the kids tree last night - it was so much fun watching them discover the different ornaments.  They were standing on the arm of the couch to get them on the back side and I had to kabosh that one...  sigh.  But it was fun.  I sent my daughter (their mother0 over to supervise, and she was on her phone - so I was giving her grief about supposing to be watching them.  She said she couldn't watch them...it drove her crazy how they were putting things on, lol.  That's the reason I have a kids tree...  I don't worry how it looks!!

Can't believe it's Friday...although yesterday was Friday all day.  It was terrible...I had to keep reminding myself, no - it's Thursday...no - it's Thursday, lol.

Hopefully you have all sorts of fun things planned for the coming weeks - Christmas Day.  We are spending it with family, so it will be good.

There's just a couple of things to look at for today in case you aren't feeling like the norm...

Games Day -  play a game with your family! This was started in 1975 in England, so it's been going for a while.  Do you have a favorite board game or card game in your family?  We sure do.  We'll be playing a lot over the next two weeks...  :)


National Ugly Christmas Sweater Day - I tried finding out where this started...and it's kind of vague.  I thought it was connected with National Lampoons Christmas Vacation, but it's not.  Apparently 'ugly' sweaters were started in the 50's as kind of a commercialism to Christmas.  They weren't ugly...they were rather nice and tasteful.  They kind of waned a little, and then came back in full force after Bridget Jones Diary...apparently. 

Not sure why these are considered ugly, kind of silly - yes.  Whatever. I have no idea...and you can't always believe what you see on the internet, so there you go.  Personally I don't have an ugly sweater.  I love sweaters, but I'm usually tooooo hot when I wear them, so I don't buy them.  And...being a - um - large person, they aren't easy to come by and they aren't cheap.  So...  do you have an ugly sweater??  

on a side note... I see on one of my sources that today is National Fried Shrimp day, and on most others it's tomorrow - so since I won't be emailing anyone tomorrow, I want to make sure all of you know that important fact, as I don't like to pass up fried shrimp.  Or pretty much shrimp anything... lol

Well - hope you have a wonderful Christmas Season.  I'm hoping that we'll get caught up with all the things we want to do, and relax a little.  We'll be spending most of the break putting my daughters floor down and getting her moved back home - which is exciting and a little sad at the same time.  I hope they'll come visit often!!

so - want to end with some favorite movie clips.  First is While You Were Sleeping. 


I also love Last Holiday and how she discovers there's a whole nother world out there... (some of us will never see it! lol)


And last...you probably don't think of Lethal Weapon when you think of Christmas movies, and I agree it's not heavily associated, but it is.  (Kind of like Die Hard...but ya know - these aren't exactly kid friendly)  We watch both of them with filters, lol.  sigh.  Love the last scene of the first one....


And so - to leave on a little more religious note...  the best one of all.


Merry Christmas!