Thankful Thursday

Today I am thankful for:

• Warm sweaters.  This cool weather is getting to me already!
  
• Hot tea. It warms me up and I don't know what I would do without it sometimes!
• Free weekends!  We have been busy all summer and finally have a chance to stay home and relax!
• Payday.  Today is payday and I love it!
• Grey's tonight!
• October.  It's the beginning of fall or apparently winter and also reminds me of just how close the holidays are!
• Family.  I can never forget to be thankful for them!
• Plans.  I love making plans with the hubby and we have some big plans in store over the next year or 2! :-)

What are you thankful for??

Kayla's Christmas List

I've seen a few bloggers do Christmas lists.  I thought to myself, "what a great idea!" What a better way to let the hubs know just exactly what's on my list this year! :-)

My parets also wanted a list, so I'm sorta killing two birds with one stone with this post.

Old Navy:

I found this cute cardigan that would go with a lot of outfits!

I'm slightly obsessed with Sweater Coats and want this fun one!

 And this one!

And lastly, this one.

This fleece hoodie would be great to wear in the winter to workout or to work.

How cute is this Ruffled hoodie!! 

New York and Company

I love New York and company's pants, they are comfy and inexpensive!  Chek out these babies! 

and these

On to shoes:

I need some comfortable shoes for work and I can never find any! Someone blogged about these and I'm so sorry, but I cannot for the life of me remember who!  Please tell me and I will give you credit!

Anyway, I think these look so comfortable and would look cute with work pants or jeans.

I would like a massage, but I can't get you a picture of that.  The lady's name I go to is Martha Noah (hint hint) here in the town that I live....

Target:

I would like something like this  it doesn't have to be the exact one, but I want it to hold our GPS and it's charger in it.

This book:  Something Blue

 

That's about it for now, I'm sure I'll come up with more later and do a 2nd Christmas list.  I also want a nice camera, but I haven't decided on which one yet.  I'll let you know when the time gets closer! :-)  What do you want for Christmas?  It's sneaking up and will be here before you know it!!!

Blogger help

So, I'm wanting to do a signature thing at the bottom of my blog like so many of you fantastic way ahead of me seasoned bloggers have!  Any tips on how to create one and put it in my blog to appear for every post??

The help would be greatly apprechieated!  Thanks! :-)

The Today Show

Did anyone watch the Today show this morning?  I have two questions for you all.....

What did you think of Rush Limbaugh? 

&

What do you think of The Dugger Family? They were on today, but I couldn't find the link to The Today Show for them....


Please, if you're going to leave comments, make sure to respect everyone's views.  I'm not saying anyone is right here, I'm just curious to hear what people have to say... I will give my opinion after you all tell me yours.

Edit:  I have to be to work at 8:00 am cts, so this would have been on before that.  I guess I forgot that the Today Show is about 3-4 hours long and I do not have enough time for that.... lol 

Our children

I sometimes wonder how people live their lives without animals.  I've had at least one animal for my entire life.  They are apart of who I am and I cannot imagine not having them around.  Josie and Bear, left, have been together for over 2.5 years. They are apart of my family!

According to Forbes: Ten ways to live longer "Animal lovers will be happy to know that having a pet can add years to your life, as well. One of the first studies in this arena, which appeared in "Public Health Reports" in 1980, showed that the survival rates of heart attack victims who had a pet were 28 percent higher than those of patients who didn't have an animal companion. "The health effects seem to be very real and by no means mystical," says Alan Beck, director of the Center for the Human-Animal Bond at Purdue University. "Contact with companion animals triggers a relaxation response," he says." "

There is a reason that so many "old ladies" have a lot of cats! haha, I'm just joking, though maybe it is true.

Anyway, I've never not had a pet and I would never go without having one.  Though their life spans are very short in comparison to human life spans, they are still so important. 

Josie loves to get into my baskets when I'm trying to fold clothes!

And Allie loves to get into everything, don't mind the mess that is my entry way....

I guess I'm just lucky that I found a man that loves animals maybe more just as much as I do!

This was Allie's favorite spot as a Kitten, and she still is a Daddy's girl at the ripe age of 1.5 :-).  Every morning she gets up with him, follows him to the shower, patiently waits for him to finish getting ready and then leaps from the ground to his shoulders to lay down so that he can pet her.

With that said, I think animals do help relieve stress and I think every child should get to know the joy of having a pet to call their own.  It ws so important to me and taught me a lot of great things as a child.  I learned about ownership, patients, caring, responsibility, life and death.  It's definatly a great addition to my life and I will forever be an animal-lover.

As of today

I'm officially thinking we skipped fall and went right to winter.  I left the house this morning, it was 37 degrees, yes 37! In the beginning of October!!!  They're calling for snow flurries for this weekend! I.Can.Not.Believe.It!  I am so sad about this!  What happend to my month + of wonderful fall weather?!?!? 

On another note:  Since the weather will be so cold and crappy this weekend, I'm thinking throwing on some homemade soup in the crockpot & baking some cookies!  I've got loads of homework to do, which I'm not excited about, but at least I'm not missing out on any good weather! 

We have NO plans for this weekend.  Did you hear that?? NO PLANS!  This may be a first.... Heres the things that I may or may not do this weekend:

• Cook 2 delicious crock-pot soups
• Bake cookies
• Do a bit of Christmas shopping (after all, it does feel like winter, why not)
• Homework, not the most exciting part of the weekend.
• Cuddle up on the couch with my hubby and watch some movies.
• Go to dinner on Saturday night.  We got a 20% off for our anniversary and I am bound and determined to use it! haha
• Relax
• Catch up on sleep
• Maybe treat myself to a pedicure 
• Stop by the farmers market one last time for the year!
  

That sounds about right for this weekend.... I'll let you know how much of this hard stuff I get accomplished!
On another note:  I still have to do laundry and dishes, but that didn't sound like anything fun to post about!

Have a wonderful Friday and a fantastic weekend everyone!

Random Thoughts

So, this post will be very random, try to stick with me!

Does a certain smell or season ever trigger memories?

Today, its very chilly, very fall like.  Fall reminds me of the day my husband too me on our first date.  It was back in October of 06' and it was a chilly fall day.  For some reason, when it gets just a bit chilly, the smell of the cool, crisp air reminds me of that day so well.  It brings back memories of a first true love and of happiness.  I suppose maybe it's because this is a good memory that my senses always remind me of it around this time of year.  It's lovely.

It is my favorite season, mostly because it means the holidays are right around the corner, I can look forward to good food, family time and laying in front of the fireplace at my parents.  It also reminds me of apples, pumpkins, beautiful leaves and great fall TV.

Anyway, just wanted to share that with all of you, since I know you have nothing better to do than listen to me ramble on.

Tonight Grey's & Private Practice are back on!  I'm pretty excited.

Have any of you started Christmas shopping?  I've found a few things on ETSY that will be perfect for Christmas gifts!  Other than that, I really haven't started.

I'm hosting Thanksgiving this year, for the 3rd time.  Last year the meal was even better than the year before.  I'm hoping the trend continues!  I probably basted my turkey 75 times to make sure that it didn't dry out on me.  How embarrassing when I have people traveling up to 240 miles to be with us for the holiday!  I'm excited, it's my favorite holiday and I get to host it for my family and for my in-laws.  That is, if everyone can make it.

In other news, I'm feeling pretty blah about my job right now.... I think it's the fact that somethings aren't going just the way I like and the fact that I'm soooooo close to being able to have my license as a Professional School Counselor. I cannot wait until the day that I'm doing what I want to be doing.  I.Just.Cannot.Wait.

I also have baby fever, but that's a story for another day :-)  No, we aren't pregnant, but hopefully we'll have a baby within the next year or so.  Only God and Time will tell.

Have a wonderul Thursday and remember, Tomorrow's FRIDAY!! :-)