My Blog page....

I really wish I could get someone to help me design my Blog page..I hate it! I know there are ways to upload different backgrounds, etc. I look at alot of blogs thru Blogspot.com and alot of them are so nice and they normally say alot about the writer. A friend of mine Joyce,has a beautiful page, and she also has a little tulip as her cursor...I want that! I may sound a little immature about this but I really believe on these blogs you need to express yourself and who you are through the blog page.

I know I normally don't keep up with the "Daily" goings and comings of my life but once in awhile I write because I am Happy about something and I also write when I am sad about something...and Believe I also write when I am angry about something because this blog is a real stress reliever...it helps alot.

With this new year coming I hope to learn more about "Blogging" and how it works. I want to teach myself alot about designing the page for the different moods I am in. Believe me NOBODY ever really reads this blog except for maybe Joyce who got me to join in the first place. I believe Matthew checks in once in a while but that is really it (I have alot of devoted followers..NOT)LOL

So,I will make my vow here and now that I will make this page more about who I am and what I am feeling because I believe that is what Blogspot.com is all about!

Movies....I love them!!

I really wanted to see Blind Side at the movies this weekend and I almost did but it was sold out believe it or night. The theater was PACKED for Twilight 2, "New Moon" but the theater had that movie showing in 2 theaters, and Blind side was in just one. I have not wanted to go to the movies in forever because there was nothing out there I wanted to see. Of course all weekend I saw commercials for the movie.

I ended up just watching movies at home all weekend. I could watch movies all day if they were good. I am also famous for watching the same movie over and over...right now I have HBO free for 3 months on my new cable plan and I have taped and seen over and over the movie "Bridal Wars"...I LOVE THIS MOVIE...I guess I keep watching it because there is something said at the ending that I can't get out of my head, and it's about friends in your life...I have seen it over and over each time I hear it I tear up ..EVERY TIME. My friends are not the same anymore. Some of them have become more distance and others have become closer in ways (Facebook..LOL) It could just be me being all paranoid , who knows? if it's me I wish they would tell me?

I would rather lie then tell any of my friends something that would hurt them and I use to believe the same with them..but not anymore I guess....for me somethings are just better left unsaid..so they don't hurt peoples feelings....I guess anyone reading this must think "What is she talking about?" and all I can say is that I am getting very sentimental with age...My Dad was the same way. He was ruff around the edge Dad for all my childhood years but after awhile, just before he passed he was so sentimental, everything touched him ...and he touched me in that way, and I want to be just like him...

I don't hurt anyone on purpose, so why do people (Friends) have to be ...who knows!

"Let the Games begin".....

I love to play games..I have since I was little. I remember playing Monopoly with my mom and brothers all the time. It can bring "Fun time" to a family only because you do it together and it's also alot of fun!

Ayden is starting to have a new love ....Games...He loves to play and he plays to win. I enjoy playing mostly all the games with him. In fact I am the one that has tried to by him a Game each weekend...3 Weeks ago it was "Chutes & Ladders...




and 2 weeks ago it was "Candy Land"

and this week it is "Monkey's in a Barrel"

Mostly all of these games are games from years past, I remember all of these games from when I was little...There are alot more games out there that I want to get for Ayden only because he loves it so much. The other good piece of playing games is teaching them how to play "Fair". It also teaches them their colors, numbers, etc. Cassandra is very much into the games as well with Ayden...I can hear them down stairs laughing and yelling every night...It can bring families together...I love and enjoy it so much...

I hope Santa brings us all a whole bunch of Games for Christmas.....It's one gift that will make us all very happy to get...together!

Christmas ...BAH HUMBUG....it's just not the same!

I know your thinking "Karen is saying Bah Humbug to Christmas? it's not like her, at all" But for me this year I feel it won't be the same as other years...I have had a hard year and I know that I can not give Cassandra and Ayden the Christmas that they are a custom to.. I know Cassandra is now 27 years old, BUT she is still my one and only child and Ayden falls right up there with her. Of course I have Katie and Ryan whom I love to send really "Great Gifts" to as well. I just like giving people things I know that they will like because that is what makes "ME" happy. I have never been one to want this or that (well maybe when I was little) for me Christmas is all about the giving and that may sound Glee shay but it's just how I feel...

Hopefully I can come this Christmas for the people that matter to me in my life, but I mostly want to give to the Children because they are the ones that really count....Christmas is all about the "Children" and they are the ones that "shine" on Christmas morning and for me that is the
"Greatest Gift of All".......................I know I know......."it sounds Glee shay"