"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"

Favorite time of the year.....

Well here we are, the fall of 2009...whhhh a year I think I just want to forget. It will be a year that I was let go from JFK after almost 15 years of service..(do I still sound bitter, yea) and I am really hoping that as of November 14, 2009 my New year will start and things for me will just go for the better? Who knows right...all I can say is God gives us only as much as we can take and this year I really hope he is finished with me because I feel I have had more than I can take in one year....LOL.

BUT it is my favorite time of the year, the fall leading into winter and Christmas time. Who doesn't? It's "The most wonderful time of the year" as they say. I went into Publix yesterday and there in the Hallmark store was a window decorated in "Christmas" now that is early..but they say the malls have also started..it's fine with me because I know that no matter what your going through Christmas time is the time for Joy.!!

So no matter what comes my way from here on in I will take it in stride (I hope) and move on to bigger and better things..(Again, I can only hope)..LOL