tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4964752743982986612024-03-13T09:09:28.195-07:00According To My SisterTwo sisters' blogDenisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01032484368578509557noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496475274398298661.post-50548435001427154812011-11-30T08:48:00.001-08:002011-11-30T08:52:38.714-08:00Day 30: What did you learn from NaBloPoMoWe made it! 30 days, 30 posts!
I learned several things
1. I need to write first thing in the morning, if I let it drag on, it's harder to start.
2. I got to know my sister better.
3. I learned that I need to write more.
4. I have a long ways to go.
5. I learned again, that I really like to write.
Cheers to you dear Sister, we made our goal! Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14273527361930721939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496475274398298661.post-12065053700909933932011-11-30T08:26:00.000-08:002011-11-30T08:31:46.442-08:00What did you learn from doing NaBloPoMo?While I am thankful I participated in this exercise, as I enjoyed reading about the world according to my sister, I am glad it is over. I learned that even though I do love to write, I simply don't have the time or the energy to devote to daily blogging. In fact right now there are several more pressing issues that need my attention. Off I go....Denisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01032484368578509557noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496475274398298661.post-29747264457389722972011-11-29T14:19:00.000-08:002011-11-29T14:44:20.467-08:00What is the last thing you do before bed?Maybe this sounds familiar to you: Upon deciding to turn in for the night my husband simply sheds his clothing and climbs into bed. He then falls asleep and is snoring within two minutes of closing his eyes. Meanwhile....... When I decide to go to bed I first check on my children, making sure they are still tucked in. I pick up the blanket and stuffed animals my toddler has thrown to the Denisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01032484368578509557noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496475274398298661.post-20785099550991293122011-11-29T13:41:00.001-08:002011-11-29T13:45:08.085-08:00Day 29: What is the last thing you do before bed?I open the window about two inches.
This is a contentious point between my husband and I. He is always cold, and I am always hot. So if I open the window when he is already asleep, then he can't close it, unless of course he wakes up and is cold.
I think I sleep better with some fresh air circulating. It's no good to breathe stuffy air.
Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14273527361930721939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496475274398298661.post-43361433752784688062011-11-28T16:04:00.000-08:002011-11-28T16:35:41.474-08:00What are the three things you enjoy most about the winter season? What three things do you dislike?All around my town, as far as you can see in every direction, the prairie is tinged with frost. The Rockies loom in the west, towering, white pillars of majestic beauty. Every morning when I walk I hear nothing but the sound of my own breathing. There is no pressing agenda, no trips to plan, no events to rush off to. It is the perfect time of year to read multiple books without the guilty Denisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01032484368578509557noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496475274398298661.post-43210725713785007202011-11-28T08:49:00.001-08:002011-11-28T09:12:21.605-08:00Day 28: What are three things that you enjoy most about the winter season? What three things do you dislike?Enjoy:
1. That feeling of being all snug in my house, with the fire going, and watching the snow fall outside.
2. Christmas
3. Watching my sons when they go out to play in the snow, I will miss this very much when they are grown up.
Dislike:
1. Driving on winter roads, with ice, and snow, and slush, it's scary and dangerous, and causes me a lot of stress. I do not like it a bit.
2. That Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14273527361930721939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496475274398298661.post-39686839650362842022011-11-27T14:16:00.001-08:002011-11-27T14:48:06.261-08:00Day 27: List 5 things you are looking forward to this week1. Friday, my personal favorite day of the week.
2. Thursday as that means hockey practices are done ( till Monday and then I guess there are 6 games on the weekend... So nevermind, I'm pretty much on a count down till Christmas vacation anyhow. Two weeks off hockey.)
3. Getting over this dumb cold I have, my head hurts, I can hardly swallow, and I just generally feel bad.
4. Going for lunch onAllisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14273527361930721939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496475274398298661.post-4542415131329933952011-11-27T08:42:00.000-08:002011-11-27T08:47:37.670-08:00List 5 things you are looking forward to this week.1. My husband having Friday, Saturday & Sunday off. 2. Cutting our Christmas tree down in the wild Choteau forrest. 3. Having all my children recovered from the stomach flu. 4. Getting back into my normal schedule. 5. It is only Sunday, but truthfully I am already most looking forward to this week being over. Denisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01032484368578509557noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496475274398298661.post-85077258401060639402011-11-26T15:14:00.001-08:002011-11-27T14:32:02.505-08:00Day 26: Do you enjoy being alone? Would you rather be around other people.I am a loner at heart.
I love and treasure my time alone. I attribute some of this is because growing up I was an only child, and I was parented by a woman who also loved "her time" and I could not interfere with her time to herself.
I do like to be with people, but in limited amounts. For the last 16 years, it seems I have not had much time to myself. Motherhood, does Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14273527361930721939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496475274398298661.post-21473794576339241602011-11-26T07:16:00.001-08:002011-11-26T07:45:00.441-08:00Do you enjoy being alone? Would you rather be around other people.Being alone is something I fantasize about quite frequently. Having someone permanently attached to your hip, lap, hand, or hanging on to the back of your shirt, seems to be part and parcel of the whole glorious gift of motherhood. I am not complaining about being a mom, it just would be nice to be able to go to the bathroom without someone following me in there. Of course, I do love spendingDenisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01032484368578509557noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496475274398298661.post-53490517757437885062011-11-25T09:07:00.000-08:002011-11-25T09:35:49.907-08:00Thanksgiving is an American holiday. Do you think an annual "day of thanks" should be celebrated earth wide? Is the positive often overlooked?Thanksgiving is an American holiday with historic significance. It is a tradition of American culture. I am not going to say the whole world should adopt an American holiday, that would be very arrogant & presumptuous. The second part of the question actually reads, "Do you feel the focus on the positive in our lives is too often overlooked in favor of the negative or sensational?" Yes, IDenisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01032484368578509557noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496475274398298661.post-13244209337933809082011-11-25T07:50:00.001-08:002011-11-25T16:03:51.726-08:00Day 25: Thanksgiving day is an American holiday. Do you think an annual "day of thanks" should be celebrated earth-wide? Do you feel the focus on the positive in our lives is too often overlooked in favor of the negative or sensational?I honestly don't think there needs to be a worldwide day of thankfulness. Thankfulness to me, is a state of mind more than anything. They could declare a worldwide thankful day, but unless I chose to be thankful, I would not be. It'd just participate for the food probably.
Yes being that I am a natural born pessimist, yes I do feel that positive is often overlooked by the Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14273527361930721939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496475274398298661.post-64421133931197385342011-11-24T20:43:00.000-08:002011-11-24T20:59:54.652-08:00What are you thankful for?I am thankful for my husband, I happened to have married well & I know it. I am thankful for my children, they are bright sunshine in an often dreary world. I am thankful for health, my own and that of those I love. I am thankful for my sister and all her boys, an unexpected gift that has enriched my life immeasurably. I am thankful for where I live, the simple beauty all around me would Denisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01032484368578509557noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496475274398298661.post-80159923296673291762011-11-24T09:48:00.001-08:002011-11-24T10:09:45.231-08:00Day 24: What are you thankful for? What are you grateful for?I'm thankful for a lot... Is gratefulness just an extension of thankfulness? Or one in the same?
My sons, one of whom is celebrating his 10th birthday this day!!
My husband.
Susie the puppy, I'm thankful you made it outside to pee this morning. *did not pee on the floor
The sun that came out today.
The sleep I got last night.
For the fun I get to have taking my son birthday Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14273527361930721939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496475274398298661.post-59273473728469691372011-11-23T20:10:00.001-08:002011-11-23T20:39:35.448-08:00Do you spend Thanksgiving Day alone or with others? How would you prefer to spend it?Let's face it, Thanksgiving is Christmas' red-headed step-child, it exists in the shadows, condemned to always play second fiddle. And of course there is now Black Friday, also jockeying for top spot and further reducing Thanksgiving's importance. It seems as though Thanksgiving has been forgotten, trampled over in fact, as everyone rushes to be first in line for the $99 flat screens at Wal Denisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01032484368578509557noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496475274398298661.post-66445995439749323992011-11-23T12:59:00.001-08:002011-11-23T13:20:32.712-08:00Day 23: Do you spend Thanksgiving day alone or with others? How would prefer to spend it?It's not Thanksgiving outside of the USA, to the rest of the world tomorrow is know as none other than.... THURSDAY.
Here in Canada we celebrate Thanksgiving, on the second Monday of each October. So we had ours already.
But I would be lying if I did not say that I feel a bit down on American Thanksgiving each year. I miss it. I did grow up in the USA, and remembering Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14273527361930721939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496475274398298661.post-63706297023620034672011-11-22T16:02:00.001-08:002011-11-22T16:29:28.033-08:00What is the luckiest thing that has ever happened to you?Nothing lucky has ever happened to me, not a single thing. Plenty of good things have happened to me, unexpected things, happy things, surprisingly great things, but nothing "lucky". Luck is very subjective, an excuse people use, a way of trivializing things that happen to others, and a general waste of my time. I have often been told by a friend how lucky I am to have met my husband when Denisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01032484368578509557noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496475274398298661.post-87152430753459121982011-11-22T14:40:00.001-08:002011-11-22T14:42:05.228-08:00Day 22: What is the luckiest thing that has ever happened to you?I hope this is not extremely lazy, but I came up with a good post on lucky, and I'm going to cross post what I wrote on my other blog...
I think luck is dumb. There is no such thing as “LUCK”
I thought I would use this opportunity to say, stop telling us
adoptees we are lucky. Lucky to have been born, lucky to be alive, lucky
to not be on the bottom of the abortionists bucket, lucky to Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14273527361930721939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496475274398298661.post-87333761306588002312011-11-21T19:31:00.000-08:002011-11-21T20:40:28.488-08:00Name a totally useless possession and how you came to accquire it.About this time last year a package showed up on my doorstep. UPS had delivered it for a staggering sum of $46. The shipping charge was more than the combined total value of the contents, much more. The package was from my mother-in-law. Many such packages have come our way in the two years since our move away from my in-laws. Granted, we didn't move solely because of them, but it was Denisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01032484368578509557noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496475274398298661.post-83606051032175546692011-11-21T19:06:00.001-08:002011-11-21T19:53:41.696-08:00Day 21: Name a totally useless posession and how you came to accquire it.Well today we have decided to skip the Ricki Lake dribble and post on something that is really deep (you know compared to Ms. Lake) all that and no smug attitude!
At my house, we own several totally useless possessions. Now, the putting the words "totally useless" onto this object in my home, is quite a subjective phrase.
Totally Useless
As in, not all the residents in my home Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14273527361930721939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496475274398298661.post-76692125836618855412011-11-20T22:03:00.000-08:002011-11-20T22:08:41.469-08:00What are the top five websites you would hate to live without.I am phoning it in tonight folks. Here you go: 1. gmail 2. amazon 3. IMDb 4. usatoday 5. allrecipesDenisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01032484368578509557noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496475274398298661.post-38916915578767411002011-11-20T13:04:00.001-08:002011-11-20T13:25:59.141-08:00Day 20: What are the top five websites you'd hate to live without?1. Pinterest I can't explain how fun, cool and radically awesome this site is, I could sit all day and pin stuff. Amazing recipes too. Mmm.
2. Kobo Books I got an e-reader, a kobo, for Christmas last year, and this is where I download books. I love it, much cheaper than buying the book too. I am an e-reader convert. Yes, I still like "real books" but it's nice Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14273527361930721939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496475274398298661.post-55418200999447149562011-11-19T20:08:00.000-08:002011-11-19T20:15:56.049-08:00RandomnessFinally my house is empty of all except those who permanently reside here. I wish I had a house cleaner who could disinfect my floors and bathrooms. I wish I had a better attitude. I wish my husband had another week off work. I wish my kids would sleep in until noon tomorrow. I wish there wasn't thirty-five loads of laundry. I wish I had something witty or meaningful to write about tonight.Denisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01032484368578509557noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496475274398298661.post-68868819040042830962011-11-19T17:01:00.001-08:002011-11-19T17:33:07.992-08:00Day 19: (and we're almost there!!) A recipe that looks delish....Ok, I got this recipe off of this web site... Pennies On A Platter
Thanks to them,(the web address above) my family has a new favorite, and I mean, picture 3 boys (two teenagers) fighting over thirds of this...
Run... don't walk to get the ingredients for this recipe.... it is amazing, and now my kids ask for it at least three times a week.
We also tried it with some of that sweet/spicyAllisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14273527361930721939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496475274398298661.post-64702195585544099922011-11-18T14:08:00.000-08:002011-11-18T14:46:01.049-08:00What has been the happiest moment of your life thus far?August 10, 2001- My husband and I pledged to have and to hold from this day forward. What God has joined together let no man put asunder. I was thrilled to take that vow. July 25, 2004- My firstborn showed up, five weeks early but healthy & breathing on her own. I had never been more thankful for anything in my entire life. September 21, 2006- I pushed my sweet, sweet, red-head out inDenisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01032484368578509557noreply@blogger.com0