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Positively Pessimistic (Aloha 20)

Posted on October 31, 2008 12:05 am by TheAngelForever

Thanks to Kailani at An Island Life for starting this fun for Friday. Please be sure to head over to her blog to say hello and sign the Mr. Linky there if you are participating.

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My question for this week:

Who is your favorite Disney character and why?

Here are two photos of a collection that will help to answer my question. These items are on the shelf in my old room at my parent’s house.

Could you tell that I like Eeyore?

For some reason I have always loved him. It may be because my mother’s grandmother made me a hand made Eeyore doll before I was born and I am named for her (she passed away just before I was born). Or, perhaps it may be because I can identify with Eeyore’s positively pessimistic view on life. No matter which it is, I just think he is adorable and have always had one Eeyore collection or another. I even have stuffed Eeyore’s for different holidays/season that were in my classroom when I taught. Kids that were having bad days were allowed to have them to hug. Boy do I miss our local Disney Store.

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Fright Fest 2008

Posted on October 30, 2008 12:05 am by TheAngelForever

Several weeks ago we went back to Six Flags to get our photos taken for our new 2009 season passes. This time we decided to take the little guy with us and thought the big kid would love to go on some rides while there. JSL was mesmerized with watching the rides as he waited in line.

Thanks to a short rain storm, the lines were not too long. The boys were able to get some rides in before the rain started back up.

In addition to just taking in the rides, we were able to enjoy the Halloween atmosphere within the park. Starting in October the parks all participate in Fright Fest. If you have never been before it is absolutely amazing. They go all out. Every inch of the park has something Halloween-ish going on. Whether it is cobwebs, skeletons, or wandering characters you definitely get the feel for the holiday. Now if only they realized the Chain-Saw guy running around with the horribly loud noise was NOT very friendly in the afternoon for families with young children.

Even the park entrance was decorated going out to the parking lot.

Here are some of the decorations from throughout the park to get you in the mood for Halloween on Friday.

This was likely our last trip to the park this year (they close this coming weekend), but we look forward to many more memories with our season passes in 2009!

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Tiny toe trouble (WW)

Posted on October 29, 2008 12:05 am by TheAngelForever

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A first in my marriage

Posted on October 28, 2008 9:16 am by TheAngelForever

I have been married for seven years and four months now. In that span the only nights I have been away from my husband are when our boys were born. Of course during those instances JL was hardly gone for long and I had so many other things on my mind.

Fast forward to tomorrow morning when he leaves for a wedding of a friend. The boys and I will be without Daddy for the first time. I have put on a brave face up to this point to try to make it seem like a fun things for the boys. Special time with Mommy, Nana and Papa, but the truth is I am sitting here crying over it.

I know that is silly, but it is the truth. What is worse is I am still angry over this entire wedding fiasco. My emotions keep flip-flopping between sad and angry. Not exactly a great combination, especially to hide from your five year old and 17 month old.

A little history about the wedding. At the end of last December, all four of us were invited to week long wedding destination wedding, all expenses paid. Our family and friends immediately thought it was a wonderful idea for us to take JL’s friend up on this opportunity and make it into a vacation. Before long things went down hill. When the flights were booked for us by the bride I lost it. They were horrid times for traveling with children. In addition to that, more of the week activities were announced and they were far from child friendly. Thankfully we were able to back out of taking the boys and little or no money was lost by JL’s friends.

My anger stems from my husband simply deciding he would go to the wedding alone. Why? Do not get me wrong I know that JL’s friendship means a lot to him. However, I also know the handful of times that he has seen his friend since we have been married. I also know that when I even suggested taking myself and the little guy to my cousin M’s wedding in the spring it was shot down, no questions asked. I know I should move on, but it still bothers me that I was not at M’s wedding and she is a very special part of my life, and family no less.

Ok, vent over. . . . see much better than therapy!

I can get past this, but my real fear is the boys. They are so attached to their Daddy. I worry that NHL will have behavior issues at school the rest of the week and that JSL will not sleep at night. Of course the boys could completely surprise me and be perfectly fine, that would not upset me at all.

JL please know that the boys and I love you so very much and will miss you lots.

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Bloggy Giveaway Carnival Time – Fall 2008

Posted on October 27, 2008 12:05 am by TheAngelForever

Once again it is time for the quarterly bloggy giveaway from BloggGiveaways.com running from October 27-31. I joined the summer one and had a great time meeting a lot of new people and finding fabulous new blogs to read.

Welcome to everyone visiting, please take a moment to look around and come back again to get to know my little bloggy part of the world. I love meeting new people and especially enjoy comments!

This time around I am giving away some items that will be great for the fall/winter months ahead.

A magnetic note pad with matching note cards and bookmarks, plus a $5.00 Target gift card. In addition to this, I am going to make the winner their choice of a knitted washcloth or two. I have lots of patterns that I can use or simply make something like the ones below. The winner will be able to select the color they would like.

Some DW cloths I made Closer view of the knitty goodness

I will open up this giveaway to anyone. To enter, just answer this in the comment section –> Tell me one thing that you love about the fall (this must be included or your entry will not count). Be sure that I have an e-mail address that I can contact you for mailing address after the giveaway is over. I will use random.org to generate a winner from the comments. This giveaway closes at 10:00 pm EST on Friday, October 31st.

Additional entries if you do one of the following and tell me in an additional comment for each that you do:

– Blog about my giveaway and link back to me. Please leave a link for me to check it our so I can thank you.

– Add my blog to your blog roll.

– Stumble my post and let me know your Stumble name.

– Twitter about the giveaway and let me know your Twitter ID (TheAngelForever is mine).

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