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Oz memories

Ah...it's that time of year. I have never understood why the Wizard of Oz always plays around Christmas time. It's not a Christmas movie. But, for some reason I always get a warm feeling when I watch it. I remember always going to my Mema and Papa's house to watch the Wizard of Oz when I was a child. We would all fight over the bouncy floor pillow to sit on, then we would gather around the old console television to watch. I was always in awe when Dorothy landed in Oz and everything was in color. Guy says the munchkins used to freak him out. Not me. I always thought they were so cute.

It's so funny to watch it now and be able to tell how the characters on the farm are actually the characters in Oz. I remember the first time I figured that out. I was surprised that I hadn't figured it out before. It seemed so obvious.

And in the beginning when she visits the gypsy man. When I was little it seemed so innocent. Now I think wow she sure was lucky he wasn't a creepy pedophile. I know that's sick, but in this day and age I can't help but think of things that way. Maybe it's because I'm a mom now.

Anyway, tonight my family and I gathered aaround the tv to watch the Wizard of Oz tonight and thoroughly enjoyed it. Emilee has decided she wants to be Dorothy next Halloween. Then she proceeded to tell us all what characters we would dress up to be along with her. I would be Glenda the good witch, she wants Chele to be the Wicked Witch of the West, and Luke can be the Scarecrow, Guy is the lion, Caleb can be a munchkin because "he is little like them". And last but not least Annabelle, our shih tzu, will be Toto. We all giggled when we heard who the Wicked Witch would be. Sorry Chele!

I hope you all have a Merry Christmas!!

A pain in the neck, turkey and margaritas

I hope everyone had a fabulous Thanksgiving! Mine was very good and exhausting, and the muscle relaxers really worked well. For those of you that didn't know, I woke up Saturday before Thanksgiving with a horrible crick in my neck. It hurt all day long, and it lasted all weekend and into the week. I finally went to the doctor on Tuesday (the 4th day) and he told me I must have pulled my trapezius muscle somehow. I don't remember doing anything that would cause me to pull it, but I did and it hurt. I had a literal pain in my neck. He prescribed me some muscle relaxers and sent me home to rest and use a heating pad. He told me just to take one pill to begin with and if I decided they didn't work I could up the dose to two.

So I took the first one at about 6pm on Tuesday night. Around midnight I decided to take another one because it didn't seem to be working. HA HA! The second one definitely worked and I was completely out of it for nearly the entire day Wednesday. The only problem was that we were supposed to leave Wednesday for my sister in-law's house in Tyler, and I was supposed to make about 6 pies and banana bread. I wound up buying the pies and baked the banana bread at about 6pm. Making the banana bread is a stipulation to getting room and board for Thanksgiving. My nephew probably wouldn't let me in the house if I didn't bring it. We didn't end up getting on the road until about 8:30pm.

Thanksgiving dinner was really really good. My brother in-law made a terrific turkey with a cajun injection. Mmm...mmm...good! I could have eaten that turkey all day! We all ate until we were miserable. Just the memory of the turkey makes my mouth water!

While we were waiting on the turkey Rita, my sister in-law, and I rifled through the sale ads for the next day. We plotted our course to begin at Target. We got up at the crack of dawn and made it to the store by 6:30am, no bad. We shopped until about 11:30am and then made our way to our traditional post shopping stop. We have continued this tradition for over 4 years now of eating lunch at El Charro's #1 in Tyler. The best part of the tradition though is the amazing margaritas they serve. Man are they awesome. Those margaritas are the highlight of the shopping day by far!

The family and I finally made it home on Saturday and crashed. There's nothing like sleeping on an air mattress for 3 nights to make you really appreciate your own bed. My neck pain is finally gone and we are busy getting ready for Christmas. We decorated the tree on Sunday night, now all I have to do is finish shopping.

Wow that was a major ramble...Merry Christmas!