Warm Weather Christmas

All I want for Christmas is a real good tan
Take me to the islands
Put my feet in the sand
Rockin’ to and fro with the rhythm of the ocean
Singin’ silent night with the palm trees a blowin’

~Kenny Chesney

Home Alone

I really like Home Alone. Though, I didn’t like the sequels much. Okay, I did like the pigeon lady in Home Alone 2.  So…… I watched this movie the other day with my six year old and now I hear the Home Alone scream constantly. She screams if her shoe comes untied… she screams at commercials. It was cute in movie, but to live with it 24/7…. not so much. It’s pretty funny to a kid, but to a grown up who has just waited a half an hour in the car rider’s line, it’s a little daunting. It will wear off as the year rolls along, only to be picked up again at next year’s holiday movie viewing. And, as I sit I here writing this, I have a sinister, but funny thought that I just might reenact that Home Alone scream on the day she introduces me to her first boyfriend!! :)

A Christmas Story

I love this movie. it takes all the good, and the not so good parts of Christmas and satires it in a way that we all remember it fondly…. Can you relate?

Here comes Santa Claus


All that toy making and list reading makes a fellow a little ranky dank…. but not to worry, he’ll be one sweet smelling,  jolly old elf when he gets to your house! Don’t forget to leave his cookies…. and maybe a bar of Irish Spring next to the plate.  Irish Spring…. manly yes… but Santa likes it too!

Bad Santa

You better watch out… You don’t and you’ll cry
You better not doubt… I’m telling you why…
Santa Flaws is coming to town!

He smells like a fungus. He’s covered with lice.
He spits when he talks… and he’s not very nice.
Santa Flaws is coming to town!

He sneaks in while you’re sleeping
And eats up all the cake
He drinks the beer and kicks the dog
So beware for goodness sake!

You better watch out… You don’t and you’ll cry,
You better not doubt… I’m telling you why… Santa Flaws is coming to town!
by Roberta Baird

The side of the family that no one wants to talks about!

Illustration Friday Phenomenom

OK…. so you know the phenomena thing, where Santa lays a finger “aside of his nose,” gives a nod and up the chimney he goes…. Well I think it works in reverse too…. down the chimney  he goes! Only this time, it seems to have a bug in it. Poor Santa!  Too many Christmas cookies… He’s stuck tight. There’s no budging old Kris Kringle!

Shoot… and I’ve been a pretty good girl too…. Guess I’ll go call the Effective Liberating Flight Squad or E.L.F.S. as they like to be called.

Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight!