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Still Got Nothing but H2O

I am taking a bit of a writing sabatical.

Seems prudent with kids at home.

Need to figure out the new camera.

Need to raise the puppy, etc

So - come back next week.

BUT any idea why I had Hall and Oates Say it Isn't So playing in my dream last night.

Very odd.

Here it is for your listening pleasure

 

At least it wasn't Maneater or Sara Smile - those would really be stuck in your noggin. Here will but in another song to help erase the pain. 

Laast day elfing and preparing for My Mom to come in has me off to the races - so no post - but here are some Christmas songs I enjoy. Hope you will too. 

Be safe in whatever you are doing today - traveling, shopping, wrapping (those paper cuts can be brutal). 

Christmas in Dixie by Alabama 

 

Please Come Home for Christmas by The Eagles 

Trans Siberian Beatle

Today's post is a departure from my usual weekend with The Beatles - so I am sorry to disappoint all three of my loyal weekend readers.

This weekend, at YTBN's behest, I am posting his favorite Christmas song. A song that sends him into air-guitar convulsions each time he hears it. A song I never enjoyed, until my son began his rhytmic convulsions.

Here is the Trans Siberian Orchestra's Wizards in Winter song - as lighted by a resident about 7 miles up to the north.

WM of TW

Today we present the - Worst Mom of The Week Award

I have been collecting nominations for this most dubious award and have tallied the results.  Although Molly has tried to nominate herself several times for things like - poorly wrapped presents at a gift exchange, and allowing her son to pick out his own clothes, she is not the winner. 

This week's winner had an average run of the pack week but then sprinted into the lead on Thursday.

Thursday was the day of this mom's children's school's (could  I get another possessive in that sentence)"winter" parties (please read this as Christmas but we aren't allowed to call it that - ugh!).  This mother was aware of this date and yet knowingly scheduled her eldest's doctors appointment on this day - precisely at the time of the holiday festivities. This appointment meant that not only would the child visiting the Dr. not be in attendance but that the mom in question would not be attending her other child's party either.  

The other child is where this mom really made her push for the medal stand.  The mom began her morning at 5 am when the youngest child came downstairs announcing that he was dressed, ready for school and had made his bed.  GO TO YOUR ROOM AND LAY DOWN, is how she groggily greeted him. No accolades for the self-sufficient actions he took this morning.  Once the mom got out of bed, she swiftly entered into an hour long argument with her son on which shirt to wear to school.  After strong arming him into her selection, she sent him off to school quiet pleased with herself.

It was 10 minutes later when she received a call from her son. He was near tears when he said "Mom, today is not pajama day!".  

The problem being that Mom had in fact dressed, ne forced her son to dress in his pj's for school.  The earlier argument stemming from which pajama shirt to wear. 

She quickly raced to school with a change of clothes and begged for forgiveness.  Her son was all to willing, but I am certain there will be a loss of trust come Friday morning when she tries to send him out to school once again in his jammies.  And if it doesn't come to the surface on Friday, I am certain it will be something he will discuss with his therapist in his middle age.

Congratulations CF - you are the winner of Worst Mom of The Week.

** Please submit your own Worst Mom of the Week nominations for consideration on upcoming weeks.

12 Days

Today's post is based on last night's Top Chef episode where the chefs were told to create a dish based on one of the lines from the 12 Days of Christmas song. What do you cook for "10 Lords a Leaping"?

It got me thinking - what does this song mean. 

So - first, here is the man in black to sing it.

 

Now - here is a synopsis of what the lyrics mean found from somewhere out on the web.

On the first day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
A partridge in a pear tree	(The partridge is Jesus, the tree is the cross.)
Two turtle doves	(The two testaments, Old and New.)
Three french hens	(Three gifts of the wise men., three Christian virtues,
	or 3 persons of the Trinity.)
Four colly [black] birds	(Four gospels)
Five golden rings	(Five books of Moses)
Six geese a-laying	(Six days of creation)
Seven swans a- swimming	(Seven gifts of the Holy Spirit - Rom. 12:6-8)
Eight maids a-milking	(Eight beatitudes - Matt. 5-7)
Nine ladies dancing	(Nine fruit of the Spirit - Gal. 5:22-23)
Ten Lords a-leaping	(Ten commandments)
Eleven pipers piping	(Eleven apostles who did not fail like Judas)
Twelve drummers drumming	(Twelve articles of the Apostles' Creed).   And finally because I am sarcastic and can not leave well enough alone - here is the best rendition of the song.