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- November 22, 2010 at 1:02 am
The week of Thanksgiving and I'm home doing something I have NEVER done before. I'm putting up my TREE. We just need some spirit around here…and I worry that I'm so busy I won't have time to do it. This made me think of here :~) I hope you all have a wonderful, happy, and HEALTHY Thanksgiving:
The week of Thanksgiving and I'm home doing something I have NEVER done before. I'm putting up my TREE. We just need some spirit around here…and I worry that I'm so busy I won't have time to do it. This made me think of here :~) I hope you all have a wonderful, happy, and HEALTHY Thanksgiving:
Fable of the Porcupine
It was the coldest winter ever. Many animals died
because of the cold. The porcupines, realizing the
situation, decided to group together. This way,
they covered and protected themselves; but, the
quills of each one wounded their closest companions
even though they gave off heat to each other.
After awhile, they decided to distance themselves one
from the other and they began to die, alone and frozen.
So they had to make a choice: either accept the quills of their companions
or disappear from the Earth.
Wisely, they decided to go back to being together.
This way they learned to live with the little wounds
that were caused by the close relationship with
their companion, but the most important
part of it, was the heat that came from the
others. This way they were able to survive.
Therefore:
The best relationship is not the one that brings
together perfect people, but the best is
when each individual learns to live with
the imperfections of others and can admire
the other person's good qualities.
The Moral of the story!
LEARN TO LOVE THE PRICKS IN YOUR LIFE.With Love, Marie
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- November 22, 2010 at 8:49 am
Been missing coontact with you!
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- November 22, 2010 at 8:49 am
Been missing coontact with you!
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- November 22, 2010 at 2:22 pm
Well, you don't have to LOVE them, you can just learn to co-exist -pushing their "prickiness" to the back of your mind 🙂
I would love to put my tree up the weekend after Thanksgiving, but it would be all dried out by Christmas!
I so hate the rush rush of putting it up two weeks before… it takes me days to finish hanging ornaments– one for the kids to decorate– which means they throw them on in one bunch in one area by hanging heavy glass ornaments on the soft tips, and two more days for me to rearrange/safely hang what they've clustered and finish adding all the rest. I'm always afraid to decorate the top…I leave that for the end and I get such ojada standing on the tippy top of the ladder swaying this way and that…scary!
Hope you have a great Thanksgiving and lots of tree fun 🙂 !!!! xoxoxoxox
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- November 26, 2010 at 3:44 pm
well, as usual I am late replying to this. Our tree gets hunted and purchased on the 11th of December. Why? cos that is the date I chose. tradition is father dotter go out together, do father dotter things, (like all her life he bought her chips from a 'chip wagon' and they lie to me about how it is really not french fries but it is Bananas. Even to the point of putting the used container hidden in the tree once for me to find.
So now even at her age of 31 this tradition still goes on. This year I shall be at our Church helping with bake sale, and they will pick me up when they have done their tree hunting. Then all three of us decorate, and enjoy a unhealthy meal of take out KFC (small amount) tradition you see, going back to when our son was one year old.
Both kids disliked decorating the tree once their own special hand made ornanments were hung. Dad's job is to put on the lights, then at the end, when the kids were little, one year one would be held up high and they put the star on the top, the next year the other kid did it. Now?
I am so looking forward to christmas this year. (always do) there will be just the 4 of us, l ike o ld old times when my mom was away. She is away this year as well, so just us and our grown kiddlets. and the cats, plus dotters cat who will be staying with us as well.
AHHHHHHH
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and even if we are porcupines at heart its all love.
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- November 26, 2010 at 3:44 pm
well, as usual I am late replying to this. Our tree gets hunted and purchased on the 11th of December. Why? cos that is the date I chose. tradition is father dotter go out together, do father dotter things, (like all her life he bought her chips from a 'chip wagon' and they lie to me about how it is really not french fries but it is Bananas. Even to the point of putting the used container hidden in the tree once for me to find.
So now even at her age of 31 this tradition still goes on. This year I shall be at our Church helping with bake sale, and they will pick me up when they have done their tree hunting. Then all three of us decorate, and enjoy a unhealthy meal of take out KFC (small amount) tradition you see, going back to when our son was one year old.
Both kids disliked decorating the tree once their own special hand made ornanments were hung. Dad's job is to put on the lights, then at the end, when the kids were little, one year one would be held up high and they put the star on the top, the next year the other kid did it. Now?
I am so looking forward to christmas this year. (always do) there will be just the 4 of us, l ike o ld old times when my mom was away. She is away this year as well, so just us and our grown kiddlets. and the cats, plus dotters cat who will be staying with us as well.
AHHHHHHH
XXXXXX
and even if we are porcupines at heart its all love.
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- November 22, 2010 at 2:22 pm
Well, you don't have to LOVE them, you can just learn to co-exist -pushing their "prickiness" to the back of your mind 🙂
I would love to put my tree up the weekend after Thanksgiving, but it would be all dried out by Christmas!
I so hate the rush rush of putting it up two weeks before… it takes me days to finish hanging ornaments– one for the kids to decorate– which means they throw them on in one bunch in one area by hanging heavy glass ornaments on the soft tips, and two more days for me to rearrange/safely hang what they've clustered and finish adding all the rest. I'm always afraid to decorate the top…I leave that for the end and I get such ojada standing on the tippy top of the ladder swaying this way and that…scary!
Hope you have a great Thanksgiving and lots of tree fun 🙂 !!!! xoxoxoxox
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