Dacjohns--Changes

[punkin]

Now that will be a Christmas gift!! Enjoy both of them.

 

[reinbeau]

Just remember, at the mention of a new grandson,

 

[FarmerChick]

LOL Reinbeau is so right.
Pics are a must of the little cutie!!!

 

[dacjohns]

Just remember, at the mention of a new grandson, http://annzoid.com/images/smileys/worthless.jpg

See post #82.

 

[reinbeau]

Just remember, at the mention of a new grandson, http://annzoid.com/images/smileys/worthless.jpg

See post #82.

Aw, come on, we have to go back nine pages? We need new ones!

 

[Okiemommy]

Sorry guys, I fall off the face of the earth from time to time. I don't mean to, I just forget that the world is round.

Actually the day before Thanksgiving we found out we are having another baby! So I have been pre-occupied with that, as well as the end of the semester

Hi Okie. Good to see you.

I won't shun you for eating canned cranberry sauce. I might question your taste though.

^_^

You can come over to my house for canned cranberry sauce Okiemommy. That is my preferred type, LOL. SO THERE DAC...big_smile

Yeah dac! So THERE!!


ETA catching up

 

[Okiemommy]

we had out of the can.
if it doesn't have the ridges, no one will eat it. sad but true. I just cringe at that roll of jelly on the plate..LOL
but they ate it up big time! smile

rriiiiidggeeesssss......
We eat it for Christmas too. Does anyone else eat it for Christmas?

Gotta be sliced with ridges. lol

My niece's (technically my wife's niece) son really likes the real stuff. He's about 8 years old and yesterday he got a bowl of the relish for himself. He said it needed just a little bit more sugar, not too much and he identified the orange peel. He likes it with rolls. He is turning into a connoisseur.

He is also my chicken processing buddy.

You're trainin' him up right Dacs! my husband is a food "snob" too...though he's not a very adventurous one which is really, really frustrating.

start them young on the good food and they eat well the rest of their lives! smart!

ridges from the can mean you can slice straight lines, it is stragetically ridged to help people cut a decent slice..HA HA HA HA

That's how I always looked at it LOL!

I not only prefer canned cranberry sauce, I like the jellied kind, not whole berry AND I serve it (family tradition) on a plate in the shape of the can!!!

THAT is awesome!!! but....I didn't know that it came in a form other than the jellied in the cans! hahaha seriously!





As for the Walmart worker trampling...that makes me sick to my stomach and horrifies me. I used to work at Wal-mart...for 5 years, and worked on Black Friday (or Blitz Day as the associates call it)every year, and I loved it. It was usually a fun frenzy and most of the people were happy with the exception of an occasional wacko. I have also shopped every year after leaving there. I do it because I enjoy the thrill of the hunt, we can't really afford the Christmas gifts that the kids want without shopping on that day(even with buying throughout the year) and because I love a good deal. I look at it as another way of self sufficiency in a way. Yes it's far fetched, but the deals are unbeatable, and it is a great way to be frugal. My kids are good kids, and they appreciate the things they have, so I have no problem doing it. I'm also one of those crazies that truly enjoys it. The key is to go with a gracious attitude, and expect other people to get/be stressed out, and rude, and be a duck.

Having said that, this year was different. I woke up with a weird feeling to begin with. And for the first time since 2000, I was not excited about Black Friday. i thought maybe it was because I am pregnant, but I think that was only partly it. The atmosphere was different. I got to the store, and it was packed two hours ahead of time, and usually it's dead two hours ahead of time(24 hr store) I didn't feel the buzz of excitement in the store that I had in years past. It was like a blanket of frustration and desperation was laying over the air in the store. It was weird. I positioned myself at the area where I needed to get to the items I needed the most, formed an alliance with the people that had arrived there first, and then waited for 5 AM. Now people aren't supposed to open the pallets before 5, and at 4 some of the items were completely out, because people were just pulling them out of the pallets, which almost started some really ugly fights. They let us go almost 10 min early, which is unheard of-they probably felt like twigs holding up the Hoover Dam. It was utter chaos. Wall to wall carts. People could not get anywhere b/c we were just stuck in place.

I got out though lol 20 min later, and got the things that my kids wanted. It was just a different atmosphere this year. The economic condition of the country was so thick you could cut it with a knife that day.


This has turned into a quasi hijack.... sorry dacs! You love me anyway

 

[FarmerChick]

Okie congrats on the new baby!
A wonderful holiday present for sure! Glad you are back to posting again!

 

[Okiemommy]

Thanks Farmerchick!

We were really excited to get the baby news the day before Thanksgiving. It made it extra special.

 

[FarmerChick]

So you are looking at about August due time?
Yikes you will be the biggest thru the hottest season...LOL...hang in there I hope.....I was lucky the way my kid fell I didn't have any hot months being super wide..HA HA HA

Any names on the list yet for boy or girl? I know you are super excited I am sure!