(courtesy of Janet at Friday Fill Ins)
1. No, we will NOT be opening Christmas presents early.
2. I remember eating dinner at the old kitchen table.
3. I watched the steam rising from the hot cup of coffee (or tea) and thought: I was right...  I knew I didn't like hot beverages.
4. No matter what happens...  I'm going to be okay.
5. I'll take Robert Pattinson...  you can have Taylor Lautner.
6. It looks like snow... at least from my point of view.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to watching TV and reading, tomorrow my plans include wrapping Christmas presents and Sunday, I want to finish it all up!

Waiting on Wednesday...

(Compliments of Jill @ Breaking the Spine)

It allows bloggers to feature pre-publication
books that they are eagerly anticipating!

After the last book in this sequel left me hanging.... BIG TIME....  and my obsession with the TV show....  I cannot wait for this one!!!

The Vampire Diaries: The Return:  Shadow Souls

L.J. Smith

Release Date:  March 16, 2010

HarperTeen

Pages:  608

ISBN:  978-0061720819

From ljanesmith.net:

A kinder, gentler Damon, a heart-torn Elena, and a roadtrip that leads--literally--into Hell. What more could you want on vacation with your best friends? The catch: even to get in you have to wear a dog-collar and be considered the slave of the vampire that brings you. Suddenly Damon learns what it's like to have three wives at once. Meanwhile Stefan is languishing in prison, dependent on Elena's dreams to keep him from dying. Plus, quite a twisty ending, if I do say so myself.

Loved Ones Lost in 2009

Well, I am going to make this post hoping with all my heart that we are able to successfully make it to 2010 without losing anyone else...

This post is to serve as a tribute to all those loved ones that have gone on to bigger and better things in 2009...  my family has suffered a lot of loss this year...  so much love to those now smiling down on us from Heaven...  and if you have lost a loved one, please feel free to share in your comment...  and share this post with others you know that might want to add lost loved ones...  and it doesn't have to just be people...  if you lost a beloved pet, feel free to share that as well....

Halo Marie Gearlds (cousin...  died at birth)

James Leonard Lockhart (great-uncle...)

Willow Faye Bray (grandmother)

Lillie Mae Layne Lockhart (great-grandmother)

Shawn Martin Holdaway (brother)

Wanda Carroll Owens (aunt)

Waiting on Wednesday

(Compliments of Jill @ Breaking the Spine)

It allows bloggers to feature pre-publication
books that they are eagerly anticipating!

This week's selection is going to keep me waiting for quite a bit, but I'm hoping it will be well worth the wait...  

Keep Sweet

Michelle Dominguez Greene

Release Date:  March 9, 2010

Young Adult

ISBN-13: 978-1416986812 

From Amazon:

 

Alva Jane has never questioned her parents, never questioned her faith, never questioned her future. She is content with the strict rules that define her life in Pineridge, the walled community where she lives with her father, his seven wives, and her twenty-eight siblings. This is the only world Alva has ever known, and she has never thought to challenge it.

But everything changes when Alva is caught giving her long-time crush an innocent first kiss. Beaten, scorned, and now facing a forced marriage to a violent, fifty-year old man, Alva suddenly realizes how much she has to lose--and how impossible it will be to escape.

 

Teaser Tuesdays

(Compliments of MizB @ Should Be Reading)

Here's what you're asked to do:

1. Grab your current read...
2. Let the book fall open to a random page...
3. Share two teaser sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12...
4. Share the title of the book that the “teaser” comes from ~ so people can find the book if they like the teaser...
5. And remember – AVOID SPOILERS!!!
   

Here's Mine:

I'm sitting in the bathroom.  The teachers' bathroom, even.

page 23

Love You Hate You Miss You

by Elizabeth Scott

Fiction/Young Adult

Harper Teen

Copyright 2009

ISBN:  978-0-06-112283-5

Pages:  276 

Mailbox Monday

Thanks to Marcia @ The Printed Page, we get a chance to share
with others any books we've received the previous week,
via our mailbox.
Be sure to comment and leave a link to your Mailbox Monday post,
or just post your list in your comment.

The mailman was QUITE good to me this week....  I'm sure he didn't love it, but I did!!!!!  Several books came this week.....  

From Amazon.com Marketplace Sellers....

 

From Paperbackswap.com

  

I'm behind!!! Adventurous week!!!

It has been a very busy week so far this week and promises to continue throughout the weekend!!!  I have almost completed my Christmas shopping....  just a few small touches left!!!  Of course, everything still needs to be wrapped!!!  Of course, that's one of my favorite parts of the holidays, so no biggie!!!  Tuesday was my big shopping day out....  and yesterday, Brady ended up having Christmas pictures taken TWICE...  the first time was at The Picture People at Northlake Mall...  we have done three sets of pictures there in the past that all turned out wonderfully...  however, yesterday was a completely different experience...  our photographer, who I can only describe as 'ICY' should not be working with small children...  she didn't even seem to care about what she was doing... and it showed...  it was a horrific experience...  and ended with me walking out of the store empty handed (well, not counting the stroller handles...)  but it turned out extremely positively because I called "Portrait Innovations" here in Huntersville...  our photographer was Jen, and she did just a FABULOUS job...  she was amazing with Brady, which led to some of the most BEAUTIFUL pictures of him ever!!!  I will definitely be returning there...  and they even asked if they could use some of his pictures on the walls or windows of the studio!!!
 As for the rest of the week...  tonight I have an Eastern Star meeting...  tomorrow night is the NASCAR Awards Banquet....  Saturday night is the Director's Staff Christmas Party at the Mecklenburg Shrine Club...  and then Sunday is the Shriners Children's Christmas Party with Santa for Brady!!!  

I promise to get back on track after all of this!!!  *HUGS*