What the heck,
I see a speck
Of what I do not know
Its so small it won't show,
The rest is clean
You know what I mean,
We all can agree
That speck won't let me be,
I tried to wipe it away,
But its here to stay.

~tee~

Remembering peace

~Peace by tee 2011~

Strange as it may seem,
Everyone behaves like a dream,
I keep hoping for the best,
Thinking all of the stress is a test,
It happens over and over again,
Not the way its always been,
To hope for change, I will never stop,
Over and over again, I hope not.

~tee~

Monday Monday

Day fifty three
Cookie making day, well it started out that way yesterday but I was out of some of the ingredients. I mixed up white chocolate chip cookie dough and roll out cookie dough, then I ran out of steam or rather my back did. Learning to accept limitations can be an ongoing happening. I  do not notice any hurt until it gets to a big warning level and then I have to stop. The dough is in the refrigerator for tomorrow’s baking.
Got some more packages in the mail to rap for the grands and great grands. It is getting pretty full around the tree.
It seems strange to not be making many more kinds of cookies , making  candies. But it seems that tastes have changed and that is not all bad. It seems that the children as well as adults like the veggie trays , the meat and cheese trays and the different relishes. Of course there will be something hot for everyone ( except me) to try, Kirsty always brings hot stuff and sometimes Scott will also.
I am still making up the menu for Christmas Eve and then for Christmas day. It looks like turkey for Saturday and manicotti for Christmas day. Ryker and Eden let me know that they like plain corn and not scalloped corn, makes it easier for me. I will be cheating and making stove top dressing also, well it seems the kids like it. I will make Italian pasta salad, have no done that for a while.
I am liking the thought of no really bad weather for Christmas, a brown Christmas is okay with me. No ice or snow to fight is a good thing. Of course it is harder to think it is Christmas without the snow. I remember a lot of nasty years with super cold, a lot of snow and no way to get out and go shopping. I am thankful for amazon.com and I let my fingers do the walking.
This is an off year, so it will be smaller than usual, but just as  happy. Children grow up and get married and have other families to share and then their children grow up and it is even harder. But we usually manage everyone every other year. I like making  the day as joyous as possible, each year I remember the awful feeling that there would nothing under the tree, that there would be no tree at all. It all depended on what dad felt like I guess. Maybe that is why I have tried e to make a good Christmas  for my children, it is hard for me to not do this on Christmas eve and Christmas day.

Halloween, Day seven

Times sure have changed from when I was a child. We had masks made out of  brown paper bags, rubber bands and string. We did not go in costume, there was no money for that. Instead of trick or treating we went to the school for our Halloween party. We played games, bobbed for apples. Had sack races,  peanut races, there was even apples on a string hanging in a door way, for you to try and catch with your teeth.  At the end of the evening there was a sack of goodies  for each of us. It would have peanuts, an apple, an orange and  usually taffy wrapped in orange and black, For me the best part was if there were a couple of stick of black jack gum. Oh how I loved that gum. Candy and gum were rare in our house, so the holidays were good things to look forward to.
I remember when a trick was tipping over the outhouses, or soaping windows.  When my kids were young, the tricks were soaping windows and egging cars, there were no more outhouses to tip. When the kids were little they wore the lone ranger masks for the boys and pink  ones for the girls. As they  got older they would make their own costumes. I remember one neighbor girl wrapping herself in white rags and ace bandages, I wonder how her body had any circulation, but she survived. They would get together with a bunch of friends and off they would go. I think every house in our town was visited.. After day light savings time started it was a bit harder for the kids going out in the dark.  The most fun for them was when they got back home and looked to see who got what.
There  was always a favorite candy that they would bargain with each other for.  
They made a game out of it. Then it was bedtime , that was the hardest night of the year except for Christmas Eve to get them settled down. I would tell them a spooky story if they would lay quiet and soon they were off to dreams Halloween fun.
Today it is all about glitz and fancy costumes, the adults taking the night over. Of course the children will be all decked out in store bought outfits also. Now  they have to escorted  and only go where the light is on.  There are no more homemade cookies  or popcorn balls, homemade taffy or krispie bars.
Tonight  my light will be on and all the lady bugs, pumpkins, Dora the explorers, little monsters and princesses including my grand children will come in costume. I will give too much goodies and their parents will have fun getting those kids to sleep tonight.

Creative writers Challenge Windows

In the windows of our minds,
Looking out we can see dreams of tomorrow,
 If we look within, we see our yesterdays.

~tee~

Paint by numbers~

Picture taken over 70 years ago

The baby in this old picture is me,
As time went by the changes you would see,
Today I made it to age seventy one,,
To paint my life by numbers would be fun.
The colors would be too many to say,
I know the colors will change along the way. 

A poem ~liquid~

The Liquid of his lie
as it rolled smoothly off his lips
to lie
 aching in your heart.

 ~tee~