Merry Christmas!!

Christmas eve traditions

For Christmas 2008 Family Shauan is staying in Monroe, NC.  This is the first Christmas that I've been away from my parents since 1999.  But I was in la la land then... drunk on love!  I went to visit Wayne in SoCal for a week to see what his world was like.  That was when we started planning our life together.  Here we are nine years later, trying to "plan" special holiday traditions for our family.  So as long as God allows, here's what December 24th will look like for our family (these things can happen at any location though).  

After dinner we went out front and Avery sprinkled the yard with reindeer food for... well, for the reindeer.  Actually he doused the yard with the food.  He wants to go on a special ride with the reindeer.  The funny thing is he knows the gifts that have been under the tree for several days comes from family and friends, not santa.  He knows santa won't be coming tonight, but I'm pretty sure he thinks there will be an appearance by some reindeer.  So then we came inside and Wayne read the book "Room for a Little One - A Christmas Tale" by Martin Waddell.  After that we "unstuffed" the stockings.  Avery stuck his arm in several times to make sure it was really empty.  Next we watched "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (Not sure if that will be the movie that makes the yearly tradition).  Finally it was jammas time!  So now all the boys are tucked in bed, I'm watching "It's a Wonderful Life", and sipping Apple Cider.  Tomorrow new traditions begin as well.  But that's another post.  Merry Christmas!

daily life

this is daily life for me...

I just never know who I'm going to get ... and neither do you.

My 9 Names

Okay, I have no excuse.  So I won't even try.  It's been too long.  But I'm officially blogging again.  I must say all my creative juices are currently being put into my naked Christmas tree.  So I'm stealing an idea from my friend Joy that I think is fun.

My 9 Names:

1.  Your Real Name:  Karyn

2.  Your Gangsta Name (first 3 letters of real name plus izzle):  karizzle

3.  Your Detective Name (favorite color and favorite animal):  Red Cat

4.  Your Soap Opera Name (your middle name and street you live on/or your apartment #):  Dawn Talleyrand

5.  Your Star Wars Name (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 of your first):  shaka

6.  Your Superhero/Criminal Name (your 2nd favorite color, and favorite candy):  Brown Spree

7.  Your Iraqi Name (2nd letter of your first name, 3rd letter of your last name, 1st letter of your last name, 2nd letter of your mom's maiden name, 3rd letter of your dad's name, 1st letter of a sibling's first name, and last letter of your mom's first name):  aasoota

8.  Your Witness Protection Name (parents middle name):  Jill Lee

9.  Your Goth Name (black, and the name of one of your pets):  Black Indy