Come on baby, let's do it just one time!

It's a romantic full moon, when Pedro said, "Hey, mamacita, let's do Weeweechu."Oh no, not now, let's look at the moon!" said Rosita.

Oh, c'mon baby, let's you and I do Weeweechu. I love you and it's the perfect time," Pedro begged.

"But I wanna just hold your hand and watch the moon." replied Rosita.Please, corazoncito, just once, do Weeweechu with me."Rosita looked at Pedro and said, "OK, one time, we'll do Weeweechu."

Pedro grabbed his guitar and they both sang.....

"Weeweechu a Merry Christmas, Weeweechu a Merry Christmas, Weeweechu a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year.

"MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!

Melinda

Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

--Anonymous

Time for a Cookie Swap!!!

PEANUT BUTTER MICE

Source: www.littleshamrocks.com/.

Yield: 4 dozen.

1 Cup creamy peanut butter

1/2 Cup butter, softened

1/2 Cup sugar

1/2 Cup packed brown sugar

1 Egg

1 Teaspoon vanilla extract

1 1/2 Cups all-purpose flour

1/2 Teaspoon baking soda

1/2 Cup peanut halves

2 Tablespoons green and red miniature M&M’s

4 Teaspoon miniature semi-sweet chocolate chips

48 Pieces red shoestring licorice cut 2 inches long.•

In a large mixing bowl, cream peanut butter, butter, sugar and brown sugar. Beat in egg and vanilla. Combine the flour and baking soda; gradually add to the creamed mixture. Refrigerate for 1 hour or until easy to handle.• Roll into 1 inch balls. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheets. Pinch each ball at one end to taper. Insert 2 peanut halves in center of each ball for the ears. Add one M&M for the nose and 2 chocolate chips for the eyes.• Bake at 350 for 10 minutes or until set. Gently insert one licorice piece into each warm cookie for the tail. Let cool in pan for 4 minutes, then remove to wire racks to cool completely.

OR make it easy on yourself and buy the redi-made peanut butter cookies to use instead of making cookies from scratch, save yourself some time!!!!

Let your kids help make the mice!!!

Melinda

WHITE CHOCOLATE SNACK MIX

This is the best snack mix I've ever had. You can adjust the colors of the M & Ms to suite your season!

Here's the recipe:


Melt one package of white almond bark,.

Mix two cups each: Wheat Chex, Corn Chex, cheerios,mini pretzels, M&Ms. (You can substitute other Chex or add peanuts, raisins, dried cranberries or other ingredients if you like.)

Pour melted bark over the mixture.

Spread on a cookie sheet lined with wax paper.

Allow to cool, break into chunks.

Store in airtight container for weeks!

Sooooooo goooood!

Melinda


PS: I made this yesterday and added peanuts and dried cranberries to mine and it is delicious.

I want to believe this, I do!

When one door of happiness closes, another opens;
but often we look so long at the closed door
that we do not see the one which has opened for us.-

Helen Keller

Time for some Christmas Crafts!!!

Ok, for those of you who have nothing to do, here are a few crafts I love.

I will add them to my to do list, or save for my future to do list. (which is only a mile long)

First up, Disco Ball ornaments from http://www.oneprettything.com/ and http://www.ehow.com/.

How to Make a CD Disco Ball Ornament

By eHow Hobbies, Games & Toys Editor
Rate: (51 Ratings)

Make your own disco ball using old CDs. This eHow was contributed by one groovy, anonymous person.

InstructionsDifficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

Large Styrofoam Balls With Hanger

Colored Light Bulbs

Flood Lighting

Glue Guns Hot Glue Sticks

Cutting Boards Scissors Scissors

X-Acto Knives

Straightedges Ruler thin

strong ropes

Step1: Cut up old CDs into 1/2-inch or 1-centimeter squares.

Step 2: Glue them to the outside of some kind of ball or spherical object.

Step 3: Cut a string and push through the spherical object and hang it from the rafters.

Step 4: Shine lights (ideally multicolored) onto the ball.

Step 5: Bingo! Disco ball.

and go visit http://mysweetsavannah.blogspot.com/ to make this fabulous faux snowballs.

Have fun!

Melinda

On to Christmas!

Well, Thanksgiving was good, quieter than normal, but we had a lovely dinner with my MIL and BIL. I cooked way too much food, didn't quite scale down enough for a small group. Put away the Thanksgiving stuff, and

NOW ON TO CHRISTMAS! The gathering at my house on Christmas will be considerably larger, say around 20 to 25 people. I was asked to host my neighborhoods ornament swap on December 6th, but I finally managed to say NO, which is not a word I use too often. I am actually proud of myself for adding that word to my vocabulary.

This year's color scheme at my house is going to be a little different, lime green and purple! My daughters choice. The outside wreaths and mailbox are now sporting lovely lime green bows, the lighted reindeer will also be sporting these bright colors. Our inside tree has a beautiful sparkly purple bow and streamers to go with the very brightly colored lights on our tree and so does the fireplace. The packages under the tree are also wrapped in the various shades of the new green, and purple. It actually looks very festive.

Still have lots of work to do on the decorating, hopefully, we get some photos posted here. I still haven't learned to upload photos from my digital camera, need DDs help.

Melinda