Happy Holidays or Merry Christmas!?

Dusted off the treadmill today and decided to actually use it again. Life has been so busy that walking has seemed to consist of up and down the stairs doing laundry or at the store. Regardless, it's time to get moving yet again. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that's the pattern I'm in as most of us tend to cycle through that way as well.

I figured if I'm going to walk again maybe I should catch up on the news. Of course the big news story today is whether we should say "Happy Holidays" or "Merry Christmas". That's the news?!? Personally, there are some people in the world that need to focus on something productive. Can you imagine if all the people who spent time and money fighting over taking "Christmas" out of advertising, away from the tree, and also "God" out of our lives actually took the that same amount of time and money and focused it fighting a cause they can actually win where the world would be? Cancer research could be advanced, children could be fed, the education system could be in much better shape.

So...Merry Christmas everyone! In this home "God" is in control and in God we still and always will Trust!

I'm off to spend some money...still labeled in God we Trust, Christmas shopping!!!! Should be fun!

Thanksgiving is almost here!

Hard to believe another year is wrapping up. It seems like once Thanksgiving arrives the next thing you know it is time to change the calendar to a new year.

This year Thanksgiving will be a little bit different at our house. Tomorrow Grandparents will arrive and will be greeted outside by our 2 scarecrows, still tied to the front tree. Once they come into the house they will leave fall behind and enter into the Christmas season. With my Creative Memories Open House last weekend we went ahead and decorated for the holidays ahead of time. Now the only Thanksgiving decorations up are the 2 Turkeys the kids have made on the refrigerator. Oh, well...Christmas will be here soon anyway.

This year we'll be able to relax and enjoy company instead of rushing to decorate so I suppose all in all it's a good change.

Happy Turkey Day!

Celebrating the Holidays with Creative Memories

Our house is already decorated. Hard to believe that Thanksgiving is not yet here and yet the Christmas tree is up and the stockings are by the chimney. Tomorrow is my Holiday Open House for Creative Memories. It will be a fun time to celebrate with customers and to gather wish lists for their holiday dreams. Just in case anyone happens to visit my blog in search of Creative Memories I thought I'd post my holiday specials. They are good via email or phone only up until 10pm tomorrow night!
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Flat Stanley visits Big Creek

Flat Stanley made his first trip out with a stop at Big Creek Elementary School. He visited with the boys and girls who will be tracking his progress as well as the progress of a classroom Flat Stanley who will also be sent out to explore the world soon.
As each Flat Stanley roams the world the students will track his progress on a map in the classroom. How exciting it will be for them to learn about different places and the people who live in those places.
Our Flat Stanley is almost packed, he heads out tomorrow on his first adventure. Check back here to see where he has been.

Introducing Flat Stanley

This is Flat Stanley...
well at least Zach's version of him. Flat Stanley is from the book Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown. Which is a story about a boy who has a big bulletin board fall on him which ends up making him flat. The story continues with what life is like for him once he is flat. In the story he gets invited to go to California for a trip. He really wants to go, but the family can't afford to send him. Then they realize that they could mail him.


Based on the idea of mailing Flat Stanley off to California, we thought it would be fun to see how many places our Flat Stanley could visit between now and the end of the school year. Today he is going to visit the school to have his picture taken with Zach's class. Then he will be folded, carefully of course, and shipped off to...
You'll just have to come back and see where he's been. We're asking everyone we mail him to, to send us a picture of them with Flat Stanley. Then after they take a picture with him they are suppose to mail him off to see the world. Who knows where he could end up.

Zach would love to see him travel all over. The one place he'd love for him to make it to is the Joe Louis Arena to take a picture with the Detroit Red Wings. If anyone has any connections to the Red Wings let us know!!!