Hello!
Hope everyone is having a
fantastic holiday weekend!!
Well, today's the day,"Small
Business Saturday."
The day we focus on shopping
at those cute little stores
that we have in our towns
and cities.
The benefits are many--
Shoppers can find a
variety of unique gifts.
Those that the gifts are
for receive a special gift.
Shopkeepers profit and many
gain new customers.
Enjoy your shopping. Hope
you find a lot of fun
goodies!!
~Keep on Dreaming~
Here we are the day before"the
big day." Are you ready? We are.
Mr. Ken and I will be at home
tomorrow and enjoy hanging,
eating AND locating Christmas
decorations
Wishing you are yours a day filled
with FAMILY, FRIENDS, FUN,
FOOD AND MOST OF ALL FELLOW-
SHIP!!!
Why did the turkey cross the road
twice?
To prove he was not a chicken.
What do you call it when it rains
turkeys?
Foul Weather
Happy Thanksgiving!!
~Keep on Dreaming~
Hello!!
A friend of mine posed this question
on Facebook today.
Name a game or games that DO NOT
require a power source?
My answers were:
UNO, FARKEL and SCRABBLE
Do you have family coming for the
holidays? Set out some games and
have fun! Start a new tradition.
~Keep on Dreaming~
Hello!!
Have you ever wondered
why Thanksgiving is on a
Thursday?
Yes? No?
Well, for those of you who have
I have that pertinent information
for you.
Back when Washington was
President, he declared November
26 as a "Day of Publick Thanksgivin."
But then in the years to follow the
holiday was announced by president-
ial proclamation an celebrated on
different days ans months.
In 1863, Lincoln made his Thanks-
giving proclamation, the last
Thursday of November became
standard.
Roosevelt had a double Thanks-
giving problem.
In 1933, there was a five Thursday
November and retailers were
up in arms,wanted him to move
Thanksgiving up one week. He
denied this request and Thanks-
giving was was on the last Thursday
of the month.
Roosevelt was President in 1939
when it happened AGAIN!
Retailers asked for the move again
and he agreed.
After much moving around, finally
in 1941 Congress passed a law making
Thanksgiving the fourth Thursday of
November.
Who knew that???
~Keep on Dreaming~
Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
I have now joined the ranks of
"Facebookdom."
So now you can follow me there
too.
~Keep on Dreaming~
Hello Everyone!
Well, the "BIG T" day is just
around the corner. Two weeks
from tomorrow!! Are you ready?
With that in mind, I thought we
would talk traditions today.
I found some very interesting
ones on the internet.
1. Have a Paintball Tournament
the day after Thanksgiving instead
of watching sports.
2. A Spoon Contest--balance
a spoon on your nose.
3. Turkey day PJ's. Wear your
PJ's while celebrating. Invite your
guests to wear theirs too!
4. Christmas crafting. Start on those
Christmas presents while visiting
with family.
5. Instead of turkey as the main
entree some serve chicken, pizza,
Chinese take out, ham, prime rib,
crab legs or some make
RESERVATIONS.
What are your Traditions for
this special holiday?
We are pretty "traditional" for
Thanksgiving. Some years we
host--making the turkey and
mashed potatoes and others
bringing the rest of the goodies,
some years we head out to
one of the brother's home and
bring our contribution.
Mr. Ken and I will have a small
dinner on Thanksgiving day with
ham and all the fixings and yes
there will be pie!
The day after, we are off to Mr.
Ken's brother and fiance's for a
family meal and we will be
bringing the veggie platter and
rolls.
When we host, it is usually
buffet style due to the amount of
people hanging out. Paper plates
help with the clean up.
We also have done the going out
thing too, the meal was good BUT
I missed the leftovers!!
~Keep on Dreaming~
Last Sunday was a BIG day here!
We went to Granite City for a
delicious brunch...oh was it
yummy!! There was a specific
reason for brunching as you
will see. (Sorry lost the dang
picture!!)
Those crazy kids are taking
selfies again!
Someone had a birthday and
raked in some really good loot!
Here is the yummy birthday
bundtlet cake. It is made by a
company called "Nothing Bundt
Cake." These are soooo moist and
yummy.
The other excitement of the day
was that the Kansas City Royals
won the 2015 World's Series!!!!
Such fun and we are so proud of
our Boys in Blue!!!
This turns out to be the final score
in game 5 of the series. Of course it
had to go into extra innings!!
The exact time of the WIN and it is
still my birthday! So nice of them to
win the World Series on my big day!!!
News after the game!!
Boys arriving home the next day.
Parade day! Mr. Ken works at the
courthouse in downtown KC and
the parade route just happened to
go right by his office.
An exciting time for Kansas City!!!
We were able to get a really good
spot right his office building. Here
we are waiting for the parade to
begin. I did not have school and
as far as I know no one had school
that day, so I went to work with
Mr.
Waiting with a few of our "closest"
friends.
The parade begins with a giant replica
of THE trophy.
Here's Slugger! Our mascot.
Kansas City Mayor Sly James.
Dayton Moore, Royals General Manager.
The players....
This takes some explaining. Our third
baseman's name is Mike Moustakas but
the fans have shortened it to MOOSE.
Well this guy above has an authentic
moose rack (as you can see) that he
brings to all the games, so of course he
was part of the parade.
This is THE Mike Moustakas, he raised
his hand just as I snapped the pic.
Our All star MVP pitcher for the
World Series Sal Perez--Salvi for
short.
Our coach Ned Yost and THE
real World Series Trophy.
The team headed down to Union Station
after the parade for a rally--we did not
do to that wildness.
According to city officials between the
parade and the rally an approx 800,000
people were in attendance for the fun!!!
Now that my friends is A LOT of people.
Wow!!! A fun day for the city and for all
of us that live in the metro area. We all
love our boys and are so excited to have
the World Series Trophy here!!!
Told you it was a BIG post. :)
~Keep on Dreaming~
Hello!!!
Just popping in quickly to say
"I am still here!"
Lots of fun stuff going on here
and so many things to get caught
up on.
Needless to say that I am tired
and not up to a full post BUT I
will be back with a BIG post on
what's been going on here!!
~Keep on Dreaming~
