Thanksgiving Part 2 & Black Friday

I know its a week late, I never got to it last week, then got another cold...I am about to win this battle!<---sorry excuses are like behinds....

So not real sure what I had planned to blog about in my part 2 but I am a HUGE fan of pictures
So onto Black Friday and we will go back to this picture if need be...gotta get my random in ;-)

I do not Black Friday shop, I don't know the last time I did but even then it was a just to get out of the house and walk not a MUST GET THIS DEAL! I can pretty much sum it all up in one sentence...Nothing in a store is worth risking yourself for! This year there were other shootings, robbery attempts, stampedes, arrests, pepper-spraying, and fights and in previous years employees have been trampled to death...really nothing in there worth risking that! I think my opinion on the thought of risking yourself has gotten stronger now that I have kids I need to take care of myself in order to take care of them, but (now we go back to the picture) my kids don't even need those things for it to feel special all day Thanksgiving J kept asking me if it was Christmas because all the food on the table.
5 reasons not to shop



Thanksgiving! Part 1

Was thinking this was a "make-up post" since I missed Friday being sick and miserable, but then I decided maybe I should just blog when I feel like it. It totally goes with my randomness and prevents those days when I just don't know what to blog about or having to wait till Friday when I have a great idea, then I forget that great idea by Friday.

Thanksgiving is my FAVORITE holiday(nobody with the give-mes or I deserves) this year I was just not feeling it. I saw an ad for Tur-Duc-Hens for a store that has a location near J's school. I have always wanted to try one so I thought after I drop him off I will run get one...well they didn't have any not really surprised not an LA thing I am sure. First thing I saw was cranberries! Picked them up and read the bag...decided they were grown too far away for me to buy them, all the way across the country, the LONG way, not thrilling when I know they grow them just one state away. Saw a free range turkey that called to me "Pick me, take me home, I will make the bellies of your family happy!" so I plucked it out of the fridge and brought it home. Just a turkey wouldn't do and we were in desperate need of TP so E and I ran to the store near our house. I wandered ALL the isles they rearranged AGAIN about a month ago and I am still not used to it. grabbed some canned cranberries to go with the Turkey(would you believe I never tried them till a few years ago, because they looked too much like beats...that I tried in like 1st grade and didn't like?) Walked around the store 3 times the third time I finally found some french fried onions for green bean casserole(I was determined to find them, this is our third year here and we have been living without them and the always delicious green bean casserole) then on my way to the checkout I grabbed a box to make stuffing...I hate it but decided its selfish not to make it because I don't like it. I am so excited now I don't know how I will wait till Thursday!!!

locs

all hair can loc, all hair will left alone...these would be neglect locs

Locs have fascinated me for years...there are sooo many types and ways to start them and different levels of care they receive.

Hubby hates them! He thinks all locs are nasty, and he has told me this a few times now. Of course when you hear something that you know is not true you have this itching to prove it wrong(at least I do) I don't really want locs at this point and probably never really will because 1 Peter 3 and he said "Never have locs" but last week I twisted some strands to get them out of my face and chose not to comb my hair for some reason(probably sheer laziness) the next day my hair still looked great so I left it...and the next day I went to take fix my hair and found the 2 strands I had twisted had kinda locked together and chose to leave them and just keep twisting them up. Day 3 or 4 Hubby sees them and FLIPPED OUT. My stubbornness got to me...it took him days to notice I had twists so I wanted to just continue to leave it and see how long it would take him to notice. It has been a week of no combing and my hair is starting to loc up all over in neglect locs, it may just look like messy hair but its time to comb them out so I won't have locs like he told me, and he never noticed. I love the size the locs are forming but from what I have seen of neglect locs its not what I would want, I would want the hair sectioned. Best advice I have read on locs is educate yourself on them before jumping in.

Rain

How pathetic is that I am drawing a blank today but its raining so will blog about the rain!

Cold and rainy today so no fun stomping in the puddles

and no fun dancing in the rain

I love when it rains even if its cold. I see it as a cleansing from heaven. God may have promised not to flood the earth again but he doesn't ignore us and he does answer prayers. We need a little help and reminder to cleanse in our life and I think that rain does a great job of that.

My wedding was in the rain.
It may have been frightening to our witnesses, but it was an answer to the local farmers prayers and one of the best days of my life!

Halloween PartA

J's class had their Halloween party today! This is the first year I will let him go ToTing(Trick-or-Treating) so the first year we bought him a costume(he has had a few but they were gifts) So I dropped him off at school at 9 headed home changed a diaper, looked for a camera(didn't find it) called my mom for a quick chat, grabbed the Macaroni and Cheese(I got up at 6AM to make) and headed back out the door for the party.

First we had to wait while they finished the pledge and songs! E played with some other babies close to her age!

Then we headed outside and watched them parade around the playground
They lined up so we could get class photos! Look at all those princesses and fairies

Then they went inside and had story time

Then lunch!

All while E napped

The party was over but there was only enough time for me to go home and turn around and head back but J wasn't ready to go. So we(E and I) stayed while they got in a circle to have some quiet play time while the teachers cleaned up after the party. J's little friend made sure they ended up next to each other by holding hands and dragging him into the circle and not letting go till the circle was complete

They shared costumes and blocks. Its so nice to see him play with friends!

Barefoot

Mud

Mud is very nice to feel
All squishy-squash between the toes!
I'd rather wade in wiggly mud
Than smell a yellow rose.

Nobody else but the rosebush knows
How nice mud feels
Between the toes.
---Polly Chase Boyden

It is NOT the season for playing in the mud but the only way to enjoy mud is barefoot...In my humble opinion

I have always loved being barefoot. My dad picked on me when I always insisted J wear socks and shoes as a baby because I never did. We were in a very different climate Dad!

There are probably hundreds of reasons to be barefoot! This guy Tom A. Kutscher put 125 reasons with references! Check out the link!
Sure shoes protect your feet from from cuts, bruises, extreme temperature, parasites, fungi, and can be fashionable, but there are also problems that they are finding might be due to shoes. There is enough interest in the healthier feet of the barefoot there are more and more "barefoot shoes" coming out. Earlier this year they did a study and determined "Running Barefoot Creates Less Collision Force Than Running in Cushioned Shoes"

 

There is a few myths and laws that are a bit upsetting to me about barefoot.

1. Shoes are a sign of civilization...um does that mean barefooters(people who choose to go barefoot in public) aren't civilized?
2. Being barefoot is a sign of poverty...pretty sure lots of barefoot people have the means to wear shoes if they like.
3. The no shoes no service law is believed to have been started to deny hippies(who were shoeless as a sign of innocence) service, but this started the idea that being barefoot is extremely dirty.
4. Several of the laws that actually DO exist are just for employees

E and I took a barefoot walk on Monday, it was tough work! I made it .6 miles then felt the need to turn around. There is a Hiking group that meets and walks the beach for I think 3 miles. I have never done it with them but met a lady who had and she said some of them go barefoot but they say it is harder. To me walking in sand is like swimming with flippers then taking them off and swimming some more it seems to take forever to get anywhere! I really did enjoy it though and am thinking we will be trying it again next week!