Have a Merry Christmas everyone!

I have in the past always said "Enjoy your holidays" because I realize not everyone celebrates Christmas.  But with the attacks that have been coming on anything Christian, I will not be doing that this year!  Have a Merry, Happy Christmas!  Enjoy Your Hanuka!  May it be a time of great happiness!  

What ever your beliefs, the majority of Americans believe in Jesus Christ, and they try to honor him by celebrating Christmas.  This is the time when you catch a wonderful glimps of the people we could be all year long if we stayed the course.  My wish for all this year is to take the knowledge that Jesus Christ came from God, was God, and came to earth as a humble baby.  He grew and live a perfect sinless human life.  He lived the life we couldn't because we are weak and not holy.

When we really dwell on this, it is both awe inspiring and humbling beyond words.  We need to take this knowledge with us every day and behave as if he were walking beside us; because he is walking beside us.  We remember this at Christmas and behave as we should all year. 

May we all remember we walk with the holy every day, and we need to become more holy every day.  Amen

Yippie! I finally got back on the forums at Victoria Magazine!

Well, almost that is.  I at least got on as a guest and got registered as AnneCordelia.  I had to give up my old name of teaputts, which is a shame, because I like that one.  I can't wait to start the interaction with the genteel and kindly folks on the website.  There is a whole different feel to the forums at Victoria.  If you have a need for whimsy, beauty, and a timeless gentility, then by all means go there to imbibe of the sweet other worldliness of Victoria.

(sigh) I love the camaraderie and the dedication to making life beautiful that you will find on the site.

Don't get sick!!!

Grayson is a boob, but he had a point.  "Don't get sick" is good advise.  Especially after you look at the risks from medicines, and hospital infections.  Did you know that correctly prescribed and taken meds when combined with incorrectly prescribed or taken meds are like the 4th or 5th leading cause of death?  When separated, they are like 7th or 8th.  Still pretty scary!!

Well I found a solution.  Did you ever hear of Wellmune?  It is a neat little thing invented by the folks over at Monavie.  It is in their Mmun blend of juice, and tastes great!  They like to say it tastes like money with a splash of citrus.  Not only does it taste good, but it is good for you, and your immune system.  It has 12 patents, and 40 pending patents.  They fed this Mmun to rats and hit them with all sorts of flu viruses, colds, and other pathogens; and nothing.  The rats didn't get sick.  So someone got the bright idea to feed these rats terrorists strength Anthrax.  I know what you are thinking.  No, the rats given Mmun lived; never got the disease.  Moral of the story: Never feed rodents, or people you don't like Monavie's Mmun!  If you want to live, or feed it to people you like, go to healthghemm@mymonavie.com

Am I just imagining it, or is the price of groceries going through the roof?

So we keep hearing how there is no inflation, and we are doing OK considering.  I mean, the old folks didn't even need an increase in their measly Social Security income, right?  So why is my grocery bill going through the roof?  Even when the price didn't go up, the package got smaller.  Why?  This is the growing season locally, and I am still paying a fairly high price for what I get.  Today, for instance, I picked up milk, bread, coffee, peaches, grapes, bananas, a big sub, band aids and a pizza and salad stuff for dinner and two boxes of Little Debbie's for lunches.  It cost me $80 to walk out of the store.  We will be eating very carefully monitored portions over the next few months.  I may make the boys eat beans, well seasoned with ginger.  I just don't know how people are going to do it. 


We took one of the cars off of the insurance and parked it this week.  It will be a real crimp in the way we work the family, but I don't see another way until Bob is out of school and we are both working full time.  We are working at selling his car, as he will be getting his motorcycle back on the road this week end.  When it rains or is too cold, he will be using my car.  The way things are going, we may sell it and get a jalopy!  I am, for the first time in my life, really scared about the future.  I hope everyone else is doing better.

A Visit Back Home

Who ever wrote, "You can't go home again," was partly right.  I really enjoyed my trip  home, but is is always different than it was.  My friends are busy with their own small children, careers, home care, and many have moved.  We always do enjoy a good get together though.  We always act like we did when we were stupid kids, at least for a time.

Case in point, is the time where my younger brother, Jason did an "interpretive dance" with sparklers at our friend Scotts on the 4th.  Now he is in his 40s, and his hopping and jigging WAS funny.  He was breathless, and sweating to beat all when he was finished, but we were howling.  Then he said it was Louie's turn (Scott's nick name).  To the chants of "Louie, Louie"  Scott did his version of the "interpretive dance" with sparklers.  He was in as bad a shape to be doing this as Jason.  As he was catching his breath and laughing, I heard, "Damned people!"  I started to laugh and shouted, "Those Damned Kyles!"  Everyone laughed as Scott bellowed out, "Yeah!  Damned Kyles!" Before collapsing in laughter. 

Sad truth is, we all have some health issues going on, and behaving with these childish antics is wonderful for a time, then reality comes back like a brick wall.  Still, I am glad to go back

NVIC Vaccine News

NVIC Vaccine News

I know my son's autism is from the vaccines. Other parents of Autistic children will agree with me, so will several of their close family members. Others will think we are all nuts. But I know what I know. There is no autism in my family what so ever. My husband had two uncles who married women with autistic siblings, and each one has an autistic child, but it was supposed to have been from their wives' families. So where did it come from if it is genetic?

No I watch my son become autistic within 15 minutes of being improperly vaccinated, and that is that

Go here and start your research.

Life'an 'at

I love Victoria Magazine.  I have since the day I bought the premier issue.  It captured my imagination and need for prettiness.  I almost cried when I discovered that it was discontinued!  Then it came back!!  What sweet jubilation!  I was so incredible excited.  So much had happened that was not pretty in my life in the intervening years, that made be cling to the magazine and web site like a drowning woman. 

For anyone not acquainted with the magazine, it has a deep emotional connection for us Victoria lovers.  It reminds us of loved ones long gone, days gone by, the prettier side of life.  There is nostalgia and longing for us.  Unfortunately, I can't access the darned web site anymore!  Three times I have contacted the web master, and now am so frustrated. 

I love that forums.  There were "kindred spirits" and the "race that knows Joseph" frequented the pages of the forums.  It was there I could go and know with utter assurance, that not one foul utterance would be on the page, not one discomfiting name would be called.  It was a place of total acceptance, dedication to making life beautiful, and growing in graciousness.  I loved those people and my space in their lives. 

Maybe one day the webmaster will contact me and allow me safe passage again.