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Merry Christmas, Mark. We got your card. Thanks!

Merme

I know scientific studies but I don't always believe them .But I hate my feet getting cold because I have always had poor circulation there and cannot get them warm very fast without help. The studies also say that ear infections are not caused by teething in babies. Phooey, I say. If not directly than the excess saliva and mucus does a job on their poor ears. And I have my own theories about getting chilled/wet lowering immune systems as well. I have 129 accumulated mothering years to back up my theories. Not too shabby for a 58 year old!

It sounds as though Maxi is going to have an awesome Christmas. He will be very happy just to have you, Merme.

I'm 52 and only have a few grey hairs around the temples. Since my hair color is very light, the grey doesn't show much. Does it still count?


Merme

I won't dye over them, either, Afgrey. I believe in the natural beauty involved with aging gracefully. Well, at least aging crazily if not exactly gracefully!

When Bill refers to grey hair as silver, perhaps he is remembering that very old song "Silver Threads Among The Gold". I don't know what year it was composed, but the writer lived a long time ago.
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Silver Threads Among the Gold




Eben E. Rexford, 1848-1916


Darling, I am growing old,
Silver threads among the gold
Shine upon my brow today;
Life is fading fast away;
But, my darling, you will be, will be,
Always young and fair to me,
Yes, my darling, you will be,
Always young and fair to me.

Chorus:

When your hair is silver white,
And your cheeks no longer bright,
With the roses of the May;
I will kiss your lips and say-
Oh! my darling, mine alone, alone,
You have never older grown,
Yes, my darling, mine alone,
You have never older grown.

Chorus:

Love can never more grow old,
Locks may lose their brown and gold,
Cheeks may fade and hollow grow,
But the hearts that love will know
Never, never, winter's frost and chill:
Summer warmth is in them still-
Never winter's frost and chill,
Summer warmth is in them still.

Chorus:

Love is always young and fair,-
What to us is silver hair,
Faded cheeks or steps grown slow,
To the heart that beats below?
Since I kissed you, mine alone, alone,
You have never older grown-
Since I kissed you, mine alone,
You have never older grown.
Chorus:



Chorus:
Darling, I am growing old,
Silver threads among the gold,
Shine upon my brow today;
Life is fading fast away.

No, Cindy. Mine is completely gray ( I say silver too) in the front and the sides. I started graying early and when my mother passed away in '88 I had more gray than she did. She was jealous. No dye for me. I love 'em and have earned them.
When I went in this year to change the name on my drivers license I put gray/brown on my application. The lady says you can't have two colors so I asked her which one was me. She was embarrassed but said gray. I was thrilled!. I am gray on my license and mostly gray on my head too. Cool! I do like it.

Afgrey, you have a PM.

I can't believe I'm still up. But I'm having a digestive problem tonight and can't go to bed until it resolves, because it takes me far too long to get out of bed and into the bathroom. It's been half an hour since the last episode. If nothing else happens within an hour, I'll go to bed.

Meantime, I'm having a last cup of Red rose Tea.


Merme

Cindy, you have a PM. I just sent you a picture of my hair because we are not allowed to post pictures in the CH.

I am headed to bed, too. I hope your problem is resolved, Merme and that you can sleep soon.

Good night, Tina.

I just realized that although Maxi brought his PS2 home, he forgot the controller. Santa gave him PS2 games and those DVD's and now he will not be able to do anything with them!!!


Merme

Put me in the "will always color hair" section. I would never have plastic surgery or botox or anything like that---never ever. But I come from a long line of women who don't go gray. Not that there is anything wrong with being natural---it's just not for me.

Merry Christmas everyone. I woke up at 5am and my head is hurting and I couldn't get back to sleep....I tried trust me. And maybe I'm a tad excited this morning too. I need to be over there before Athena gets up so that I can see her come down the stairs.

Come 10am I'll be falling asleep. Last year I napped on the way home from Marks families.....he was a little jealous I could do that while he had to drive.

So we'll probably start the morning around 7:30 or so I figure....mom makes muffins and we have them with coffee. We'll probably be opening until around 10am or so and by the time we are finished and get our stuff gathered up to come back over here I'll need to go upstairs and get myself looking "unscary" for Marks family. Well get out there around 12:30, eat at 1pm and probably leave around 3pm to get back to moms so we can eat there at 5pm. What a day. My sister has to leave around noon to go get my older niece.

I'm very Christmasy today. I have on my velvet shirt with Santa in his sleigh, my new socks, and pssst---I even broke out the Christmas undies. Not that anyone will see that! Oh and I have in my earrings that are presents on gold hoops, and my snowflake necklace. And finally, my Santa hat that I wear every year.

Hope everyone has a wonderful day. I'm heading to get some Advil in me.

Happy Holiday, everyone!

Loz, you are going to such a great (but busy!) day today!

Man oh man, Christmas came to Merme & Maxi's house and Santa was as good to us as we were to each other!!


Merme

Breakfast today is pancakes, sausage links, eggs, fruit and egg nog. Help yourselves!


Merme

Merry Christmas One And All.....

I have a few minutes here---Hot Mulled Cider, Christmas Cookies (yes) and Chocolate Biscotti are on the counter for breakfast. At present we are drinking coffee waiting for the Cider flavors to fuse.

I wish I could speak to everyone---but I must get going---I'll be back later tonight. :ding: & to everyone !!!

Good Morning Carol and Merry Christmas,..

I'm sorry Carol Jean has to leave so soon but it is really good to see you on this morning, Diane. You are welcome to breakfast any time my friend.


Merme

Good morning. I wanted to sleep in later but my bladder had other ideas. I did sleep in later than any other Christmas in my history though, So I am doing well.
Merry Christmas friends.

We just got the Roast Beast in the oven and are planning to have dinner at 6. It should be a tasty feast as we surrounded the beef with red potatoes, celery, a turnip, and carrots. I will make a Yorkshire Pudding later and dinner rolls, too.

Maxi went outside and was working on his snow fort for a while.

It is a lovely day and there is a Star Wars version of Monopoly in our future activities.


Merme

Star Wars Monopoly sounds like fun. I have a couple of versions of Monopoly and they are all fun. Roast beast sounds pretty good too.
We are having a foggy, rainy stay-at-home day. Well, except Jonni will be out cruising the neighborhood later on. She has been invited to a Christmas dinner with neighbors. I am cooking up some things here; invalid cooking sort of.

I want to get my hands on some of these peppers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naga_Jolokia_pepper

Blisters on your tongue

Who said it was for my tongue

OK, blister on someone's tongue, then. But not mine.

merry christmas all :ding: & to you all from me too. we are having a very lazy day, and i'll be here off and on, all day.

Maxi and I had a nice addition to our day. My good friend Lori brought two of her sons down for a visit! It was so good to see them! She & I had been neighbors in Portland a few years before Maxi was born, while her boys were small. Then she moved to a town about an hour away and life is so busy we rarely see each other, though we keep in close touch. Her younest is 6 months younger than Maxi, and she has two older boys as well.

The visit made the holiday even more special.


Merme

Christmas visitors help brighten a day, Merme. I am glad you and Maxi had a good time.

what a pleasant surprise merme! i'm glad you had a nice visit and a good surprise.

Ok, I have a lot of jasmine rice cooked up in chicken broth and bagged in meal sized bags and most frozen. I have chicken, celery and onions cooking for a creamed chicken to serve over some of that rice later. I have a few more meals of chicken prepared and ready for future meals in the freezer. I also made some rice and apple pudding. I have shrimp scampi frozen in meal sized packages (to also serve over rice or pasta).
None of this sounds good to me for my dinner tonight. I want to go to someone else's house to eat a dinner I didn't cook. How sad is that?

i have a piece of breakfast casserole left. want it? it was really good

Thank you, that sounds good too.
Well, I settled on some potato chips followed by better than sex brownies (I ate 3). Or maybe I ate them the other way around. Then napped it all off. I am back to cooking again. All of that and John wanted a grilled cheese for lunch. But a good dinner is ready when he is now.

a lot of it sounds better than left over ham does at this moment it was so good, but now, i'm hammed out. and there isn't room in the freezer for more.

and i got the pictures up from the holiday, down in the mouse hole. 2 sets. for all to see.

Well, those particular brownies didn't set up as they should have. I think we hurried them along too fast. But even gooey they are scrumptious.

gooey are the best. I haven't been on all day and only read three post back, so I have no idea what every one has been up to. I just wanted to pop in and say hello! we had a wonderful christmas! kicking the inlaws out now as we speak......... I'll be back in a jiff

Welcome home Cindy and Cricket.
I do read back most of everything.

of course you don't afgrey, cause your a rebel! he he
whew! got the inlaws gone. they called and wanted to come for just a couple of hours cause he had to get the kids home by 5:00, we said ok. once 5 had come and gone he said he didn't have to have them back till tomorrow at noon! It's seven now and they JUST left! MAN!...........Ok........no more about that! It's over and done and they are gone now. and nothing (that we know of) got broke.

How was Christmas for your kids, Cricket?
And how was Christmas for Cricket (before the in-laws)?

Our Christmas was great! for me and hubby and the kidos!
how was yours, tina? (if you've already said, forgive me. I still haven't read back) me is one tired cricket!

My Christmas was good and very, very quiet. Our Christmas is postponed this year to a more funner time. So I hung around my computer most of the day with my friends when I wasn't cooking for the week ahead.