"... Oh what can it mean, to a daydream believer and a homecoming queen..."

Hello!

    I hope everyone had a GREAT Christmas! Ours was awesome. Lots of fun, and good times. We got a Wii! Yay!  :D  It was fun to see Grammy, Pappy, and Aunt Nina unwrap the scarves I had made for them. I love giving presents.

    It's been so nice having some of our family here. Aunt Nina is leaving today, and her visit has been lots of fun. We went driving around where the Amish live on Saturday, and we got fried pies. Yummmm. I'll miss having her here, but hopefully she can come visit again before too terribly long.

   Granny and Grandpa surprised us by arriving yesterday! We didn't know they were coming up. It's nice to see them again. Granny brought up two huge suitcases full of lots of clothes and some shoes for me from Aunt Penny. I was so happy! My whole room looks like a closet right now, but that's okay. They also brought us some mullet, (which is a type of fish). We haven't had mullet in a few years, so that was a treat. I wanted a piece of key lime pie with it, but we have an overabundance of chocolate right now, so more suar is the last thing I need! I'd prefer to still fit in my jeans by the time the candy is gone, thank you very much. Then again, I can burn it all off on the Wii Fit...  LOL

   I re-did my blog, as you can see. All new music, too. Sorry to anyone who doesn't like country music. But I do like it. *grin* You can always turn it off..... or you can leave it on and maybe you'll find a new song to love? Who knows.  :)

   I'm not sure what we're doing for New Year's Eve. I might be spending the night at a friend's house, if Daddy says it's okay. It'd be nice to go over again; ee haven't seen each other for more than a few minutes since the day after Thanksgiving.

   Oh yeah, and my title is thanks to my love for "Daydream Believer" by the Monkees. I danced to that song in one of my recitals... such fun.  :)

   It's about time to leave, so I need to leave. Ciao!

Hugs,
Rebecca  

"Like a thief in the night, like a runaway train"

Hello!

   Today we had our Keepers/Contenders of the Faith meeting. The boys made wood models, but I was more excited about the girls' projects: homemade peanut butter cups, rock candy, and chocolate covered pretzels! I made the last two before, but I'd never tried making peanut butter cups. They turned out soooo yummy. I ate two, and they didn't help my sweet tooth one little bit! If I could, I'd probably eat three more. Thankfully, there's only one left of the five I made, and I'm saving it for Daddy. I'll force myself to be good.  ☺

   I ordered two shirts from Abort73.com on Tuesday, and they arrived today! One says "Love Lets Live", but my favorie says this: "Would It Bother Us More If They Used Guns?" On the main site, the guns one was sold out, but I found it in the clearance section. I'll happily wear them! I hope that it makes people go look at the website, ("Abort73.com" is printed underneath each slogan.) The website is great. There's an article rebutting every "reason" for abortion. Since abortion is a subject that I care deeply about, I want to spread the word.

   We found out that Granny, Aunt Penny, and Sushi won't be coming up until Easter. But that way, they won't freeze, since they're Florida people and all....... mainly Granny freezes.....  LOL  (Love ya, Granny!)

   But Grammy, Pappy, and Aunt Nina are definitely coming! YAY!!   ☺

   My current favorite band is Third Day. Their lyrics are awesome, and Mama and I both love the lead singer's voice.  ☺  They were in concert a few months ago, with Switchfoot and Jars of Clay, but I never looked at the dates or ticket prices, and so we didn't go. Also, Shadowfeet, by Brooke Fraser is really good. It's on my playlist.  ☺

   I need to go now.

Hugs,
Rebecca

I decided to write a new post, since I'm sure that people are going crazy waiting for a new one..... not. :-D

Hello!

    Are you tired of my last post yet?  :-) 

    I spent the last two nights at my friend's house, which was really fun! (Thanks for having me over, Laura!)

    My sister Natalie got her ears pierced in August, and she was able to take out the first studs on Thursday. She had to leave out her earring in one ear on Friday, because it was hurting her, and we wanted to keep any infection away with cleaner. Apparently, the earring was out for too long, because the piercing started to close up! Oops. Just a minute ago, Mama poked the earring back through, and I distracted Nan by telling her that if she didn't get it poked through, she'd be a pirate with one gold hoop, and we'd get her a fake wooden leg and a parrot named Fred, et cetera.

    Granny and Grandpa got here on the 10th, and they left on the 17th. Their visit was very nice. It was good to see them both!

    I'm really looking forward to Christmas. I mean, I look forward to Christmastime every year, but this year will be Fun. Every other year has been fun too, but... you know what I mean! This year, we get to have Grammy and Pappy here, and - I just found this out a few days ago - we get Auntie Nina as well! Yay!  :-D  It's awesome that's she coming down here. I prefer holidays with more people around. The more the merrier and all that. Plus, Granny, Aunt Penny. and Sushi are coming up right after Christmas.  :-D

    I'm to the part in Jane Eyre where, (If you've never read the book then don't read this any further!), Jane and Mr. Rochester are getting married. I love the part that says that religion was far from Jane's mind at that time; that she couldn't see the Creator because she was so blinded by and in love with His creation. The way Charlotte Bronte wrote that passage just seemed like a really beautiful way describe something like that, to put in words the way we can become blind to the Lord because we get distracted by His creation.

    Right now, I love the song Lose My Soul by TobyMac. It's on my playlist at the bottom of my blog, if you want to hear it.

    I need to go now; we're eating dinner in a little bit. We're having pizza and watching Miss Pettigew Lives For a Day. I'll let you know how it is.

Hugs,
Rebecca