Happy Birthday to Me!!!

Since it's Christmas Eve, I don't typically get much of a nod for my birthday (except from immediate family and close friends) because everyone's too busy with other holiday plans. When I was little, I got about 20 minutes for my birthday in the evening, then our family would open all the presents under the tree. Our Santa presents were the only thing we'd open on Christmas morning. My mom always made sure that I had a special birthday cake, and that no one tried to slip me a birthday present wrapped in holiday paper!

When I had kids, I changed the tradition, cuz I'm a grownup and I'm allowed to do that sort of thing! Now, I give my kids a new set of PJ's as a gift on Christmas Eve, and they wear them to bed. Then, on Christmas morning, with the kids all nestled under the tree in their new PJ's, we open all our gifts. Even though my kids are teenagers now, they still seem to look forward to the PJ's. I always try to find something holiday themed for them. For my birthday "cake" these days, we have a dinner of waffles with strawberries and whipped topping, and usually some bacon to round it out.

I thought it might be fun to see which "famous" people were born on my birthday:

• 1809 Kit Carson
• 1880 Johnny Gruelle (best known as creator of Raggedy Ann)
• 1905 Howard Hughes
• 1922 Ava Gardner
• 1929 Mary Higgins Clark
• 1968 ME, FOR CRYIN' OUT LOUD! (yeah, I'm so famous...hahaha...)
• 1971 Ricky Martin
• 1974 Ryan Seacrest (ew.)

By the way, for those of you who might need help with the math, I'm celebrating the second anniversary of my 39th birthday this year :-D

If you want to check out your birthday, take a quick peek HERE. This is a nice site because it doesn't have a lot of graphically intense stuff...it's mostly just plain text. Wow, I love that.

Anyway, don't forget to put out your Reindeer Food tonight! If you missed the recipe, click HERE and read through the blog post. You can find Snowman Poop and Snowman Soup in there, too :-)

Here, Kitty Kitty...

So I got a nice big box of stamps today...most of them were Workshop orders, but a few new things for me! I've been waiting on them so I could post some samples for my classes, and for the upcoming Occasions Mini catalog, which becomes active on March 1st! I didn't order the stamp set Here, Kitty Kitty but now I'm thinking it would have been very appropriate.

Anyway, the boxes come from Stampin' Up! filled with some nice brown packing paper that I like to keep for repacking my own boxes, and even to stamp on sometimes. But, my kitty cat has other plans for this particular bundle of paper. Oh don't be fooled, he has stamping on the brain, too...he's perched on my bed facing my stamp table so he can keep an eye on me while I put my new stamp sets together.

His name is Sneakers, and he'll be nine years old on July 5th (or is it 6th?), but if you take out a qtip or his toy mouse, he'll play like a kitten. I'm not sure why he's so attracted to the paper, but he does this same thing with brown paper bags, and plastic bags from the store. (I never let him play with the plastic ones when I'm not standing right there, though, because I'm afraid he'll wrap himself up in them and get choked or smothered.) Everyone needs a stampin' kitty--they're awesome :-)

A little Irish Luck!

So I don't have red hair, but I am fair-skinned and freckled! And I'm so grateful to be healthy and not in pain! So much so, in fact, that I wanted to promote a friend's business on my blog today. It is a chiropractic clinic here in Colorado Springs, and if you would like to read what they cured me of, you can do that here.

Right now, if you live in the Colorado Springs area, you may be able to take advantage of 3 FREE MONTHS of chiropractic care at the same clinic I go to. If you are interested, sign up for their Sweepstakes here.