The Crazee Chick's View of Life

everywhere you go... Even at our house! The trees are up; the lights are on and there are even a couple of presents under the tree! Yeah Christmas! Bring it on!!!

My life is flying by at hyper -speed these days. I used to function on a week to week basis, then revised it to a day by day basis but now it's a quarter hour by quarter hour basis! I can't believe that every second of my day is scheduled so tightly! I have to admit that it's kind of fun though! I'm planning my first PAC social activity and it is a Family Movie Night. I'm very excited about it and hope the families like the Christmas sing a long, the door prizes, the refreshments and the movie (Elf--my fave). My planning time was cut in half when we realized that the date the principal had given me turned out to be the same one as the school staff Christmas party. Sheesh, you think he'd have known about that eh?! Anyway, that warped the whole event into hyper speed! Then there's the Walk to Bethlehem costumes for the kids in the angel choir. The kids perform tomorrow night...just got the costumes finished now (10:00pm). That's a little close for...

Today I sneaked into the dance studio and watched the girls' lyrical numbers. They were so beautiful I cried. Not once, Not twice, But three times. Kiki's group is dancing to "The Prayer" by Celine Dion and Mo's group is dancing to "One Voice" by Billy Gilman. Two beautiful, very moving, songs. The dance truly is....a dance...an interweaving of beautiful music, beautiful movements, haunting symbolism and imagery. Truly moving... of both body and mind.

Well, I'm a little bit excited and a whole lot of scared! I attended a PAC meeting for the first time today and ended up volunteering for the Social Co-ordinator position! What the heck was I thinking? You have to understand...I have never been to a PAC meeting in my life and I've only attended one PAC event (and that wasn't even for my own school) and we used to homeschool, so I have absolutely no experience to draw upon for this job! I repeat. What the heck was I thinking? Well, the truth is I've been waiting for someone to step up and it's now the middle of November and no one has so I figured the least I could do is better than the best that no one would do. So...I will try to aim for a couple of social activities and it will be a couple more than the school would have had otherwise. Understand my logic? If so ,that's kind of scary!! So, the first thing on the bill will be a Christmas movie night. I think we're going to watch Elf! I love, love, LO...

On this day of Remembrance when I take the freedoms I've been granted by those brave young men who fought for their generation and future generations, I also found a way to give. I wanted to do something to honor the gift our soldiers gave to Canadians all those years ago, so the kids and I passed that love on in the form of Operation Christmas Child boxes. We filled three boxes (2 girls and 1 boy) with gifts that portray the love we have in our hearts for those who do not enjoy the same freedoms that we do. We have the freedom of speech, thought, and the right to worship as we may, but we also enjoy the freedom of clean water, food, shelter and medical care. So many others in the world do not enjoy these basic freedoms...they do not have an inkling or a glimpse of the luxury of an abundant food supply and clean water to drink and bathe in. We packed our little shoe boxes with soap, toothbrushes, hair clips, pens, crayons, notepads, coloring books, bandanas (which we thought would...

...to ruin things for me. I was feeling so good about my new look; the hair, the clothes, the nails... ...until ONE person said they liked my hair longer better. Poof!! Just like that, my self confidence went down the crapper. Now I'm second guessing my hair. Suddenly it seems too short. Suddenly it all seems wrong! I loved this hair... ...until that one comment. This person didn't mean any harm; and certainly didn't know what a crappy sense of self-confidence I have so I can't blame her. I can only blame myself for allowing ONE comment to affect me; to question myself; to re-assess my 'newness.' It's pretty pathetic! My parents raised a strong woman...why am I allowing this to affect me? Ugh...it's so dumb! Remember...words can be weapons....even if you don't intend them to be. Maybe we shouldn't offer our opinion if it's not asked of us. Maybe we shouldn't say anything if we don't have anything nice to say. "Do unto others...

is amazing! My parents are in Arizona and because of a VoIP program called Skype and a web cam, we can not only talk to each other over the computer (for free) but we can actually see one another too! It's so wonderful to be able to visit with each other as if we were physically together. I love this! I don't have to feel like they're so far away now... ...they're as close as my computer!