I have to say that my wife’s favorite time of year is Christmas. She seems to be planning for Christmas all year long. She loves to make ornaments as gifts for her friends and relatives to put on their Christmas Trees. Some years she will knit a lot of ornaments, some years they are crochet, sometimes she crafts them out of beads, or empty paper towel tubes. One year she made some little fairies out of artificial poinsettia flowers and pipe cleaners to put on the trees. Another year she painted burnt out light bulbs and made them look like beautiful Victorian ornaments. And yet another she painted frozen orange juice lids to look like snowman faces!
My wife never ceases to amaze me with her creativity. She has made so many ornaments for our own house that we have had to put up three Artificial Christmas Trees in our own house just to display all of the ornaments she has made! And of course, we have to have one that also has ornaments that were given to us by other people, or that we bought because we liked them ourselves.
Even so, we seem to be having trouble finding enough space for all of the ornaments. So we’ve started hanging them on wreaths and garlands that we use to decorate around the house.
And in preparation for future Christmases, we do a lot of bargain shopping in January to pick up Christmas clearance items. Last January we got a great price on several White Christmas Trees that were on clearance. We are thinking about putting them up on the front porch and decorating them with weatherproof ornaments. She’s thinking about ways to create those weather proof ornaments out of recycled materials, such as colorful bottle caps and soda can pop tops.
One of the first things that my wife and I decided to do when we bought this house was to replace all of the exterior door locks with sets that all used the same key. We did not want to have to try to remember which key opened which door. All of our key-chains were already over crowded with vehicle keys and store loyalty cards. Life sure is simpler when you only have to use one key to open it all!
Pre Algebra was a fun class for me to take when I was in school. I was blessed with the ability to grasp the concepts behind Algebra equations and fractions. I do give all of the credit, though, to Miss Beck, our math teacher. She used really fun real-life examples whenever possible to demonstrate the reasons we needed to learn these things. I can remember when she brought in a large sheet cake to demonstrate how to divide. We all had cake to eat at the end of class!
Not everyone can have a math teacher as wonderful as Miss Beck, however. That’s why it is a great help to be able to find tutoring services over the Internet. You can easily go online at your own convenience and find the help you need on whatever math subject you are struggling with. Obviously that’s not as much fun as having Miss Beck serve up cake at the end of class, but some things just can’t be helped!
There is a big push going on right now between, State Farm, Progressive, Geico, Allstate and Nationwide Insurance. The TV is flooded by their wacky and unusual commercials for home, auto and life insurance. Geico almost always gets me going, but some of them are totally off the wall! Let the insurance wars begin…..
