NO SCOUTS HWEN THERES A HOLIDAY

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Wednesday, January 3, 2007
NO SCOUTS WHEN THERES A HOLIDAY

today is wednesday , and that means at 7pm, daniel and craig share time together without me doing allot of guy stuff.

craig has been called as an assistant scout leader for my church, and daniel is a newbie in the world of green colored scouts. hes been in cubs before (and they wear blue).

i genuinely appreciate the fact craig is willing to do this calling and as well, share in the events with daniel some of the landmark memories hell make as he gets into it more and more.

daniel has a friend just up the street that also often goes with him to scouts, altho paris (the friend) is NOT a member of the troop like daniel is. were working on that.

well, they went off, and about a half hour..they were home again.

there wasnt any scouts. im assuming, because of the holiday and the fact some families just wernt home...means the population for scouts would be compromised by lack of attendance, no need to have it if no ones going to be there.

oh well. next week.

THE WILLIAMSON/CARMICHAEL FAMILY

Posted by MICHELLE WILLIAMSON at 7:21 AM

NEW YEARS 2007 - LET THE HUNT BEGIN

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NEW YEARS 2007-LET THE HUNT BEGIN

new years arrived and we had promised daniel to go look for a game for the playstation 2 console i have that he wanted.

the afternoon couldnt have come any sooner. the child was about every 2 minutes begging and asking what time it was and if we were still going to go, and we "had promised to take him"...it was a constant battery of pre-teen anxt....the "i have to have it right now" kinda thought.

so, about 3pm, or so we head out the door to go hunt this one item down. it took us 2 walmarts, and 1 bestbuy, before we located it at a gamestore. we got it.

thankgoodness!

THE WILLIAMSON-CARMICHAEL FAMILY

Posted by MICHELLE WILLIAMSON at 7:14 AM

NEW YEARS EVE 2006

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NEW YEARS EVE 2006

it was the last day of the year 2006, and we had been invited to a friends home to watch a set of DVDs for the night to usher in the new year 2007. those plans were scapped when i recieved an IM (instant message on the pc from a service like yahoo) expressing the hubby wasnt feeling well.

we decided to go out to eat. somewhere we didnt normaly attend. we went to a resturant not far from our home, but the place was salp packed full of customers. i have an aversions to places that have a ton of ppl in them because of my weight. i feel ppl stare at me and wonder why im there, so i often opt out of an eatery based on population in the parkinglot. and this was no exception.

we didnt have to drive far when we ended up at applebees.


(our waiter at applebees)

we were hoping to actually be able to be there long enough to usher in the new year around some other ppl, but, alas, murpheys law is a close relative to me, and they closed thier doors at 10pm (sign said 11pm).
craig and daniel enjoyed thier dinners. i chose not to really eat.

(a pic daniel took of craig)

(daniel being silly)

(me)
after that, we went home.

and about 34 seconds into 2007 we rememberd to watch the dropping of the ball in NY on tv.

i had expected more popps, and firecracker noises, but there wernt any. very little.

i was a bit amiss, about the fact my church here doesnt have a midnight breakfast dance for the NEW YEARS festivities. in Columbia SC, every NEW YEARS eve, theres an area dance that they hold for ALL ages, so parents can bring thier little ones, and a celebration at midnight of the new year comming in, and then a midnight breakfast for those who remained. its a great time to get together with alot of ppl from church in a different type of setting. but here in oklahoma, they didnt do such fun for the holiday. i missed that.

so, quietly and without much anouncement the new year of 2007 came creeping in without much warning. had we not already been awake, we would have slept right thru the event alltogether.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE FROM THE WILLIAMSON/CARMICHAEL FAMILY

Posted by MICHELLE WILLIAMSON at 7:02 AM