Happy Christmas!

Reason For Christmas
(this isn't the Bible passage people normally use when they tell/read the Christmas story. i thought it might be a bit refreshing to use another passage. also, if you want to really pay attention to the story, it might help to type up the whole thing if you aren't a very good typer, too :)

Mathew 1:18-4:17 (Holy Bible NLT)



Now this is how Jesus the Messiah was born. His mother, Mary, was engaged to be married to Joseph. But while she was still a virgin, she became pregnant by the Holy Spirit. Joseph, her fiance`, being a just man, decided to break the engagement quietly, so as not to disgrace her publicly.

As he considered this, he fell asleep, and an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream. "Joseph, son of David," the angel said, "do not be afraid to go ahead with your marriage to Mary. For the child within her has been conceived by the Holy Spirit. And she will have a son, and you are to name him Jesus*(*Jesus means 'The LORD saves'), for he will save his people from their sins." All of this happened to fulfill the Lord's message through his prophet"



"Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son, and he will be called Immanuel (meaning, God is with us)." {Isa 7:14, 8:8,10}



Jesus was born in the town of Bethlehem in Judea, during the reign of King Herod. About that time some wise men from eastern lands arrived in Jerusalem, asking, "Where is the newborn king of the Jews? We have seen his star as it arose, and we have come to worship him."

Herod was deeply disturbed by their question, as was all of Jerusalem. He called a meeting of the leading priests and teachers of religious law. "Where did the prophets say the Messiah would be born?" he asked them.

"In Bethlehem," they said, "for this is what the prophet wrote:



'O Bethlehem of Judah, you are not just a lowly village in Judah, for a ruler will come from you who will be the shepherd for my people Israel.'"



Then Herod sent a private message to the wise men, asking them to come see him. At this meeting he learned the exact time when they first saw the star. Then he told them, "Go to Bethlehem and search carefully for the child. And when you find him, come back and tell me so that I can go and worship him, too!"

After this interview the wise men went their way. Once again the star appeared to them, guiding them to Bethlehem. It went ahead of them and stopped over the place where the child was. When they saw the star, they were filled with joy! They entered the house where the child and his mother, Mary, were and they fell down before him and worshipped him. Then they opened their treasure chests and gave him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. But when it was time to leave, they went home another way, because God had warned them in a dream not to return to Herod.

After the wise men were gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. "Get up and flee to Egypt with the child and his mother," the angel said. "Stay there until I tell you to return, because Herod is going to try to kill the child." That night Joseph left for Egypt with the child and Mary, his mother, and they stayed there until Herod's death. This fulfilled what the Lord had spoken through the prophet: "I called my son out of Egypt."

Herod was furious when he learned that the wise men had outwitted him. He sent soldiers to kill all the boys in and around Bethlehem who were two years old and under, because the wise men had told him the star first appeared to them about two years earlier. Herod's brutal action fulfilled the prophecy of Jeremiah:



"A cry of anguish is heard in Ramah--weeping and mourning unrestrained. Rachel weeps for her children, refusing to be comforted--for they are dead." {Jer 31:15}



When Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and told him, "Get up and take the child and his mother back to the land of Israel, because those who were trying to kill the child are dead." So Joseph returned immediately to Israel with Jesus and his mother. But when he learned that the new ruler was Herod's son Archelaus, he was afraid. Then, in another dream, he was warned to go to Galilee. So they went and lived in a town called Nazareth. This fulfilled what was spoken by the prophets concerning the Messiah: "He will be called a Nazarene."

In those days John the Baptist began preaching in the Judean wilderness. His message was, "Turn from your sins and turn to God, because the Kingdom of Heaven is near." Isaiah had spoken of John when he said,



"He is a voice shouting in the wilderness: Prepare a pathway for the Lord's coming! Make a straight road for him!" {Isa 40:3}



John's clothes were woven from camel hair, and he wore a leather belt; his food was locusts and wild honey. People from Jerusalem and from every section of Judea and from all over the the Jordan Valley went out to the wilderness to hear him preach. And when they confessed their sins, he baptized them in the Jordan River.

But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to be baptized, he denounced them. "You brood of snakes!" he exclaimed. "Who warned you to flee God's coming judgement? Prove by the way that you live that you have really turned from your sins and turned to God. Don't just say, 'We're safe--we're the descendants of Abraham.' That proves nothing. God can change these stones here into children of Abraham. Even now the ax of God's judgement is poised, ready to sever your roots. Yes, every tree that does not produce good fruit will be chopped down and thrown into the fire.

"I baptize with water those who turn from their sins and turn to God. But someone is soon coming who is far greater than I am--so much greater that I am not even worthy to be his slave. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. He is ready to separate the chaff from the grain with his winnowing fork. Then he will clean up the threshing area, storing the grain in his barn but burning the chaff with the never-ending fire."



Then Jesus went from Galilee to the Jordan River to be baptized by John. But John didn't want to baptize him. "I am the one who needs to be baptized by you," he said, "so why are you coming to me?"

But Jesus said, "It must be done, because we must do everything that is right." So then John baptized him.

After his baptism, as Jesus came up out of the water, the heavens were opened and he was the Spirit of God descending like a dove and settling on him. And a voice from heaven said, "This is my beloved Son, and I am fully pleased with him."



Then Jesus was led out into the wilderness by the Holy Spirit to be tempted there by the Devil. For forty days and forty nights he ate nothing and became very hungry. Then the Devil came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, change these stones into loaves of bread."

But Jesus told him, "No! The Scriptures say,



'People need more than bread for their life; they must feed on every word of God.'{Deut 8:3}"



Then the Devil took him to Jerusalem, to the highest point of the Temple, and said, "If you are the Son of God, jump off! For the Scriptures say,



'He orders his angels to protect you. And they will hold you with their hands to keep you from striking your foot on a stone.'{Ps 91:11-12}"



Jesus responded "The Scriptures also say, 'Do not test the Lord your God.' {Deut 6:16}"

Next the Devil took him to the peak of a very high mountain and showed him the nations of the world and all their glory. "I will give it all to you," he said, "if you will only kneel down and worship me."

"Get out of here, Satan," Jesus told him. "For the Scriptures say,



'You must worship the Lord your God; serve only him.' {Deut 6:13}"



Then the Devil went away, and angels came and cared for Jesus.



When Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he left Judea and returned to Galilee. But instead of going to Nazareth, he went to Capernaum, beside the Sea of Galilee, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali. This fulfilled Isaiah's prophecy:



"In the land of Zebulun and of Naphtali, beside the sea, beyond the Jordan River--in Galilee where so many Gentiles live--the people who sat in darkness have seen a great light. And for those who lived in the land where death casts its shadow, a light has shined" {Isa 9:1-2}



From then on, Jesus began to preach, "Turn from your sins and turn to God, because the Kingdom of Heaven is near."









Merry Christmas everyone,

May God bless you.

With much love,

~Tara

Christmas Eve

Happy Christmas Eve everybody!
I hope that you are all having a great day and are excited for tomorrow. I am. I love the holidays that we get to spend with family. I don't know why we can't always get together anyways (actually, jobs and distance are the factors so I suppose I do know if I'm forced to admit it), but holidays are wonderful excuses to see everyone and get everyone together.
Let's not forget the 'Reason for the Season' as they say.
Tomorrow is the day we have chosen to celebrate Jesus' birthday.
Let's not forget Him in all of this last-minute shopping and baking and everything else. I encourage you to take a moment to stop everything and say a little prayer thanking God for sending His Son.
God bless!
~Tara

I'm back for now :-)

I am back for now.
Internet is back.
YouTube has been watched.
New music has been listened to.
Emails have all been replied to.
Junk emails have all been unmercifully deleted.
My computer is under control again!
Yay!

Today (Sunday) I did not make it to church. The snow was terrible, and the wind was blowing it over the road. Have you experienced that incredible, strange, illusion-like feeling when the white snow is blown horizontally across the black of the road? It's the strangest feeling. I like it. I'm pretty sure that it makes some people sick though. After you watch it for a little while your mind and eyes start to go weird though and you have to refocus. That's why we didn't go to church.

I did go to our Christmas Program though. I was in it. Wahoo. Two practices and I was only able to go to one since the other one was after church today. No one really knew their lines. Well, of course I knew my lines. (Actually, I didn't have any lines to learn). We , the Youth Group, were doing a skit with an anchorwoman interviewing a bunch of different people. I was the camera-girl. Yay! I had to walk backwards for the first scene, and I told them I would trip, well I made it okay to where I was supposed to stand, but I shifted my weight and stepped back one more step and I almost tripped over the manger and Baby Jesus! Ahh! Then I almost started to laugh. I actually did laugh a few times during the performance, there was a lot of corny humor and also since no one knew their lines they were reading their props. It was fun. I think we all enjoyed it.

Right now I am relaxing. Talking to my friend Vinz over IM.
HE GOT A BLOG!
Now Hannah, you HAVE to update yours. :P
I am also eating these 'Loacker' wafers. From ITALY!!! Yay! Thank you Aunt Debbie! And I am drinking the tea she gave me from Italy as well. It is very delicious.

I can't wait for Christmas. I want to see my family again.
Love to everyone!
God bless you
~Tara

NO INTERNET! X(

I am sorry to inform you all that I haven't had Internet access all week. I'm typing this up quickly at school.
I just wanted you all to know.
I cannot get to my emails, so unless you sent something to me before about 5 minutes ago, I will not read that email until I get Internet again. I have no idea what is wrong with my Internet connection, I couldn't find anything wrong, so my mom is going to have to call in the pros. Namely, my awesome Uncle Bob. (Really, his name is Bob.)
I just thought I'd tell you all.
I am also experiencing YouTube withdrawal XD. But it's been a week, so I'm a little over it.
Love you guys!
God bless, have a very Merry, Happy, Awesome, Stellar Christmas!
~Tara

For A Pessimist, I'm Pretty Optimistic

This is a sweet backwords video. For some odd reason I fell in love with it. Don't ask because I don't know. It's just really cool. Or, I thought it was. For something a little different, here it is.
Oh, did you know Mitchell has OCD? He's said it a few times. I thought that was kind of interesting. Okay, I am going to bed.
God bless!
~TARA

A Video For The Lost

The promised Mitchell Davis video. A Video For The Lost. I love the part with Leon, his grandpa.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
God bless
~TARA

I Made It To The Weekend & My Fifteenth Year!

Technically I'm not 15 yet, but in a few hours I will be.
*YAY*
So, I've already opened my presents.
It was pretty cool, I actually laughed out loud when my mom said to get ready to open my presents. Know why? I'll tell you: The guitar was supposed to be my birthday present! And they forgot or something!
My great parents gave me Comatose comes ALIVE from Skillet, pretty sweet, I've already listened to it and I'm thinking I might watch the DVD tomorrow. Plus, I also received this sweet black pinstriped hat! (Yep, I'll get some pics on here. Not gonna say when, because I really don't have any idea)
My friends were great: They decorated my locker! Thanks guys! :) And, since you all didn't make me an Italian flag to put on my locker, I made two(2!) during Art class. Yes, both of them are staying inside my locker; hopefully to the end of the school year. (I put 2 hearts on the middle of one of them. I made a heart stamp in Art and was trying it out. It's pretty cool, I did green/white/red with it so the hearts are like Italian too)
Oh, of course, I love my presents from you guys too!
If you didn't hear, I named the Polar Bear Hannah L gave me Sasha(because that is a very pretty and pleasant name that I like) she is so soft and adorable!, and I love the little angel Emily and Rachel gave me! It's so great, thank you so much!
Kenzie (can I call you Kenzie?) Thanks for the card! I kinda tend to wear stripes every Monday, as Vicki pointed out to me(I hadn't noticed), but sure, next time we plan a stripes day, you are going to be informed!
I'm planning to take pics of my presents and decorate my room some more and get some pictures of that, but again, I am not going to say anything definite about it.
Whoa, I feel kind of bad about not giving a deadline on the pictures. I just don't know how this weekend is going to go.
Umm, I'm a little uncomfortable, I don't think that's the right word, no, I'm a little wary? That's not right either. I guess I don't exactly know how I feel about this, but I want to let you all know and kind of let me get it on paper. Bear with me, please.
My Grandma has cancer. It's some rare form with a long name that I can never remember and never really wanted to remember. (I'm sorry, I really don't know how to put this.) She had breast cancer when my mom was younger, but they were able to take out the tumor or get rid of it somehow. Something like that. But a new form, this rare one, she has it now. The doctors said that it would never completely go away. But she was doing very very well with chemo and all of that stuff (her hair never did fall out!), and the cancer was practically gone. The doctors couldn't see it any more at least. My Grandma always is a fighter. On Wednesday(I really hope that's right) she had to go into surgery for her cancer again because it had gotten worse. She'd been feeling really bad for a few weeks I think. Anesthetics always are really hard on my Grandma, so after the surgery she was extremely exhausted. I can't even imagine. The doctor removed, ah, I can't remember how many tumors, and then I think over two gallons of..what are they called?..Cysts. Yes, I looked it up. Over two gallons! That explains why she was so uncomfortable, it was all in her abdominal region. The doctor said that if he were to remove more it would've killed her.
The incredible thing about my Grandma, or I should say one of the many incredible things about my Grandma is how she recovers. I heard that today she was already walking when just out of surgery she could hardly move. And she was walking fast! My aunt was telling her to slow down. I think that my Grandma is even coming home, or at least moving from the hospital to my aunt's house, tomorrow. Isn't she amazing? She amazes me. And, if she read this, she might be mad that I said so much and worried, but I had to get it out. Emily, I was talking to you about it today but I really don't think you were listening, but that's okay. Now I said it and I kind of feel better.
Grandma, I love you so much I can hardly believe it. That sounds weird but it's just because I stopped loving a lot of things and people for a few years but I never stopped loving you or Grandpa. That has to say something about you both. I love you so much!
I can't really break off of that onto a lighter note.
I guess I'll just list this stuff then:
*I think I did okay on my Science test
*I got an A on my math test/quiz
*We're going to start making Christmas Cards in Art on Monday :)
*I still really want to leave my school
*I'm feeling pretty lost with my life right now
That's about it. It's 12:16 now. I guess that makes it my birthday. I don't feel much different. A little sadder.
Why? I'm not sure. Maybe I'm tired. I'm feeling pretty pessimistic right now, that has to have something to do with it. I'm worried about my friends. I'm feeling like mostly the world is doomed. And that really frustrates me. I also feel like a machine a little, because I only ever do what I'm told and I have fun but no one thinks I do because I don't really like socializing or doing stuff with lots of people. My mom says I have to join something this Spring. Like some sort of sports thing. I hate competition. I know that I will become so anxious I will throw up! Thinking about it already makes me nauseous because I have to do something but I don't want to subject myself to all that emotional junk. It's like I cannot adequately convey all of these emotions and stuff and everything that's still messed up in me to my mom. She doesn't understand or maybe she just thinks that I'm making up excuses. It's just like how I cannot emotionally handle reading the book Rachel's Tears or She Said Yes. I can't. That's what sent me spiraling into my depression in the first place. Or that's as far back as I've traced it. Just this week Emily was saying how I should read Rachel's Tears, and I told her how I could not read it and she said it was scary, the look in my eyes and on my face. I still can't handle really even thinking about it. I should try to work through that probably, but I don't know how to or where I would even start. Somehow competition wormed it's way into being right in the same category as She Said Yes. I think of them together. I have no idea where the connection is. I can't handle competition, I feel worthless even on the off-chance I win and I hate how people always say 'Good job!' whether you do well or not. Maybe I shouldn't, because they are just being nice, but I don't like it. Like I said, I don't want to subject myself to it. I'll probably never sleep. I can't sleep when I'm worrying or anxious, so I suppose it's a miracle I sleep at all. Actually, it might be, because every night I have to pray to be able to sleep well and get enough sleep to get through tomorrow. The nights I forget to pray that I usually am really tired the next day. Incredibly, if it's early morning or really late at night and I can't sleep and I start to pray for sleep and for the people I'm especially worried about, I usually will fall asleep and have enough energy for the next day even though I physically shouldn't. God's wonderful like that.
Yea, I suppose that that is really adding to my sadness right now too.
I'm sorry I just turned that into a pity-party. I needed to get it out though.
Good night(or morning I guess)
God bless
~TARA


p.s.
I'm gonna add another of my favorite Mitchell Davis videos quick. This one makes me laugh every time. I've already watched it who knows how many times. But I like how it makes me laugh. And Juno was a pretty good movie with a pretty cool soundtrack. :-)

Double Dare

OKAY, this is another Mitchell Davis 'LiveLavaLive' video. It truly captures the heart of homework. In 0:20 and 0:26, that is purely how difficult homework makes me feel. So, I had to share this. I laughed so hard, he got it perfect! I hope that you enjoy it as much as I did. XD
God bless!
~TARA

You're Awesome /

This is the new person on YouTube I just found. Mitchell Davis. He has a few good vids.

This is probably my favorite. You're Awesome. That's all I can say, I have to do my homework and this doesn't take as long as making an actual post. ENJOY :)


Oh, HEY!!!!
My birthday is this SATURDAY!!!!! It's already Wednesday night.

Pretty soon I am going to be 10 and 5 years! That's just, wow, crazy. 15 years on Earth. I'll have to think about this some more later. I'll get back to you. :)
God bless!
~TARA

I'm So Happy! :-)

Heeeeeyyy Everybody!
I am so happy! I'm not sure why. I like it though!
It's snowing! The snow is so beautiful! Just swirling and falling and dancing. I think that if snow could have emotion,(maybe it does) that it's joyful.
I don't really have anything to say.
Ah, I was on YouTube(I finally got myself an account! Yea!) and I came accross this kid. Andrew Cloer I think he's a really good guitarist(but I don't really know). He got me to laugh too in a few of his vids.(especially year 3000 bloopers and a day in the life of Andrew)
That's kinda random I know, but I thought I'd mention him since I spent quite a while yesterday watching some of his videos. Maybe mentioning him here might also getting him a few more hits :) He seems nice.
Oh! And I'm supposed to put my Christmas/Birthday Wish List on here. It'll be in the sidebar.
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I'll do that next. Thank you ahead of time all of my wonderful relatives. I love you all!
God bless
~Tara

SURPRISE!!

HANNAH!! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU CAME!! AHHHHHH!!!!!
OH MY GOSH! IT'S LIKE I'M STILL RECOVERING!

So, my long-lost friend visited me from Missouri!!!!

I had had a great day, was it last Friday? Already a week? It feels like it wasn't that long ago. But at the same time, I don't know, it's like it was forever ago.

Anyways, last Friday, it was a great day. I can't remember exactly why, oh, right, it was Thanksgiving weekend! (Sorry, I wanna get a background going, then the exciting part will come, have patience young grasshopper). Thanksgiving was WONDERFUL! My entire family, that's right, my dad came too!, went to my aunt and uncle's awesome house. They live north of us a little bit, closer to the cities, and their house is GIGANTIC!! It's beautiful too. I love it, wood floors and lots, I mean LOTS, of windows. Nice furniture too. But the best part wasn't the house, or the food (Fabulous food though! Love the mashed potatoes!), it was my family. Almost everyone was there! All my relatives from Duluth came, including my baby cousin Brijette! (Okay, technically, she's my 1st cousin once removed, but I like to call her my baby cousin)

Bri can now walk, she's growing up so fast, and she can say a few words, growing up fast like lightning. She can say hi!, hot, baby, papa, ma, and almost ball. I think she knows a few others too. Probably a lot more by now, actually. She would've just turned one yesterday, I believe, the fourth. Happy Birthday Brijette!

So, I had a lot of fun seeing my family and watching them play their annual football game, I don't know who won, but Anna, you did great! I saw one of the times you slid, it looked painful!

I stayed overnight then, at my cousins. They are twins, brother and sister, and no, as I have ridiculously had to tell many people after giving the fact that they are twin brother and sister, they are NOT identical! They're both 17, and can we say sibling rivalry? Not to be mean you guys, but you do fight almost constantly. I still had fun though! We saw Twilight, it was pretty good. We all thought it would be really terrible, but it wasn't. I liked the baseball scene, and the scene where the Cullens' enter the Cafeteria the most. After we saw the movie we thought we should go buy the book! So we went to a Target, the lights were ON! but they were not open. At least 2 other cars pulled into the parking lot as we were leaving though. They really looked like they were open. It was also quite the adventure getting home, *ahemNick!* but no, we did get home in one piece and no one attacked us at the creepy gas station. So, anyways, we listened to part of the book on YouTube and then we went to bed because it was really late. Ooh, I also introduced my cousin's to Fred on YouTube, Ashley liked him, but Nick, oh my goodness, you thought he was annoying! lol, i get that, it was just kind of funny since you don't mind the Charlie the horse going to Candy Mountain or whatever ones. *It's A Leopluridon, Charlie!* Wow, we almost died laughing.

ANYWAYS, I came home, was only there for maybe half an hour, when my best friend Emily shows up! I was surprised and happy! Yay! It's Emmy, and she's gonna sleep over! I wasn't suspicious at all! I shoulda been! So, we talked about girl stuff for a while and ate some pizza when someone else pulls into the driveway! Who is it? Since my dad is an auto mechanic and works at home I just figured it was some dude dropping off a car that needed work. I was SO WRONG!

Hannah! You came! And Emily knew and didn't tell me!

I actually SCREAMED I was so excited!

I loved that, I can't express it Hannah and Em, I just loved being with both of you again! And, you are so right, next time you come, we should go for walks at night again. That was so cool, we saw a shooting star! It had a really long, greenish tale and it was actually moving pretty slow. That was awesome!

It was just like old times, except maybe it was even better! And we saw Twilight together too, now Em wants to read the books!

I miss you again Hannah!

Here are the pictures! They can't capture the joy and fun we had though. And we were pretty much posing in all of them. Em, you got some random pics though, right?

So, enjoy, Hannah, you better read this and laugh at the awesome pictures!

God bless you all! I hope you had great Thanksgivings!

~TARA

We're like this!Hannah, your hightops really are awesome! So cool!That's right! I put the Superman pic online! What now?! lol, that was too great!

Don't get it? Who does? (But, if you have the DVD for A Series of Unfortunate Events, now I can't remember if it's in the actual movie, but I know that it's in deleted/extended scenes. Jim Carrey does a 'Time Machine' thing, back to when Dinosaurs RULED the Earth! Well, yea, something like that. Go ahead and laugh, we were ;) And no, Emily was Not hurt in the making of this film, or of the other one either!

SORRY!

Hey you guys!
First off, I am so, so sooooo sorry that I haven't updated in over a week!
I felt really bad about it, but, in my defense, I had a pretty busy week.
I had a Spanish test on Tuesday and on Thursday! Don't worry, I studied hard,(Spelling counted, ahh!) and I know I passed the test on Thursday with 100%, that made me feel pretty good. I had a History test on Thursday as well, all about Angel and Ellis Island. I'm not sure how I did, I know I got some wrong and I guessed on a few :( I'm thinking I'm going to get a 'B'. I had a Science test today, too! That was brutal. We had to memorize Newton's 3 Laws earlier this year, and for this test we needed to have Pascal's, Archimedes's, and Bernoulli's Principles memorized. Yuck! But, I crammed the night before, (I don't recommend it), and also in study hall and the hour before science(luckily I have science last hour), and then in class right before we took the test. Also my friend was quizzing me throughout the day, thanks Em! :D
My excuse for Monday night is this: English poster. I was up 'til past midnight working on it. He said 'No homework over Thanksgiving weekend', I came to school Monday, and apparently poster's were due Monday! Over half the class had no idea, so he said he wasn't grading them until Wednesday. I get really stressed and anxious if I don't get stuff done, so I had to do the whole entire poster Monday night because I knew I wouldn't be able to sleep if it wasn't done. It actually turned out pretty nice, and I got to take a short break to watch Leno's Headlines, I like that piece, he's pretty funny.
The other nights I was working on Christmas cards. Handmade, from the heart. Yea, I'm only making 13 as of now, but I should make some for my family and my mentor too. Otherwise they're all for friends.
I'm kinda in a bind, and I feel really bad about it. I don't know what to get/make my friends for Christmas. I already decided that I'm probably only going to give a few people actual gifts and the rest of my friends will just get cards. I feel kinda bad that I can't get them all something. But I do want to give everyone a candy cane, maybe that will make up for it. My friends that I do want to give presents to, well, I can't really think of anything. Well, except for one of my friends. Two actually, now that I think about it. But that leaves a lot out. I'm going to have to think about this some more. I am putting a lot of effort (and love! :) into the cards though. I like them.
My blog isn't the only thing I've neglected this week. I'm not used to spending my evenings making Christmas cards, and I'm not used to not having a lot of time to do whatever I want, so I didn't practice my guitar this week, (I know, that's really bad), I didn't go on YouTube, I didn't check my email very often, and when I did I only opened like one before I logged back off, I didn't get to spend hardly any time with my dog or cats or my rats. I did get my rats a new toy, they seem to like it.
Well, that's pretty my apology to you all and my excuses, I'll tell you more about my week/last weekend in my next entry!
(Before my mom makes me go off the computer and go to bed, I am so tired!)
God bless!
~Tara :D