Fill in the blank Friday!

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a nurse when I grew up.  Now that I’ve worked in a doctor’s office for 32 months, I know why that didn’t work out.  :)

As an adult, my dream job would be working for a company or organization that protects the environment.  I really don’t know where I’ll be in the next year or so but I do know that I want to be somewhere making something greener.

 

When I was a kid, I wanted to be just like Mary Ellen Walton.  I sure had the sassy mouth for it! 

I scored many a wax lip with this old girl.

The childhood costume that I remember most was THIS WITCH AND I ACTUALLY FOUND IT ONLINE!!!!  I remember this costume and mask SO well.  It was awesome.  HOT but awesome.

My favorite Halloween treat when I was a child was homemade Rice Krispy treats.  I’m a child of the 1970’s and we got lots of homemade stuff on Halloween.  Cookies, brownies, caramel apples, Rice Krispy treats.  You didn’t have to worry about folks putting harmful things in your candy bag. 

The time I got in the biggest trouble as a child was when me and Ricky were staying with Grandma when Ami was born and Grandma’s neighbor had a horse that got out of his pen.  We chased that horse down a very busy Highway 49 with Grandma hollerin’ at us to come back, waving her pink bedroom shoe at us from the front porch.  She tore us up when we got back and then Daddy tore us up when he came to get us.  I can’t even remember what happened to that horse.

I get daily inspiration from sweet toothless baby grins.

Happy Weekend!!

I vant to eat your cereal!

Count Chocula was my most favorite cereal when I was growing up.  You couldn't get it all year, just in the fall around Halloween.  Mama got us all of the monster cereals, the Count and his buddies, BooBerry and FrankenBerry.  But the Count was our favorite.  It was more chocolatey than Cocoa Puffs and it was full of those yummy crunchy marshmallows.  This is what the box looked like in the 70's when we were kids and gobblin' that cereal up while we watched Saturday morning cartoons.

I even remember having these toys!  

This is what the box looks like today. Or rather tonight 'cause I got me some!

He looks a little skinny these days.  Must be the whole grain.  :)

Visit With Santa

This is me and my (sleepy-lookin') brother, Ricky, with Santa at Sears in 1971.  

The Super Fabulous Schneider Christmas Tree Of 2009!

I started calling our Christmas trees "The Super Fabulous Schneider Christmas Tree" two years ago when I was still blogging on MySpace. I thought it was cute and it's kinda stuck.

I have a seven-foot Douglas fir that, praise the Sweet Lord Baby Jesus, is PRE-LIT. I like the old-fashioned multi-colored lights and this one has 650 of 'em!

Here's a closer shot of some

of my orna-
ments.

I like orna-
ments better than glass balls. Ornaments tell stories, have sweet little person-alities and are just more interesting to me.

The two little red reindeer right in front are from my childhood Christmas trees. They were always on our tree when I was growing up and Mama let me have them last year. They'll always be right in front!

Peggy and Me

When I was a tiny girl, I had a book called 

Peggy and Me and I LOVED it.  I guess I was about three when I got it and my daddy would read it to me.  I grew up, as little girls tend to do, and my book got lost somewhere in the shuffle.

I never forgot it, though. There was one line in the book, "It's cheery to walk in the rain, with coat and umbrella all the same". I couldn't say umbrella, it came out "umbrebla", and TO THIS DAY, my daddy will recite that line and say umbrebla.  

When I got internet access about 10 years ago, I started looking for another copy of my book.  I tried all the children's bookstores online, I tried eBay, I looked everywhere for it and I couldn't find it.  For 10 years, I searched for this book!!  The other night, I tried eBay again and guess what???  There it was!!!  I learned a lot about it that I didn't know, like it was copyrighted in 1968 by Whitman Publishing Company.  Good info to have when you're looking for something!  Ha!

I got it today and I just had to share it.  I'm so happy to have it back!!