Holiday Light Displays

I found this post in my drafts folder, from last year.  I checked the link and it still works, yay!  I love the Christmas lights and the different ways people decorate their homes.  My husband and I used to drive around during the holiday season just to see the lit-up houses, before our son was born. 

Do you put Christmas lights up where you live?  Do you like to drive around just to see the pretty lights? 

Leah Ginsberg
December 9, 2014
There’s nothing that says holiday season like a killer display of lights. Sure it’s fun to check out the towering tree as it twinkles in New York City’s Rockefeller Center or the Christmas extravaganza at Disney World. But those aren’t the only spots to see spectacular festive lights. Here are some more off-the-beaten-path, quirky spots to check out holiday lights around the U.S.

via These Off-the-Beaten-Path Holiday Light Displays Will Blow Your Mind.

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Drunk Bear Fight

He who fights and runs away …

Drunk Bear Fight – Cheezburger

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What Are The Keys To Your Heart?

While some (not all) of this is true, I can tell you the keys to my heart!  Loyalty, dependability, and doing the right thing.  Captain America has keys to my heart, lol.  Now if only he had brown eyes …

Your Heart Takes Love Lightly

You are attracted to those who are unbridled, untrammeled, and free. In love, you feel the most alive when things are straight-forward, and you’re told that you’re loved. You’d like to your lover to think you are stylish and alluring. You would be forced to break up with someone who was ruthless, cold-blooded, and sarcastic. Your ideal relationship is open. Both of you can talk about everything… no secrets. Your risk of cheating is zero. You care about society and morality. You would never break a commitment. You think of marriage as something precious. You’ll treasure marriage and treat it as sacred. In this moment, you think of love as something you can get or discard anytime. You’re feeling self centered.

What Are The Keys To Your Heart?

Blogthings: Learn Something Surprising About Yourself

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Funnies

Thanksgiving Divorce

A man in Phoenix calls his son in New York the day before Thanksgiving and says,”I hate to ruin your day, but I have to tell you that your mother and I are divorcing; forty-five years of misery is enough.

“Pop, what are you talking about?” the son screams. We can’t stand the sight of each other any longer,” the father says. “We’re sick of each other, and I’m sick of talking about this, so you call your sister in Chicago and tell her.”

Frantic, the son calls his sister, who explodes on the phone. “Like heck they’re getting divorced,” she shouts, “I’ll take care of this,”

She calls Phoenix immediately, and screams at her father, “You are NOT getting divorced. Don’t do a single thing until I get there. I’m calling my brother back, and we’ll both be there tomorrow. Until then, don’t do a thing, DO YOU HEAR ME?” and hangs up.

The old man hangs up his phone and turns to his wife. “Okay,” he says, “they’re coming for Thanksgiving and paying their own way.”

*****

This one always makes me chuckle. 

Have an awesome Thanksgiving-leftover-y weekend!

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Happy Thanksgiving!

May your heart and home be blessed with abundant joy this day!

Love, Vanessa

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Holiday, Thanksgiving

Wishing

My husband and I, we love Thanksgiving.  We love that it’s a Christian holiday – it was thankfulness to God, specifically the Christian God, that inspired the Pilgrims.  We love that it was an American holiday.  It seems to be uniquely ours, as Christians and Americans.

However, we don’t celebrate it as others do.

Like the Pilgrims, we feel like we are in a strange land, with no family around us, and like the Pilgrims this is by choice (but for vastly different reasons).  It’s not about the food for us, and we don’t believe it was for them either.  We believe that it was about the gratitude, and that the Pilgrims would have celebrated with caviar, or pineapple, or avocados, if that’s what had been available to them.  So, we don’t adhere to a traditional menu on Thanksgiving, but we choose one that we feel will best reflect our gratitude.  It’s worked out pretty well for us.  Besides, who wants to break their diet for turkey? 

We’re preparing for our day of gratitude.  Getting ready all those fun things to eat.  Focusing our thoughts, and our hearts, on Christ, the Giver of all things.  And my wish for you is that you too will feel that sense of thankfulness, that deep sense of gratitude that fills a heart no matter what it’s been through, the hardships or heartbreak it’s faced.  There is a joy that quiets the sorrows.  I wish for you to know it, to experience it to its fullest, that your hearts be overflowing with an abundance of joy no matter what’s on your plate.

And please know that I am thankful for the opportunity to touch your lives, to see things that you see, to read about the things you experience and think about.  I am glad I know you. 

Have a blessed Thanksgiving!

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