HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM THE MILLER'S

Every year we go to the Plaza for a walk around and see the lights. This year we went after Christmas. We wish you a Happy and Healthy New Year.

Love Rick, Pam, Ivi, Cory and Jaylee.

I love you more

This card was great fun to make. I made it for my DH, he has been feeling sickly for some time. This is a man who never and I mean never gets sick. I used the colors from the SCS color challenge today. ENJOY

This is priceless

MOM TEST (not writen by me, I received in a email)

I was out walking with my 4 year old daughter. She picked up something
off the ground and started to put it in her mouth. I took the item away
from her and I asked her not to do that.
'Why?' my daughter asked.
Because it's been on the ground, you don't know where it's been, it's
dirty, and probably has germs' I replied.
At this point, my daughter looked at me with total admiration and asked,
'Momma, how do you know all this stuff, you are so smart.'
I was thinking quickly. 'All moms know this stuff. It's on the Mom
Test. You have to know it, or they don't let you be a Mom.'
We walked along in silence for 2 or 3 minutes, but she was evidently
pondering this new information.
'OHHH . . . I get it!' she beamed, 'So if you don't pass the test
you have to be the dad.'
''Exactly' I replied back with a big smile on my face.

I love making cards

Well it is 10 am and I should be doing some housework. But I thought I would go and make a card. I started with white card stock and this is what I came up with.

In the Christmas spirit

Today has been a great day. Ivi, Rick and I all went outside and played baseball for awhile. Then Ivi and I made a pumpkin strudel together. We finished cleaning Ivi's room then decided to put up her Christmas tree. What fun that was. I will post a picture when we get it skirted and the tinsel put on it. All this today has put me in the Christmas spirit. So I decided to go and make a winter card. This is what I came up with. I used the sketch from SCS. Let me know what you think.

Wow it has been awhile.

Wow it has been a long time since I have posted here. This has been such a busy time that I can hardly keep my head straight. I know it will only get busier with the holidays coming on. I still have not taken down my Halloween decorations, and I need to put up my Thanksgiving and Christmas. Oh No is it really time to start getting ready for Christmas. Here is a card that was done some time ago. But since I have nothing new I thought I would put this one here.

Pumpkin Patch

We had such fun on Saturday. Ivi and I went with my sister and her children and grandchildren to the Liberty Pumpkin Patch. I hope we make this a yearly tradition.
This is a picture of Ivi in the patch. She was having so much fun with her cousins I could hardly get her to sand still for a pic.

OSU WINS

It was so much fun to go to OSU for Homecoming. It was even better to see my son's team OSU beat my Husbands team K-State. Here is a picture of one of the decks created I just love it.

Mean Moms

Mean Moms
Someday when my children are old enough to
understand the logic that motivates a parent, I will
tell them, as my Mean Mom told me: I loved you
enough to ask where you were going, with whom,
and what time you would be home.
I loved you enough to be silent and let you
discover that your new best friend was a creep.
I loved you enough to stand over you for two hours
while you cleaned your room, a job that should have taken 15 minutes.
I loved you enough to let you see anger,
disappointment, and tears in my eyes. Children must
learn that their parents aren't perfect.
I loved you enough to let you assume the
responsibility for your actions even when the
penalties were so harsh they almost broke my heart.
But most of all, I loved you enough . . . to say
NO when I knew you would hate me for it.
Those were the most difficult battles of all. I'm
glad I won them, because in the end you won, too.
And someday when your children are old enough to
understand the logic that motivates parents, you will tell them .
Was your Mom mean? I know mine was. We had the
meanest mother in the whole world! While other kids
ate candy for breakfast, we had to have cereal, eggs, and toast
When others had a Pepsi and a Twinkie for lunch, we had to eat sandwiches.
And you can guess our mother fixed us a dinner that was
different from what other kids had, too.
Mother insisted on knowing where we were at all
times. You'd think we were convicts in a prison. She
had to know who our friends were, and what we were
doing with them. She insisted that if we said we
would be gone for an hour, we would be gone for an hour or less.
We were ashamed to admit it, but she had the nerve
to break the Child Labor Laws by making us work We
had to wash the dishes, make the beds, learn to
cook, vacuum the floor, do laundry, empty the trash
and all sorts of cruel jobs. I think she would lie
awake at night thinking of more things for us to do.
She always insisted on us telling the truth, the
whole truth, and nothing but the truth. By the time
we were teenagers, she could read our minds and had
eyes in the back of her head. Then, life was really tough!
Mother wouldn't let our friends just honk the horn
when they drove up. They had to come up to the door
so she could meet them. While everyone else could
date when they were 12 or 13, we had to wait until we were 16.
Because of our mother we missed out on lots of
things other kids experienced. None of us have ever
been caught shoplifting, vandalizing other's
property or ever arrested for any crime. It was all her fault.
Now that we have left home, we are all educated,
honest adults. We are doing our best to be mean
parents just like Mom was.
I think that is what's wrong with the world today.
It just doesn't have enough mean moms!