The Schmidt House

Buying 19 books (which scored a minimum of four stars on Amazon) for $8 at an estate sale in Linden Hills. Fun stuff, great house, good company (mom & auntie) and a delicious lunch (Broder's). Have many, many stories to share about Xmas...not enough time to even begin. Going to go see Dreamgirls with Shel. Don't want to be late.

Doesn't this look like fun? Ugly Holiday Sweater Party! The picture in the linked blog is the invitation for the trio's annual shindig. They went to Sears for the photo - classic. I have had a few festive pullovers in my history. Why did I ever take them to Goodwill? Don't worry I have my eye on this number... It is even 3-D!!! Can't even begin to think about how unbelievable this will look with my WONDERFUL hat!!!

The other day I was invited to a little Holiday gathering with some of the women I have met through tennis. I had the best time. These women are fun - I mean real fun. During the party there was a gift exchange, where I received this WONDERFUL hat. I love it, just love it. This hat makes me happy. Everyone in my family hates the hat. DLS shook his head, AE told me I looked ridiculous and you can see by the photo what little man thinks about it. The dog even barks at me when I have it on, but I don't care I still love my hat. Every Christmas we have a knock down drag out between the little people about who gets to be Santa and give out the gifts. This year's Santa must don the WONDERFUL hat otherwise no gifts for you ! When I say I love my hat it reminds me of Go Dog Go. Remember the little dog wearing the silly hat and she says, "Do you like my hat?" The other dog replies, "No, I do not like your hat." They say goodbye to one another and go on with their...

I love that wor d - argh . Pretty much sums up how I am feeling right about now. Just realized that there are only FOUR days before Christmas Eve. Is it just me or did this sneaky Holiday come out of nowhere? Just like when poor little Charlie Brown is trying to kick that football and Lucy Van Pelt pulls it away at the last minute. That's me. WHAM! It hits you. You are nowhere near ready for the "most wonderful time of the year". I am positive, whoever wrote that song was not a woman and a mother to boot. By the way, when I was out searching the correct spelling of argh I found many interesting facts pertaining the word "ARGH" that I can honestly say I never realized. So as my gift to you this holiday - Lord knows I will never get around to purchasing something on this procrastinator's schedule, let alone wrap, mail etc. - here you go: There are 9,080,000 results on Google for the word argh. ARGH is an acronym for A ugmented R eality G ames on H andhelds...

We had a good laugh last night at the Schmidt house. If you ever wondered what it would be like to wear red and white striped tights and have a starring role in the movie Elf check this out...

My husband and AE were riding in the car the other day when father and daughter had the following exchange: AE: Dad, when did we become Jewish? DLS: What are you talking about? AE: You know dad, we're Jewish. When did that happen? DLS: We're not Jewish, where did you get that idea? AE: You told me we were Jewish the other day. I told people at school we were Jewish when we were talking about Hanukkah. DLS: I told you we were German, not Jewish. AE: Oh. Well they sound alike.

AE is obsessed with Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel. For those who don't know what Hannah Montana is, it's a show starring singer/actress Miley Cyrus. Miley Cyrus is Billy RayCyrus ' daughter. Remember Achy Breaky Heart ? Yeah, that Billy Ray Cyrus. The show tells the story of Hannah Montana, teen superstar by night and normal Miley Stewart by day. No one, but her family and best friend, know she is living this double life. Billy Ray Cyrus plays her father, sans mullet, on the show and there are other country music stars who show up now and then. I can honestly say I never thought I would ever see Dolly Parton on the Disney channel. Am I the only one who could have never predicted Billy Ray Cyrus would be given another 15 minutes of pseudo-fame? So who wants to take bets as to when Vanilla Ice or Sinead O’Connor will make their comebacks on Nickelodeon? It is actually a cute clean show for pre -teens - most Disney shows are good - That's So Raven and The S...