From House Wife To Film Maker

Yesterday and today I’ve been having fun with my children.  We went to the Dollar Theater to see two movies in a row: G-Force and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.  We had FUN    but I have to say all that food falling from the sky freaked me out    Came home and worked throughout the night and into the morning.

Today I worked a good portion of the day stationed right here at the computer screen.  But Dan, Cal, Grace, and Zach were all here in my apartment watching Christmas movies and I will admit to peeking around the screen more than once to watch.

I kicked off from working around 4:20 when it became terribly apparent to me that the gifts I had ordered from Amazon, which had been ordered with 3 days to spare to be here in time for Christmas, for Zach weren’t going to show up.  Checked the tracking number and it was a no go.  Oh God….
“Come on Grace let’s go…”
We were out the door in minutes flat bombing up the highway heading for Coconuts to get the top two things he asked from me for Christmas, two movies: 1408 and The Mist.  EEEEKKKKKK.  They had to have them.  I called Blockbuster, Best Buy, Barnes and Nobel as I flew up that road.  NONE had a single copy.  As I entered the store I was praying like mad a that they would be sitting on their shelves…scan the store, find a sales girl, ask if she knew if they had them, “We should,” together we moved up the isle in their direction, as change was clanking into the drawer as the girls in the front cashed out their drawers, the girl stopped right, reached out her hand  whisked 1408 from the shelf, moved a few feet repeated the process and deposited them into my grateful hands.  I spyed a gift pack of 4 other Stephen King movies grabbed them, followed the girl to the front and we were cashed and leaving at 5:01.  PHEW.   Then we were bolting back down the highway heading for home.

When I returned it was dinner time: meatloaf, mashed potatoes, broccoli.  While they cooked I begin Christmas baking: Spritz cookies, and molassas popcorn balls.  Welllllll, I burned the molassas and the dough for the cookies won’t come out of the press nicely.  Why??  I don’t know.  I cleaned up the failed attempts, shelved the cookies press and dough till tomorrow, cleaned the kitchen, decided I needed to whip out a post before bed so here I am: 1:15 am and I am typing at top speed.

Before I end this I must share a quick story.  Dan and Caleb were wrapping Grace’s gifts for me and Caleb said in the warmest, sweetest tone, “I love wrapping Christmas gifts.”  Dan said, “Yeah me too.  Then I know what they got and I can torment them letting them know, I know, what they got.”  This he said with devilish glee.  Cal responded, “Well, I just really love to wrap Christmas gifts.”  He didn’t say it, but you sure could hear it that he didn’t want to be in the same catagory with Dan.

Isn’t it amazing how different we are from each other??  And yet how much the same…

MERRY CHRISTMAS,
Love ya,
Theresa Jane
-who will be continuing with the her series hopefully tomorrow…

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