Spoiling our kids on the Holidays is one of the many joys of parenthood. This Christmas ask Dad to choose from the amazing selection of Santa suits on the market for an extra treat for the children. For Halloween make sure the whole family dresses up in Halloween costumes and goes out trick-or-treating together. For Easter, dress your toddlers in White Rabbit Tom Arma costumes and have a hippity hoppity egg hunt in the backyard. Why not dress in Renaissance costumes for the May Pole party next year and add some color, fun and history lessons for the kids while you dance? Costumes make any occasion more fun for the children, so get dressed up and ready for family fun! 

  Boy have cameras come a long way since the 110 cameras.  Do you remember those?  They had that neat cartridge thing you just dropped in and didn’t have to worry about.  Well my son just got a new digital camera.  He checked all of them out until he found just the one he wanted.  Unfortunately he has too much of his father in him and has to have only the best.  Anyway he ended up with a Nikon camera.  It came with an extra digital close up lense, camera bag, huge memory card and all kinds of other stuff.  The best part of the camera is it is one of the easiest to use and has all sorts of extra features you can do to the pictures right on the camera.  Since I have seen his camera, I just might have to have the best the next time I buy a new camera.  Only problem is it’ll take me forever to learn to use it.  I usually just hand stuff like that to my 12 year old and he figures it out for me.   

I work a few shifts a week at the mall at a major shoe store to get me out of the house and to help bring in a few bucks.  We carry a few Hannah Montan shoes, backpacks and purses, and I got to tell you that they litterly fly off the shelves.  No longer is it Brittney Spears for the girls that still play with Barbie and Bratz dolls, I think Brittney is a thing of the past for the tween set.

It is too bad that all of the attention that is being made to Brittney and all of her troubles and I know that it has rubbed off on her younger sister that has her own t.v. also, who by the way just announced that she, at the young age of 15, is expecting a baby, the whole family has gone to Hell in a hand basket, too bad.  Our young girls are following all of this nonense and taking a lot of it to heart.

On the news they were saying more items made in China are being found to contain high lead levels, and the newest products to be found are Hannah Montana, so I guess when I go back to work on Thursday evening I will find out if any of our products are being recalled like being stated on the news.

Every time you turn around something is being found containing high levels of lead, all of them from China.  Makes a parent weary, to say the least.

   Well my new granddaughter Carley came home today.  My daughter-in-law even let me be there when she was born.   How cool is that?  She is breast feeding Carley which I think is wonderful especially since I breastfed all four of my boys.  Don’t get me wrong, formula is okay but breast milk is better.          

   Back when I had my boys, they were in cloth diapers.  They had disposable diapers but they weren’t nearly as good as the ones they have today.  Carley is in Pampers.  Man those things are great.  No more washing diapers every day, or so it seemed.  There are so many neat things for babies now that they didn’t have when I was having my boys and Pampers are definately one of those things.

I found another bunch of books that need to be read and I have picked the one that is next as soon as I finish up the one now that is almost done, bummer.  A few dozen remaining pages of “The Collected Short Stories of Louis L’Amour”  The Frontier Stories, Volume Two.  I hate coming to the end of any book, it depresses me.  I get so interested in everything that I hate to see it come to an end.

Anyway my next book is going to be “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe - what a classic.  I can’t believe that I had never read it before, but I am glad that I will have the chance now, I’m sure it will be very interesting and educational in many ways.

I’m glad that I am having the opportunity to read again, it has opened my mind to so many things and it has made me want to learn so many things that I never expected to give a happy crap before.

Too bad that youth is wasted in the young!