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Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.february sherrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13851000648610527585noreply@blogger.comBlogger1136125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35847211.post-15376434386728366442013-01-31T04:50:00.000-06:002013-01-31T04:50:19.274-06:00Little Bits Corner<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #674ea7;">I am giving our daughter "space" on Faithfully. She is really interested in what mommy does and wants to try her hand at it too; so, she will have posts when I do. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7;">She has had a lot of good ideas, so stay tuned.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7;">Love,</span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7;">Sherri</span>february sherrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13851000648610527585noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35847211.post-77203785368981434202013-01-31T04:40:00.000-06:002013-01-31T04:40:21.758-06:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #674ea7;">I love my mommy and daddy and I love nana too</span>february sherrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13851000648610527585noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35847211.post-31372836828684216702013-01-31T03:51:00.001-06:002013-01-31T03:51:21.164-06:00Computer Virus Humor<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<dt style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #674ea7;">P</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #674ea7;">olitically Correct Virus: </span></b><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Never calls itself a "virus", but instead refers to itself as an "electronic microorganism."</span></b></dt>
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<dt style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Oprah Winfrey Virus: </span></b><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Your 200MB hard drive suddenly shrinks to 80MB, and then slowly expands back to 200MB.</span></b></dt>
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<dt style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #674ea7;">AT&T Virus: </span></b><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Every three minutes it tells you what great service you're getting.</span></b></dt>
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<dt style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #674ea7;">MCI Virus: </span></b><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Every three minutes it reminds you that you're paying too much for the AT&T Virus.</span></b></dt>
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<dt style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #674ea7;">Arnold Schwarzenegger Virus: </span></b><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Terminates and stays resident. It'll be back.</span></b></dt>
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<dt style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #674ea7;">Government Economist Virus: </span></b><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Nothing works, but all your diagnostic software says everything is fine.</span></b></dt>
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<dt style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #674ea7;">Texas Virus: </span></b><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Makes sure it's bigger than any other file.</span></b></dt>
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<dt style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #674ea7;">Quantum Leap Virus: </span></b><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">One day your PC is a laptop, the next day it is a Macintosh, then a Nintendo.</span></b></dt>
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<dt style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #674ea7;">Airline virus: </span></b><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">You're in Dallas, but your data is in Singapore.</span></b></dt>
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<dt style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #674ea7;">Congressional Virus: </span></b><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">The computer locks up, screen splits erratically with a message appearing on each half blaming the other side for the problem.</span></b></dt>
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<dt style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #674ea7;">Ross Perot Virus: </span></b><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Activates every component on your system, just before the whole thing quits.</span></b></dt>
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<dt style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Federal bureaucrat virus: </span></b><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Divides your hard disk into hundreds of little units, each of which do practically nothing, but all of which claim to be the most important part of the computer.</span></b></dt>
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february sherrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13851000648610527585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35847211.post-17677262067867524902013-01-31T03:28:00.000-06:002013-01-31T03:28:33.785-06:00Chicken Breasts with Mushrooms<br />
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<span style="color: blue; text-decoration: inherit;">This is a delicious way to cook chicken. The wine adds just the right touch and the mushrooms finish the dish. Enjoy with buttered noodles or a nice rice pilaf.</span></div>
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<span style="text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;">Ingredients:</span></span></div>
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<li class="ingredient" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;">3/4 teaspoon dried leaf tarragon</span></li>
<li class="ingredient" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;">1/2 teaspoon dried leaf basil</span></li>
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<li class="ingredient" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;">8 ounces sliced mushrooms</span></li>
<li class="ingredient" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;">1 cup chicken broth</span></li>
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<li class="ingredient" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;">juice of 1 small lemon, about 2 to 2 1/2 tablespoons</span></li>
<li class="ingredient" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;">3 tablespoons freshly chopped parsley or chives, for garnish</span></li>
<li class="ingredient" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;">1 tablespoon flour</span></li>
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<span style="color: blue;">Flatten chicken breasts; place plastic wrap over each chicken breast and gently pound with smooth side of a meat mallet until uniform thickness.</span><div style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;">
<span style="color: blue;">In a pie plate or wide shallow bowl, combine flour, salt, pepper, tarragon, and basil. In another pie plate or shallow bowl, beat eggs with the water.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Melt 1 tablespoon butter and 1 tablespoon olive oil in a large skillet.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Dip chicken pieces into egg, coating well, then into the flour and herb mixture, turning several times. When chicken is well coated, place in hot butter and oil in the skillet. Brown chicken on both sides for about 3 minutes per side, or until juices run clear and chicken is brown. Remove to a plate.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Add mushrooms and remaining 1 tablespoon oil and 1 tablespoon butter to the skillet. Saute for about 4 to 5 minutes, until mushrooms are browned. Add the broth, wine, and lemon juice; simmer rapidly for about 3 minutes to reduce somewhat.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Sauce</b><br />Combine 1 tablespoon flour with 1 tablespoon butter, stirring until smooth. Add to the broth and wine mixture, stirring and cooking for about one minute, until thickened, then add chicken back to the skillet. Heat until chicken is hot. Serve the chicken with chives for garnish, if desired.<br />Serves 4.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">It seems like every few months I am here for a while and then - wham, another fibromyalgia flare-up. I have a lot of posts to share with all of you and I'm going to try my best to work through this.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">This site has meant a great deal to me; I have had very loyal readers over the years and I want you to know that I appreciate you more than you will ever know. You have stuck with me through my absences and continued to let me know how much Faithfully means to you; thank you so much. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">So, here I am again; hopefully for good. I look forward to bringing you a lot of important (and even silly) posts.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">Love you all,</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">Jordan, who is the daughter of a friend of ours, Paula, had taken Zoloft during her entire pregnancy. As many as 30% of all babies whose mothers took Zoloft, had birth defects; many of them quite serious, even deadly. </span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">Chase, Jordan's baby, was born this morning shortly after 9:00 a.m. and weighed 6 pounds. So far, everything seems to be okay with the baby. There have been a lot of prayers going up for this little boy and it is a true miracle that no birth defects are evident at this time.</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">Please continue to pray for Chase and for Jordan (she has a lot going on in her life) and help her to embrace the maternal bond between mother and baby.</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">Thank you so much for all of your prayers and may the Lord richly bless you and yours.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">We have a 30 gallon aquarium that is just awesome. Besides being very calming to watch the fish, it is also very beautiful. We have learned a lot about fish since our anniversary two years ago, when my husband and I found an aquarium and stocked it with some really cool fish.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">We knew <b>nothing </b>about fish varieties as we were amateur enthusiasts (and I stress the word enthusiasts) and didn't know anything about cycling the tank and choosing the very best type of fish for our tank. Needless to say, some of our fish didn't make it. We finally had the water where it needed to be and our fish were healthy at that point. Our big mistake was letting someone talk us into getting mystery snails (their real name) to clean algae and waste in the tank. The snails were fine for a while and then they would turn this weird bubble gum color and in 1-2 days, they were dead. Our fish were starting to die again, little-by-little, so I decided to do some research. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Our snails had flukes, which we found out were using the snails as hosts. There are two types of flukes; the egg laying (oviparous) gill fluke and the live bearing (viviparous) body (or skin) fluke. Skin and gill flukes are caused by parasitic flatworms known as trematodes. They are called "flukes" because they have the same flattened body shape as a flounder (the old Saxon name for flounder was fluke). Skin flukes have been found to have more than 4 generations inside a single fluke. A healthy fish will be better equipped to withstand a small fluke attack, but a large fluke infestation can be very deadly. They can cause severe tissue damage and lesions and can be the reason behind hyperplasia of both skin and gill epithelium (Hyperplasia is increased cell production in a normal tissue or organ). When the skin and gills are damaged by the trematodes (flukes), it is even easier for new trematodes to attack the fish. Some symptoms of flukes are: sluggishness, flashing (rubbing against rocks or decorations and sometimes "bouncing"), reddened fins, drooping fins, fin damage, loss of appetite, isolation and there may also be excessive mucus production. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">There are several methods of treating flukes, however, some medications are not effective in their treatment. Prazi is a great medication and is safe to use with even the most sensitive of fish; if it is used as directed, it almost guarantees elimination of the flukes (according to Pondr.com). Prazi doesn't affect your filter bacteria, which a lot of treatments do, and it lasts a long time. Prazi can be hard to find, but there are several online retailers that carry it including: Amazon, Rocky Mountain Discus Care Products, Doctors Foster and Smith, and Bonnie's Plants. This is not an inexpensive treatment; it is offered on Amazon for between $5 and $35. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">We lost all of our fish, but we have learned a lot. We cleaned the tank and the gravel, decorative rocks, etc. with vinegar (works best, in my opinion to clean with and also is good to put on your hands and arms when having to place your hands inside the tank for whatever reason) just make sure to rinse well and when using on your hands/arms, rinse well and dry on paper towels to avoid transfer of any soap or laundry softener to the tank. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Make sure to cycle your tank; we use filtered water and a water conditioner (used to remove any chlorine, other chemicals, etc.), a good filter, an air strip with variable water pressure (to incorporate oxygen into the tank and also provide a current for your fish whose natural habitat is in a body of water with a current (whether strong or mild). It is good to add live plants to your tank, such as myriophyllum, varieties of water lily (lilies are good for fish that like a dimmer light in the tank) and crypt plants to help keep ammonia levels down and provide a nice hiding place for your fish also. We put beneficial bacteria in the tank (biozyme is the brand we used) to help cycle the water. You will get an initial "bloom" of bacteria that will turn the water a cloudy whitish hue; this is actually what it is supposed to do. You can add about 5 drops of a pure ammonia liquid (no scents, no added ingredients) to every 10 gallons get your ammonia level to .5, which helps kill the bad bacteria and algae. Cycle it for about 2 weeks and check the ammonia level to make sure it is appropriate for the fish and if all looks good, add about 2-4 fish initially and then another 4-6 in about 2 weeks (if getting tetras or other small varieties, you may add 6-8 because they are schooling fish and do better in a larger group).</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">We now have 12 cardinal tetras, 3 chinese algae eaters, 2 reticulated hillside loaches (they look like little manta rays and are so cool), 5 calico platies (we now have 4 little platie babies - awww!), 5 dwarf rainbows and a lot of brine shrimp that just appeared one day and are excellent for baby fish (fry) and fish who like live food. If you would like to find out more about fish diseases, symptoms and treatment, <a _blank="_blank" href="http://www.fishnet.org/sick-fish-chart.htm.%20target=">click here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7;"><i>We see our children texting at 90 mph and wonder how they can be doing that while watching television and talking on the phone at the same time; well, there is more to it than just saying "What's up"? There are codes that the kids use for when their parents are in the room (or even standing over their shoulder), so the sender doesn't share anything the parent would disapprove of. Here are some of the "codes" they use:</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2H2H Too hot to handle</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2M2H Too much to handle</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">99 Parent has left</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">420 Let's get high/marijuana
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A3 Anytime, anywhere, any place
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ACE Marijuana cigarette
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AITR<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Adult in the room</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ASL Age/sex/location</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ASLP Age/sex/location/picture</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AWT At what time</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">B/G Background (personal information request)</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BGWM Be gentle with me</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BIH Burn in H***</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BTYCL Booty call
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CD9<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Code 9 meaning "parents are around"</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CICYHW Can I copy your homework
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CT Can't talk</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CTN Can't talk now</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CUIMD See you in my dreams</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">D46? Down for s_x?</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">DM Do me</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">DOC Drug of choice</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">DYFM Dude, you fascinate me</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">E Ecstasy (the drug)</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ED Erase display</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ES Erase screen</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ESAD Eat s... and die</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">EZ Easy</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FB Facebook</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FBFR Facebook friend</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FML "F" my life</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FOAD "F" off and die</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FU "F" you</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FWB Friend with benefits</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FYEO For your eyes only</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GGOH Gotta get outta here</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GGMSOT Gotta get me some of that</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GIRL Guy in real life</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GTFO Get the "F" out</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HUYA Head up your butt</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ICEDI I can't even discuss it</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">IMEZRU I am easy, are you?</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">IWAWO I want a way out</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">IGHT I got high tonight</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">IWSN I want s_x now</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">JDI Just do it</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">KFY Kiss for you</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">KMA Kiss my ...</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">KPC Keeping parents clueless</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">LGH Let's get high</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">LH6 Let's have s_x!</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">LHSX "</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">LIK meaning "liquor"</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">LMIRL Let's meet in real life</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MBS Mom behind shoulder</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MLM meaning give the middle finger</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MOS<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Mom over shoulder</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NIFOC Naked in front of computer</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NWO No way out</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OB Oh baby!</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">P911 Parents coming into room alert</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PA<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Parent alert</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PAQ Parents are watching</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PBB<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Parent behind back</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PIR<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Parent in room
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">POS<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Parent over shoulder
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PRON meaning pornography</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PRT Party</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PRW People/parents are watching</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PSOS Parents standing over shoulder</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">RYO Roll your own</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">S2R Send to receive</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SOS<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Someone over shoulder</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SOWM Someone is with me</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SPST Same place, same time</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TD2M Talk dirty to me</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TDTM "</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">URH You are hot</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WAN2 Want to?</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WYCM Will you call me?</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">YBS You'll be sorry!</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">YHBW You have been warned!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>There are a lot more of these, parents, and these are the ones that I could actually put on my site without getting really graphic. There are more codes out there that you need to know; some of these are extremely graphic and touch on many different aspects of human relationships (that's the nicest way I can put it). </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>If you want to find out more about the other codes, <a href="http://www.betterparentinginstitute.com/Better-Parenting/parenting-child-raising-skills/teenage-sexting-a-language-all-its-own-2/" target="_blank">click here</a> to go to the Better Parenting Institute's site.</b></span><b><spanstyle cc="cc" color.="color."><br /> </spanstyle></b></span><br />
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february sherrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13851000648610527585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35847211.post-46155112224769967162012-08-18T20:27:00.001-05:002012-08-18T20:27:37.244-05:00Hanging in There<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: purple;">Just when I think that my flare-ups of the fibromyalgia are getting better - wham! I have had a lot of swelling along with more and more pain - I am so over this right now. I am just really thankful that the Lord gives me strength to deal with what I am going through. I still get upset sometimes and wish that I could be the active person that I once was, but I know that I am going through this for a reason.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">The worst thing I could have done was take Lyrica; which, unfortunately, I did. I didn't want to take this medication, but basically let my doctor talk me into it. I went from 105 lbs. to 120 lbs. in one month's time. I was eating less due to the pain and nausea that accompanies it, but my weight went up anyway. My doctor told me that it was largely due to inflammation and fluid retention. I am back to about 112 lbs. now and can fit in some of my smaller clothes again, but I still have things that I cannot fit into that I really miss wearing. I can fit in something one day and not be able to get it together enough to zip it the next. We are talking about anywhere from 1/2 to 1 1/2 inches difference in one day. I'm sure you ladies know how frustrating that would be.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">I know that Lyrica has helped some people, but I would not hesitate one bit to discourage anyone I come in contact with, from taking Lyrica. I was one of the lucky ones to have about 60% of the side effects. I have heart palpitations, PVC's (premature ventricular contractions where your heart skips beats), some chest pain, extremely bad swelling of my feet and legs (much worse if I am on them for very long at a time) and also my abdomen. These are just a few of the side effects that I have from the Lyrica (these are permanent by-the-way).</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">I can tell you one thing, though - the Lord blessed me with a very sincere, loving, understanding husband who tells me every single day, how beautiful I am and how much he loves me. I have a daughter who says that I am the best mommy in the whole world and the most beautiful woman she has ever seen. With fans like that, how could you not feel a little better. Believe me, I know how blessed I am; all I have to do is look around me and I see my greatest blessings. Love abounds in our home in all directions, and that is what's important.</span>february sherrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13851000648610527585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35847211.post-74372324464527913242012-05-01T04:10:00.000-05:002012-05-01T04:30:41.160-05:00Funny Lists<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;">The wheel's spinning but the hamster's dead </span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;">One Froot Loop shy of a full bowl </span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;">Couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel </span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;">Has an intellect rivaled only by garden tools </span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;">As smart as bait </span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;">Elevator doesn't go all the way to the top</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;">His antenna doesn't pick up all the channels</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;">His belt doesn't go through all the loops </span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;">Missing a few buttons on his remote control </span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;">No grain in the silo</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;">Proof that evolution CAN go in reverse</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;">Receiver is off the hook </span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 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<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">If you are ready to quit smoking, UM smoking cessation expert Kevin Ferentz has some advice for you.</span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>You know you need to quit. You really want to quit. But smoking has become such a huge part of your life that you just can't imagine waking up in the morning without reaching for a cigarette, finishing a meal without lighting up or hanging out with your friends -- all smokers -- without smoking yourself.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>So, how does one go about kicking the habit for good? What is going to make this year any different than previous ones when you resolved to swear off nicotine?</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>An effective strategy can help. If you're armed with a little knowledge, you can greatly improve your odds of success. You just have to know what you are up against.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>"The difficulty people have when trying to quit around New Year's is that there is typically so much alcohol consumption during the holiday," said Kevin Scott Ferentz, M.D., associate professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>"The alcohol makes it much less likely that you will be able to quit because most smokers like to smoke when they drink. I tell people who want to quit around New Year's not to worry if they don't quit exactly on New Year's Day."</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Ferentz, who specializes in smoking cessation, said that choosing a quit date and sticking to it is an important part of breaking the habit. Smokers who want to become ex-smokers, however, must chose a date that makes sense for them.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>"There is nothing wrong with making that day January 3rd or the 4th," Ferentz says. "Choosing a day later in the week after all of the parties and activities have died down is probably more realistic. You have to do what works for you because you don't want to set yourself up for failure."</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Ferentz says one of the biggest mistakes smokers make when attempting to quit is that they give up the fight too soon if their initial efforts don't work. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, over half of all adult smokers do manage to quit for good. Most of them, however, aren't successful the first time around. In fact, studies show that most smokers attempt to quit several times before they are able to make it stick.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>"People shouldn't be hard on themselves," said Ferentz. "Quitting is a process. Smokers who want to quit and have tried and failed in the past shouldn't feel defeated because quitting is far from impossible. It is actually quite possible. There are more people out there who have successfully quit smoking than there are people who still smoke."</i></span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #674ea7;">Here are some tips Ferentz suggests to keep in mind if quitting is one of your goals:</span></i></div>
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<li><span style="color: #674ea7;"><i>Put it in writing. Write down your reasons for quitting on 3 x 5-inch index cards so you can refer to them when you are tempted to smoke.</i></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #674ea7;"><i>Explore your motives for smoking. Keep a journal before you quit to document your feelings about your habit. You want to include details about where you smoke most often, when you smoke, with whom and why. Review your diary after four or five days to identify feelings and circumstances that trigger your cravings for nicotine.</i></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #674ea7;"><i>Modify your behavior. Write down your "triggers" on the left side of a piece of paper and on the right side, jot down how you plan to either avoid or cope with those situations or feelings that send you reaching for nicotine.</i></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #674ea7;"><i>Reduce the pleasure quotient. Most people have favorite brands of cigarettes. In the week or so leading up to your quit date, ditch your favorites for other, less-appealing varieties. For example, buy menthols if you normally don't smoke them. Buy low-tar filters or light versions of your favorite brand or try new, unusual brands that you've never smoked before. This practice will make the habit of smoking seem less appealing and easier to stop.</i></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #674ea7;"><i>If you relapse, don't panic. Identify what it was that triggered your desire to smoke again and come up with a way to cope with the trigger. The urge to smoke -- no matter how overwhelming -- will pass after a few minutes, whether or not you give into it.</i></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #674ea7;"><i>Seek help. If you aren't able to quit on your own, try using aids such as nicotine gum or the nicotine patch. If you still aren't able to quit, see your doctor about other options. You may also want to join a support group. Whatever you do, don't give up!</i></span></li>
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<dt style="margin-top: 5px;"><i style="background-color: white; color: blue;"><b>I have had cats all of my life and I cannot imagine not having one. This really speaks to me; over the years, we have had great cats and some like these:</b></i></dt>
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">Law of Cat Inertia</span></span></dt>
<dd style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="background-color: white;">A cat at rest will tend to remain at rest, unless acted upon by some outside force - such as the opening of cat food, or a nearby scurrying mouse.</span><div style="margin-top: 6px;">
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">Law of Cat Motion</span></span></dt>
<dd style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="background-color: white;">A cat will move in a straight line, unless there is a really good reason to change direction.</span><div style="margin-top: 6px;">
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">Law of Cat Magnetism</span></span></dt>
<dd style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="background-color: white;">All blue blazers and black sweaters attract cat hair in direct proportion to the darkness of the fabric.</span><div style="margin-top: 6px;">
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">Law of Cat Thermodynamics</span></span></dt>
<dd style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Heat flows from a warmer to a cooler body, except in the case of a cat, in which case all heat flows to the cat.</span><div style="margin-top: 6px;">
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">Law of Cat Stretching</span></span></dt>
<dd style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="background-color: white;">A cat will stretch to a distance proportional to the length of the nap just taken.</span><div style="margin-top: 6px;">
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">Law of Cat Sleeping</span></span></dt>
<dd style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="background-color: white;">All cats must sleep with people whenever possible, in a position as uncomfortable for the people involved, and as comfortable as possible for the cat.</span><div style="margin-top: 6px;">
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">Law of Cat Elongation</span></span></dt>
<dd style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="background-color: white;">A cat can make her body long enough to reach just about any counter top that has anything remotely interesting on it.</span><div style="margin-top: 6px;">
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">Law of Cat Obstruction</span></span></dt>
<dd style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="background-color: white;">A cat must lie on the floor in such a position to obstruct the maximum amount of human foot traffic.</span><div style="margin-top: 6px;">
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">Law of Cat Acceleration</span></span></dt>
<dd style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="background-color: white;">A cat will accelerate at a constant rate, until he gets good and ready to stop.</span><div style="margin-top: 6px;">
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">Law of Dinner Table Attendance</span></span></dt>
<dd style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Cats must attend all meals when anything good is served.</span><div style="margin-top: 6px;">
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">Law of Rug Configuration</span></span></dt>
<dd style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="background-color: white;">No rug may remain in its naturally flat state for very long.</span><div style="margin-top: 6px;">
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">Law of Obedience Resistance</span></span></dt>
<dd style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="background-color: white;">A cat's resistance varies in proportion to a human's desire for her to do something.</span><div style="margin-top: 6px;">
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">First Law of Energy Conservation</span></span></dt>
<dd style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Cats know that energy can neither be created nor destroyed and will, therefore, use as little energy as possible.</span><div style="margin-top: 6px;">
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">Second Law of Energy Conservation</span></span></dt>
<dd style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Cats also know that energy can only be stored by a lot of napping.</span><div style="margin-top: 6px;">
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">Law of Refrigerator Observation</span></span></dt>
<dd style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="background-color: white;">If a cat watches a refrigerator long enough, someone will come along and take out something good to eat.</span><div style="margin-top: 6px;">
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">Law of Electric Blanket Attraction</span></span></dt>
<dd style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Turn on an electric blanket and a cat will jump into bed at the speed of light.</span><div style="margin-top: 6px;">
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">Law of Random Comfort Seeking</span></span></dt>
<dd style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="background-color: white;">A cat will always seek, and usually take over, the most comfortable spot in any given room.</span><div style="margin-top: 6px;">
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">Law of Bag/Box Occupancy</span></span></dt>
<dd style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="background-color: white;">All bags and boxes in a given room must contain a cat within the earliest possible nanosecond.</span><div style="margin-top: 6px;">
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">Law of Cat Embarrassment</span></span></dt>
<dd style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="background-color: white;">A cat's irritation rises in direct proportion to her embarrassment times the amount of human laughter.</span><div style="margin-top: 6px;">
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">Law of Milk Consumption</span></span></dt>
<dd style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="background-color: white;">A cat will drink his weight in milk, squared, just to show you he can.</span><div style="margin-top: 6px;">
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">Law of Furniture Replacement</span></span></dt>
<dd style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="background-color: white;">A cat's desire to scratch furniture is directly proportional to the cost of the furniture.</span><div style="margin-top: 6px;">
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">Law of Cat Landing</span></span></dt>
<dd style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="background-color: white;">A cat will always land in the softest place possible; often the mid-section of an unsuspecting, reclining human.</span><div style="margin-top: 6px;">
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">Law of Fluid Displacement</span></span></dt>
<dd style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="background-color: white;">A cat immersed in milk will displace her own volume, minus the amount of milk consumed.</span><div style="margin-top: 6px;">
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">Law of Cat Disinterest</span></span></dt>
<dd style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="background-color: white;">A cat's interest level will vary in inverse proportion to the amount of effort a human expends in trying to interest him.</span><div style="margin-top: 6px;">
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">Law of Pill Rejection</span></span></dt>
<dd style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Any pill given to a cat has the potential energy to reach escape velocity.</span><div style="margin-top: 6px;">
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<dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">Law of Cat Composition</span></span></dt>
<dd style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="background-color: white;">A cat is composed of Matter + Anti-Matter + It Doesn't Matter.</span></dd>february sherrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13851000648610527585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35847211.post-8079783757004641452012-04-19T22:18:00.001-05:002012-04-19T22:41:34.673-05:00Funny Cat Sayings<div style="text-align: center;">
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<li>There is no snooze button on a <a href="http://mysmelly.com/content/cats/index.htm" style="cursor: pointer;">cat</a> who wants breakfast.</li>
<li>I got rid of my husband. The cat was allergic.</li>
<li>Never feed your cat anything that doesn't match the carpet.</li>
<li>Cat's motto: "No matter what you've done wrong, always try to make it look as if the dog did it."</li>
<li><a href="http://mysmelly.com/content/dogs/index.htm" style="cursor: pointer;">Dogs</a> have owners, cats have staff.</li>
<li>You know when people see a cat's litter box, they always say, "Oh, have you got a cat?" Just once I want to say, "No, it's for company!"</li>
<li>"Humans: No fur, no paws, no tail. They run away from mice. They never get enough sleep. How can you help but love such an absurd animal?" <i>- </i>Anonymous cat about humans</li>
<li>Anything on the ground is a cat toy. Anything not there yet, will be.</li>
<li>For a man to truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat.</li>
<li>Cats are like potato chips. You can never have just one.</li>
<li>These aren't my thoughts, they're my cat walking on the keyboard.</li>
<li>Everyone knows cats are on a higher level of existence. These silly humans are just too big-headed to admit their inferiority.</li>
<li>Cats are better than any vice. They're not fattening, dangerous, or expensive. However, they can be addictive.</li>
<li>I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food which they take for granted, but his or her entertainment value.</li>
<li>Some people have cats and go on to lead normal lives.</li>
<li>Most of the above-mentioned sayings have an unknown origin.</li>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFMAovZV92qysp58nVgA_HjSZnqNAxosQVHXOpSAvxAq2m68x2Zqk6pGSgJmbSWydjJrW-DxADIZrORq_3sVGP1UMZmqONinSx___ADlKrNZVKiuRAPMyzJKXHwsOP43fnhlMtHw/s1600/odie+and+garfield+big+smiles.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFMAovZV92qysp58nVgA_HjSZnqNAxosQVHXOpSAvxAq2m68x2Zqk6pGSgJmbSWydjJrW-DxADIZrORq_3sVGP1UMZmqONinSx___ADlKrNZVKiuRAPMyzJKXHwsOP43fnhlMtHw/s1600/odie+and+garfield+big+smiles.gif" /></a><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I know it has been a couple of months since my last post and I am really glad to be back. I appreciate all of the e-mails, well wishes and prayers from so many of you. It will be 6 months since my surgery on May 1st, so I am basically healed inside. I took my pain medication regularly for a couple of months following surgery, but now I am tapering way off. I didn't exactly realize just how much it helped until the last couple of months. On the one hand, you have medication that can help your pain tremendously, but can wreck your liver and other organs; on the other hand, with very little medication, the pain is just awful. Although the surgery for the prolapse and adhesions was a success for those problems, I still have the fibromyalgia, interstitial cystitis and osteoarthritis. I was just really hoping that a significant amount of pain would be gone, and some of it is, but it is totally in God's hands. He can heal me from this in a heartbeat, or it may be a witness down the road as to how much I had to endure and how He has completely delivered me of it. I never question anything, because there is usually a reason that things happen. Sometimes, you may be in a situation to help someone that is going through the same thing; you just never know how God will use you.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">One thing I did want to mention to you about interstitial cystitis, is that there is a procedure that is very successful in treating the overactive bladder symptom of IC called Sacral Neuromodulation. I have had this procedure and it does help; I went from 10 trips to the bathroom at night to just 1 or 2. </span><span style="background-color: white;"><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sacral neuromodulation works with the sacral nerves, located near the tailbone. The sacral nerves control the bladder and muscles related to urinary function. If the brain and sacral nerves are miscommunicating, the nerves can't tell the bladder to function correctly. Interstim Therapy modulates the sacral nerves with mild electrical pulses that help the brain and nerves to better communicate so that the bladder and muscles involved, can work correctly.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: red;">Your Urologist can determine if you're a good candidate for the implant and will let you have a one week trial, gathering information during this trial to determine if a permanent device would benefit yo</span><span style="color: #cc0000;">u. For more information on the Interstim device, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><a href="http://www.medtronic.com/patients/overactive-bladder/about-therapy/index.htm" target="_blank">click here</a>.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>february sherrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13851000648610527585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35847211.post-72710168609498297942012-02-14T03:27:00.000-06:002012-02-14T03:27:08.171-06:00The Perfect Valentine<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV14cueszP7MN4Vbe7B56cNtthls8ldtS_-pmQrqTPL-L9oIDS6Yn1SLhjpWB_SAM_k22EAkL8TdaLiAst0NAObabZZA95mPzoxXKc3LESYUqTfFEWwUVRJvALhoH_IXbLr9dmtA/s1600/mickeykissminnie.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV14cueszP7MN4Vbe7B56cNtthls8ldtS_-pmQrqTPL-L9oIDS6Yn1SLhjpWB_SAM_k22EAkL8TdaLiAst0NAObabZZA95mPzoxXKc3LESYUqTfFEWwUVRJvALhoH_IXbLr9dmtA/s1600/mickeykissminnie.gif" /></a><span style="color: magenta;">My husband is the most wonderful, caring, loving, devoted, sincere, handsome man I have ever known. He is not only a wonderful husband, but a loving, devoted father as well. I could never imagine a day without him - without his smile; his beautiful soft brown eyes; his strong, yet gentle hand holding mine; his warm and loving embrace. He is my best friend, my soulmate (I never really appreciated the term until I met my husband), my confidante, my lover, my other half that makes me complete. </span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">We continue to love our way through life and hold hands as the sands of time so slowly drift downward through the hourglass. He is the Lord's perfect and infinitely wise match for me; he is <b><i>the perfect valentine.</i></b></span>february sherrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13851000648610527585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35847211.post-32786617276988748192012-02-13T14:34:00.001-06:002012-02-13T14:34:29.901-06:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #e06666;">I wanted to use this picture because it reminds me of my daughter, who is now 7. I have always told her that "I love you more than anything in the whole world", ever since she was born. When she was 2, she told me, "Mommy, I love you the whole world"; I thought that was the sweetest thing that I had ever heard. She is truly one of a kind, to say the least. She gives presents to Santa Claus; she donates her toys and clothes, and the latest idea she had was to give a dollar back to the tooth fairy because she deserves it. She has a lot of love in her heart for such a little girl. The Lord truly blessed us with a precious and beautiful child who has a very giving heart.</span>february sherrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13851000648610527585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35847211.post-20752469253541646752012-02-13T14:21:00.002-06:002012-02-13T14:21:53.384-06:00My Valentine's Day Anniversary<br />
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<span style="color: #ea9999;">I once thought that getting married on Valentine's Day was completely and totally cliche; until I met my husband. When you find that perfect person that is the love of your life, then Valentine's Day is the most wonderful day to get married. My husband and I were friends before we even thought about a relationship. We knew everything about each other, had mostly everything in common, prayed about finding the person the Lord wanted us to be with and were always there for each other to talk about anything and everything. </span><span style="color: #ea9999;">We wanted to spend each and every moment we could together and still do. We are celebrating our 9 year anniversary tomorrow and we have never had a spat. We have never raised our voices to one another, ever. We still hold hands while sitting on the sofa watching the television, or walking in the park, or shopping in the grocery store. I suppose you could say we are kind of sappy in that regard. </span><span style="color: #ea9999;">We actually like being sappy and hope to be for years to come. </span><span style="color: #ea9999;">Picture the elderly couple walking hand-in-hand slowly along the sidewalk and that will definitely be us in a few decades. I can honestly say that I prayed for many, many years to find the right man and in the Lord's perfect timing, we met. We were married on Valentine's Day in 2003 and were baptized together two days later. What a fitting beginning to a marriage; a Christ-centered marriage.</span>february sherrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13851000648610527585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35847211.post-18942226288060514422012-01-15T21:23:00.000-06:002012-01-15T21:23:47.965-06:00Out of the Past<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: blue;">Recently, I decided to research our family history. I had quite a bit of information on my mom's side, so I decided to go for it and see what I could find. I was really surprised! Not only did I find history on almost all sides of my family back to the 1700's; I also found records on some of my family that go back to the 700's. We are (oddly enough) related to French, British and Scottish royalty. </span><b style="color: blue;">Who forgot to mention that?! </b><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">There are many good online resources that can help you piece together the past so that you can leave a legacy for the future. I'm going to go ahead and list the sites for you so you can start your own research. Be aware of the sites out there that offer you free birth records, free census records, etc. - when (and if) they tell you they have found a possible match, when you click on it they will ask you to sign up for their service. Some of the sites will give you a 3 day or 7 day trial (you have to give a credit card number for the free trials) and I have found that a lot of these don't have records that are that good anyway. I went to ancestry.com and even though they want you to either sign up for a 14 day free trial or subscribe, they have the best, most comprehensive information. I used them almost exclusively and found out more than I ever thought I could. Even if you don't know a birth year, you can put abt. 1900 (for example) and it will show all the closest matches for the information given. You can also look in old newspaper announcements (birth and death), county records, military records, passenger lists on ships with the name, date and location, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><i>Here's your first step to successful fact finding:</i></b></span><br />
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<b><spanstyle="color:#6600cc;"><a href="http://www.ancestry.com//" target="_blank"><i>Ancestry.com</i></a> <span style="color: blue;">- What I really like about this site is that you can print out your family tree by sections. A 14 day free trial is all you need to get a wealth of information all in one place.</span></spanstyle="color:#6600cc;"></b><br />
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<b><spanstyle="color:#6600cc;"><a href="http://www.familysearch.org//" target="_blank"><i>Family Search.org</i></a> <span style="color: blue;">- They have billions of names across hundreds of collections.</span></spanstyle="color:#6600cc;"></b><br />
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<b><spanstyle="color:#6600cc;"><a href="http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/RG/frameset_rhelps.asp/" target="_blank"><i>Family Search Research Helps</i></a> <span style="color: blue;">- Just like the name implies.</span></spanstyle="color:#6600cc;"></b><br />
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<b><spanstyle="color:#6600cc;"><a href="http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=igi/search_IGI.asp&clear_form=true/" target="_blank"><i>International Genealogical Index</i></a> <span style="color: blue;">- You can research family from Europe, the UK, etc.</span></spanstyle="color:#6600cc;"></b><br />
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<b><spanstyle="color:#6600cc;"><a href="http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss//" target="_blank"><i>Civil War Soldiers and Sailors</i></a> <span style="color: blue;">- They have a lot of great information here.</span></spanstyle="color:#6600cc;"></b><br />
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<b><spanstyle="color:#6600cc;"><a href="http://www.immigrantships.net//" target="_blank"><i>Immigrant Ship Transcribers Guild</i></a> <span style="color: blue;">- If you know the name of the ship your family sailed on, this can give you even more information.</span></spanstyle="color:#6600cc;"></b><br />
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<b><spanstyle="color:#6600cc;"><a href="http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com//" target="_blank"><i>Roots Web.com</i></a> <span style="color: blue;">- They give you search engines, databases, websites, research tools and more.</span></spanstyle="color:#6600cc;"></b><br />
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<b><spanstyle="color:#6600cc;"><a href="http://arkivverket.no/eng/content/view/full/629/" target="_blank"><i>Norway Digital Archives</i></a><span style="color: blue;"> - If you have family from Norway (and go figure, part of my family is from Norway), this is a good place to start.</span></spanstyle="color:#6600cc;"></b><br />
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<b><spanstyle="color:#6600cc;"><a href="http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native//" target="_blank"><i>Native American-Indian Genealogy</i></a> <span style="color: blue;">- This gives listings of all the tribes and also the regions.</span></spanstyle="color:#6600cc;"></b><br />
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<b><spanstyle="color:#6600cc;"><a href="http://www.cyndislist.com//" target="_blank"><i>Cyndi's List of Genealogical Sites</i></a> <span style="color: blue;">- She lists dozens of sites for you to investigate; not all of them are free to research, however, so read carefully.</span></spanstyle="color:#6600cc;"></b><br />
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<br />february sherrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13851000648610527585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35847211.post-17684065217454909562011-12-23T18:29:00.000-06:002011-12-23T18:29:04.461-06:00Christmas Quotes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #330000; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;">The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. </span></div>
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<b style="font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><i><span style="color: lime;">Burton Hillis</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><span style="color: red;">May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through! </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><b><i><span style="color: lime;">Author Unknown</span></i></b></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><b><i><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><span style="color: red;">It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><b><i><span style="color: lime;">W.T. Ellis</span></i></b></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><b><i><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;">Christmas is forever, not for just one day,</span><br style="font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;" /><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;">for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away</span><br style="font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;" /><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;">like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.</span><br style="font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;" /><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;">The good you do for others is good you do yourself...</span><br style="font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;" /><span style="font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><b><i><span style="color: lime;">Norman Wesley Brooks, "Let Every Day Be Christmas," 1976</span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><b><i><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><span style="color: red;">I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month. </span><b><i><span style="color: lime;">Harlan Miller</span></i></b></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><b><i><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><span style="color: red;">Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><b><i><span style="color: lime;">Janice Maeditere</span></i></b></span><br style="font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;" /><br style="font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;" /><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;">Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><b><i><span style="color: lime;">Author Unknown</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><b><i><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><span style="color: red;">Tradition: sit with husband in a room lit only by tree lights and remember that our blessings outnumber the lights. Happy Christmas to all. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><b><i><span style="color: lime;">Betsy Cañas Garmon</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><b><i><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;">Great little One! whose all-embracing birth</span><br style="font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;" /><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;">Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.</span><br style="font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;" /><span style="font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><b><i><span style="color: lime;">Richard Crashaw</span></i></b></span></span>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><b><i><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><span style="color: red;">As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><b><i><span style="color: lime;">Eric Sevareid</span></i></b></span><br style="font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;" /><br style="font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;" /><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;">When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><b><i><span style="color: lime;">Bob Hope</span></i></b></span></span>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><b><i><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;">May you have the gladness of Christmas which is hope;</span><br style="font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;" /><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;">The spirit of Christmas which is peace;</span><br style="font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;" /><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;">The heart of Christmas which is love.</span><br style="font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;" /><span style="font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><b><i><span style="color: lime;">Ada V. Hendricks</span></i></b></span></span>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><span style="color: red;">What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><b><i><span style="color: lime;">Agnes M. Pahro</span></i></b></span>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #330000; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><br /></span></span></div>february sherrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13851000648610527585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35847211.post-73972412611636760122011-12-23T17:59:00.000-06:002011-12-23T18:04:26.495-06:00Christmas Recipe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixyPO2u9fYnnh-Rk0ZZCoLCQSFX4cFFm2il1Dp8-Dx088HlnJVh_9h5MVX4EJ6d7JfyDcWTPq9HRXyQSBZwGOW6GGL7hClDlcsYGWuo3HWZ-uM226Bd_3soZcnlS0HZobkXxPY7A/s1600/TN_Christmas-Pooh-Piglet-Eeyore-Window.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixyPO2u9fYnnh-Rk0ZZCoLCQSFX4cFFm2il1Dp8-Dx088HlnJVh_9h5MVX4EJ6d7JfyDcWTPq9HRXyQSBZwGOW6GGL7hClDlcsYGWuo3HWZ-uM226Bd_3soZcnlS0HZobkXxPY7A/s200/TN_Christmas-Pooh-Piglet-Eeyore-Window.JPG" width="200" /></a><b><i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">We always think of Christmas recipes as entrees, sides, desserts and breads; make way for a recipe that is perfect for Christmas morning. If you want it to be extra special, use a cinnamon vanilla maple syrup (it is truly delicious).</span></i></b></i></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">French Toast Casserole with Nutty Praline Topping</span></b><br />
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<li class="ingredient" style="line-height: 23px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">2 cups half-and-half</span></li>
<li class="ingredient" style="line-height: 23px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">1 cup whole milk</span></li>
<li class="ingredient" style="line-height: 23px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">2 tablespoons granulated sugar</span></li>
<li class="ingredient" style="line-height: 23px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">1 teaspoon vanilla extract</span></li>
<li class="ingredient" style="line-height: 23px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon</span></li>
<li class="ingredient" style="line-height: 23px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg</span></li>
<li class="ingredient" style="line-height: 23px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Nutty Praline Topping (recipe follows)</span></li>
<li class="ingredient" style="line-height: 23px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Maple Syrup (or your syrup of choice)</span></li>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;">Slice</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;"> french bread</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;">into 20 slices, 1-inch each. </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;"> Arrange slices in a generously buttered 9 by 13-inch pan</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;">in 2 rows, overlapping the slices. In a large bowl, combine the eggs, half-and-half, whole milk, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt and beat </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;">until blended, but do not over beat until mixture is too frothy . Pour mixture over the bread slices, making sure all are covered evenly with the milk-egg mixture. Spoon a little of the mixture between the slices. Cover with foil or plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Spread Nutty Praline Topping evenly over the bread and bake for 40 minutes, until slightly puffed up and lightly golden. Serve with maple syrup. </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Nutty Praline Topping</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px;">1/2 pound (2 sticks) butter</span></h2>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px;">1 cup packed light brown sugar</span></h2>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 23px;">1 cup chopped pecans</span></h2>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Combine all ingredients in a medium bowl and blend well. </span></div>
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<b style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">These are some Christmas songs that are popular and some that you may not have heard of before. Hopefully these will come in handy for you (and maybe even impress your friends). Enjoy!</span></b><br />
<i style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span></b></i><br />
<i style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth</span></b></i><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Every body stops</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">and stares at me</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">These two teeth are</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">gone as you can see</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">I don't know just who</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">to blame for this catastrophe!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">But my one wish on Christmas Eve</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">is as plain as it can be!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">All I want for Christmas</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">is my two front teeth,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">my two front teeth,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">see my two front teeth!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Gee, if I could only</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">have my two front teeth,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">then I could be with you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">"Merry Christmas."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">It seems so long since I could say,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">"Sister Susie sitting on a thistle!"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Gosh oh gee, how happy I'd be,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">if I could only whistle (thhhh)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">All I want for Christmas</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">is my two front teeth,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">my two front teeth,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">see my two front teeth.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Gee, if I could only</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">have my two front teeth,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">then I could wish you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">"Merry Christmas!"</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><i><b>Angels We Have Heard on High</b></i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Angels we have heard on high,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Sweetly singing o'er the plains</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">And the mountains in reply</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Echoing their joyous strains. Gloria...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Chorus:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Gloria, In Excelsius Deo </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Shepherd why this jubilee,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Why your joyous strains prolong</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">What the gladsome tidings be,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Which inspire your heavenly song?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Come to Bethlehem and see,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Him whose birth the angels sing</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Come adore on bended knee,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Christ the Lord the newborn king.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">See him in a manger laid,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Whom the choirs of angels praise</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Mary, Joseph, lend your aid,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">While our hearts in love we raise.</span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><b>With the popularity of the movie Polar Express, I'm sure there are many of you who love this song as I do and need a little help with these lyrics.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><b><i>Believe (Polar Express)</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Children, sleeping.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Snow is softly falling.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Dreams are calling,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Like bells in the distance.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">We were dreamers,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Not so long ago.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">But one by one, we</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">All had to grow up.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">When it seems the magic slipped away...</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">We find it all again on Christmas Day.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Believe in what your heart is saying,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Hear the melody that's playing.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">There's no time to waste,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">There so much to celebrate.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Believe in what you feel inside,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Give your dreams the wings to fly.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">You have everything you need, if you just believe.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Trains move quickly</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">To their journey's end.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Destinations...</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Are where we begin again.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Ships go sailing,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Far across the sea.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Trusting starlight,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">To get where they need to be.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">When it seems that we have lost our way...</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">We find ourselves again on Christmas Day.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Believe in what your heart is saying,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Hear the melody that's playing</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">There's no time to waste,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">There so much to celebrate.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Believe in what you feel inside,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">And give your dreams the wings to fly.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">You have everything you need, if you just Believe.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">If you just believe.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">If you just believe.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">If you just believe...just believe...just believe.</span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><i>Go Tell It on the Mountain</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">When I was a seeker</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">I sought both night and day,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">I asked the Lord to help me,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">And he showed me the say. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Go tell it on the mountain,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Over the hills and everywhere,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Go tell it on the mountain,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Our Jesus Christ is born. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">He made me a watchman</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Upon a city wall,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">And if I am a Christian,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">I am the leat of all. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Go tell it on the mountain,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Over the hills and everywhere,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Go tell it on the mountain,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Our Jesus Christ is born.</span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><i>Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Have yourself a merry little Christmas.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Let your heart be light, </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">From now on our troubles </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Will be out of sight. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Have yourself a merry little Christmas,</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Make the Yule-tide gay, </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">From now on our troubles </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Will be miles away. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Here we are as in olden days, </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Happy golden days of yore, </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Faithful friends who are dear to us </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Gather near to us once more. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Through the years </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">We all will be together </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">If the Fates allow, </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Hang a shining star </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">On the highest bough, </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">And have yourself </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">A merry little Christmas now.</span></i>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><b>Holly Jolly Christmas</b></span><br />
<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></i><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Have a holly, jolly Christmas; </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">It's the best time of the year </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">I don't know if there'll be snow</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">but have a cup of cheer</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Have a holly, jolly Christmas; </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">And when you walk down the street </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Say Hello to friends you know </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">and everyone you meet. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Oh Ho the mistletoe </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">hung where you can see; </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Somebody waits for you; </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Kiss her once for me</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Have a holly jolly Christmas</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">and in case you didn't hear</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Oh by golly have a holly jolly Christmas this year </span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><i>I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day</i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">I heard the bells on Christmas day </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Their old familiar carols play </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">And mild and sweet the words repeat, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Of peace on earth, good will to men. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">I thought how as the day had come, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">The belfries of all Christendom </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Had roll'd along th' unbroken song </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Of peace on earth, good will to men. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">And in despair I bow'd my head: </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">"There is no peace on earth," I said, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">"For hate is strong, and mocks the song </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Of peace on earth, good will to men." </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">"God is not dead, nor doth He sleep; </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">The wrong shall fail, the right prevail, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">With peace on earth, good will to men." </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">'Til ringing, singing on its way, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">The world revolved from night to day, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">A voice, a chime, a chant sublime, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Of peace on earth, good will to men!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><i>I Saw Three Ships</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">I saw three ships come sailing in, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">I saw three ships come sailing in, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">On Christmas Day in the morning. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">And what was in those ships all three, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">And what was in those ships all three, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">On Christmas Day in the morning? </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">The Virgin Mary and Christ were there, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">on Christmas Day, on Christmas Day. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">The virgin Mary and Christ were there, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">On Christmas Day in the morning. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Then let us all rejoice amain, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Then let us all rejoice amain, </span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">On Christmas Day in the morning.</span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><i>It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Ev'rywhere you go; </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Take a look in the five-and-ten, glistening once again </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">With candy canes and silver lanes aglow. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Toys in ev'ry store, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">But the prettiest sight to see is the holly that will be </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">On your own front door. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">A pair of hopalong boots and a pistol that shoots </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Is the wish of Barney and Ben; </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Dolls that will talk and will go for a walk </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Is the hope of Janice and Jen; </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">And Mom and Dad can hardly wait for school to start again. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Ev'rywhere you go; </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">There's a tree in the Grand Hotel, one in the park as well, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">The sturdy kind that doesn't mind the snow. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas; </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Soon the bells will start, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">And the thing that will make them ring is the carol that you sing </span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Right within your heart.</span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Snowing and blowing up bushels of fun </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Now the jingle hop has begun </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Jingle bell</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">jingle bell</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">jingle bell rock </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Jingle bells chime in jingle bell time </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Dancing and prancing in Jingle Bell Square </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">In the frosty air </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">What a bright time</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">it's the right time </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">To rock the night away </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Jingle bell time is a swell time </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">To go gliding in a one-horse sleigh </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Giddy-up jingle horse</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">pick up your feet </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Jingle around the clock </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Mix and a-mingle in the jingling feet </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">That's the jingle bell </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">That's the jingle bell</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">That's the jingle bell rock</span>
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<i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Mary Did You Know</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">By: Mark Lowry and Buddy Greene</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Mary, did you know</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">that your Baby Boy would one day walk on water?</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Mary, did you know</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">that your Baby Boy would save our sons and daughters?</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Did you know</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">that your Baby Boy has come to make you new?</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">This Child that you delivered will soon deliver you.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Mary, did you know</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">that your Baby Boy will give sight to a blind man?</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Mary, did you know</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">that your Baby Boy will calm the storm with His hand?</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Did you know</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">that your Baby Boy has walked where angels trod?</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">When you kiss your little Baby you kissed the face of God?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Mary did you know.. Ooo Ooo Ooo</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">The blind will see.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">The deaf will hear.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">The dead will live again.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">The lame will leap.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">The dumb will speak</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">The praises of The Lamb.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Mary, did you know</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">that your Baby Boy is Lord of all creation?</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Mary, did you know</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">that your Baby Boy would one day rule the nations?</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Did you know</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">that your Baby Boy is heaven's perfect Lamb?</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">The sleeping Child you're holding is the Great, I Am.</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Mr. Grinch</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">You really are a heel,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">You're as cuddly as a cactus, you're as charming as an eel, Mr. Grinch,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">You're a bad banana with a greasy black peel!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">You're a monster, Mr. Grinch,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Your heart's an empty hole,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Your brain is full of spiders, you have garlic in your soul, Mr. Grinch,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">I wouldn't touch you with a thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole!</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">You're a foul one, Mr. Grinch,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">You have termites in your smile,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">You have all the tender sweetness of a seasick crocodile, Mr. Grinch,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Given a choice between the two of you I'd take the seasick crocodile!</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">You're a foul one, Mr. Grinch,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">You're a nasty wasty skunk,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Your heart is full of unwashed socks, your soul is full of gunk, Mr. Grinch,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">The three words that best describe you are as follows, and I quote,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">"Stink, stank, stunk"!</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">You're a rotter, Mr. Grinch,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">You're the king of sinful sots,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Your heart's a dead tomato splotched with moldy purple spots, Mr. Grinch,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Your soul is an appalling dump heap overflowing with the most disgraceful</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">assortment of rubbish imaginable mangled up in tangled up knots!</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">You nauseate me, Mr. Grinch,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">With a nauseous super "naus"!,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">You're a crooked dirty jockey and you drive a crooked hoss, Mr. Grinch,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">You're a three decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich with arsenic sauce!</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Oh Christmas Tree</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree!</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">How are thy leaves so verdant!</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">How are thy leaves so verdant!</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Not only in the summertime,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">But even in winter is thy prime.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">How are thy leaves so verdant!</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Much pleasure doth thou bring me!</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Much pleasure doth thou bring me!</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">For every year the Christmas tree,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Brings to us all both joy and glee.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Much pleasure doth thou bring me!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Thy candles shine out brightly!</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Thy candles shine out brightly!</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Each bough doth hold its tiny light,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">That makes each toy to sparkle bright.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Thy candles shine out brightly!
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<b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Sleigh Ride</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Just hear those sleigh bells jingle-ing</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Ring ting tingle-ing too</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Come on, it's lovely weather</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">For a sleigh ride together with you</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Outside the snow is falling</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">And friends are calling "You Hoo"</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Come on, it's lovely weather</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">For a sleigh ride together with you</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Giddy-yap giddy-yap giddy-yap let's go</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Let's look at the snow</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">We're riding in a wonderland of snow</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Giddy-yap giddy-yap giddy-yap it's grand</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Just holding your hand</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">We're gliding along with the song</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Of a wintry fairy land</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Our cheeks are nice and rosy</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">And comfy cozy are we</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">We're snuggled up together like two</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Birds of a feather would be</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Let's take the road before us</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">And sing a Chorus or two</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Come on, it's lovely weather</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">For a sleigh ride together with you</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">There's a birthday party at the home of Farmer Gray</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">It'll be the perfect ending of a perfect day</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">We'll be singing the songs we love to sing without a single stop</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">At the fireplace while we watch the chestnuts pop</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Pop! Pop! Pop!</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">There's a happy feeling nothing in the world can buy</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">When they pass around the coffee and the pumpkin pie</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">It'll nearly be like a picture print by Currier and Ives</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">These wonderful things are the things</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">We remember all through our lives
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<b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">The Chipmunk Song</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">(all right you Chipmunks!</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Ready to sing your song?</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">-I'll say we are!</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">-Yeah!</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">-Let's sing it now!</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Okay, Simon?</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">-Okay!</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Okay, Theodore?</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">-Okay!</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Okay, Alvin? Alvin? ALVIN!</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">-OKAY!!!)</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Christmas, Christmas time is near</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Time for toys and time for cheer</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">We've been good, but we can't last</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Hurry Christmas, hurry fast</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Want a plane that loops the loop</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Me, I want a hula hoop</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">We can hardly stand the wait</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Please Christmas, don't be late.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">(Okay fellas get ready.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">That was very good, Simon.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">-Naturally.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Very good Theodore.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">-Ahhh.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Ah, Alvin, you were a little flat, watch it.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Ah, Alvin. Alvin. ALVIN!</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">-OKAY.)</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Want a plane that loops the loop</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">I still want a hula hoop</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">We can hardly stand the wait</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Please Christmas, don't be late.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">We can hardly stand the wait</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Please Christmas, don't be late.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">(Very good, boys</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">-Lets sing it again! Yeah, lets sing it again!</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">No, That's enough, lets not overdo it</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">-What do you mean overdo it?</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">-We want to sing it again!</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Now wait a minute, boys</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">-Why can't we sing it again?</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">-[chipmunk chatter]</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Alvin, cut that out..Theodore, just a minute.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Simon will you cut that out? Boys...) </span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Heat Miser Song</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">I'm Mister Green Christmas</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">I'm Mister Sun</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">I'm Mister Heat Blister</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">I'm Mister Hundred and One</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">They call me Heat Miser,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">What ever I touch</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Starts to melt in my clutch</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">I'm too much!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">[Chorus]</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">He's Mister Green Christmas</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">He's Mister Sun</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">He's Mister Heat Blister</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">He's Mister Hundred and One</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">[Heat Miser]</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">They call me Heat Miser,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">What ever I touch</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Starts to melt in my clutch</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">[Chorus]</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">He's too much!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">[Heat Miser]</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Thank you!</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">I never want to see a day</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">That's under sixty degrees</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">I'd rather have it eighty,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Ninety, one hundred degrees!</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">(spoken)</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Oh, some like it hot, but I like it</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">REALLY hot! Hee hee!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">[Chorus]</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">He's Mister Green Christmas</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">He's Mister Sun</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">[Heat Miser]</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Sing it!</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">[Chorus]</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">He's Mister Heat Blister</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">He's Mister Hundred and One</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">[Heat Miser]</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">They call me Heat Miser,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">What ever I touch</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Starts to melt in my clutch</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">I'm too much!</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">[Everybody]</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Too Much!
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;"><i>Snow Miser Song</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">[Snow Miser]</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">I'm Mister White Christmas</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">I'm Mister Snow</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">I'm Mister Icicle</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">I'm Mister Ten Below</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Friends call me Snow Miser,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">What ever I touch</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Turns to snow in my clutch</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">I'm too much!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">[Chorus]</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">He's Mister White Christmas</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">He's Mister Snow</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">[Snow Miser]</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">That's right!</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">[Chorus]</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">He's Mister Icicle</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">He's Mister Ten Below</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">[Snow Miser]</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Friends call me Snow Miser,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">What ever I touch</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Turns to snow in my clutch</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">[Chorus]</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">He's too much!</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">[Snow Miser]</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">I never want to see a day</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">That's over forty degrees</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">I'd rather have it thirty,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Twenty, ten, five and let it freeeeEEEEEEeeze!</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">[Chorus]</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">He's Mister White Christmas</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">He's Mister Snow</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">[Snow Miser]</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">That's right!</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">[Chorus]</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">He's Mister Icicle</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">He's Mister Ten Below</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">[Snow Miser]</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Friends call me Snow Miser,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">What ever I touch</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Turns to snow in my clutch</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">... too much.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">[Everybody]</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Too Much!
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<b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">The Twelve Days of Christmas</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">A partridge in a pear tree.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">2nd Two turtle doves</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">3rd Three French hens</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">4th Four calling birds</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">5th Five golden rings</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">6th Six geese a-laying</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">7th Seven swans a-swimming</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">8th Eight maids a-milking</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">9th Nine ladies dancing</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">10th Ten lords a-leaping</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">11th Eleven pipers piping</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">12th Twelve drummers drumming.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;"><i>We Three Kings</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">We three kings of Orient are,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Bearing gifts we traverse afar,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Field and fountain, morr and mountain,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Following yonder Star.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Chorus</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">O, star of wonder, star of might,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Star with royal beauty bright,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Westward leading, still proceeding,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Guide us to the perfect light.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Born a babe on Bethlehem's plain;</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Gold we bring to crown Him again;</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">King forever, ceasing never,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Over us all to reign.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Chorus</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Frankincense to offer have I;</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Incense owns a Deity nigh;</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Prayer and praising, all men raising,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Worship Him, God on High.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Chorus</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Myrrh is mine; its bitter perfume</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Breathes a life of gathering gloom;</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Seal'd in the stone-cold tomb.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Chorus</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Glorious now behold Him arise,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">King and God and sacrifice,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Heaven sings, "Hallelujah!"</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Hallejujah!" Earth replies.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Chorus
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">I love listening to (and singing) Christmas carols. Some of the songs I know by heart and some of them I need a little refresher course on. Today is your lucky day! I have compiled the lyrics of many of the Christmas carols that we love; no more singing "apples, oranges and bananas in the refrigerator" (an old choir trick when you can't remember the lyrics to a song). I hope that these will be useful for you and yours.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sherri</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">FROSTY THE SNOWMAN</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Frosty the Snowman</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Was a jolly happy soul</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">With a corncob pipe and a button nose</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">And two eyes made out of coal</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Frosty the Snowman</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Is a fairytale they say</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">He was made of snow</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">But the children know</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">How he came to life one day</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">There must have been some magic</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">In that old silk hat they found</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">For when they placed it on his head</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">He began to dance around</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Frosty the Snowman</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Was alive as he could be</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">And the children say</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">He could laugh and play</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Just the same as you and me</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Frosty the Snowman</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Knew the sun was hot that day</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">So he said let's run</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">And we'll have some fun</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Now before I melt away</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Down to the village</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">With a broomstick in his hand</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Running here and there all around the square</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Saying catch me if you can</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">He led them down the streets of town</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Right to the traffic cop</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">And he only paused a moment when</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">He heard him holler stop</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Frosty the Snowman</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Had to hurry on his way</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">But he waved goodbye</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Saying don't you cry</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">I'll be back again some day</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Thumpety thump thump</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Thumpety thump thump</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Look at Frosty go</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Thumpety thump thump</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Thumpety thump thump</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Over the hills of snow</span><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">JOY TO THE WORLD</span></i></b><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Joy to the world! the Lord is come;</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Let earth receive her King;</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Let every heart prepare Him room,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">and heaven and nature sing,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">and heaven and nature sing,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">and heaven, and heaven and nature sing.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Joy to the earth! the Savior reigns;</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Let men their songs employ;</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">while fields and floods,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">rocks, hills and plains</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Repeat the sounding joy,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Repeat the sounding joy,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Repeat, repeat the sounding joy.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">No more let sins and sorrows grow,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">nor thorns infest the ground;</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">He comes to make His blessing flow</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">far as the curse is found,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">far as the curse is found,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">far as, far as the curse is found.</span><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">HARK THE HERALD ANGELS SING</span></i></b><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Hark! the herald angels sing</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Glory to the new-born King!</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Peace on earth and mercy mild,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">God and sinners reconciled!</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Joyful, all ye nations, rise,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Join the triumph of the skies;</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">With the angelic host proclaim</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Christ is born in Bethlehem!</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Hark! the herald angels sing</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Glory to the new-born King!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Christ, by highest heaven adored;</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Christ, the everlasting Lord;</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Late in time behold him come,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Offspring of the Virgin's womb.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Veiled in flesh the Godhead see;</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Hail the incarnate Deity,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Pleased as man with man to dwell;</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Jesus, our Emmanuel!</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Mild he lays his glory by,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Born that man no more may die,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Born to raise the sons of earth,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Born to give them second birth.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Risen with healing in his wings,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Light and life to all he brings,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Hail, the Sun of Righteousness!</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Hail, the heaven-born Prince of Peace!</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Hail the Heaven-born Prince of Peace</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Hail the Son of Righteousness</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Light and life to all He brings</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Risen with healing in His wings</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Mild He lay His glory by</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Born that man no more may die</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Come Desire of Nations come,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Fix in us thy humble home.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Rise, the woman's conquering Seed,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Bruise in us the serpent's head.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Adam's likeness now efface</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Stamp thine image in its place.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">He rules the world with truth and grace,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">and makes the nations prove</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">the glories of His righteousness,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">and wonders of His love,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">and wonders of His love,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">and wonders, wonders of His love.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">THE CHRISTMAS SONG</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Chestnuts roasting on an open fire</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Jack Frost nipping at your nose</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Yuletide carols being sung by a choir</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">And folks dressed up like Eskimos</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Everybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Help to make the season bright</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Will find it hard to sleep tonight</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">They know that Santa's on his way</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">He's loaded lots of toys and goodies on his sleigh</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">And every mother's child is gonna spy</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">To see if reindeer really know how to fly</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">And so I'm offering this simple phrase</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">For kids from one to ninety two</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Although its been said many times many ways</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Merry Christmas to you.</span><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">AWAY IN A MANGER</span></i></b><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Away in a manger, no crib for a bed,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">The little Lord Jesus laid down his sweet head.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">The stars in the sky looked down where he lay,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">The little Lord Jesus asleep in the hay.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">The cattle are lowing, the baby awakes,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">But little Lord Jesus no crying he makes.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">I love Thee, Lord Jesus, look down from the sky</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">And stay by my cradle til morning is nigh.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Be near me, Lord Jesus, I ask Thee to stay</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Close by me forever, and love me, I pray.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Bless all the dear children in thy tender care,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">And take us to heaven, to live with Thee there.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Rudolf, the red-nosed reindeer</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">had a very shiny nose.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">And if you ever saw him,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">you would even say it glows.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">All of the other reindeer</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">used to laugh and call him names.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">They never let poor Rudolf</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">play in any reindeer games.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Then one foggy Christmas eve</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Santa came to say:</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">"Rudolf with your nose so bright,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">won't you guide my sleigh tonight?"</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Then all the reindeer loved him</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">as they shouted out with glee:</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">"Rudolf the red-nosed reindeer,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">you'll go down in history!"</span><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR?</span></i></b><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Said the night wind to the little lamb,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">"Do you see what I see?</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Way up in the sky, little lamb,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Do you see what I see?</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A star, a star, dancing in the night</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">With a tail as big as a kite,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">With a tail as big as a kite."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Said the little lamb to the shepherd boy,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">"Do you hear what I hear?</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Ringing through the sky, shepherd boy,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Do you hear what I hear?</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A song, a song high above the trees</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">With a voice as big as the the sea,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">With a voice as big as the the sea."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Said the shepherd boy to the mighty king,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">"Do you know what I know?</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">In your palace warm, mighty king,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Do you know what I know?</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A Child, a Child shivers in the cold--</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Let us bring him silver and gold,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Let us bring him silver and gold."</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Said the king to the people everywhere,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">"Listen to what I say!</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Pray for peace, people, everywhere,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Listen to what I say!</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">The Child, the Child sleeping in the night</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">He will bring us goodness and light,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">He will bring us goodness and light."</span><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">GOD REST YE MERRY GENTLEMEN</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">God rest ye merry, gentlemen,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Let nothing you dismay,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Remember Christ our Savior</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Was born on Christmas Day;</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">To save us all from Satan's power</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">When we were gone astray.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">O tidings of comfort and joy,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Comfort and joy,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">O tidings of comfort and joy!</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">From God our heavenly Father</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">A blessed angel came;</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">And unto certain shepherds</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Brought tiding of the same;</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">How that in Bethlehem was born</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">The Son of God by name.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">"Fear not, then," said the angel,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">"Let nothing you affright;</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">This day is born a Savior</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Of a pure virgin bright,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">To free all those who trust in him</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">From Satan's power and might."</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Now to the Lord sing praises,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">All you within this place,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">And with true love and brotherhood</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Each other now embrace;</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">this holy tide of Christmas</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Doth bring redeeming grace. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Oh, there’s no place like</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">home for the holidays,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">‘Cause no matter how far away you roam</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">When you pine for the sunshine</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Of a friendly face</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">For the holidays, you can’t beat</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Home, sweet home.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">I met a man who lives in Tennessee</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">And he was headin’ for Pennsylvania</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">And some home made pumpkin pie</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">From Pennsylvania folks a travelin’ down</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">To Dixie’s sunny shore</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">From Atlantic to Pacific, gee</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">The traffic is terrific.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Oh there's no place like home</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">For the holidays, ‘cause no matter</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">How far away you roam</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">If you want</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">To be happy in a million ways</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">For the holidays, you can’t beat</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Home, sweet home.</span><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN</span></i></b><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Oh! You better watch out,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">you better not cry,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">you better not pout,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">I'm telling you why:</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Santa Claus is coming to town!</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">He's making a list,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">He's checking it twice,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">gonna find out who's naughty or nice.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Santa Claus is coming to town!</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">He sees you when you're sleeping,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">he knows when you're awake.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">He knows when you've been bad or good,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">so be good for goodness sake!</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">So...You better watch out, You better not cry</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">You better not pout, I'm Telling you why.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Santa Claus is coming to town.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Little tin horns, little toy drums.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Rudy-toot-toot and rummy tum tums.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Santa Claus is coming to town.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Little toy dolls that cuddle and coo,</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Elephants, boats and Kiddie cars too.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Santa Claus is coming to town.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">The kids in Girl and boy land</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">will have a jubilee.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">They're gonna build a toy land town</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">all around the Christmas tree.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Ohh....You better watch out, you better not cry.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">You better not pout, I'm telling you why.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Santa Claus is coming to town.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">P.S. I will add more song lyrics over the next few days</span><br />
<b><i><br /></i></b></div>february sherrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13851000648610527585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35847211.post-83064563141498624932011-11-26T03:58:00.001-06:002011-11-26T04:46:00.315-06:00Murphy's Law - AGAIN!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhzz9oqq1DC8XI6XqbwkTgXmMio1jaxpEzFTh7n7J_7KKw76cZVl5k31iofVj_-sMhca_vgifKOQVNyS9sSinFqy-BKsQMUAilcjM6I38cNS6Z7PQP9Sl8KCKaN3WaByQanu2qCA/s1600/raunchy+brn+cat.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">I'm glad I have a really good sense of humor and can often find comic relief in some situations. On Monday the 21st, I went to my doctor for my post-op check; it went really well. I am healing just as I should be and my doctor's assistant said that she hasn't seen me smile so much in months. I felt so much better and was happy to hear that everything is healing even better than the doctor expected.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">My husband wanted to take us out to eat after the doctor's appointment and we went to a chinese restaurant for the lunch buffet. Our daughter wanted to go to the one that we used to go to when I was pregnant with her; so we went to that restaurant (not our usual). Later that night, my husband started vomiting and had really bad diahrrea; I had a little vomiting, but nothing substantial. Our daughter seemed unaffected, which I was really thankful for. On Tuesday afternoon, I could not stop vomiting and had really bad stomach pain; by this time, our daughter was also starting to show signs of being sick. Needless to say, we all were very sick and could not get out of bed for a few days. My husband missed 3 days of work and just started feeling better last night; our daughter is feeling much better (2 years of nursing does a lot for the child's immune system) and I am still feeling a little bit nauseous. With the surgery and being anemic, it may take a couple of days before I feel back to normal.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><b>A WORD OF ADVICE</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"> - before going to a restaurant (doesn't matter if you have been there several times or if it is a popular restaurant), </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><b>CHECK THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT SCORE</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">. The restaurant we went to has 4 locations in the city and every single location has had numerous demerits with problems ranging from meat being kept at an unsafe temperature to toxic substances being improperly labeled. This was really an eye opener for us; learn from our mistake and do your homework - it may save you from getting sick.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">Oh, by the way - being that we were sick this week, we didn't get to have our Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday. We were all really looking forward to celebrating Thanksgiving. I love to cook and entertain (the more people, the better). We will just have to wait a few days and have our Thanksgiving feast then. I hope that you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving; it is such a great time for family and sharing our blessings. Take care everyone and may you be richly blessed this holiday season.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">Faithfully,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">Sherri</span><br />
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<br />february sherrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13851000648610527585noreply@blogger.com0