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Puppet head on a stick continues to haunt us, and that means he is still here during the holidays. If you missed the original puppet head on a stick, catch up here .  My family drove up late last night, and while we all went to bed, mi familia stayed up late, partying with puppet head on a stick. Let's start with the daily activities of puppet head on a stick, shall we? And then we can make our way down to the photo essay on puppet head on the stick meeting my family for the holidays. Here is puppet head on a stick helping to decorate the tree. Puppet head on a stick is slightly sacrilegious. 'Sup,  Caga Tio ! Fa la la la la... la la la la! Stocking stuffer.... Here he is reading over Violet's shoulder. Rude. Is it me or does Ivy look like she was not expecting him to be there just then? And now, introducing a photo essay entitled, " Mi Familia con El Payaso. " Enjoy! Meet mi madre . This explains a lot about me, am...

My Halloween mojo is dead. And not in a cool zombie undead way. I mean dead dead. I usually love Halloween and relish in the thought of spookifying the house. Phillip and I usually try to come up with clever themed costumes, like the year we went as the Culture of Japan. I was a red paper crane, Phillip was a bonsai tree, and Ivy was a sushi roll. This was pre-Violet, otherwise she may have ended up as a high tech toilet . The Japanese love their fancy toilets, what can I say? But this year I never did get around to decorating the house, and we never came up with the themed costume idea. I basically had to think up something on the fly because I "got with it" it way too late. So we decided that Ivy would be Marie Antoinette, using this gown, which I had already made: So all I have to do it give her an updo, powder her hair white, powder her face and add a little rouge, and viola! That took care of that. But what about Violet? Hmmm.... Marie Antoinette... Let them ...

Some quotes to ponder from past presidents as we celebrate the anniversary of our independence from Britain. "Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." ~Jefferson     "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. " ~Jefferson "Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have." ~Ford "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."   ~Lincoln As a child of immigrants to this country, I believe in the virtue of hard work. Give us an opportunity and some freedom... and we will do the rest. Its what our country was founded on, and it will be how we continue to succeed. We don't need handouts, we don't Bi...

I got all weepy trying to find an appropriate tribute for Memorial Day. Be forewarned.

Reasons for Springtime Joy: Everyone getting together with loved ones Sweets! Unbelievably delicious food Rejoicing in the beauty of life Rolling around in bed longer than you should Eggs hidden in the garden Coffee in the morning, with lots of milk and sugar Trees swaying in the breeze Impish kids tugging on your sleeve to take them outside Opening Easter eggs Numbering your blessings