5 Post Meme

Candid Karina tagged me to do the 5 post meme.  She also gave me some helpful guidance on how to link back to older posts.  I must sincerely thank her.  I used to have the old type blogger and one day the new type blogger magically appeared.  Now I actually see the little world linky button that everyone was talking about.  "Oh, the things you will see." (Dr. Suess)

The rules are:  Post 5 links to 5 of your previously written posts.  The posts have to relate to the 5 key words given below (family, friend, yourself, your love, anything you like).  Tag 5 other friends to do this meme.  Try to tag at least 2 new acquaintances (if not, your current blog buddies will do) so that you get to know them each a little bit better:

1. Family:  This is a history that I have begun telling and will continue in the future.
2. Friend:  I have found only one post that I did on friends and they just happen to be blogger friends.  
3. Yourself:  My favorite post about myself would probably the first post I ever did to explain my blog name.  
4. Your love:  This post would have to be the one and it is titled "My Dearest."
5. Anything you like:  I wonder if this means anything I "like" or "anything" I like?  Oh well, I really liked this post the first time and since I had posted twice this day I felt like it didn't get much airtime because the first post was a Fun Monday.  So here it is again.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
   

Tagged for 5 Post Meme

I am going to tag two new friends:

Jeanette

Kitten

I might be able to explain the links 

to you if you need it. :D

The 12 Questions of Christmas Meme

Hootin'Anni created a Meme that she has invited us to use:
     "For the holiday season, I've started a meme. "The Twelve Questions of Christmas" If you'd like to participate, I'd be honored to have you join in the fun. If you'd like, you are welcomed to use the meme header graphic!"

1. Christmas is _Emmanuel_. [fill in the blank with ONE WORD]

2. In memories, what was the best part of your Christmases past?
Opening presents with my brothers and playing the games that we received.  

Drinking eggnog that Mom made.  Going to cut a tree with Dad and decorating it.
3. Was Santa ever good to you? [describe how and what]
For my fifth Christmas I received a Chatty Cathy doll.  Pretty cool.
4. Do you open gifts on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, or both?
When I was little, we opened on Christmas Eve, then my children we continued

this tradition until they got older and opened one present on Christmas Eve

and the rest on Christmas Day.  We were never early risers!
5. Is there something you make each and every year? [craft or recipe]
Pumpkin bread and I always buy a new ornament or two for the tree.
6. What is your favorite five[5] Christmas songs/hymns?
O Holy Night, Away in a Manger, Silent Night, Mary, Did you Know?, and

Breath of Heaven
7. Is there a new tradition for Christmas since your childhood days? 

When my children were little we always read the Christmas story out

of the Bible together.  We started a Christmas tradition of putting a new

bulb on a construction papar Advent Christmas tree that we put on the window.  There was

a biblical meaning to each ornament.  

8. Describe one of your Christmas trips. [whether it's across town or across country]
We always made trips to Grandparents houses, my mom's on Christmas eve

and my husband's mom on Christmas Day.  We all lived close.
9. Do you have a special Christmas outfit to wear for the day?
No.
10. Have YOU or any of your family members sat on Santa's lap?
My kids have.  They were afraid.  I haven't.  
11. What is/or will be on your Christmas tree this year?
A new pickle ornament.
12. Do you/or have you decorated your yard for Christmas?

We have decorated outdoors many times.  It's usually the front

door and bushes and posts.  The roof rarely gets decorated.

Tagged by Nin

Earlier this month I was tagged by Nin at Peachy Hollow.
The Meme is to reveal eight random things about myself.
Probably not too hard to do, so here goes:

1. I roll little pieces of paper into cigarette type shapes.  It could be gum wrappers or paper straw covers or the paper napkin rings at restaurants, but if it's there, I must roll it.  It feels good to my fingers...that is my explanation and I'm sticking to it.  I will admit that I can control this behavior if I want to....
2. I have a boy's name and I spell it like a girl's name.  Now get this:  my mother has three little boys and can't wait for the fourth child to be a girl, so why did she give me a boy's name?  I really like my name though.  I just really like it to be spelled correctly, the girl way.  
3. I bite the inside of my bottom lip.  I cannot help it and I try my best not to.  Bad habit.
4. Sometimes I count the number of times that I do something or the number of things there are in an assortment.  I am not conpulsive about this, I just notice sometimes.  Like for instance, I like the number six for my childhood family, the number five for my immediate family.
5. I have always twiddled with my hair.  I make little braids in it and take them out over and over.  I just do this occasionally now and then, I used to be quite compulsive about it, but I have found better ways to occupy my time. :D
6. I can not stand to wear turtlenecks or for that matter collars or hoods.  Anything against my neck or the back of my neck bother me.  I need freedom!!  I love how turtlenecks look but I will stretch them out and pull on them constantly if I wear one.  
7. I mentioned this before, but I must wear sunglasses most of the time outdoors.  My eyes are just too sensitive, even if it is cloudy.
8. I almost died during my tubal ligation operation.  The anesthesiologist wasn't watching and I quit breathing through my nose and my tongue dropped down my throat.  They had to intubate me.  I woke up in the elevator after the surgery crying and wondering why my throat hurt so much when I had a surgery way down below it.  My throat hurt much worse than my incision.  The nurses told my husband later, "Oh, we almost lost her."  For a simple tubal?  Then later that night, a nurse who was supposed to be pushing on my uterus to make it contract, pushed very hard on my incision and made it open (which caused me much pain).  She said to me, "Hurts doesn't it?"  It did.  It hurt so much that I was speechless.  I didn't say anything to her.  Man, I wish I had!