Did you know buying from infomercials is hereditary?

Yep!

My dad has ordered many a thing from TV.

I have since been forbidden in my household to even WATCH infomercials.

Last night, while by the TV, Suzi saw a blanket thing that you wrap in that has arm holes. She promptly added it to her Christmas wish list.

I asked hubby why it was ok for HER to watch infomercials and not me :)

He said she's already cut off too!

I do want one of these flashlights!

http://www2.pulsetv.com/prodinfo.asp?number=4779

Wrestling season is here!

And I don't have just 1 wrestler this year, I have 2!

He-man lost about 30 to 35 lbs from last year, so he is now wrestling the 215s. It's a good thing. The heavyweights are anywhere from 216 and beyond!! He's about 208 right now, I think.

Then, I have my George Porge. He's at 135. That's what his daddy wrestled too. Sometimes he would have to wrestle 145 if they needed someone in that division. George is just new to the sport, so there is still a lot of things he has to learn, but the boy pinned 3 people at yesterday's scrimmage tournament!

One thing I never had to experience with He-man is him wrestling a girl. Not a whole lot of 230 pound girls who wrestle. 135 is another story. He-man was done after 2 matches yesterday, and George still had people going in his division. I wanted him to get a little bit of experience, so I told him to go one more time. I cringed when he came back and said he was wrestling a girl. Not only was she up a weight class, but she had wrestled before.

I have to say, I got nervous and thought, man, why did I make him stay. I even thought about leaving. He didn't seem to have a problem with it, so I just hoped for the best.

The girl was good. She knew a bit more than him and outweighed him, but he was stronger. He had her close to being pinned a couple times, and today he said, MAN, it was like she could bench press me! She would just throw me off! He had her with points, 8-0, but late in the 3rd period, he finally pinned her.

I don't have a problem with girls wrestling, but I just wish it was girls wrestling girls. I can't imagine what it does to a boy if they get beaten by a girl. I really second guessed myself for making him stay when he walked back and said he was wrestling her. I thought, man, if she beats him, he will never go back!!

I honestly think that it made him more determined. The thing that put him over the top, his brother and a couple fellow wrestlers came into the gym. They were hollering out to him which direction to go. They said, go to the side....go to the side. He squeezed tighter, looked up at them and hollered back..... WHICH SIDE?!

Mr. George, who wants six pack abs was very proud of his top 2 ab muscles today that were bulging out :) There is an upside to wrestling! I might have to take it up myself!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I ate waaaaaay too much. If only I was able to purge :) YES, I'm kidding!! I don't like to puke. That's why I never got into alcohol.

I hope everybody had an awesome day. I wish we could have spent it with family. All my kiddos were home for dinner. I really should have taken a picture of what He-man ate. Back even when he was 2, his plate was heaping with mashed potatoes on Thanksgiving. Today was no different, except there were a few heaping plates :)

Because I made such a huge thing of potatoes, a 5 lb bag I think, I didn't doctor them with cheese or garlic or anything. George said they tasted like potatoes! haha He said they needed cheese or something.

And Suzi, I taught her how to make deviled eggs. Her daddy was eating one, and she asked him, "How do you like my devil eggs?" So the new tradition around here will be to eat devil eggs. It kind of goes with tradition....a Floss la di da kinda thing! For those who don't know, that translates to Feliz Navidad! haha

We have not fallen off the United States and into the ocean

But I do feel like we live in the North Pole and are only getting 2 hours of sunlight a day :)

I was thinking, MAN, I have been so busy. But I really haven't been getting anything done. Then I remembered that my daylight hours are so few now. I went to get my hair done about 4 this afternoon. It was dark out when I left there. I think it's about 5 here now when it's getting dark.

I may have to get one of those sun lamps so I don't get seasonal depression. I don't think it's depression though. It's just that I want to hibernate :)

Fashion tip of the day, by Suzi

I was doing my hair in the comfort of my very own bathroom when Suzi decided to come visit me. She promptly let me know that, white shirts can go with anything, and jeans can go with anything. So the fact that I am wearing a white shirt and jeans is a waste.

Who knew?

Because I Liked it...

A young couple moves into a new neighborhood. The next morning, while they are eating breakfast, the young woman sees the neighbor hang up the wash outside.

'That laundry is not very clean, she said, she doesn't know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs another laundry soap.'

The husband looked on, but remained silent.

Every time her neighbor would hang out the wash, the young woman would make the same comment. About a month later, the woman was surprised to see a nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband,

'Look! she has learned how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this?'

Her husband said, 'I got up early this morning and washed the windows.'

And so it is with life: What we see while watching others, depends on the purity of the window through which we look through.