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Thirteen Things about Amy13 things I love about Thanksgiving 1. I love planning the Thanksgiving dinner 2. I love shopping for Thanksgiving 3. Its a day of love and relaxation and a time to be thankful 4.Its a time for family 5. macys thanksgiving day parade 6. leftovers 7. long walks after dinner 8. its the start of Christmas season 9. getting up early to start the turkey 10. no diet worries 11. planning for the next days shopping adventure 12. leftovers 13. michael watches football after getting the tree out and I start decorating. This year my sister is visting Links to other Thursday Thirteens! 1. (leave your link in comments, I’ll add you re!)

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Tuesday

Well, I surprisingly got a day off today as we had 3 extra nurses and I was very overtime this week. Michael was also off and was able to blog last night. As usual, read his lovely words here. Go say like days when we have nothing planned and can just lounge around. So if you were to ask me what we did today, I will reply NOTHING!

I'm not fully awake but I am getting there. I have had several people sign up for the Christmas Card exchange (see below) and there is plenty of time to join! Just click on the yahoo group button and fill out the database when you join.
Its definitely fall here in Atlanta as the weather has been very cool all week. Thanksgiving us just around the corner which means Christmas is coming! Yipee! Please dont think I forgot about Turkey Day. I feel sorry for Thanksgiving because I think it gets forgotten. BooHoo!
I worked Sat,Sun and Mon so I was unable to go to church was sad but I am off this Saturday night so I should be able to go.

Random question for ya, whats your favorite Thanksgiving dish?

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Good evening friends! My apologies to not visiting blogs as I should, but I am currently working 4 nights in a roll and they have taken the comment privilege away at work..Boo Hoo! I am getting some reading in though during the quiet times.. Hope you will join us with the Christmas Card exchange. I posted a yahoo group sign below. Just click to sign up and place your info in the database. If you don't really want to sign the yahoo group thing and still want to participate just email me at amyschristopher@comcast.net and give me your name, address, how many cards you want to exchange 1,5,10,20 as many as possible? I will add you to the database...

Its Sunday evening...Whats on your mind?

Christmas Card Exchange

Photo hunt below this post


Oh I know its early but I want people to have time to sign up. I have started a list for a Christmas Card Exchange. Click below to join the Amy Christmas Card Exchange yahoo group. This is where you will find a database and can fill in your information. Please pass this one. I would love to have an awesome number of people join.. This is will be displayed for 3 weeks and I will have the lists ready by the day before Turkey Day .When I did my postcard exchange several families enjoyed doing this as a family especially with children. Its fun to find where on the map the cards come from! Looking forward to this and Christmas Central here at Random Thoughts starting after Thanksgiving!


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Saturday Photo Hunt- classic

This is niece Janie picking out her first Cabbage Patch kid at the Cabbage Patch Hospital in Ga!! They are classic dolls because I had one!

Ok, you need to go visit Michael and tell him how cool his costume was yesterday. I love his pictures. He was totally cute.

November is National Adoption Month

November is National Adoption Month. I encourage you to stop by our adoption blog today and just visit or let us know if adoption has touched your life, regardless if its domestic or international. I cant find a graphic to post so if anyone has one please let me know!!! More to come later.

Thursday 13

Thirteen Things about Amy13 Laundry Movies(13 movies I can watch over and over while doing laundry) 1. Shag 2. How to lose a guy in 10 days 3.Any Julia Roberts movie 4. A Walk to Remember 5. American Pie 6. Elf (at Christmas time) 7. The Notebook 8. Old Friends episodes 9. Jay and Silent Bob 10. Forrest Gump 11.13 going on 30 12. 40 year old virgin 13. Walk the Line Links to other Thursday Thirteens! 1. (leave your link in comments, I’ll add you here!)

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Happy Halloween

Kim awarded me this treat! Doesn't she rock? Time to pimp hubbys blog..Go see his pics from last night.. VISIT HERE!

Be safe tonight! Cant wait to hear about the popular costumes

Andrea sent me this one. Im new to her blog and she rocks!

Movies and a question for you

When I think of classic movies, I think about Gone with the Wind, Its a Wonderful Life all the way up to Grease. I started thinking about recent movies.. What will be considered a classic? Will it be Titanic? I would love to hear your thoughts..So tell me, what movies from 1990 and up do you think will be considered classics? Think hard........

Monday

Good morning friends. Its Monday morning and the World Series is over. Besides the Red Sox, I had no idea who was playing until last Wednesday while playing trivia.

This week involves working my usual 3 nights, a meeting, and trick or treating. I so enjoy passing out candy and I am glad that Michael is dressing up this year..WooHoo.
We had our last Discovery Class yesterday (I cant attend next Sunday because I am working both Sat and Sun nights) and then another awesome service with wonderful music. As hesitant as I was to join a huge church, this has been a blessing. I am active in the women's ministry, Michael and I are enjoying our small group and Michael is getting plugged in by volunteering at the new bookstore in the church.

How was your weekend? here is another question. Are you afraid to try a new shampoo? I am. I need to get over that. My shampoo is too expensive and then you have to buy conditioner..

Head over the adoption blog and join us in our Monday prayer time please.

I feel good

I really do. I don't know why. Perhaps its because I love life, God and my husband. Perhaps its because I am a dreamer and have such hope for the future. Perhaps its because I went to the gym twice last week. I love the fall. I really love my husband. He has been a fabulous husband over the past few weeks and I don't think he even knows it. I have been waiting to tell him how much he rocks but I haven't. He has been so funny with Lucy the basset hound and I often find them chilling together in the living room. Michael has been good at making sure we are not late to events and this means the world to me. His attitude has been fabulous and he has been funny .Michael is just awesome. We have enjoyed making new friends at church and in our small group. We attended tonight and had soup, salad and grilled cheese sandwiches. We have been having great conversations and although are time is limited because of his job and my working nightshift,we have managed to watch a few movies and shows together. I have just really had fun with him lately.

WE have a lot to learn about each other and parenting and during this wait for our daughter in CHina, we have plenty of time to learn. Read about that journey here. Michael is going to be such a fun dad. I look forward to this wait although I wish it was shorter.

I am blessed.

Its your turn..Brag about your spouse or significant other. Come on, you know you want to. Its fun.

Saturday Photo hunt - Pink

Pink- My first secret pal gift and LynnMarie's second outfit. No, LynnMarie is not home with us. We will travel to get her in China one day!

Friday Fun

Okay, I am opening up this post to whatever you want to talk about. Halloween, fall, socks, you name it. Jump in and let us know whats on your mind? Got a question? Ask it!

Fire away!

Fridays Feast

Appetizer
Name a great website you would recommend to others.
There are so many blogs I would recommend but I have been visiting our church site at
www.northmetro.org or our adoption site at www.thechristopherfamily.blogspot.com
Im looking forward to other peoples answers

Soup
On a scale of 1-10 (with 10 as highest), how often do you dream at night?
11. My dreams are colorful, real, and hard to forget

Salad
Did you have a pet as a child? If so, what kind and what was its name?
Bubbles and Sir Barkley of Birnam Woods were both Cocker Spaniels

Main Course
If you had the chance to star in a commercial, what would you choose to advertise?
Does that mean whatever you advertise you get for free? I would choose to advertise Disney Cruises

Dessert
What is your favorite kind of hard candy?
Werthers Original

question

QUESTION FOR TODAY (BECAUSE i LOVE GETTING ANSWERS)

WHATS THE MOST CREATIVE HALLOWEEN COSTUME YOU HAVE SEEN ?

thursday 13

Thirteen Things about Amy13 things that make me happy 1. My Michael 2. Christmas 3. Christmas music 4.Macys Thanksgiving Day parade 5.family memories 6. long walks during the fall season 7.Disney cruises 8. thinking about China, where our daughter will be from 9. my family 10. good friends 11. the international adoption community 12.surprise day off from work, a whole day off with Michael 13. Fall- pumpkins, fires, cool weather nieces and nephews window shopping for future baby things oops more than 13 Links to other Thursday Thirteens! 1. (leave your link in comments, I’ll add you here!)

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Wordless Wednesday

Michael and I on our birthday (yes we have the same birthday) at Universal with our new friend!!!

BTW, our bdays are in January not today..Sorry for the confusion

friends

Michael and I had all of Monday off and this morning as well. I go back to work tonight after my nap. Yesterday I went to the gym (yeah me) and we ended the day going to trivia with members of our small group. It was fun and we almost won! After that, we drove home (first we had to "ghost" someone as we have now been "ghosted" 3 times) and had some ice cream (I had pumpkin ice cream) and we watched the Blair Witch Project and slept in... Too fun.
Today is the day we celebrate waiting 6 months for LynnMarie (check out http://www.thechristopherfamily.blogspot.com/ for more details) and to celebrate we had Chinese food.

Its almost nap time for me but I have been thinking about friendship lately. Friends are so important. I was thinking how you really have to take care of your friendships. I love my friends. I love meeting new friends. I have to be careful when we meet new friends. Sometimes I can be overwhelming and can hog the conversation. I hate it when others do that. I love it when my friends ask questions about whats going on in my life and ask if they can pray for me. How awesome is that? Michael and I have gotten to meet a lot of new friends in the last couple of months. Because of our adoption, we were lead to our new church. Because of church, we now have a small group, a sort of Sunday School class and I am involved in the Women's Ministry. i love it.

But I want my friends to know I care about them as well. I love having a friend that I trust so much that I can share my thoughts, dreams and crazy thoughts with. My friends are special because I am a bit crazy. Its true. I love a friend that I can really be myself with. friends I feel comfortable with. I want to be able to do nice things for my friends. I want to make their lives easier. Sometimes I am afraid to jump in and help, I prefer friends to ask me to help and thats not fair. I want to find time to spend with my friends. I feel like I have not been doing that and if you are one of those friends, I am so sorry. Please know that I love all of yall and pray for you daily. I want to be a better friend and I want to appreciate my friendships more.

So, are you the best friend that you can be? How can you be a better friend today?

Relaxation

Not much going on here at the Christopher. Busy weekend at work and Michael and I both have the day off tomorrow. We have our small group this coming Friday. I am hoping to get off from work 7-11 to go. We went to church today starting out with our Discovery 2 class and talked about the importance of group and community. We got to another new couple who is really nice and lives near us. After our class we have about an hour before the service starts so we chill in the church's coffeehouse and chill for a bit. We met another new friend who is mom of twins who were born at 26 weeks. We talked about how in control of her life she was and how having the babies early and having twins just changed her whole lifestyle. What a neat lady! I hope we get to meet her husband and kids soon. She is very nice!

Last week we talked about what we do to relax and I really didn't have an answer. I blog but I need something else. Michael has a variety of things and I don't . Boohoo. What do you guys do to relax when life is just too busy?

Its definitely fall here in Atlanta. the leaves are not as full of color more than likely because of the drough but they are still beautiful and the weather is starting to change..I love it!

Photo Hunt- practical

Ok, this is stretching it. This is from Colonial Williamsburg. This is an example of one of their meals. I think they used lots of practical things back then.

Don't forget to answer the question below if you feel like it