i hope you all had a great thanksgiving..... my husband was so inspired he went up to the attic and dragged down our tree the same day (the 23)... i have been decorating for 2 days serenaded by vince geraldi's charlie brown christmas music.
for some reason it feels extra special this year.
perhaps because after waffling for years with the witnesses i was finally able to let go this summer after finding this site.. so when are you putting up your christmas tree?.
The real trees drop needles and sap, wound up tipping over and the lighting of it every year was a pain. Have fun with what ever you choose but I would recomend the fake and burn some candles that smell like pine and cinnamon!
That's what I keep telling him. I think he will take the fake pre-lit tree down from the garage rafters for me tonight. Maybe tomorrow. It's snowing big time now, so he probably won't go to work tomorrow.
we seldom get snow in this part of the country until january or february.. but, it is snowing today and the forecasters say we will have it like this for a few days too.
also odd for here.
usually it will snow and the next day, it rains and it's all gone again.. so pretty!!!
Well...........it started raining and the snow was almost gone, so we went to the Mall to do some Christmas shopping. When we came out, it was snowing really hard and accumulating fast.
We were almost home and slid into a ditch. About a dozen really nice people stopped to help us and we got pulled out. It doesn't look like the car got damaged. It is snowing really hard now and the temperatures are going down and down. The weather report is saying an accumulation of 1-4 inches is expected.
Amazing how nice "worldly" people are.
we seldom get snow in this part of the country until january or february.. but, it is snowing today and the forecasters say we will have it like this for a few days too.
also odd for here.
usually it will snow and the next day, it rains and it's all gone again.. so pretty!!!
Morning, Mulan! Didn't it snow early there last year too?
Yes, but I don't think it was November. I remember a lot of snow for Thanksgiving week back in 1978 because we went to Hawaii and there was about a foot of snow on the deck for the champagne for our Bon Voyage party...............after book study.
I found the thread. It was December 1. Maybe a new trend is starting. http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/102847/1.ashx
Just 6 days off from last year.
we seldom get snow in this part of the country until january or february.. but, it is snowing today and the forecasters say we will have it like this for a few days too.
also odd for here.
usually it will snow and the next day, it rains and it's all gone again.. so pretty!!!
We seldom get snow in this part of the country until January or February.
But, it is snowing today and the forecasters say we will have it like this for a few days too. Also odd for here. Usually it will snow and the next day, it rains and it's all gone again.
So pretty!!!
do you ever look at other people and think "blimey, they are doing well ... new house ... new car ... why am i not getting ahead like that?".
you will probably find out that the car is hp or bought with a re-mortgage of a re-mortgage which is interest only.
no money is going to pay off capital and they don't have any savings and are not making any provision for their pension (other than imagining that the house they are *not* paying off will somehow suffice).
.................or they jack up their credit cards to the max, because "the end is coming".
i hope you all had a great thanksgiving..... my husband was so inspired he went up to the attic and dragged down our tree the same day (the 23)... i have been decorating for 2 days serenaded by vince geraldi's charlie brown christmas music.
for some reason it feels extra special this year.
perhaps because after waffling for years with the witnesses i was finally able to let go this summer after finding this site.. so when are you putting up your christmas tree?.
My husband is talking about getting a real tree this year. We have a very nice artificial, pre lit tree, and I want to put it up tomorrow. He keeps saying he would like a real tree and that it's too early to get one now.
So, either tomorrow or next weekend, depending on real or fake tree.
I am excited to get it all put together now. I see my neighbors doing lights, and wreaths on the doors, and I want to get started.
hi everyone, i know this has been brought up before.
but i was just wondering, do any of you know of any home business, with an easy start-up, legit, and a nice little income earner.
i am finding it tough, i am raising 2 teenage boys and my rent has gone up alot, starting dec. 1. .
You can clean houses. I did it for years and made good money. I know a woman who makes $1000 a week, cleaning for doctors, who refer her to all their friends. She also runs errands for them, cooks occasionally, and works their parties doing all the kitchen work.
It is hard work, but you pick your own hours, and you set the price. I had a man tell me he would pay me $30 for cleaning his house. I told him that would get him 1 hour. He was upset, but hired me anyway.
Back when I was doing it almost full time, I charged $60 to clean an average house. A big house might run $100. I didn't move furniture, wash windows (I told them that is a seperate trade and I could refer someone to do that) and I didn't change sheets. It was just my preference for the sake of my back, but lots of girls do it.
Most of my customers had me come every two weeks, and more often for parties and holiday events.
piercings are even more common than tattoos, and becoming more popular due to their relatively low cost and seeming temporary permanence.. opinions?.
Ears (just the lobes, 1 or 2) and navel are fine with me.
I think everything else is absolutely hideous. As an employer, we would not hire someone with ugly piercings (other than earlobes). The men work in people's homes, doing repairs, and it just isn't professional.
I wonder about some of these young people, and why they do it to themselves. Do they really think it's attractive? It's not!! It's a fad, with pretty permanent repurcussions.
has done so for years, and because of this, i know this elder a little too.
not that we are close friends now, but when we were witnesses in the 1990's, we were friends with him and his wife.
they had three children, all fully grown now, and had been married about thirty years.
It depends a lot on the circumstances of the death of the other spouse.
We had an elder (about 70) who cared for his wife for years and years, after many strokes. Finally she died. He remarried a friend he kne slightly, from another state, about 6 months later. His daughter was furious, hurt and more, but went to the wedding anyway (my husband performed it) and cried through the whole thing. She should have stayed home. The marriage was very happy and they had a good life together until he died about 10 years later.
My brother, on the other hand, lost his wife and baby in childbirth in 1977, leaving him with two teenaged daughters. He was desolate and, in a move to recapture what they had lost, he remarried a woman he met on a business trip, 3 months later (yes, they were JW's, he was an elder and she a pioneer............it had to work, didn't it?). It was a disaster, and they divorced a little over a year, and one baby girl later. He never remarried again.
So, each person should decide, with input from their families.
i was feeling a bit guilty about celebrating as this is my 1st year out and i know the history of all the holidays and birthdays are pagan or bloody or idolatrous.. .
but i was thinking that it's not what someone made them in the past but what they are right now.. to us, at this moment.
am i going to sit down on thanksgiving.. and say, "i hate those indians, think i'll go kill some"..????
I celebrated Thanksgiving even when I was an active JW. Cooked a big turkey meal every year and missed meeting that Thursday night, in fact because the kids were home from school we skipped all congregational activities the whole weekend! Oh and on a few occasions we even celebrated thanksgiving with other JW's.
So did we. We usually had to go to the meeting though. Dave was the TM school overseer for 15 years. Kind of hard to get out of that. When I was a kid, we always went to my grandparents and had a big turkey dinner and didn't go to the meeting. All were JW's too. My mother tells me that no one had a good reason why not to do it, so we did.
As for Christmas, I did feel odd celebrating it the first couple of years. I didn't feel guilty because I knew there was absolutely nothing wrong with it. But I worried we would get caught, and took great pains to be sure the tree wasn't visible from the street,driving by the house. That seems so stupid now. We still are not disfellowshipped or disassociated, and don't care. This year the tree is going in the front window!!
