Up Early Again...Sunday

I have been waking up around 3 AM for a few weeks now...I guess that is fine. I am not tired and it does give me a lot of time to read...

I took the MSN quiz this week,, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4250964/?score=50&resp=3,4,4,4,1,1,3,1,3,4,#anc_WEEKLYNEWSQUIZ
I only scored 50%...It is sorry to say but I do better on weeks where most of the questions about celebrities or gossip instead of where Obama picked up the Nobel Peace Prize and things that are a little more important... Last week I scored 90% it was all about Palin and Tiger....you know things about them are REALLY important...but that is what sticks in my head anymore..

We will be going to church this morning. Mackenzie and I will drive over to Missy's and ride the rest of the way with them.

We have finished our Christmas shopping. We picked up the last two gifts Friday. well, actually Mike did and for once Missy did not get the bottom end of gifts...She is a hard one to shop for. She never asks for anything....But now we have Benjamin and he asks for a lot. This has only started in the last 6 months. He never used to ask for anything. Missy would take him to the store and he rode in the cart and never asked for anything. Missy was proud of that and thought he was always going to be that way. But he has now grown into an ordinary child and most sparkly things he 'needs'. Missy tries to point out he does not need this or that he wants it...I don't think she is making a lot of head way.

One day Missy took Benjamin to a store and he threw a fit for some toy. Missy does not put up with that and took him out of the store and they left. Later he had calmed down and they went to another store. There he did not ask for a toy. Missy bought herself a pair of shoes. Afterward they came to my house. Benjamin was quick to inform me how' Mama got new shoes and I did not get anything. And this was not fair or funny.' He was still mad about it... But he was not whining...No, he spit out those facts in a very clear firm voice. He has definite opinions.

Mackenzie has been a little under the weather since Friday morning. She has a hacking cough. I started her on an antibiotic and breathing treatments for her asthma. I think she is a little better. I hope she is well by the time she flies home.

I mailed some Christmas Cards yesterday. I sent Betty's and Laura's to Betty's old address...I am sure she still gets mail there...I did not have quiet enough cards. Brother did not get one. I have several Birthday cards here I may just cross off Birthday and write Christmas on his...Or I have some used ones and I could send him one that was sent to me in years past...I even have a Christmas Letter I could send to him...It is from Mike's niece-in -law....It is a very nice Christmas letter talking about the 4 or 5 kids including the latest one they adopted from China.....If I had not just written about this in the blog I could have sent him that letter and he would have been confused....

Oh, that made me think. Remember the time Rhea King and I bought a bunch of old pictures from a thrift store and I took them to one of our reunions a few years ago and told Fleta I had stole these from Mama and now I did not know who any of the people were. Clayton and everyone else was in on the joke, except Fleta....Every half hour or so Clayton would pick up one of the old pictures and comment on it and it would get Fleta going again about what relative they might have been...Then Clayton notice there was a black lady standing in the foreground in one picture....I guess if I go to hell for that Clayton will too....