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Friday afternoon, I kidnapped Sissy and Valentina and we did a Wally Land run (that's what Asa and Joshua call Wal Mart). As Asa and I were carting out of the store, we walked by the Wal Mart "day spa". There sitting in a pedicure chair was Santa, sitting with hot towels on his legs. Asa blurted out "THERE'S SANTA! HE'S GETTING A PEDICURE!" It was weird. When I hear the name Santa or see a Santa, I can't shake the image of pedicure Santa.

Asa had been asking for 2 days straight to go and see the Christmas Tree in our down town park. Asa and I were going on a date to see the tree. I called Sissy to see if her and Vali would like to go. She said she didn't want to go because Valentina was going to go to bed in an hour blah, blah, excuse, blah. Then she asked me "Are you just going to drive by, or are you getting out of your car?" I answered "of course we're getting out of the car. We are going to see the Christmas tree!". Sissy then replies "we're coming with you if you are getting out of the car. It's dangerous to be walking about willy nilly in the park at night." I argued with her telling her how ridiculous she was being. It was 5pm, with stores all around. After agreeing to pick her up, I got to thinking how much she sounded like our grandmother. Dangerous....willy nilly...dark...park.... Our Grandmother would have never allowed us to go out after dark, it was much too dangerous. I took comfort in the fact that Sissy is carrying on some traits from our dear Grandma..not to mention Sissy's obsession with flax seed, omega 3's and iron deficiency. SO, to make a long story longer....we got to the park, bundled up Valentina and Asa finally got to see what he calls "the tallest Christmas tree in the world". He stood up to it, looked at it briefly, turned to me, slapped me on the butt said "TAG, YOUR IT!" and ran off into the darkness. The 2 days of whining to see the tree, the arguing with sissy about going alone to the park and the 1/2 hour it took to get Vali bundled up for the walk and it was all for a 5 second look at the tree. It didn't matter...that's what it's all about....memories.

As I was signing off on my TGIF post Friday with Shake N Bake, I realized that I'm tired of Shake N Bake. I need a new TGIF closer. I figured I would keep an open mind and think hard and long on what I would change it to. I watched Saturday night live. Typically I can't stay up that late and end up falling asleep before it starts. I have to say that I laughed out loud to every skit that night. So, from now on, my TGIF catch phrase is no longer Shake N Bake. It has been replaced with "Keep it cool". So true peeps, keep it cool.