Final Thoughts on 2011

May you be blessed with richness in family and friends.
May you find wealth in ordinary opportunities.
May you find strength to overcome everyday obstacles and challenges,
and power in those that seem insurmountable.
May you find wisdom to triumph over situations that refute logic.
May you find understanding in circumstances that harbor resentment.
May you find tolerance and forgiveness within your heart to prevail the deceit of others.
May you find honesty to look in the mirror at your shortcomings,
May you look at others with patience, empathy and compassion,
and in each daily commonplace happening
May you be surrounded by joy, love and laughter.

Welcome 2012~

New Years Eve Looks Something Like This

around our house....

1928

Today my Dad is 83.
The above picture is of him (in his uniform) with my Great Grandfather and Grandfather. My two Grandfathers passed away several decades ago. My Grandfather on the right lived into his 80's, and my Great Grandfather lived into his late 90's.

Time passes so quickly.
Too quickly.
It's hard to believe how quickly.

I love you Daddy and I am so grateful you are still on this earth.
You are still the world's BEST Daddy to me, and you always will be.
Happy Birthday.

Tuxie Toosday With Abby

Abby snuggles down into her fleece blanket in the shadows of one of the Christmas trees.

Liebster Award

Our good friends Simba and Audrey gifted us with this thoughtful award. Thank you dear friends, we do consider your very dear to us!

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"Liebster" means favorite or beloved in German, and this award helps to draw attention to blogs that aren't too well known.

Here are the rules for this award:

Upon receipt of the award, one is to:

1) Link back to the blogger who gave it

2) Paste the award on the blog

3) Choose 5 blogs to pass this award to (they must have fewer than 200 followers)

4) Let the recipients know about their nomination by leaving a comment on their blogs.

Here are the five blogs we are passing the award on to:

Leo from Celestial Kitties
Emma & Buster
Sookie & Mr Darcy from Kitcaboodies
Mario
and
Hollie, Smidgen,Pip and Minnie from Fraidy Cats.

Ahhhh This Is The Life

Miss Boo takes it very easy on a Sunday!

I Enjoyed My Christmas

UPDATE:

Picasa would not load Mom's picture this morning.(Bad Picasa) Is anyone else having any problems?

Another odd thing happened to Mom last night in Reader. She was reading through some blogs and all of a sudden all the posts disappeared out of Reader and then the next thing all of her subscriptions disappeared too. It looks like this morning they are back but it upset her a lot because she thought she was going to have to go back and research all of her subscriptions and resubscribe. Did anyone else see anything weird happen in their Google reader yesterday?

Merry Christmas

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Dr. Seuss
And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store? What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more?

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May everyone have peace and contentment.
Love,
Abby,Boo,Ping,Jinx,Gracie
& Mom Debra

Christmas Eve

Look around this season.....

Past the lights

the tree,
the presents.

You'll see the real beauty.
Look around and be reminded,
That while gifts are always nice,
we all probably have everything we've ever wished for.

I know I do.

Merry Christmas

Just Who Is That Kitty In The Window

Miss Boo gazes over her stash of packages.

She is dreaming of what could be in all of those wonderful packages.

She's also keeping an eye out for reindeers.

Did I hear some jingles?

Oh these smell so lovely.

So does this great bow!
Well Miss Boo will have to wait until Christmas morning to see what Santa Paws brought her.

What Happens When Sisters Argue

Girls there's no need to fight -- it's almost Christmas!

Ooooohhhh alright Mom!

UPDATE:
We've been LOL'ed over at Wendy's LOL Spot.
I hope you check out Wendy's funny blog often.
Thank Wendy!

Presents

::::scratch scratch scratch:::::

Oh "hi" Mom!

Yes, I am hiding in the packages.

I'm protecting them.

Yeah...I'm protecting them, that's the ticket.

Do You See What I See

My plumb little sugarplum....

With a little help from his brother.

Trying to get into the packages.

Mancat Monday With Ping

Sleepy boy!

sEcReTpAwS

Woo hoo guess what? Truffle and Brulee sent me a Secret Paws!

Look at all the wonderful goodies inside my box!

Smousies!!!!!!

My favorite treats -- ok Mompurrson with the thumbs give me some noms!

Nommmmm....crunch.....ooo....munch...dees....crunch...is.....munch...so.....crunch...good!

Mom hangs a smousie for Boo!

Just look at all da great prezzies!!!!

OK Mom purrson I don't think this is funny trying to get the smousises to gang up on me.
Fank you Brulee and Truffle and Mom Paula I love my SP and I promise I will share it with all my brothers and sisters!
Purrs,

Invincible

In the midst of winter,
I found there was,
within me,
an invincible summer.
~Albert Camus, French author

Meow Meow Meow

Gracie has a thing or two to say!!!!

Admiral

"Your eyes will speak to mine, and I will know.

Unconditional love has a condition after all,

I must be willing to let you go, when you speak to me

I must be willing to help you go, if you cannot go alone.

And I must accept my pain so you can be free of yours.

Loving you has been the greatest gift of all."

Christmas cards

We would love to exchange Christmas Cards with any of our friends. If you would like to receive one from us please contact us: manxmnewsATgmailDOTcom.
PLEASE NOTE:
We will leave this post up until December 15th and our regular daily post will be right below this one.

S-L-U-R-P

Ummmmummmmm good!

Secret Paws

As you can see I have my SP package all ready to go.

Just checking everything one last time.

Ping and I are getting our stinky smells all over it to say "hello" to our friends.

Now stand back Ping.
(what happened next was Ping took a swipe at me...humpf)

Mom would also like to thank both Layla of Cat Wisdom 101 and Deb of Three Dogz for the wonderful T-shirt she won in a contest Layla had. Thank you so much to both ladies. IT is fabulous!!!!