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Happy Holidays! Merry Christmas! HoHoHo! What's up friends?! Christmas!!! Now, that might sound like I'm excited or something. But it's probably more related to delirium from being around a school full of elementary students coupled with all those homemade goodies they keep bringing to me for Christmas. I'm either on the biggest sugar high of the century or it's time to put me down. Ha!

While I'm trying to figure it all out, let's join Joyce for the Hodgepodge!

1. Do you believe in miracles? Absolutely without a doubt! Little ones and big ones. And the ones straight out of those Hallmark Christmas movies ones too! Why? Because of their relationship with hope. Which is one thing I have never lost!

2. What's a recent fad you admit to trying? Ok, I had to look this one up because I couldn't think of anything. The search led me to 'texting'. I had no idea that texting was a fad but I do it. On a daily basis. 

3. Peppermint-are you a fan? If so, what's your favorite food or beverage containing peppermint? I'm a little bit of a fan. Sometimes I like mint chocolate chip ice cream. I love Bob's peppermint balls. And I do love peppermint in my shampoo and oils. But that's really about all there is to my relationship with mint.  

4. Break the ice, on thin ice, as cold as ice (emotionally, not literally)...which phrase have you run into most recently? Explain. On thin ice. As in it's the holiday season and all 601 of my students are skating on thin ice. LOL

5. Have you ever broken or spilled something in someone else's home? Still friends? Probably. But I don't remember. 

6.  'Tis the week before Christmas...are you feeling more like Buddy the Elf or the Grinch before his heart grew? Buddy the Elf for sure! Which is why I haven't brought the hammer down on those students who are on that thin ice. :)

7. Share a favorite quote relating to Christmas. Since I mostly use the one from A Christmas Carol, I'm going to use my second favorite. It's the final sermon from The Bishop's Wife:

Tonight I want to tell you the story of an empty stocking.

Once upon a midnight clear, there was a child's cry, a blazing star hung over a stable, and wise men came with birthday gifts. We haven't forgotten that night down the centuries. We celebrate it with stars on Christmas trees, with the sound of bells, and with gifts.
But especially with gifts. You give me a book, I give you a tie. Aunt Martha has always wanted an orange squeezer and Uncle Henry can do with a new pipe. For we forget nobody, adult or child. All the stockings are filled, all that is, except one. And we have even forgotten to hang it up. The stocking for the child born in a manger. Its his birthday we're celebrating. Don't let us ever forget that.

Let us ask ourselves what He would wish for most. And then, let each put in his share, loving kindness, warm hearts, and a stretched out hand of tolerance. All the shinning gifts that make peace on earth.

And here's the video if you'd like to hear it: 

8.  Insert your own random thought here. Thursday is our last day of school until January 7! What?! AND, on Friday, I am going to lunch with my bestie and then, we are going to, and I quote: "Shop til we drop!" WootWoot! I can hardly wait! It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! 

How's your holiday agenda shaping up?