Fun twist on the Twelve Days of Christmas song

Just wanted to share a little rewrite I made to a great Christmas Song. I changed the words of the Twelve Days of Christmas to The Twelve Days Till Christmas. We did this as a skit last night at a Relief Society Party. It was really fun and easy to prepare.
The words are all sung to the same tune until after KIDS OUT OF SCHOOL, then they are just spoken as each part gets to the point where it changes from the initial task.


Twelve days till Christmas, there’s such a lot to do

Like finding the perfect tree



11 days till Christmas, there’s such a lot to do

Hanging up the lights
And finding the perfect tree



10 day s till Christmas, there’s such a lot to do

Gifts that are home made

Hanging up the lights

And finding the perfect tree


9 days till Christmas, there’s such a lot to do
Holiday baking

Gifts that are home made

Hanging up the lights

And finding the perfect tree


8 days till Christmas, there’s such a lot to do

( EVERYONE) KIDS OUT OF SCHOOL (tune of five golden rings)

Holiday Baking

Gifts that are home made

Trying to hang up these stupid lights

And finding the perfect tree


7 days till Christmas, there’s such a lot to do
Company arriving

KIDS OUT OF SCHOOL

Holiday baking

Of course I have enough time to make everyone a pair of pajamas

Now they’re blinking, have they always done that?

And finding the perfect tree


6 days till Christmas, there’s such a lot to do.

Shopping, shopping, shopping

Company arriving

KIDS OUT OF SCHOOL

Still doing the baking

Why’d I want them home made?

Now the other half is blinking.

And finding the perfect tree



5 days till Christmas, there’s such a lot to do

Mailing Christmas Cards

Shopping, shopping, shopping

You mean we’re going to have your whole family here?

KIDS OUT OF SCHOOL

Is Fruitcake supposed to bounce?

What was I thinking?

Don’t we have another extension cord?

And finding the perfect tree


4 days till Christmas, there’s such a lot to do

Cleaning up the house

Mailing Christmas Cards

Getting tired of shopping

Company still arriving (Sounding annoyed)

KIDS OUT OF SCHOOL

Baking all these cookies

(CRYING) I just wanted to make them something special.

The front one’s are on, now the back ones are off

And finding the perfect tree


3 days till Christmas, there’s such a lot to do

Wrapping all the presents

Cleaning up the house

Addressing all these cards

I can’t believe how many people are shopping

No, no, of course you can stay with us. I’m sure the twins won’t mind sleeping in the garage

KIDS OUT OF SCHOOL

(Weary Sounding) Holiday baking

I wonder if K mart is still open.

Still trying to hang all these lights

And finding the perfect tree


2 days till Christmas, there’s such a lot to do

Going out to parties

Wrapping all the presents

This place keeps getting messy

Why are we sending out so many cards

So very tired of shopping

They just keep arriving

KIDS OUT OF SCHOOL

Getting tired of cookies

What do you mean the pajamas are all sold out?

Get a flashlight I think I blew a fuse

And finding the perfect tree


1 day till Christmas, there’s such a lot to do

Making Christmas Dinner

Going out to parties

Anybody got a giftbag?

Stop making a mess!

Do we even know all these people?

Next year everyone gets gift cards

They’re your family, you deal with them

KIDS OUT OF SCHOOL

( Sobbing) So many cookies”

“ Everyone could use a new pair of socks on Christmas.”

“Oh, I give up you put em’ up yourself.”

EVERYONE SLOWLY SING And finding the perfect tree

Blogging to myself

After a very inspirational writers retreat in October I started a blog. I should explain first, that I am like the Helen keller of technology. I can learn, but it will take a special teacher and a lot of patience, but I was determined.
I learned how to add backgrounds, post pictures, and even put on little cutsie things that blink. Oh, I was feeling very clever. Then I realized what I couldn't figure out, how to tell anyone about it. Seems ridiculous,I know, but it is just so....me!
I emailed my tried and true adviser for such things, Lisa. She managed to figure out my blog address from a distance that I couldn't see right in front of me. Crisis averted, or so you would think, but here enters the world of procrastination and I put off invites for the day I wrote something profound. That took some time, I'm still waiting in fact.
I soon gave up on profound and went for timely, as in I wrote about this today it may not be good, but it's here. Unfortunately, in a wild inbox cleaning frenzy I managed to erase what she'd sent.
So I had just given up, deciding I would blog to myself until the day I could gain the key to my own blog address, or at least humble myself to ask for help again. Then I noticed this small envelope button on the bottom of my posts. Clicking on it, low and behold I found a way to send my words out and quit talking to myself. It was a long road and a rather embarrassing one, but welcome to my blog. I can't promise it will be anything life changing or even inspirational, but maybe just once in a while you will find something that makes you smile, and that is enough for me. Thank you for visiting and at least keeping me from talking to myself.

Choose This Day

Choose This Day

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I found this amazing video on the Church website and just wanted to include it. I am the queen of procrastination, so this speaks to me.

A fun and easy Halloween activity for toddlers.

So, as many of you know I run a daycare and every year I have a different set of challenges as I shuffle kids in and out of the program. This year I find myself with mostly two and three year olds, which is fun, but their crafting abilities are limited. I came up with this really fun Halloween activity the other day turning their hand prints into bats. The kids really had a fun time and it was easy to do and to clean up which is a bonus.
It was very easy first you paint the childrens hands one at a time and have them press them on the paper. (I wipe their hands off with diaper wipes after we print them on the paper to avoid a mess.)Put them at an angle so they will look like wings. Then you paint or stencil a circle in the middle. I add little points at the top of the circle for ears.
When that is dry, I cut round circles for eyes and fangs out of white paper and glue them in place them use a sharpee to add pipils and a smile.

Miracles are happening already

For those of you who know me,you can see that two miraclulous things have already taken place.
First, I have actually added a picture to my blog ( by myself I might add) second, I actually have two posts now. Could I be turning over a new leaf?
Today was the kind of day that makes me want to be a humor writer. It started by waking up at five thirty to the sound of our fall wind storms. We have about one week of fall here in this part of Washington. It is beautiful and the streets are full of color. After that, the gale force winds begin and instead of the leaves gently falling, as the season would suggest, they are stripped in the night by a mini tornado leaving the trees naked.
So when the winds begin you alway have to ask youself, "What is that scraping sound and what is being destroyed, or blown across the street." In this case, it was a large shelter tent we have in our backyard. It was blowing completly onto one leg and threatening to become a very large lawn ornament for the neighbors, should the one remaining tie down break.
So dressed in my jammies and husbands coat and boots, very stylish I know, I made a makeshift tie down out of a jumprope and a hobby horse.
By eight,I had three babies crying over a toy, a mountain of oatmeal boiling on the stove,the wind still draggin things out into the street, I had cleaned the carpet from an anxious doggy, the phone kept ringing, and a toilet was determined to overflow after every flush. Several of my older kids were fighting about what cartoon should be on and a what decible it should be at and I was packing a lunch and trying to correct English homework before everyone had to rush out the door.
Now why would that make anyone want to be anything, other that gainfully employed anywhere, but as a home daycare provider? Because in that one moment when I look around at the absolute chaos that is, unfortunately, a pretty typical day. I have two choices, I could sit down and bawl or I could appreciate the craziness of it all for what it is, a happy home, brewing over with life, and start to laugh!

Welcome to my new blog!

I know I have not always been the most faithful blogger out there. In fact, I tend to forget my own passwords due to lack of use. I am starting this blog, after attending fantastic writing retreat, so that I can inspire myself to get some of my work published. It will not be fancy, but then neither are potato chips and I can't seem to get enough of those. For those of you wondering about the title, I have written a children's book called, the Miracle Maker. As much as I love it, I truly feel that at this point it would take a miracle to get it published. Miracles are not, however, as unusual as I once thought. There are many times in my life where I thought," It would take a miracle to..." you name it, but with a little hard work, it happens. So, here goes, I am formally acknowledging that I am a capable writer who just needs to buckle down and do the inevitable. WRITE! Well yeah, that and send off my stuff to unknown agents and publishers with their wicked sharp red pens and rejection letters. Wish me luck!