Happy Saturday! :) Christmas Shopping at the dollar tree, and popcorn movies party! :)
Happy Spirit Soaring Christmas Shopping Saturday!!! :) It feels great to say this and it's been a while since we could say :) WE WENT SHOPPING WILD AT THE DOLLAR TREE TODAY!!! :) oh my! :) woot yeah!!! :) BIG HAPPY HEARTS SMILES! :) We're enjoying an awesome spirit soaring festive day!!! :) We're so happy, excited ,and thrilled!!! :) my mom, dad, Holly ,and i enjoyed a super fun, and sweet awesome time shopping at the dollar tree today! :) it felt great, and spirit soaring ,returning to shopping :) our first shopping adventure in 21 months! oh my! :)Wow!!! :) We rocked it!!! :) Woot yeah!!! :) You all were right there with us in spirit :) We're smiling lots! :) Holly and i went absolutely sweet shopping wild!!! :) we love it!!! :) we got 65 items! :) Holly and i bought Christmas cards, gifts, we also bought a bag of Kit-and Kaboodle purina cat food for our cat Tiger, she loves it!!! :) awww! :) We also bought, almond milk, wheat crackers, green olives, some candy for the kids, 2 boxes of Christmas lights, hotwheels!!! woot!!! :) we also bought, some teriaki sauce, trash bags, chips, tortilla wraps, and more!! :) i bought some village Christmas town figurines for Holly, for her Christmas village table, and she bought 2, Christmas themed holiday trucks cups, to celebrate our return to shopping! :)aww! :) our hearts are very happy, and excited! :) We did really well in the store :) Holly and i stayed close with my mom and dad :) We wore our masks :) We enjoyed browsing around, we saw some dvds, and lots of other new items :) We're so thrilled, we went shopping :) we saw lots of Christmas items :) We did so very well, it wasn't that busy at the store :) Holly and i checked out together, and my mom and dad checked out together :) Holly and i had a Christmas gift card, $20 from Christmas 2020 that we used :) We're spirit soaring excited!!! :) it was awesome, shopping :) We're so thrilled, about our return to shopping, and we got so many nice items, gifts :) We're ready to write some more Christmas cards to mail out, all throughout the upcoming week :) i'm so very happy, excited, and thrilled to share all about our shopping experience, and adventure :) we're very proud with how well we did :) it felt great being back in the dollar tree today :) Holly and i are celebrating! :) We thanked my mom and dad for going to the dollar tree with us :) We're having a popcorn movies marathon party, watching some Christmas movies, and a football movie :) We're gonna have a football party tomorrow :) go Washington football team!!! :) There's so much more to look forward too :) Holly and i are going to write Christmas cards tomorrow, and on monday :) We also have mailed out a couple cards already too :) We're feeling so very spirited, shopping ,mailing ,we're getting these very special joys back in our life, it's a wonderful feeling :) Thank you angel friends, for all of your incredible love, care, support, and encouragement :) Iced coffee Cheers!!! to you!!! :) We love you all bunches! :) Enjoying a Super sweet, festive, spirit soaring day, with family, friends, shopping , movies, and the wonderful festive spirit of the season! :) Tonight, the popcorn movie party is on!! :) woot!! :)
Christmas Shopping and Spirited Festive Christmas Time Cheer!!! :) we love it!!! :) Hi angel friends! :) Happy weekend! :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a great day! :) We're loving the spirited energy, and excitement of the holiday season :) There's lots of great things going on, as the season is in full swing :) We love the weekend's, and all of the special joys of the holiday season festivities, and traditions :) it's so much fun ,and brings a pure joy :) Thank you all, our dear angel friends for sharing with us :) Holly and i went shopping today with my mom and dad, we had an awesome fun time shopping! :) We bought Christmas cards, gifts, some treats, and browsed around :) it was a feel great, spirit soaring experience shopping again :) We already can't wait to go shopping next time too! :) We've missed shopping ,and are so very proud of how well we did today, our first shopping experience and adventure in 21 months. We're celebrating our shopping adventure, with some iced coffees, foods, snacks, and watching movies :) We're getting ready to write Christmas cards, and also going to have a football party tomorrow :) We're ready for the big football games and all of the cheer! :) our holiday home is shining bright, with lots of festive Christmas time spirit :) We're so happy, and excited about all of the wonderful times to share with everyone, as the season continues on :) Cheers!!! to the holiday's! :)
We love blossoming into the weekend's :) This morning, we had an awesome new day ,rising and shining :) it was such a sweet spirited friday :) During the evening yesterday, we were enjoying the glow of our Christmas trees and lights :) i baked some potatoes for Holly and i, for dinner :) We watched a nice Christmas episode of Most Haunted show :) We got a good night's sleep :) i was up early this morning, enjoying some nice time here on DS, and also had the coins collecting with Mike show on :) i love seeing the weekly featured coins :) i began getting ready for my early morning nature walk :) we had some rain in our area, with warmer temperatures. i gathered a big bowl of goodies, and went outside :) it's been a big nature week, with the snowfall the other night, and seeing lots more of our nature friends visiting, red cardinal, woodpecker, bluejays, and sparrows :) The nature energy is spirit soaring :) it was a nice relaxing, peaceful, and exciting morning with the awesome thoughts of our shopping adventure :) Holly and i enjoyed a nice breakfast, and had some water, hot tea, and iced coffee :) We put some Christmas movies on, a really nice relaxing ,and peaceful early morning enjoying writing time here on DS :) Holly and i have been working on our Christmas shopping list :) we're so proud, we made a really good list, that helped us keep focused on a fun shopping adventure :)
CHRISTMAS SHOPPING AT THE DOLLAR TREE! :) OUR RETURN TO SHOPPING!!! :) Around 10am, my mom asked Holly and i if we were ready to shop :) We said, "We're all set!" :) awww! :) This was awesome!! :) we had our masks :) my mom, dad, Holly, and i enjoyed a nice car ride over to the shopping center :) it had really set in, that it had been 21 months, since our last shopping adventure. March 2020. Holly and i were super excited, and felt very focused :) We had our Christmas list with us, and also a list of items we wanted to browse at :) it felt great, as we approached closer to the shopping center, and saw the big sign, "Dollar Tree" :) Holly and i gave eachother a "Fist bump" and said, "we got this" :) You all were right there with us in spirit :) We found a parking spot, and my dad went into the rent-a-center place to pay the weekly bill, for some of our household appliances, and my mom, Holly, and i walked over to the dollar tree :) We felt very relaxed :) We walked into the dollar tree, and got our shopping baskets :) my dad met up with us after he was all set at rent-a-center :) Holly and i saw some dvds in the front area of the store :) we browsed through the dvds, and then went on the Christmas aisles :) We were browsing ,and finding some really nice items :) we found some candy, also some hotwheels! :) i bought hotwheel for Holly, and we also bought some hotwheels for the kids :) They love hotwheels too :)
We were in the shopping zone! :) woot yeah!!! :) my mom and dad were buying some items :) Holly and i bought some winter gloves, and winter hats, for some of our family, to include in their Christmas gifts :) We were having a fun time browsing around :) We saw some New England Patriots signs, very cool! :) i bought a birthday card for a friend ,for their upcoming birthday :) i saw some Christmas village figurines ,i bought a pack for Holly, for her Christmas village table :) She loves to collect Christmas village figurines :) we got 2 boxes of Christmas lights :) we were doing very well, shopping :)it wasn't that busy :) We were amazed, at all of the items we were seeing :) it was so nice, lots of new items at the dollar tree :) We went on the toy aisle, and found some gifts for the kids, and then went on the writing supplies, crafts aisle :) they got so many cool new items! :) Holly pointed out some arts and crafts supplies she'd like :) awww! :) i'm gonna buy some more for her next week :) We continued to browse around :) Holly and i stayed close with my mom and dad in the store :) our eyes taking in all of the sights, lots of cool items :) it was awesome!!! :)
Holly and i bought some purina, Kit-and Kaboodle foods for Tiger, we were very excited to surprise Tiger when we got home later :) We continued to shop, we went on the foods, and snacks aisle :) i bought a jar of green olives, plus some wheat crackers, tortilla chips, and Holly and i also got some tortilla wraps, we love those! :) my mom and dad were enjoying shopping too :) We went near the front of the store, and bought 4 packs of Christmas cards, a total of 42 Christmas cards :) We looked at the oven mits, kitchen towels, soaps aisles :) i found some more gifts for Holly :) Holly bought some cranberry ginger ale :) She's so happy! :) we brought a gift card with us, and were getting some items with our gift card :) we continued shopping, we were in the dollar tree for a good, 45 minutes :) they didn't have any football cards, but we're hoping they will in the upcoming weeks :) we finished up shopping ,and then went to the checkout :) my mom and dad checked out, and Holly and i were behind them :) She and i checked out together :) We got $20 off our total, with our gift card :) we spent $45, plus the $20 gift card :) awesome!!! :) it went smoothly at the checkout :)
after we were all set, and checked out, we walked outside, and felt a great sense of accomplishment :) We rocked it!!! so very well, with our return to shopping :) we felt safe, and did so very well inside the dollar tree :) my mom and dad drove us home, and they went back out to shop at walmart :) Holly and i washed our hands, and got settled in downstairs here, and organized our items :) i surprised Holly, with the nice Christmas village figurines, and she surprised me, she gave me a Christmas truck themed cup, and she got one for herself too! :) awww! :) a special joy, we both were thinking of eachother while shopping ,and got these nice items for eachother :) We're so very proud, of how well we did in the dollar tree :) Holly and i want to go shopping again next saturday :) We're looking forward to it, and will make another Christmas list for items we want to buy :) now that we've had our first shopping trip, we feel so very confident, for continued joys of going shopping and buying some items :) We want to continue to ease back into the shopping ,even 2 or 3 times a month, will be nice :)
Holly and i thanked my mom and dad for shopping with us :) we gave Tiger some of her cat food, she loves it!!! :)awww! :) She's a very happy cat :) We're gonna buy some more items for Tiger next week too, for her Christmas stocking :) Angel friends, this was so very nice and very special to our hearts, shopping with my mom and dad today :) We all have been through a lot, and to be able to get back special joys, like shopping, writing, mailing, and having those joys in our lives, it means the world to us :) Thank you all for always being here for us :) Holly and i are looking forward to shopping again, and going to buy some gift bags, wrapping paper, and other gifts next week too :) it's gonna be great! :) We already can't wait until our next shopping adventure :) The dollar tree is our favorite :) We're very happy and excited for all of the items we bought :) i took some cool pictures of the items we got at the dollar tree today :) Our spirits are soaring ,and our hearts are very happy! :) As the afternoon began, Holly and i got our Christmas movies marathon started again ,and enjoyed a nice lunch :)
Thank you angel friends, so very much for your beautifully heart warming comments :) We're so happy,and thrilled that everyone enjoyed our Christmas themed baking friday adventure and pictures :) awww! :) That warms our hearts,and brings us smiles :) We had lots of fun baking the peanut butter blossoms cookies, and making the candy cane chocolate bark :) We love these very special spirited fun times, and all of the great memories being made :) We love sharing our adventures :) it was an awesome friday! :) during the evening, we were all hanging out, enjoying some goodies :) our Christmas trees and lights glowing :) We're looking forward to having 2 more Christmas themed baking friday's, on December 17th, and on the 24th, Christmas eve :) it's so much fun baking, and cooking :) our spirits are soaring with the excitement of the holiday season :) The goodies we made are really popular, and we're getting more requests for next week, including brownie, maybe some potato chips too, plus gonna bake more goodies :) wishing everyone continued joys of an awesome fun holiday baking season :) Thank you everyone, so very much for joining us on this very special baking friday tradition each week :)
Popcorn Movies Party Day!!! :) Holly and i love this special weekly tradition :) We're having a popcorn movies marathon today :) we love picking out some movies to watch :) this morning before we went shopping, Holly and i put some Christmas movies on, and this afternoon we put some more movies on, including a football movie :) We've been enjoying some foods, snacks, drinks, and picked out a new movie to watch tonight :) We love our dvds collection, it's grown over the years :) it's so much fun enjoying movies :) we have lots of favorite Christmas movies we enjoy watching each year, christmas vacation, elf, the polar express, a christmas carol,and lots more :) We're gonna make some more popcorn tonight :) Cheers! to popcorn movies day, and the awesome festive spirit of the season :)
We're enjoying an aweosme, spirit soaring day! :) Christmas Shopping, Popcorn Movies Party, and celebrating the wonderful festive spirit of the season! :) We love it!!! :) my family, Holly, and i are doing well, healthy,and in great spirits :) it was so much fun shopping today :) Holly and i are very happy and excited we went shopping, and got some really nice Christmas gifts and Christmas cards :) We're looking forward to going shopping again very soon :) We'd love to go next saturday ,to finish up our Christmas shopping, and will be wrapping presents :) our spirits are soaring, with the excitement of our shopping adventure and experience today, and looking forward to lots more great times to share in, as the holiday season continues to shine :) Holly and i are enjoying resting up, watching some Christmas movies :) We're enjoying some foods, snacks, and drinks :) We're looking forward to watching a new movie tonight :) the popcorn movie party is on!! :)woot yeah!! :)
We're very excited to write Christmas cards, and mailing the cards all throughout the upcoming week :) Tomorrow's football sunday! :) We look forward to having a football party, we're going to have some gamday meals, and cheering on our Washington football team :) They have a huge game vs the Dallas Cowboys :) it's gonna be an awesome gameday! :) We're super pumped up and excited! :) Go Washington football Team!!! :) There's lots more great things to look forward too :) We're having a very special time, celebrating the Christmas season with everyone :) Thank you angel friends, so very much,for all that you do for us, and for all of your wonderful love, care, warm well wishes, support, and for keeping us in your thought and prayers :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of the love of our hearts :) Big group warm caring, happy holiday season friendship hug :) We wish everyone a nice peaceful evening and night :)
-never lose hope :)
To Wildthing,Peaceful Gentle Moments of the day :) Wildthing, we're enjoying an awesome ,spirit soaring day :) Holly and i enjoyed a great and fun time, shopping with mom and dad today, at the dollar tree :) it was so nice, going shopping again :) We bought some nice Christmas gifts, and other items too :) we look forward to going shopping again, very soon :) There's lots of great things going on :) Holly and i are enjoying some Christmas movies, having foods, snacks, and drinks :) We're gonna have a football party tomorrow, cheering on the Washington football team :) Trhe holiday season is in full swing :) Thinking of you, our dear friend :)
my mom, Holly,and family says hello :) We hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a great day :) We think of you and your family's often :) We love you all very much, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) We're having a very special time celebrating the holiday season with everyone :) It's a very exciting time in the season, with all of the festivities and traditions :) You all warm our hearts, and bring us wonderful holiday season joy :) Thank you :)
CHRISTMAS SHOPPING AT THE DOLLAR TREE!!! :) my mom, dad, Holly,and i enjoyed a very special and fun time, shopping at the dollar tree today :) this felt great, and really special to us :) our first shopping adventure in 21 months. We did very well and are so very happy, excited, and thrilled about the nice items we bought :) We want to go shopping again next saturday :) We'll buy some more gifts, wrapping paper, gift bags, and more :) it feels great shopping again :) it was a very sweet, spirit soaring shopping adventure today :) we really needed this, and it brings our hearts a lot of very special joy :) so many wonderful, awesome thoughts in our minds, as we're so happy and excited! :) it really has set in ,we did it :) after all we went through, and returning to shop today, getting Christmas gifts for our family, buying Christmas cards for friends and family, and also getting some nice items :) we will always remember this very special shopping adventure :) i'm very happy and excited, to share some pictures of the items we bought :)
Holly bought these 2 very nice, and special, Christmas trucks holiday cups for us, to celebrate our return to shopping, and our spirit soaring shopping adventure today :) This is so very nice, and very sweet of her :) Thank you Holly, so very much! :)Cheers!!! to spirit soaring times, being shared with family, friends, and the wonderful spirit of life :) 
We bought some nice, Purina kit and Kaboodles food for our cat Tiger :) She loves it!!! :) awww! :) We told Tiger, we got her this food, from the Dollar tree :) She was so happy and excited! :) Tiger next to her bag of food :) Tiger says ,"Holly and Chris got me a surprise from the dollar tree!" :) aww! :) 
i bought some gifts for Holly, including a hotwheel car! :) She and i collect hotwheels :) i got her some peppermint roll on to treat her migraines, and also got her a nice birds 2022 calendar :) 
i got these nice Christmas village figurines for Holly, for her Christmas village table :)

Snacks! :) Holly and i got some tortilla wraps, tortilla chips, green olives, and wheat crackers :) so much fun browsing the snacks at the dollar tree :) 

Gifts for family :) Holly and i picked out some awesome gifts, and gonna buy more next week :) We're getting ready for Christmas! :) 




boxes of Christmas lights :) 
Christmas town greetings! :) Hi angel friends! :) my Christmas town is glowing bright, with lots of holiday season festive spirit :) Today, all of our Christmas town friends, gathered at the Jingle Bells theater, for a very special featured presentation showing, of the holiday classic, "The Polar Express" :) celebrating 25 days of Christmas :) i'm going to add more lights into my Christmas town ,that i got at the dollar tree today :)



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Hi Chris Glad you and your family are doing well and enjoyed shopping. Its great you and Holly and your parents had a great time together. Glad your dollar tree was well stocked. You got some awesome items. 45 dollars plus your gift cards is a lot to spend at dollar tree. Happy to hear you got Tiger a surprise I'm glad she loves it She is a wonderful cat. Your Christmas town is looking awesome and fun as always . Glad you're looking forward to shopping soon again, Thanks for all my nice hugs today Have a good evening Hugs to everyone-Stephanie
oh boy you really made out well at the Dollar store. I am glad you were able to finally get back to shopping. I love browsing and shopping and getting good deals. Another store I like to shop in is the Five and Below store, they have some great deals there, too. I hope you have a wonderful Sun.
A shopping extravaganza it was!! I’m so happy for all of you. Prayers answered for your healing:). Your journal made my day:). Love to all of you! You’re going to have a great Christmas after all:)
Wow your Dollar Tree has a lot of nice stuff, you did very well with your shopping!! My store doesn't have so many nice things like the hot wheels so good for you!! Love the new pot holders too and the new mugs, ;-)
I'm glad you enjoyed your first shopping trip in a long time :-) I bet it was so much fun!!
Hopefully you'll have more shopping trips in the future, :-)
Have a wonderful Sunday!!
Hugs, Jean