What's happening with Carol.....: Merry Christmas & GOD JUL & Feliz Navidad!

Have things to post...no time to load up photos....but wanted to wish you....

Merry Christmas to all my BLOGGER FRIENDS!
God Jul till Er!
Feliz Navidad!

I hope you are warm, healthy and filled with HOLIDAY CHEER!

Heros who have beaten cancer...I will soon be on this list!

Many of these people I don't know...but I want to saturate my head with their names and gain strength from their success!
If you know someone for my list...please email me their first name and type of cancer! It's my newest collection! Thank you for contributing!
They will go with me to chemo!
Joanne - colon
Brenda - breast
Janette - breast
Heng - breast
Henrik - stomach
Hind- breast
Margo's friend-
Bethy's friend- colon
Licki - breast
Inger - breast
Isabelle - leukemia
Viveka - hair sacks in head -wow!
Helen - ovarian
Peter - bladder
Michael - melanoma
Bodil - melanoma
Jörgen - prostrate
Tony's daughter -
Anne-Lise - ovarian/throat
Dolores - uterus
Roland - prostrate
Charlotte
Patty's Mama
Ernst - prostrate
Susanna - breast
Carolina - luekemia
Shirley- brain
Harlika - breast
Johanna - luekemia
Josefin -luekemia
Björn - intestines
Alrik - luekemia
Ingrid - lung/kidney
David - prostrate
Malcolm - stomach
Margaret - breast
Joan - rectal
Lance - testicular
Pete -
Julie - breast
Bertil - liver
Jeannie - lung
Fred - colon/lung
Goldie - breast
Gary's mom - breast
MaryBeth's Mom- kidney
Thomas
Anna - rectal
Farrah - rectal
Billie- stomach
Gene-my mom HS class mate '48
Gina's mom- ovarian
Karen - melanoma
Friend of my parents son- rectal/liver (yes!)
Sona's friend- colon, etc
Cory - luekemia
Alice - breast
Ian - rectal/liver (yeah! mine!)
Ronny - prostrate
Felipe - lymphona
Jonas - brain!!!
Sharon - ocular
Rose - breast
Maria G's dad -
Christina - breast
Heather - skin
Kristian - blood/skin
Linda - uterus
Reé - bone/lung
Frida- breast
David - pancreatic
Linda - breast/colon
Tricia - breast
Cathy - breast
Cathy - melanoma
Margaret - breast
Nancy - breast
Barbro- uterus
Gail - cervical
Hans - rectal-liver (Heja!)
Ulrich - rectal-liver (WooHoo!)
Maribel's aunt
Debbie -
Dave- brain
Lisa - cervical
Heather- cervical
Ellen -
Buechler - ovarian
Jan - limphs/stomach
Janet - breast
Mikael- kidneys
Guy at Bo's work-liver
Åsas Dad
Doug - prostrate
Kim- breast
Aunt Jeanne - breast
Aunt Hubie -breast
Inegärd - kidney

What books I have loved reading.....

You Suck by Chris Moore
World Without End by Ken Folett
WILD SWANS by Jung Chang
Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan
Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingslover
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Hungry Ocean by Linda Greenlaw
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling
The Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The #1 Ladies Detective Agency (series) by Alexander McCall Smith
That Quail Robert by Margaret Stanger
Savannah Blues by Mary Kay Andrews
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet
Perfume by Patrick Süskind
Paula by Isabel Allende
Palace Walk by Naguid Mahfouz
Nothing to Declare by Mary Morris
Naked by David Sedaris
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Little House on the Prarie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins
Evening Class by Maeve Binchy
Endurance by Alfred Lansing
Don't Stop the Carnival by Herman Wouk
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Cry My Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Chocolate by Joanne Harris
Charlotte's Web by EB White
Bean Trees by Barbara Kingslover
A Dirty Job by Chris Moore
1984 by George Orwell

Small Happenings that make me smile

I got a LONG letter from Pernilla today...put a smile in my heart! Thank you for writing to me, your words were very touching and REAL! Soon we'll be working together again! ;-)
How my daughter and our neighbor's son play so very nicely together all the times they are together, no complaints, no arguing, no terrorizing the animals, just good play time and lots of laughter. He is like a surrogate brother only better because they really appreciate each other. Actually he ADORES her because she is a year older and KNOWS SO MUCH!
SEWING....projects not repairs!
Eating dinner with my family and talking about the day's events and planning the next day's activities together.
Planning lessons for my students....it thrills me to think of ALL the possibilities to help them learn new information!
My hubby's two day beard...but not the three day one.
Maya's daily drawings that she makes especially for me! I want to keep them ALL!
Bookworms...my book club that meets every month!
It's slowly getting darker each day and soon we can light candles everywhere to be "cozy" ...even at school!
I can see our goldfish swimming in the pond from my bedroom window
In the mornings I often have to slow down or stop the car to wait for the goose family to cross the road to go to the lake
When I go out to eat with my teacher friends, we laugh and laugh about stories of ourselves and our "kids" (students)
My Mom always leaves my birthday presents wrapped up in the guest room. I wait to open them on the correct day...I've never been a peeker, even when I was young.
Maya gave me kisses over the phone because she missed me putting her to bed tonight
My husband sets up the coffee pot so it is ready to start each morning for me!
Jessica, a teacher at my school, out of the blue came to help me carry new art supplies to another building How did she know I was super stressed and didn't have enough time to do it myself?
Åsa, my teacher friend who is on a year maternity leave, gave me a bag of beautiful children's books