The Day After

'Twas the day after Christmas
and all through the town
all the shoppers were busy
Since prices were down.

All the retailers were open
at the butt crack of day
since they didn't make money
After Thankssgiving day


OK...that's about all I can think of at the moment. If anyone would like to add to this poem, please feel free. It may be a fun exercise!

I will tell you that the Murphy clan headed out to Doylestown, PA today to visit the Michener Museum.

Dive - Neetzy and I hugged each other for you so I hope you felt the love dude because it was there.

We had a wonderful time roaming about the exhibits. There are a some wonderful impressionists that came out of Bucks County.

Neetzy, being the artist in the family may go into more depth than I can about the artists so I won't even try. My favorite exhibit was called Shifting Ground, through which I have a new favorite photographer Paula Chamlee. Forgive me if I don't have the right words to describe her work, but I am not the wordsmith of the family. (and I've had too much wine to coherently put a creative sentence together at the moment)

I will write more tomorrow, but for now I will leave you with another version of a song that I've already posted here, but felt compelled to re-post again because it is just....so.....well....um.....words just escape me.

(Thank you Presby for this one! I love you for this! Hope you're feeling better! )

PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR A WONDERFUL TREAT!!!!! (Dive, you'll love this)

It's got to be the morning after

Ahhhh, the quiet after the holiday!

It's wonderful.

No plans for today, which is a big change for us. Our weekends have been so busy lately it's nice to have some down time.

M and Daughter C are still sleeping snug in their beds. I would love to be able to do the same thing, but I've always been an early morning person so I was up and out of bed at 7:00. That's actually late for me. I'm finding as I get older my body wants more rest and I am happy to oblige!

Thanksgiving was great. We all invaded the Semi-conductors house and it was nice to have the holiday in our childhood home. It's been a while. Since Mom got sick and passed, the holidays have been kind of quiet. My kids are older and spend every other holiday with their other parent and last year M and I just made a little chicken for ourselves and relaxed. It was nice, but something was missing. I get a bit nostalgic around the holidays and since my Mom passed away family has become more important to me. I have definitely been very fortunate to have a family that actually enjoys each others company and have fun together.

Something happens when we all get together. There is a theme song that just finds it's way out. Someone starts humming something, then we try to remember the words and soon after copious amounts of wine and consulting with the Semi-conductor for the lyrics we find ourselves singing the song throughout dinner.

One year we serenaded lil' brother T with the Lion Sleeps Tonight as he was taking his after dinner constitution.

We were trying to get him to relax!

Families - providing blog fodder forever! I love you all!

In honor of "Black Friday" that horrible tradition where shopaholics get up at the butt crack of dawn to try and save some money on holiday gifts and then fight over the last remaining whatever hot gift of the season is I thought I'd play you all the theme song from last night.

Neetzy started humming it. I came in with a few words, Bro In-law added a few more, we sounded like the drunken asses we were until we asked the Semi-Conductor the rest of the words for which we immediately forgot and it went something like this:

I got the horse right here, his name is Paul Revere.

da da da da da dada da da da dada.

hmmm, hmmm, hmm, hmm, hhhmmhmmm, hm, hm, hm hm, hmmm, hmmm

da da da da da dada da da da dada.

CAN DO! CAN DO! This guy says the horse can do.

No one is exactly sure how this song came into Neetzy's head, it doesn't matter really - we made a mess of it.

Now with the power of YouTube I can share the song with all of you. Extra points goes out to the first one who knows what musical this is from: