How We Spent Our Christmas Holiday   2 comments

Posted at 3:54 am in Music, Redneck Musings

I’ll be posting several installments on this, as our Christmas was one of the coolest we have had in a long time.

To put it short and sweet - Deb and I drove to Texas (near Houston) to surprise my Mom for Christmas. She had no idea we were coming and on Christmas morning we showed up on her door step. Yeah, the surprise was excellent! My step-father helped co-ordinate everything and it was probably the perfect Christmas surprise.

But the surprise wasn’t over yet. The day after Christmas my brother and his oldest daughter came down from Chicago. Deb and I picked them up after their flight got in, and when we went back to Mom’s, she was once again surprised speechless!

Over the next few days I’ll be posting photos and stories of our trip.

But for tonight, I’m going to post this youtube video of a 1958 “one-hit wonder” called “Little Space Girl” sung by Jesse Lee Turner. “Why”, you might ask? Because while we were down there, Jesse Lee Turner came over to my Mom’s house and we all had dinner with him. (More on that later) For now, here’s Jesse Lee Turner…

Written by Paul on January 5th, 2008

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  1. 1. That’s so awesome that you and your family had such a great Christmas! Looking forward to the rest of the stories.

    2. That song was…indescribable! So he married Alvin the Chipmunk?

    rob

    5 Jan 08 at 9:21 am

  2. Didn’t know that you had surprised your mom; that’s really cool. That Bob’s a great guy for setting things up for you!

    Byron

    5 Jan 08 at 11:32 am

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