Perfect Christmas Gift!

So I need to brag about my husband's gift to me this past Christmas...Dance lessons!  It's something I have wanted to do as a couple for quite some time. He gave me a dance package which includes private lessons, group lessons and parties!  He even asked if there will be dancing at my high school reunion this summer. 

Unfortunately, anything we learn in class will not be helpful for dancing at the reunion if songs from the 80's are playing ;)  (To give you some idea, one of our yearbooks was titled, "Another Brick in the Wall.")

We attended our first private lesson and it was so much fun!  So far, our instructor has taken us through the fox trot and rumba.  It involved a lot of going back-and-forth across the (empty) dance floor. There was a feeling kind of like being on a first date, with your spouse (and a dance instructor!).  I was told to not worry about my feet being stepped upon and to look over his shoulder.  He was told to look beyond me, possibly because of the goofy faces we were making....

For me, the most difficult part is not being the one driving this "shopping cart" as the instructor puts it.  My background involves being in charge and lots of leading.  Often, I am not only "driving the shopping cart," but choosing U-scan to check out~yep, a little bit of a perfectionist and control-freak....

So I am working on the whole "shopping cart thing."  I'll let you know how it goes...or maybe I'll be a little too busy dancing with my husband to write ;)

~Tracy

"Building a Fence"

So, after living with the deer in our neighborhood and their habits...http://withoutwords-tracy.blogspot.com/2008/09/reason-to-like-skunks.html.   We are finally going to build a fence this spring! Actually, we will have someone build it, but we will choose the fence :)

I have truly enjoyed watching sweet little "bambi~fawns" in our backyard.  Although, after the group that ran right past DH & the girls who were playing in our very small backyard, I became less happy about our proximity to "our deer-friends."  ***I should say that I grew up in "the country," and never had as many deer in our yard as we have in the city!

More recently, there was the group that ran across the highway, hitting DH's car right in front our van (driven by me) this fall.  Now, there are deer eating my precious hibiscus~my birthday gift!  I think this has become a very dysfunctional relationship with the deer~so time to build a fence.  (I thought we could maybe move and not leave a forwarding address, but that's not a very mature solution~right? And I am pretty sure that they are deer everywhere...)

I think that after placing some boundaries into our relationship, I will grow to love the deer again.  *provided they respect the boundaries...

I am really looking forward to gardening without the deer-threat this year.   Hopefully, the neighborhood cat will respect the fence.  Although, I expect we will be seeing him anyway~he is a cat, after all...

Maybe I will post photos of the fence~I know my few readers will find it as thrilling as I do :o)

Hopefully, I will have other things to write about and the time to do so soon'ish... 
~Tracy