A Late "Merry Christmas!"

Merry (late!) Christmas!!!!

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Hi everyone! How was your Christmas? D
Mine was great! I'm gonna tell you about it but I wanna start with The Night Before, The Night Before Christmas(AKA Dec. 23):

My Grandparents came up to see us, and that night we decided to surprise them by taking them to a place in Orlando called Celebration. They had a special Christmas thing going on and they had it (fake) snowing nightly! So we went up there and saw the pretty snow(which is basicly just soap) and ate some pizza at the pizza shop there. And then we left Celebration and went to my mom's favorite Krispy Kreme donut shop where you can get hot fresh Krispy Kreme donuts! It's so good:D



December 24th(Christmas Eve:D):
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On Christmas Eve for lunch we went to a great Mexican resturant called Coyote Rojo, it was really good:) That night for dinner we roasted hot dogs and marshmellows over the fire:D After dinner we watched one of my favorite Christmas movies; "Miracle on 34th Street"
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We had, had a drawing the week before for Secret Santa with our friends Jason and Tami, so when we finshed the movie we exchanged gifts for that(the rule for our Secret Santa is that you have to MAKE the gift NOT buy it) I got my Dad's name and I wrote him a song and made him a paper stocking.My Mom got my name and she made me a charm for my backpack:D


December 25th(Christmas!!) A.K.A today:
This morning we got up at nine am(what?! that's early for my family:P) and went down stairs, me and Marelle opended our presents, and gave some presents to out parents and grandparents. I got tickets to an Allstar Weekend concert!!! I can't wait! It's on February 9th. And me and Marelle each got two Allstar Weekend shirts to where to the concert:D I also got some stocking stuffers of make-up and candy:)
At about 12:00pm we ate our Christmas "dinner" of turkey, mashed potatoes, green beans, corn, creasent rolls, and red cream soda. It was sooo good! The nmy grandparents had to leave to go back to St. Petersburg and Me, Marelle, My Dad, and My Mom went on a walk, watched a Christmas movie, and played games in the backyard. Now we are going to watch a movie we gave my dad for Christmas(It's still Christmas right now, I'm typing this on my laptop to post when I get on the internet)

So that was my Christmas!
How was yours?
I hope it was great!
Please comment and tell me!

Merry Christmas and A Happy Birthday to Jesus:D


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Remember that Jesus is the Reason for the Season!



-Mina;)

Happy Birthday Maggie!

I would like to wish a very Happy Birthday to my pen pal Maggie!

She's turning 14!

She's such a great friend and an awesome person:) I've never met someone her age who can draw as well as her:) She is an amazing artist!

I met her in like 2007 and we have continued to stay in touch all these years:D We even met up a few times!


She is the best pen pal ever:D She knows how to make every letter fun!

So Maggie I hope you have a great birthday:)

So Maggie THIS(click here) is for you!

Ha, ha silly but cute:)

Happy Birthday!!

-Mina;)

Giveaway Week Four at "shutter happy:)" !!!!

I'm excited for this one! Even though it's the last one:( *crying*
Oh well! At least we're going out with a bang!
Really nice prize!!



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Have Fun!!!!!!!

-Mina;)

Giveaway Week 3 at "shutter happy:)"

Week #3! Really pretty prizes! And this girl is so nice:D



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Have Fun!

-Mina;)

A Ray Of Sunshine Giveaway Day 6

Last day of this great week-long giveaway! So hurry on over there to win a great prize!

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Have Fun!

-Mina;)

A Ray of Sunshine Giveaway Day 5

Time for day 5! Really beautiful prize:)

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Have fun!

-Mina;)

Story Writing....

I don't really write stories much, but a few months ago I just suddenly decided that I wanted to start one. It's really not very good at all, but I would appreciate it if you read it and told me what you think. Helpful(but not too mean!) criticism is welcome too. Here goes nothing...........

Cassie swatted at the fly that was on her arm and sighed, "August is such a boring month!, Summers over but it's still so hot!" she exclaimed "And there's no holidays to look forward to."
"But," asked her father "Aren't you enjoying eighth grade? "Well I don't really know yet Dad, I just started." But underneath she knew she would hate it, the first three days had been terrible and she didn't think it would get any better. If only mom hadn't left us over the summer She thought Maybe the kids wouldn't be looking at me so weird and asking mean questions.


No one could really explain why Cassie's mother left them, she always seemed like the perfect mom, kind,caring, and always looking out for her husband and daughter, but one morning they woke up and she was gone, along with all their money. A letter lied on her bed saying she was leaving for Chicago and never coming back. It had been two and a half months since then but Cassie still felt numb, and deserted. Her father tried very hard to be strong and not show his disappointment, but it still showed.They basically had to start fresh, no money, no mother, no wife, It was just Cassie and Dad living on their own. Cassie tried to tell herself that she hated her mother with all her heart, but she knew that deep down inside she would never stop loving her mother and asking that terrible repeated question: What did I do???


"Cassie! Lunch is ready!" her father called "Coming! Just give me one more minute!" She studied herself critically in the mirror, she had reddish brown hair that was pulled into a messy ponytail and big grey eyes, she was wearing jean shorts and a purple faded t-shirt. She used to be so clothes conscience but after her mom left she just sort of gave up on everything.She used to try and ask her dad nosy questions about her parents relationship to try and figure out why her mother left but she knew that she was only asking these questions to try and cover up the thought that was always haunting her: It was my fault, I made her leave, But WHAT did I do??? She tried to think of all the days before her mother left. The last words they had spoken to each other were "Goodnight" and "I love you", Cassie just couldn't see why her mother would stay with them all these years just to grab the money and run.Her dad hadn't changed, so it must have been her, as she got older her mom must have grown to hate her.
Cassie shook her head to erase these thoughts and trotted to the kitchen for lunch. She offered to start making the meals after her mother left but her father would have no part in it.So two times a day on weekdays and three times a day on weekends they sat in front of the meals that her father made, they didn't have enough money to go out to eat so they ate at home every day.Cassie looked down at her plate,some kind of chili was on it, she choked some of it down and asked her father "So how is work?" (Her father was a janitor at a nearby Church) He smiled a thin smile and replied "Well work is fine... funny you should ask that actually, because there is something I have been meaning to tell you..." Cassie's ears perked up, "What's up dad?" she asked "Well, you see there's this week-long mission trip to Africa in a week and...I have decided to go." "Ummm okay," Cassie replied "But what about me?" "Well..um...I have asked my mother to stay with you while I'm gone." That caught Cassie's attention immediately "Grandma Ginger?!" Cassie couldn't stand her fathers mother. After her mother left them her grandma came to live with them for a few weeks,until her dad got 'Back on his feet', back then Cassie still had a lot of hope that her mother would return, but Grandma Ginger had always hated her mother from the moment her father married her. So she would always tell Cassie "Your mother never loved you! She will never come back!" Well you can imagine how upsetting this was for Cassie, and why she most certainly didn't want to stay alone at the house with her grandmother. "Now Cassie," her father said "Don't make a scene about this, I know you don't like Grandma Ginger too much but, she loves you, and I know she will take care of you." Cassie nodded, trying to fight back tears, "Okay dad,if this is what you want,then it's okay with me." He smiled gratefully and said "Thank you so much Cass, I love you." She tried to smile back but all she could think about was Grandma Ginger, so she quickly excused herself and went upstairs to think.

Thanks for reading! I'd love to hear your ideas:)

-Mina;)

One last Giveaway for today

One more!

At "A Ray Of Sunshine"!

ADORABLE prize! LOVE it:D

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Have Fun!

-Mina;)

Even more giveaways!

Okay I know this is getting to be a little much, but there are so many fabulous winter giveaways going on!

It's over at "A Ray Of Sunshine"

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More Giveaways

Okay I promise that soon I will post about something other than giveaways, but this one was too good to pass up:)

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It's over at shutter happy:)

Giveaway: Backtracking

Okay so I know I already entered day 2 of this giveaway but I missed day one, so now I'm going back:D

It's over at "A Ray Of Sunshine"

Really great prize, Click here to enter!

Have fun!

-Mina;)

More Giveaway Fun!

Ready for more giveaway fun?

Here's on over at "A Ray of Sunshine" ! Great prize!

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What are you waiting for? ENTER:D

-Mina;)

A Titleless Post by Mina Cole

Yes, I know, it's weird. But I am so bad at making up titles! And I think about it for too long, because it feels like a title can make or brake a blog post.

:D Okay now that I'm done with that let's move on to some more randomness shall we?

It's only one week till the Kicking Daisies concert/interview! It's going to be sooooo epic!




I made a Tumblr you should check it out:) Click righta here!


We went Christmas shopping today, I only bought two things though.

I entered another giveaway, you should too:



This is the blog^^^^^^

And THIS(click here) is the giveaway!


I'm probably going to watch my favorite movie tonight: "White Christmas" It is amazing:) Have you seen it? I loooove it!



So good-bye!

-Mina;)