Things I Learned From Alice Horton

Well, today I'm on a rant about Days of our Lives!!!! That show makes me SOOO MAD!!!!!!!!!!! Been watching this show for 30 years.(Can I get a witness?--pretty sure I just heard a few AMENS!!!) Come on Ken Cordey...stop teasing us with Samantha Brady and Elvis DeMeria. It is high time these two be together. HELLO??? For years now I keep thinking " this time it'll work...then Rafe happens! Please....This is exhausting me! I really don't know why I watch this show. My oldest daughter calls it "soap scum"! lol That may be true, but I sure do love this show now! I remember in the 10th grade, I skipped school to watch Bo and Hope run off somewhere (sorry Mama) and recorded Kayla's and Patch's wedding. (pitiful) By the way, I'd been against them had I known what a BRAT of a daughter they'd have later in life! Melissa and Pete did good with Nathan though. NOT THE POINT...my main point is that although it may seem a waist of time to some and just pure trash, but I have learned lots from Alice Horton over the years. Well first, and most importantly, she always loved and had the highest respect for husband! (probably only woman on show that did--besides Maggie) But just know, she new how to make her family work. I know, I know, he was the GREAT DR.HORTON and was easy to respect--- but hey...late hours, emergencies would arise and hey--their poor kids were screwed up! However, she also demonstrated how to love unconditionally! Wow....what a lady! Another tip from that dear one was that doughnuts could solve almost any problem! Many a day I watched "Gran" whip a big batch of her special doughnuts. Over all her crazy grandchildren love problems, deaths of friends, and on one occasion she made some 'break out of jail doughnuts ' for Roman Brady. Now that was back in the day when was Roman. He was a cool dude. He was also played by a different character. The one now was formerly Chris Kosciusko on this same show. He had a bar called Shenanigan's. Here is another example of Ken Cordey making us all feel stupid....we noticed when Roman came back from the dead for the 5th or 6th time that it was not the REAL ROMAN!!! Oh, well NOT THE POINT! There are many other wonderful qualities I could expound on such us her countless hours volunteering at the hospital,etc....but my number one favorite lesson, or tradition, I learned from Alice would be her art of decorating her Christmas tree!! PRICELESS!!!!!!!!!!! I promise TO THIS DAY every Christmas, our family set one night aside for the trimming of the tree. It is an event let me tell you! We each have names on our ornaments!! (more than on also) And when someone becomes part of our lives and becomes just like family(have about 3 in lifetime we've done this with) they get an ornament also. And our girls guys also had one. That got confusing and we decided to wait to see how long they actually stay around before they get one. We have just added Marykelli's guy back to the tree after 3 years of being back together...we feel good about him! Well, our little tree is very special to us! Thanks Alice Horton. Christmas will not be right not decorating tree at your house this year. I guess crazy Hope will inherit the ornaments! Well, I'm sure they'll be new ones added and maybe some taken down. You know, the biggest twists on this show is always the fact you could always find out you are really a Horton.....or these days.....a DeMeria!!
Well, that all I know for now.....
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