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Venting

Some days I wish I had no outside responsibilities. I think life would be so much easier. Dealing with others can make us nuts because we are all human and made differently. Between worrying if I upset someone, or what to do when someone upsets me.......I'd like to just run away. I guess it's what we must do, but sometimes I wish I could take a break. This year has been a difficult one. It's funny when I look back at my almost 21 years of married life and count up the huge mountains we've had to climb. Between, financial struggles, a difficult twin pregnancy, financial struggles, raising those twins, a remodel of our former home in which we had to do most of the work ourselves and live in the mess, financial struggles, a miscarriage, our home flooding when I was 6 months pregnant, did I mention financial struggles, two years of my mother in law being incredibly sick, taking on our current house project, my parents divorce, and church issues, not to mention all the lit...

Christmas

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The Christmas season is here. I love it!!! I love the music, the food, the decorations, the shopping, and the celebration of it all. I absolutely LOVE tradition. I guess the only thing I don't care for about Christmas is the business. It's going by so fast because I'm always running from one thing to another. I don't like being busy. I love my home and time vegging out with my family. I try to make the house look as nice as I can, though it's unfinished. I put on the Christmas music and light up the decorations. I have the wood stove going if it's cold. I love when it's cold. I light the candles to try and make it smell nice. I have Christmas tea to drink, egg nog and ice cream to eat and spiced cider. We have st nick bring treats on the night of the 5 th of december so the stockings are filled on the morning of the 6 th . We open one gift on Christmas eve and the rest Christmas morning. We usually have Bruce's family on Christmas eve, ou...