Hey there! Just wanted to check in and see how everyone is doing on this fine December morning.
I continue to be good, life is busy, Christmas is right around the corner. Yikes!
Actually, I'm pretty ready for Christmas. Chris and I have been out shopping for the kids and I think we have pretty much everything bought including stocking stuffers. I have presents for Chris sitting in my office and I've already exchanged presents with my little sister so I'm going to sit back and enjoy the next few weeks.
We went out as a family last weekend to cut down our Christmas tree - my first time to do that! It was an almost magical experience walking through the rows of trees with the most beautiful sunset in the background. We found the perfect tree for us and we'll be decorating it this week with the kids. Perfect!
In other news, we're busy renovating a house for us to move into. We desperately need more space so we found a real fixer-upper with 4 large bedrooms but it needs a LOT of TLC before we can move in so that's pretty much what we've been doing each weekend. We had hoped to move in on December 1 but, because of an old trailer and trash the previous people left behind, we can't get the electric company out to turn the power on yet. Now I'm a go with the flow kind of person (for the most part) but I can't live in a house with no power...and it has no toilets right now either. So we wait. At this point we're praying that we can get in there right before Christmas. We get the kids Christmas morning and we'd love to have everything ready to bring them straight to the new house on that morning with everything ready to live there. Wish us luck!
I had a little artwork put on my back this past weekend, my birthday present to myself. That's Kuromi. She's a Hello Kitty character with an edge - she's sweet and mischievous, just like me. I had her drawn as a sugar skull because I love them. I love the tattoo but man, there were parts of it that hurt like hell because they had to be colored in. Yikes, I almost cried!
My family came to visit this weekend, it was the first time we'd seen each other in a while not counting the quickie lunch my sister and I had back in August.
We had our holiday dinner yesterday, my brother in law made turkey and dressing and my sister did her famous hash brown casserole. I was able to just sit around and enjoy, what a treat! It was all delicious and I have enough leftovers to make my lunch all week. It was such a thoughtful thing for them to do and I really appreciate it. I wish we lived closer. They got to meet Chris at dinner on Friday night and they said they were very happy for me so that's another hurdle passed.
I continue to have a good relationship with Chris's kids and his grandson which makes me very happy.
In fact I now take the kids to school 2-3 mornings a week, one more step on my motherhood road. If you'd told me a year ago that I'd be doing things like that, I would have thought you were kinda crazy but it just seems right and natural.
It's beginning to look like Christmas at my house too. I'll be putting it on the market in January (already looking at offers from those "we'll buy your home" kind of places) but I really want to enjoy one last Christmas in there before I have to say goodbye.
Merry Christmas y'all!
