It looks pretty great if I do say so myself. I saw my love for rusty, galvanized metal finally have a purpose!!! I put my tree stand inside of an old wash basin. I did have one moment of brilliance when setting up my tree. so I had to step it up a notch this time around ( FYI Minted is the best!!! I have extra cards, so send me your address and I can even mail ya one!). This year I did managed to get some awesome Christmas cards made. Last year, Tony told me h e was embarrassed of our cards. I know that makes me sound like The Grinch 2.0, but Lord help me if I have to hear ' Christmas Shoes' one more time. Every year for our 9 years of wedded bliss, the putting up of the Christmas tree has caused a fight with me and the mister. We actually decided to hire a company to do that for us this year, and nope, didn't even get that far. I dream of a house and barn with perfectly strung white lights that make people think I live in Pinterest land. But this year I didn't even get my kids the cheap $2.29 advent calendars and nope, still can't find the stockings. ![]() Every year I decide I'm going to be that mom - you know, the one with fancy advent calendars and stockings hung with care. Of course it's exciting and a time to reflect on the birth of Jesus - but it's also a whole lot of work. Half of the time I want to be Cindy Lou and half of the time I just end up being a Scrooge. I'll be honest, I still haven't decided about this whole Christmas deal. and my in laws who were babysitting my nieces - sorry mom and ma!) Stay tuned for that blog post! With this being my theme for my 30's what better way then to start than with a killer party with those that I love ( minus my parents. who were on vacation. whether that's one more mouth to feed or one more hug shared with a friend. I want to be a woman who always has room for one more. That is how I want my 30's to be defined. ![]() To stop being so consumed with my life and my stuff, and to notice the boy walking down the street with no where to sleep. Sometimes I get so caught up in doing " great" things that I forget that my heart really is to just notice people. But noticing wasn't enough - she stopped and she did something about it. Of all the people who drove past that boy - she noticed him. The one scene that has been playing over in my mind is the part where Leigh Anne Touhy ( Sandra) tells her husband to stop the car and she gets out and asks this boy where he is going - when he was clearly lying she asks him flat out if he has anywhere to stay - when he doesn't, she says: " get in the car". ![]() what I can't stop thinking about, as silly as it is, is " The Blindside" ( you know - the movie with Sandra Bullock) I watched it again recently and I cried like a baby. ![]() While I probably should be resolutioning about reading more books, working out more ( or ever), eating healthier and saving more money. I may as well be cliche and start my 30's off right. But I've decided that this year while everyone thinks about New Years resolutions and yaddi yadda. Having a birthday in January does kinda tend to stink. I could actually feel myself becoming an adult at certain moments. But it was a beautiful decade - I grew up. moving 9 times and starting two businesses - yeah crazy. You know things like getting married at twenty, having a 3 month old on your first wedding anniversary (and then adding 4 more babies to the clan in the 5 years that follow). I wasn't expecting the mixed emotions that I have - a decade changing means the closing of one chapter and being on the brink of a whole new one.
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