With dishes in the sink and a dirty little kiddo running amok I sit to right and listen to Spotify because my foot is hurting and it's raining so I needed a time out. I've got the back door open and it's nice a cool in the house in fact it's getting quite chilly but I figure it can't hurt right now as I'm about to have to oven going.
You see the week before Christmas is always bustling with activity. Cleaning and organizing, baking and menu tweaking. I've got so much going on! I've got other people cooking but it was funny how one person said..." If we cook vegetables to bring over they will be cold by the time we get there." They live 5 mins from me. So I just said well bring them and I'll cook them! What the crap?! I thought the whole point of sharing the responsibility of cooking on Christmas was so that I didn't end up doing it all! Oh Well! It wouldn't be the first time and it won't be the last that I do it all!
NikiRhe decided she needed a snack and I've yet to figure out what I want to make for dinner if I even want to make dinner. She is sitting at the table with a dry erase marker, her elmo counting place-mat and a piece of pizza. I love this girl! It's so much more fun to plan Christmas with her in our lives! I'm so happy being her mommy. Now if I could just become better at the domestic part of being a stay at home mom I'd have it made! :o)
So we've got about one dozen peanut butter cookies to finish baking today and then will bake more for "Santa" this weekend. "Wifey" Barb is coming home and maybe bringing Misty with her so we will have at least two extra people here for the 3 days before Christmas. I am so blessed and I know it!
We are so thankful and grateful to God for our little family.
Monday, December 19, 2011
Friday, December 09, 2011
It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas....
For years I didn't really look forward to Christmas. It was just Ernie and I and we normally got up and traveled to either my father's or my Grandparents house on Christmas morning and if we went to my Grandparents I cooked. Now don't get me wrong I enjoyed Christmas but something always felt missing and melancholy about the holiday season for me.
As the years went by and we still had no children of our own I would try my hardest to look forward to Christmas. I searched for the joy in serving others and in finding something my husband would like. Let me tell you, that man is NOT easy to buy for! :) Anytime you ask him what he wants for Christmas or a birthday he says " I don't need anything." Do you know how frustrating this is to hear EVERY year for 15 years?!? LOL
In December 2009 that all changed. My world was turned upside down in a way that I would never change. Our beautiful Daughter was born and she has kept us busy every single day since. That first Christmas with her at home was COLD and quiet. She was 21 days old and we had a literal blizzard. We were snowed into our neighborhood. We spent Christmas day just holding her and singing chirstmas carols to her and reading Christmas books and thanking God for our tremendous blessing.
Christmas 2010 was wonderful! We got to actually buy Christmas gifts for her and watch her open them with some confusion and then excitement. My joy in the meaning of Christmas had returned that previous year and I was so excited to see Christmas coming. Of course with her birthday being 21 day's before Christmas it's a very busy month! But I was beyond excited.
Today, I find myself most certainly looking forward to celebrating Christmas with my wonderful little family. We started a new tradition last year of having Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve and allowing NikiRhe to open her gifts from her grandparents that night so they can be here to see her open them. Then on Christmas Morning we make coffee and hot cocoa and sausage balls and open presents and spend the day listening to Christmas music and playing with NikiRhe and her gifts. Also something I'm looking forward to is letting Niki help me choose a gift for her daddy, wrap it and place it under the tree. I think this will be an annual tradition. He is taking her to choose a gift for me as well and it will be fun for her as she gets older, and she will be able to choose a gift on her own soon enough.
I am looking forward to teaching her all about why we celebrate the birth of Christ and even why we celebrate it in the winter instead of around March when the birth actually happened.
Well we've got errands to run today so I'm off to get it taken care of.
As the years went by and we still had no children of our own I would try my hardest to look forward to Christmas. I searched for the joy in serving others and in finding something my husband would like. Let me tell you, that man is NOT easy to buy for! :) Anytime you ask him what he wants for Christmas or a birthday he says " I don't need anything." Do you know how frustrating this is to hear EVERY year for 15 years?!? LOL
In December 2009 that all changed. My world was turned upside down in a way that I would never change. Our beautiful Daughter was born and she has kept us busy every single day since. That first Christmas with her at home was COLD and quiet. She was 21 days old and we had a literal blizzard. We were snowed into our neighborhood. We spent Christmas day just holding her and singing chirstmas carols to her and reading Christmas books and thanking God for our tremendous blessing.
Christmas 2010 was wonderful! We got to actually buy Christmas gifts for her and watch her open them with some confusion and then excitement. My joy in the meaning of Christmas had returned that previous year and I was so excited to see Christmas coming. Of course with her birthday being 21 day's before Christmas it's a very busy month! But I was beyond excited.
Today, I find myself most certainly looking forward to celebrating Christmas with my wonderful little family. We started a new tradition last year of having Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve and allowing NikiRhe to open her gifts from her grandparents that night so they can be here to see her open them. Then on Christmas Morning we make coffee and hot cocoa and sausage balls and open presents and spend the day listening to Christmas music and playing with NikiRhe and her gifts. Also something I'm looking forward to is letting Niki help me choose a gift for her daddy, wrap it and place it under the tree. I think this will be an annual tradition. He is taking her to choose a gift for me as well and it will be fun for her as she gets older, and she will be able to choose a gift on her own soon enough.
I am looking forward to teaching her all about why we celebrate the birth of Christ and even why we celebrate it in the winter instead of around March when the birth actually happened.
Well we've got errands to run today so I'm off to get it taken care of.
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