Until Next Year...

Anything I feel like posting right now sounds negative and whiney. So I'm just going to say a "Merry Christmas!" and a "Happy New Year!" and leave it at that until next year.

Love you all! <3

Just Call Me Mr. Grinch

I must say, this Christmas season has been less than jolly for me. Whereas I am looking foward to time spent with family, I am just as eagerly anxious for it to all just be over.

Maybe it would make a difference if our finances were in a different place, maybe not. It doesn't feel like Christmas, and I don't feel very Christmas-spirity.

As we've talked about (and I've thought a lot about) having children, this Christmas has been making me think a lot about how we want to raise our children. It's sad to me (an I admit to doing it as a child) that Christmas has become such a commercialized greed-fest. I don't think that I want to go so far as to not do presents with our children, but I do think I definitely want to focus more on the family and giving aspects of the season rather than the "gimme, gimme, GIMME!" that nearly makes me sick. I already know that I don't want a bunch of plastic, noisy crap littering our home just because we have kids. Part of that is because I don't like random crap everywhere, part of it is because I don't want our kids always after toys and the latest "thing" and part of it is because I'm hoping that our kids will have an IMAGINATION. I want them to play outside and read and make forts.

So Merry Christmas. I'm sorry I'm not in a better mood about it. I really am.

#8- Establish a Yearly Christmas Letter

So I did this. Ya, it's not super fancy and no one is probably going to flip out over my Christmas letter, but I set out to do this this year, and I did.

Maybe next year will be better.

Actually, it has been insanely hard for me to get in the Christmas spirit this year. (Kind of like last year.) I think I'm just really becoming disillusioned with Christmas. I mean, I still see value in the birth of Jesus, obviously, but the rest of it just seems like a huge money-sucking, stress-inducing waste of time to me. Sorry. Maybe I would feel better if there was snow. Or I was gonna see my family. Or we had two dimes to rub together.

Anyway, the Christmas Letter is established. Onward!

I like...

...mail and the library.

A lot.

#44 Read the Clock Without a Face

Did it! Actually read it out loud to Trey which, for me, is a feat of it's own. (I hate reading out loud). If you don't know what this book is you can check it out here or here, which is where I first heard about it.

Love. I must write a book like this.