Well, as you know we have Halloween behind us and it almost instantly means we are hearing Christmas music, seeing Christmas displays in stores, etc. So, I ask, are you ready? Are you dreading it again this year; fighting the crowds?
Well, I will have to say I had an eye opening experience for me the other evening. I was working out and ran into someone I went to college with. She is such a great person, always nice, etc and it was so great to see her. Well, after catching up, she told me she was engaged, but it's another 12 months that she will see her fiance who just left overseas for the ARMY. I felt so bad for her as tears welded up in her eyes...and then I thought how selfish that I am upset that I have just about 2-4 days a week that I don't see Sean because of our opposite schedules. I am upset that he has to work Thanksgiving and probably won't see him until 7 p.m. that evening. I am so thankful that he is not in any type military force. This makes me so sad for her and selfishly happy for myself to make a positive out of Sean's schedule. Yet, I am thankful that her fiance is doing this for America. So, as we take note of things that make us thankful; I thought about this and thought I would share. Take a note of my sister's blog 'The Mommy Chronicles' take a look at what they are doing for 30 days of thankfulness....so cute if you ask me! By the way, Sean and I are going to begin a Thanksgiving journal to write in each year of what we are thankful for (Thank you 'This Little Nest of Mine' for that idea).
This weekend, Sean and I are going to wake up early Saturday morning to pretend we are going to work and go to Starbucks for some coffee. Then we are shopping for all of our family and friends for Christmas. I have been looking forward to this weekend for a long time now and am so happy it's here. We hope to complete our shopping on Saturday so we can then have time together on Sunday. This is his FIRST weekend off (he of course had to use vacation days to get a weekend off) since prior to the wedding....and we don't have to drive to TN and back. We are also shopping early so in the month of December with evenings he has off, we can spend time making cookies, going to see some choirs sing carols, etc....to make memories of our first Christmas. We are still trying to think of some things that we can do as a couple this Christmas to start some traditions. We already know we will have Christmas morning together; he and I. He has Christmas day off...and Christmas Eve after 6 p.m....so, we will be going to evening church service. Do you have any ideas as to a tradition he and I can start for Christmas?
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Have fun Christmas shopping!!! We went today and I am exhausted! I found a site to pass onto you about Christmas traditions but I am too tired to look it up right now. I will do that and comment again sometime over the weekend.
I am glad you and your husband get to spend some time together this weekend. Enjoy!!!!
Ever since my brother and I were little, we have always been allowed to open one present on Christmas Eve. We go to church as a family and then go back to my mom's house and pick a present we want to open. We show it to her to get her approval (or pick another if she remembers what the present was and she doesn't want us to open that yet, haha) and then sit like we are 4 again with smiles on our faces as we get to see what the present might be. Sometimes its something awesome that we open, and other times it a pack of socks or undies, haha, but it always makes us remember that this time is about family and having fun together. Mike and I did this last year in our little apartment, and it is something that we will hope to pass on to our kids someday.
Yes, I'm ready for both….. Thanksgiving & Christmas.
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