It's finally here! And it looks like it will be just in time for Christmas too- which made my daughter extremely happy today. We were so afraid that we would be having a brown Christmas which is something that has never happened to me in the twenty or so years I've lived up here. But alas, today's snow means a White Christmas all around!! Yippee!!
So what is it about freezing rain/drizzle, huge snowflakes and icy roads that just begs me to go out and drive around? The weathermen are telling everyone to stay home- all the local schools have cancelled all evening activities and I yell to the kids, "Hot dog! Get your hats and gloves and get in the van-- we have to go to town!"
About halfway to our destination I realized what a foolhardy thing I had done- packing up my precious babies and driving in that mess. But what a beautiful sight it was to see those huge snowflakes falling gently all over the main street of our little town. And we would have missed it if we had stayed home- stayed safe. I skidded through a couple of stop signs, landed at the post office, mailed my Christmas cards and skidded back home. When we turned onto our road, we were the only car that had traveled that way and the kids thought it was so cool to be blazing our own path. Hmmm... I sense a metaphor for life brewing in there somewhere.
Anyway- I just had to do it. The snow was calling to me and I couldn't resist. I hope that my kids remember these kinds of adventures- the ones that require a little bit of risk but that reap huge rewards in the end.
Have a good one!!
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Are you ready?
It hit me today- Christmas is less than a week away. Yes, I am a little slow in these matters. I usually don't realize Christmas has arrived until it is after midnight on Christmas Eve and I am up wrapping presents until the wee hours of the morning. This is how I function and I can't seem to do it any more efficiently no matter how hard I try.
So let me ask the almighty question. Are you ready? I believe I am ready. Finally. (aside from the wrapping thing) I have all the gifts bought or ordered, I have the decorations that are going up, up, I have the dates set for the family shindigs. The one thing I haven't done (but it isn't a big deal because I don't think I have ever done it) is the cookie baking. We get enough cookies from Grandma that I never feel the need to bake my own. Someday I am sure I will give it a try but I just don't really get into all that baking and decorating stuff. Call me Scrooge. ;)
I need to give a huge thank-you to Dy for her words of wisdom in shopping for the kids this year. In an effort to cut back on all the junk the kids end up with, we had agreed that we would get three gifts for each of them, the same as the baby Jesus, and one each from Santa. I was so excited to find Dy's little poem and so I decided to try and follow it this year. Let me tell you- it worked great! It really helped me to curb my impulse buying which amounts to seeing one thing that one child would love and then buying one more thing for the others because they all have to have the same amount to open. Derick and I got all of our kids' shopping done in under three hours at two stores using this little poem. It is definitely something I will do again next year. And I really feel good about not falling into that trap of buying buying buying to make my kids happy. Yay for me! ;)
So- I am ready for the big day. I do love Christmas but I am also glad when it is over. The next few days will find me up to my knees in wrapping paper, bows, and tape. Hopefully I will get it done before Christmas Eve!
Have a good one!
So let me ask the almighty question. Are you ready? I believe I am ready. Finally. (aside from the wrapping thing) I have all the gifts bought or ordered, I have the decorations that are going up, up, I have the dates set for the family shindigs. The one thing I haven't done (but it isn't a big deal because I don't think I have ever done it) is the cookie baking. We get enough cookies from Grandma that I never feel the need to bake my own. Someday I am sure I will give it a try but I just don't really get into all that baking and decorating stuff. Call me Scrooge. ;)
I need to give a huge thank-you to Dy for her words of wisdom in shopping for the kids this year. In an effort to cut back on all the junk the kids end up with, we had agreed that we would get three gifts for each of them, the same as the baby Jesus, and one each from Santa. I was so excited to find Dy's little poem and so I decided to try and follow it this year. Let me tell you- it worked great! It really helped me to curb my impulse buying which amounts to seeing one thing that one child would love and then buying one more thing for the others because they all have to have the same amount to open. Derick and I got all of our kids' shopping done in under three hours at two stores using this little poem. It is definitely something I will do again next year. And I really feel good about not falling into that trap of buying buying buying to make my kids happy. Yay for me! ;)
So- I am ready for the big day. I do love Christmas but I am also glad when it is over. The next few days will find me up to my knees in wrapping paper, bows, and tape. Hopefully I will get it done before Christmas Eve!
Have a good one!
Friday, December 08, 2006
Pure joy
I am so in love with my baby. She brings me nothing but joy and laughter. I know this is destined to change as she gets older and begins striving for her independence, but for right now I am enjoying every darn minute of spoiling her rotten.
In an interesting revelation I have come to realize that my baby is also totally in love with me. (who wouldn't be?) teeheehee! Really, as she gets older she laughs out loud more and more and giggles and is starting to let her emotions be known. When she sees me walk in the door from work, she giggles and laughs and smiles and the joy she shows is absolutely pure. She is sooo happy to see me and I am humbled by that.
I had figured that she shows such happiness at the sight of my face because she knows she is about to get a "real" feeding-one which includes warm snuggles with mom instead of with a bottle. But today, in all of her giggles and laughter- she refused to nurse. She simply was not hungry. And yet the joy at seeing me was still there and was still enough to make me laugh myself.
So now I know. She really is thrilled with seeing me- for no other reason than I am her mom. I pick her up and she snuggles into my shoulder, we sit down on the couch and she is content to just look at me and talk to me and just be with me. This mothering thing is such a gift- and I am so incredibly lucky.
In an interesting revelation I have come to realize that my baby is also totally in love with me. (who wouldn't be?) teeheehee! Really, as she gets older she laughs out loud more and more and giggles and is starting to let her emotions be known. When she sees me walk in the door from work, she giggles and laughs and smiles and the joy she shows is absolutely pure. She is sooo happy to see me and I am humbled by that.
I had figured that she shows such happiness at the sight of my face because she knows she is about to get a "real" feeding-one which includes warm snuggles with mom instead of with a bottle. But today, in all of her giggles and laughter- she refused to nurse. She simply was not hungry. And yet the joy at seeing me was still there and was still enough to make me laugh myself.
So now I know. She really is thrilled with seeing me- for no other reason than I am her mom. I pick her up and she snuggles into my shoulder, we sit down on the couch and she is content to just look at me and talk to me and just be with me. This mothering thing is such a gift- and I am so incredibly lucky.
