Christmas
Well, it's here again. Christmas. On Sunday, we will be an hour away with extended family, and Monday we will be home and with close family opening gifts. I am excited.
We even got Yance a gift, and paired it with another thing we bought for him in July or August 2016 that still hasn't been opened. I know, that was before he was born.
D has gotten all my gifts in, and I have all of his. All of our presents have been ordered or purchased, but we're still waiting on one final one to come in. It's finally on its way, but it's cutting it close!
This year, we will be celebrating without one family, who is celebrating elsewhere like they do every other year. And we will be without D's favorite second cousin (and mine!) who is working at a hunting lodge place somewhere in Louisiana. The biggest absentees are Pop and Caleb, who will be sorely missed. Who are sorely missed. Nana is pretty much done with life now that her beloved soulmate is gone, but she is still here. And we're still healing from the loss of an eighteen-year-old star, which has been gone for three months now. Caleb's death crushed so many of us. I do a terrible job showing it, but it hit me hard, too.
Yance and Levi will brighten up the house on Christmas Day, for my little nine and a half month old will be tearing into things and trying to clobber his cousin. Yikes! And they'll be chatting together, grinning, laughing, and sleeping peacefully in someone's arms.
I can't wait to see what D got me, and I can't wait to see what he thinks of my gifts for him.
This is our second and possibly final Christmas with a cattle loan hanging over our heads. Next year, we hope to have it crushed and be able to spend lots of money on our friends and family. While still building our three to six month expense emergency fund.
D plans to hunt every morning on this four-day weekend, and maybe I will bring Yance and go with him on Christmas Day. I only went with him once or twice last year, before the boy was born.
While this will be bittersweet, I am looking forward to it. Ma has a fantastic menu planned for lunch on Christmas Day, and her brother's house, where we will be Christmas Eve, is very nice and big, capable of holding everyone without getting crowded. No doubt many will be in the room where the pool table is.
Christmas is a fun time of the year. Celebrating the birth of Christ is something I tend to do on a daily basis - that and thanking God for His sacrifice - but the family getting together and exchanging gifts while swapping stories and having fun and thanking God for His Son is wonderful.
Thank You, God, for this family.
It won't be a white Christmas. It may be a little wet, but it won't be white. The forecast calls for a warm (70s!), stormy day today, then clouds and sun and temperatures peaking in the 50s for the rest of the weekend.
We even got Yance a gift, and paired it with another thing we bought for him in July or August 2016 that still hasn't been opened. I know, that was before he was born.
D has gotten all my gifts in, and I have all of his. All of our presents have been ordered or purchased, but we're still waiting on one final one to come in. It's finally on its way, but it's cutting it close!
This year, we will be celebrating without one family, who is celebrating elsewhere like they do every other year. And we will be without D's favorite second cousin (and mine!) who is working at a hunting lodge place somewhere in Louisiana. The biggest absentees are Pop and Caleb, who will be sorely missed. Who are sorely missed. Nana is pretty much done with life now that her beloved soulmate is gone, but she is still here. And we're still healing from the loss of an eighteen-year-old star, which has been gone for three months now. Caleb's death crushed so many of us. I do a terrible job showing it, but it hit me hard, too.
Yance and Levi will brighten up the house on Christmas Day, for my little nine and a half month old will be tearing into things and trying to clobber his cousin. Yikes! And they'll be chatting together, grinning, laughing, and sleeping peacefully in someone's arms.
I can't wait to see what D got me, and I can't wait to see what he thinks of my gifts for him.
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| This year there will be seven of us - with Yance's cousin on the way! |
D plans to hunt every morning on this four-day weekend, and maybe I will bring Yance and go with him on Christmas Day. I only went with him once or twice last year, before the boy was born.
While this will be bittersweet, I am looking forward to it. Ma has a fantastic menu planned for lunch on Christmas Day, and her brother's house, where we will be Christmas Eve, is very nice and big, capable of holding everyone without getting crowded. No doubt many will be in the room where the pool table is.
Christmas is a fun time of the year. Celebrating the birth of Christ is something I tend to do on a daily basis - that and thanking God for His sacrifice - but the family getting together and exchanging gifts while swapping stories and having fun and thanking God for His Son is wonderful.
Thank You, God, for this family.
It won't be a white Christmas. It may be a little wet, but it won't be white. The forecast calls for a warm (70s!), stormy day today, then clouds and sun and temperatures peaking in the 50s for the rest of the weekend.
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