What beautiful babies!!
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
What's YOUR 20?
The holidays are upon us, though I must admit I really didn't seem to have the time to dread them so much this year. I do recall walking into my local Hobby Lobby some time before Halloween to find the first few aisles littered with Xmas crap already! That was a bit unsettling, but what can you do? Vadim surprised us with a tree he brought home the day after Thanksgiving, which I think is a bit excessive, but he swears he only did it because I request it early each year (which I doubt but can't prove otherwise). Now that we're in it, I am finding it pretty easy to enjoy...which inevitably makes it go by so much more quickly! The tree looks as prudent and perfect as I could have hoped for, and I'm looking forward to decorating more and more...and on just about anything worth displaying, or anything standing still!
We're all trying to keep up with sharing our wish lists for the sake of those who can attempt to fulfill some semblance of those materialistic desires. I'd like to try to give home-made gifts, predominantly, this year...with the exception of clothing because I've come to terms with my inability to sew more than buttons! My recent forte has been jewelry, which can take care of the ladies in my life (whether they like it or not!), but as for the men I'm afraid DVD's will surely be the theme this year.
Even though Thanksgiving was a bust, I hope we can make Christmas all the more special. Though we'd all hate to admit it, we're pretty good at holding grudges and over-dramatizing the holidays. Maybe this year, we can all learn to tolerate each other a bit more patiently and let go of our rigid ideals to ensure that we're all just wherever or however we can be when we're needed together...not where or how we thought we wanted it to turn out...if that makes any sense at all?!
Children are growing and we are always changing, so the need to get together as much as possible is more evident to me than ever. We're even considering becoming ex-pats! I can't imagine having to synchronize our holidays while outside the country! It's hard enough when we're only 4 hours away from everyone else! If the majority rules in Austin, who would have to travel if we moved out to New Mexico with mom? (I think her seniority counts for additional votes!) But in the end, who knows if and when we'll go wherever it is we're supposed to end up? Not us, that's for sure!
I hope we can each take the time to realize what's really important to us all this holiday season. We perpetuate this charade time and time again, so a little perspective is certainly not unprecedented. But I like to think that if something so simple (yet so far away!) can eclipse my mindset, it can't be that far off to try to influence those around me. Then again, maybe I'm just appreciating the simpler things this year since I'm not working and we're more frugal than usual? I'd prefer the former excuse, of course!
We're all trying to keep up with sharing our wish lists for the sake of those who can attempt to fulfill some semblance of those materialistic desires. I'd like to try to give home-made gifts, predominantly, this year...with the exception of clothing because I've come to terms with my inability to sew more than buttons! My recent forte has been jewelry, which can take care of the ladies in my life (whether they like it or not!), but as for the men I'm afraid DVD's will surely be the theme this year.
Even though Thanksgiving was a bust, I hope we can make Christmas all the more special. Though we'd all hate to admit it, we're pretty good at holding grudges and over-dramatizing the holidays. Maybe this year, we can all learn to tolerate each other a bit more patiently and let go of our rigid ideals to ensure that we're all just wherever or however we can be when we're needed together...not where or how we thought we wanted it to turn out...if that makes any sense at all?!
Children are growing and we are always changing, so the need to get together as much as possible is more evident to me than ever. We're even considering becoming ex-pats! I can't imagine having to synchronize our holidays while outside the country! It's hard enough when we're only 4 hours away from everyone else! If the majority rules in Austin, who would have to travel if we moved out to New Mexico with mom? (I think her seniority counts for additional votes!) But in the end, who knows if and when we'll go wherever it is we're supposed to end up? Not us, that's for sure!
I hope we can each take the time to realize what's really important to us all this holiday season. We perpetuate this charade time and time again, so a little perspective is certainly not unprecedented. But I like to think that if something so simple (yet so far away!) can eclipse my mindset, it can't be that far off to try to influence those around me. Then again, maybe I'm just appreciating the simpler things this year since I'm not working and we're more frugal than usual? I'd prefer the former excuse, of course!
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