It's December. If you're like me, you're hustling and bustling and trying to find time to fit everything in among all of the parties, baking, wrapping, cooking and card-writing.
I actually had a handle on things until about last weekend. While this has been a year of strange curve balls thrown our way, last week one of my best friends went through a pretty enormous, life-changing misfortune. It's one of those traumas that keeps getting worse and larger in scope, despite all evidence to the contrary that it's already as bleak as can be. So last weekend, all obligations fell through the cracks as I thought about her and was with her.
Thursday rolled around and I just sat down to upload some photos to the blog and work on some posts when I noticed Seamus, one of our little kitties, was having a medical emergency and had to be rushed to the vet. He spent about 2 days at the vet hospital after having a procedure, which clearly threw my blog plans out the window.
I have a little kitty at home recovering now, and it's soooo sad because Seamus is usually our full of energy, full of mischief little spitfire. He's a whirling dervish for real. Now he's just sleeping off the experience and cuddling with us, which is very sweet but very jarring given that it's him! I'm glad he's home and we're all breathing easier.
What have I done in between all of the surprise and upset that has crept into the season so far? Well, yesterday I baked cookies. I also went to a warehouse book sale, which is one of my favorite things to do each Christmas. We've visited with family and stayed in watching holiday movies.
Some things are going to fall by the wayside though. For instance, I'm not sure if I'll get my Christmas cards out in the mail this year, for the first year ever. I have a day off tomorrow, then I'm working 4 days in a row till the weekend. Next weekend won't give me a spare moment to fill them out because we are having what can only be described as a Christmas Bonanza the entire 2 days. THREE Christmas parties on Saturday, followed by a Christmas play and dinner on Sunday. I have the fortune to be on vacation the entire next week, so I should really push myself to mail them then. But, I know I'll have last minute errands to run, plus getting together for my sister's birthday, plus helping my friend move home from Texas. I think I'm letting the Christmas cards go much easier this year because I bought my cards in the $1 Spot at Target. Usually I pay about $10 a box and there's no way I'd essentially kiss $30 in cards goodbye and never mail them. This year, $3 total? If it saves me the time and energy, I'm kinda all for it.
So, as seen through my iPhone Photo Stream, this has been a snippet of my life lately:
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| Downtown Berea after dinner with friends. |
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| My nephew! |
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| Super silly. |
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| Home from the vet hospital and so, so exhausted. Poor little Seamus! |
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| Christmas tree, Take 2. Our lights burned out a few nights ago so I had to take down all the ornaments, remove the lights, re-string the tree with new lights and re-hang the ornaments. In spite of all this, I am still a proponent of unlit trees. A bunch of people I know have recently had parts of their pre-lit trees go out and it's apparently a nightmare of epic proportions to re-string them or remove the lights. Plus, I like being able to change up the light colors each year. I am enormously fond of blue Christmas lights, so some years we do an all-blue tree. Some years, all white. This year, white and blue. I like being able to change it on a whim. Or, decorate it twice in one season. Bah! |
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| Peanut Butter Blossoms |
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| Peekaboo! |
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