The mood has lifted a bit, we are decorated and trimmed. Shopping is complete and mom is in her car headed west in order to beat a pretty significant storm.
Susie has expressed many times that she is not looking forward to Christmas and we are supportive and expect the day to be bittersweet. Lucy, as every kid should be, is excited and has had a lot of fun prepping, creating and wrapping her own gifts to the grandmas, Jason and me.
We invited the Kozma's over for Christmas dinner which will enliven our party. With mom coming today (Monday) and Christmas being on Sunday we have time to enjoy each other, sneak out to do some last minute shopping and be ready for the festival of gifts.
Lucy was freed from the burdens of Middle School last Friday and after a full weekend of activities is bored. She and grandma G can play tomorrow.
Work is slow, I had an important meeting this morning which took all week last week to prep and it was done at 10 am. A few other things are happening that I queued up, but don't require any effort from me, so I'm blogging (as you can read) and I finally took care of some stuff from my office floor. I was able to offload 17 skeins of yarn that I purchased for a blanket that I did not want to finish (as it's been well over a year since I did the last row) and strangely enough, my whole room feels brighter with that stuff gone. The lady that picked it up said it was for a couple of teen girls who were recently removed from their parents home and needed/wanted an easy craft idea to keep them busy. This alleviates my guilt over the expense of the yarn. Even though we are financially solid, I still feel badly about spending money for nothing.
I also finally ditched a few boxes of "stuff" from last Christmas that had been in a bag in my office for the year. It's funny how you can look past stuff that is clearly clutter. Our trash/recycle this week will be significant. Thankfully, recycling is free and the extra won't count against us, but we might take a hit on the trash.
