I hope you all enjoyed your Christmas! Ours was nice, different one to be sure, but nice! I won't be posting any family pictures for various reasons, the main one being I promised my son no public jammie photos! But there were other reasons, as you will see later in my post!
Holidays can bring such stress, as we pressure ourselves to give the perfect gift, make the perfect pie, prepare the perfect dinner!!! For me it's the baking & candy making that trip me up! I just "have" to add those to the other things I do during the Christmas season. This year was going to be simple, so I thought, since we are now just 3 of us in the house & Alec is mostly self sufficient in that he doesn't nee me or Tom around to supervise homework or dinner. I had these visions, or plans of getting the house all ready & decorated then coming home most days after work & baking or making candy. As it turned out every day brought something different that needed my attention & so I was never home until later in the day and you know the rest....house needing attention, laundry & such!
Oh and did I mention that I decided to sew new stockings for all of in honor of Christin (my new daughter-in-law) seemed simple enough. Oi'
Well I got the stockings all finished, all 5 of them & they looked just as I had hoped! But with my 25yr.+ sewing machine it took some cajoling!
Ok, so I kept having to get things done after work that kept me from coming home in time to ever start baking or making any candy....I was beginning to stress about it, I mean I had bought all the ingredients for these things & sooooo love making candy, it was killing me. Some where in the midst of all this I started feeling uck...scratchy throat, headaches, body aches.....you can imagine the rest. I stayed home & rested on Sunday & then went to work Mon. knowing it was the week before Christmas, that a lot needed to be done in the office & I was more determined than ever to get that stuff done......As it turned out I never really got "better" I just sort of drug myself through the week all the while certain I would begin to feel well enough to get the candy done. By the 23rd I had to resign myself to the fact that it wasn't going to happen. I just didn't have the patience to mix, roll, and hand dip 100+ pieces of candy. I literally laid in bed that night & had to let it go. To some of you this is ridiculous, but I really look forward to Christmas for this & this is my 2nd year of not making any of my usual goodies, it was just another change in a series of changes for this year. With our oldest son married we knew this Christmas morning would be waaaay different & I was just hoping that by baking & candy making I would add some tradition to what was feeling like an all together different year.
And so this bring us to Christmas morning! My son was teasing me about not being allowed to post any of our Christmas pictures in all our bed head, jammie glory!!! As it turned out we took fewer pictures than ever. This was mine & Tom's 25th (married) Christmas together & so I wanted to give him something special, I bought & had engraved a new wedding band, he bought me a beautiful vintage diamond & ruby pendant......we exchanged gifts & tears and didn't take more than 5 photos of the whole morning! We pulled ourselves together, my mom, and Joel & Christin came over for a couple hours we exchanged gifts & laughed, talked, napped it was a sweet, if a bit quiet, day! As it turns out it was just what we needed. A time to ease into the changes, ease into our day, relax and just enjoy. I cooked dinner, but it was simple, not all the trimmings like usual, but it was perfect in it's simplicity.
So despite not feeling well, not having all my candy made, not having our oldest home in the morning, we enjoyed ourselves we laughed, cried & relaxed our day away!
K~
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