Shiny, Sparkley Snowmans

Here’s to try #2, back to working on the formatting. I now know I can’t fix any typo’s…. pssst, did you know Faithfull is spelled with only one “l”. I know this, apparently the computer doesn’t & it sure won’t let me fix it. I will forever be staring at Faithfull and forever be aggravating over the extra “ l”

The week before Christmas we bought a house. It went amazingly smooth and amazingly quick. I felt so incredibly blessed to be going from a 3-bedroom apartment to a 5-bedroom house, with more than twice the space. Little did I know how much stuff can be crammed into a 3-bedroom apartment. I found out the hard way when the Dad’s dad came down with leukemia that same week. He hadn’t been feeling well for a while, but an infection finally got him into the doctor, only to be confronted with a lot more than he imagined. A couple of days later t he Dad flew out to New Mexico to be at his side. I truly believe his presence at his father’s side saved The Dad’s dad life. However, his absence at home did leave me moving our junk the week before Christmas. I threw away as much as I could, I believe I filled the apartment dumpster (for 300+ units) all by my lonesome, still the new house soon housed junk from end to end.

In between the kids & I managed to decorate not one, but two! Christmas trees. Our steady, dare I say, old Faithfull, fake tree and a “Charlie Brown” Christmas tree given to me by the Dad. It had been last on the lot & completely free, and to me, perfect. It smelled just right, it held exactly the right amount of ornaments. MY ornaments. And while everyone else made fun of it, it was my little oasis that very hectic week.

Sometimes it is very hard to look at the bright side. Luckily shiny, sparkly snowmans dangling from a tree make it very hard to ignore happiness. My father-in-law made it through his crisis, the Dad got to spend some incredibly valuable time with his dad and our boxes are in our house. The kids have smiles on their faces and their voices echo through the huge space we now have. Life is good.