OMG! My brain is frazzled from all this semester's end activity, my fingers and toes are numb from the bitter cold, and I'm just plain worn out from all of the running around, but as Andy Williams keeps proclaiming from my iPod, "It's the most wonderful time of the year." It should be and it could be and it would be if we didn't try to cram EVERYTHING into it, but we try our best to make it PERFECT. Well, perfect isn't in my vocabulary this year. Imperfect can be wonderful too.
Let's look at a few examples:
Christmas cards - I've only done these a few times over the years and always when I planned WAY in advance (you know, buying and addressing them in September). The last time I bought them to send out to "everyone" I had them all ready ahead of time and never got around to putting stamps on them and sending them. The solutions? 1) Cards for folks at work I love and depend upon daily to keep me sane (no stamps needed either). 2) This very personal message:
Hey, you. Yes, you on the computer.
Merry Christmas!
3) Facebook. If you're my friend there, you'll receive two very personal messages from me this year. Wow, two! Better than a real card because all of your other friends can see how much I care about you too.... 4) a real gift. If I love you that much, you're getting something tangible from me already. I hope you like it.
Shopping Trips and real life - One of my favorite YouTube videos is "David and the Dentist" where after a medically enhanced trip to the dentist, seven year old David asks his father, "Is this real life?" Yes, David, it is but when Mama has to run around after work shopping for gifts for teachers and friends, clothes for guard or band concerts, etc., you can expect a very real dinner of something simple that evening - like Hamburger Helper. Hey, it's Christmas-y-ish...okay, so maybe not, but it's warm and quick and the best part Owen loves it. Owen is in culinary heaven this December :)
Housecleaning -My normally clean-ish house is a bona fide WRECK right now. Christmas, two busy parents, two busier children, and two rambunctous kittens have destroyed any sort of order that once existed there. It's not dirty, just scattered, smothered, and covered. Christmas break is coming. My three helpers and I will have it cleaned up before YOU come over and it'll look all "Leave it to Beaver" and you'll say on your way home, "How does she do it?" ;)
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