Best Described with these Two words. Here is a little update on the Christmas Break thus far. We have been going around the dinner table at night this week, while I have been at the beach with Allen’s family sharing a rose and a thorn (one good and one bad thing from the day). P.S.-This is a little lengthy-sorry!
Please comment back to me on your roses and thorns for the day/week/your christmas…whatever you would like to share.
Roses
- Christmas Caroling around Fountain Inn (my hometown) in the back of a flatbed truck along with about fifty others to about 6 elderly ladies. It lite up their faces to see people singing christmas songs to them.
- Walking around Downtown Greenville with Allen and Mom, special delivery to Salvation Army, and dinner at the Peddler-an amazing Steakhouse with a delicious salad bar.
- White Elephant Gift Exchange at my aunt’s house having giggles watching everyone picking out gifts.
- Talking to my cousin Jennifer about adoption-her and her husband are waiting for their newborn baby
- Scavenger Hunt at my house-long running tradition on Christmas morning to scurry all over the house looking for clues with money attached with each one…pretty good deal right??
- Traveling to Rock Hill to be with Allen’s Dads side of the family and getting to play and sing with his twin girl cousins…so adorable!!!
- Great conversations with Chelsie-Allen’s cousin who has been away at a Wilderness Camp in Montana.
- Good chats with His dad driving back the next day
- Opening gifts with Allen’s family- all of the boys got remote control helicopters…OMG…you would have thought all of them were 6 again…it took us 5 hours to open presents because they were playing with their helicopters!!! But it was worth it completely to watch them concentrate on driving them and then crashing them into the windows, fans, you name it they hit it!
- To Edisto for the week…beautiful beach on South Carolina Coast not far from Charleston…we have been here for a few days with the Tipping Family.
- Go Tigers-Great win for Clemson Bowl Game! Yeah CJ Spiller!
- Playing Football on the Beach
- Beautiful Sunsets
- Playing The Wii-Mario Brothers is amazing
- Warm Swimming Pool
- Family Karoake…and most of us can’t sing!
- Bike riding around the island
- Brian,my brother-in-law, worked with me for a few hours today updating this blog and teaching me a few things, he is amazing with this stuff. Thanks Man!! He does this kind of stuff for a living! you should check him out…http://www.designabouttown.com/, this is his works website.
- One-on-one talks with Wimberly and Becka, my sister-in-laws.
Thorns
- Packing up to come home for Christmas remembering last year thinking this would be the last easy preparation for traveling, because the following one we would be packing for six, and realizing things are totally changed and different than we would have every imagined.
- My friend, Krist’s grandad being in ICU all through Christmas, making family things very heavy this season
- First few festivities with Allen’s family without his sister’s being here yet, I have really missed them this year.
- Allen’s Aunt has been really sick this year dealing with back surgery, stroke, brain surgery, and now lung cancer- and seeing her so fragile and sick
- Marital problems with some family friends from Greenville
- Not seeing a lot of people over Christmas that I had planned on seeing, but hopefully will be able to reconnect soon.
- Mom had a little fall while putting up Christmas stuff- just realy sore.
- Missing my dad a good bit more this Christmas.
- Awkwardness of people not knowing what to say to me that haven’t seen me since loosing the babies.
- Doing the things I love to do with a half broken heart just wishing things were a little different.
