It came so quickly! This year however, I decided to smarten up a bit and buy most of my gifts online to avoid those vicious crowds. Despite my efforts, I still found myself wedged in between massive crowds of people while grocery shopping and running any sort of errand. Driving was a nightmare as I worked my way through stop and go traffic and dreaded the thought of trying to find a parking spot. Let's just say this right now, there is NEVER a good parking spot at Walmart. EVER. And that's probably because most of the parking spaces are taken up by 50 Handicap parking spots. This makes no sense because by the time you find the last handicap spot, it's halfway down the parking lot which defeats the purpose of a handicap parking spot in the first place and leaves us hopeless individuals stuck about a mile away from the door. I just had to get that out of my system. Walmart during the Christmas season = Worst Nightmare. Ever.
So, despite the headache of running Christmas errands and such, I had a wonderful Advent season and Christmas! Advent was especially meaningful this year. I'm proud to say, I did not listen to One. Single. Christmas. Song. NOT ONE until Christmas Eve. Of course that's aside from being forced to listen to the ones in stores and such. Instead I pretty much played O Come O Come Emmanuel from every single artist and version out there for all of Advent. Why don't they have more songs for this beautiful time of the Liturgical year?? We also didn't put any decorations up until Christmas Eve which is something we plan to do every year as our family grows. It definitely impressed upon me the meaning of Advent and the joyous day of Christmas. Despite our humble living situation, we did the best we could in the line of decorations and instead of a real Christmas tree....well...you'll see the picture on my shutterfly account. ;) We decided not to get a real tree because 1. We simply don't have the space and 2. We were going to be spending the week at the Kromms' house, so there wasn't really any point in getting a tree that we couldn't enjoy or take care of.
Speaking of the Kromms, we had such a lovely time with them over Christmas!! They generously offered us a room at their
New Years was such a relaxing and special time. Since Thomas worked VERY hard the few days beforehand finishing up the year and working on getting qualified for Million Dollar Round Table, we decided just to relax and have our own little celebration. For New Years Eve, I decorated the dining room table up fancy with our China and cloth napkins. We dressed up formally and had some scrumptious Indian food. :) New Years Day was a pajama day! We brought up our TV from the living room and put it in our bedroom so that we could just chill in our pajamas in bed and have a movie day. PERFECT day.
So that pretty much sums up our holiday festivities! :) Please enjoy some pictures on my shutterfly account!
https://morningstar257.shutterfly.com/pictures#n_5
