Yup it's that time of year again. Trim the tree, hang the lights and cover your house with Christmas odds and ends. For those of you that don't know we won't be home for Christmas. We leave on the 23rd to head to my Mom's. We will leaver her place on the morning of the 27th to spend 2 nights in Springfield to make the Christmas rounds to the rest of the family. On the 29th we will finally head home, and on the 30th we will do our Christmas here at the house. So this coming week is a week of prepping to leave, finishing wrapping, cleaning the house and loading the car. That sentence leaves out the details doing laundry, packing the babies cloth diapers (and stuff), and making sure we don't forget someones Christmas gifts as all those need to be packed as well. Not to mention I have been a bit of a slacker and Christmas cards have yet to be ordered. I'm seriously hoping they get here in time, as I plan on ordering them tonight.
The downside to traveling for Christmas, is the lack of drive to put up all the decorations here at the house. We won't be here, why put up the tree? Well for the kids of course. Though, they don't really seem that into it this year either. We did it anyway, we put up the tree night before last. Though I refuse to put up all the rest of the odd and end around the house decorations. Why put them all up to be here to see them a week (which I probably won't have time to sit down and enjoy anyway) only to come home do our Christmas and take them all down again. Next year I plan to put our decorations up the weekend after Thanksgiving, that way we have more time to enjoy them and there is more chance of being able to actually enjoy looking at them.
I also intend to do saving for Christmas a little different next year. We did okay this year. I saved everything for our travel, and only came up a few hundred short of what I intended to save. The expenses for the kids birthdays, Halloween and Thanksgiving were forgotten about when the savings plan was devised. We got everyone bought for no problem, and we have the money set aside for our holiday traveling, but we have some to pay back in January (which doesn't bother me any). Getting rid of some of the financial stress this time of year just about always brings might put me a little more in the Christmas spirit, or at least I'm hoping.
Off the subject of Christmas, I go back to school January 17th. I am kind of looking forward to it. Even though as I write that I can't believe that I'm saying that. It helps to look at my degree progress and see that I'm over half way done now, with a GPA of 3.3 something something. That's with a semester withdrawn and a semester I was so stressed I didn't attend my finals (so they were marked as F's). Next Fall I will be starting the year with pre-calculus, I would be lying if I said I wasn't a little nervous about that. I have to take that math, plus calculus 1 and 2. Trust me when I say if I could put it off longer I would. I'm at the point in my degree progress where the rest of my classes require me to have these math classes done. So I figured I'll get the math and the rest of my writing and core GE's done next year. Then the following year I get to work on the remaining meat of my degree plan.
It's been a minute since I have updated how the kids are doing, so I guess it's about time. Tyler is doing awesome in school. Better this year then he has since he's started school. Seeing mostly 3's and 4's and lots lots less 2's, which I'll take. He's also just joined jazz band, he was already in the schools concert band, but his teacher raves that he's ready for the additional challenge. Julie is still active in ballet, though she is looking for something different to do next year. I keep telling her that end of summer next year we will find her something different if that's what she wants. She is also doing great in school not as well as she did last year because it's getting harder, but she is still doing her very best and that's all I ask for. Kaylee is walking all over the place. She says please (eese), thank you, bye and a bunch of other things. She does some funny stuff like lick the kids faces instead of giving a kiss sometimes. I don't know where she gets it from ;). I'm amazed at how they are growing, and changing. I'm also very proud.
I guess that's about all I have for now. Time to start planning out how next week is going to play out. I hope everyone has a wonderful Holiday season.
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