Busy Time

I know I have not posted lately, but it has been a busy time in our house. I worked 2 weeks at my part time job, now I am off until after the new year. We had a holiday open house here the first weekend of the month, and Christmas with my family last weekend. The priest called a meeting for the Sunday school parents and I found myself volenteering to work on getting a youth group running. One of the benifits of working at H&R Block, is I get my taxes done for free this year, so I have started getting our tax info orgainized and ready to go so as soon as we get our papers in the mail, I can hand them over to one of the girls doing the taxes and voila......we don't have to worry about them this year. I think this is only a priority for me becasue this year has been so awful for my family that I can not wait to be done with 2010, and on to bigger and better things in 2011. Sadly, Chirstmas is my favorit time of year and I can not get myself into the spirit like ususal. Some of the outside lights are not working properly, and I don't even care enough to go out and try to fix them. This will be the first year I can remember that Christmas day will be just our family-a nice change of pace. No big brunch or lunch for me to rush into the kitchen to make after the boys open their gifts. No family coming over for me to run around the tree area of the house making it look presentable (how did gift wrap get THERE? And why are there so many parts to toy/electronics packaging?) while said meal is cooking. I plan to let the boys stay in their jammies as long as they want, to play with their "goodies" all day, and have plenty of food in the fridge for us to munch on so I don't have to cook all day. HHMMMMM, sounds like a real holiday for us.