Tradition

It's been 17 entire days since my last post. I have not had any computer besides my stationary work computer which is of no use to me after work hours. I'm huge on only using work hours for work related things. Guilt gets to me otherwise. TC has a laptop I could have used, but honestly after typing on it for 5 minutes, even the most patient of persons wants to throw it out of a window. Obviously, I do not acclimate well to "new" ways of doing things. So Pinterest and Blogging have suffered despite the ever pressing desire to do both. Typing, I feel proud I have not let it become a quickly lost art!

Crazy enough, 17 days have passed, yet little exciting news has occurred. I've worked several arts and craft shows with mom - which by the way, she sells the cutest shabby-chic magnetic memo boards and crosses. Honestly, you just have to see them. I'll be getting them on Facebook soon (and hopefully an on-line store). I've been trying to stay present with Thanksgiving holiday as best I can, but Thanksgiving and Christmas have always run together. Some of the reasons being the following: our extended family lives out of town, so because of their visiting for Thanksgiving we just had to have everything decorated because we literally go ALL out (since they do not visit for Christmas, they had to see it at Thanksgiving - make sense?); in the past we left super early for Christmas, so to enjoy our decorations, we had to decorate early. While these things do not necessarily occur now, it's become tradition. Enjoying the Season of Christmas is just incredibly joyful and exciting. Oh...and then there's Black Friday, the ever-so-important Christmas shopping day. It's hard to focus on "Fall-ish" things when you HAVE to plan for Christmas presents! Not to mention EVERYWHERE is officially decorated! It's so exciting! So...I confess...I've already listened to Christmas music this entire week, downloaded a Black Friday app, planned every Christmas present, organized 1 Christmas party, watched Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and made plans for how to spend the next few weeks with TC enjoying the Christmas season. I can't help it. Christmas is in my genes. And if you've ever met my mother (or my entire family for that matter), you would understand. As everyone in my family says, "It's Tradition."