Christmas is Coming...Oh Crap, Really Soon!!

I suddenly realized that, oh my gosh, Christmas is only 8 days away! And the only presents I've bought are for my husband. I spent a LOT of money on one in particular for him, I mean, that money was supposed to go to all the other presents I need to buy. But I was siezed by Christmas something and bought a framed print at a local art gallery that we had seen several months ago. He really liked it...so I bought it. Now I can't buy anything else until payday next Friday. I will be one of those frantically shopping and wrapping people on Christmas Eve! I'm not proud of it, but sometimes life just works out that way.

We are driving 45 minutes to spend Christmas Eve night with my grandparents and then driving another 45 minutes to spend Christmas late morning with his children and grandchildren and then driving an hour or so to have Christmas afternoon with my family at my brother's house. My brother just announced this year that Christmas was at his house, because he always drives to our houses for holidays. Doesn't he understand that he is the 3rd born child and a male at that in a matriarchy? He doesn't get to make those decisions! My sister was much kinder about it than me so off we drive. His girlfriend is pregnant so he will be having the first baby in the family. I told my sister Maha that it doesn't mean he gets to dictate Christmas every year. She agreed that it didn't. The positive is that it was supposed to be at my house this year but since it won't be I'm not doing a darn thing for decorating, no trees, no lights, no mistletoe! I've been putting the presents under the prayer plant, I figure it is sort of appropriate.

Dear Diary

I debated long and hard about whether or not to delete this blog. I did delete my other one. I had no previous experience with blogging and wasn't sure what it should be. And I tried to put my faith into a separate blog, but there were a couple of problems with that. One, I was trying to cover too much back story-how I got to where I am. Two, faith isn't something that can be separate from the basics of who I am. It informs my thought processes and my actions (I hope) and my world view. Which doesn't mean that because I've been born again I also buy into the whole conservative Christian/right wing Republican agenda and political philosophy. That said, I decided to keep this blog, though I edited some of my previous posts and try to incorporate my whole person into it. Does that sound too ambitious? Too presumptuous? Too pretentious? Too many big words in a row? I've had the opportunity to read other people's blogs over the last 5 or 6 months and I think that most are just diaries made public. I include my own in that assessment. So, here's to happy diary writing!