Okay Aunt Rexann...I'm updating this just for you. This should show you how much I love you ;-) Ha Ha Ha. Oh Heavens, where to begin. I was sort of hoping to ignore this and then the blog thing would just go away ;-)
Let's see...hmmm, well we got through Christmas, and even New Year's. We had made plans to go to Salt Lake for Christmas and spend time with the whole family in Salt Lake. My parents and sister and with Jeremie's parents and the Robin's and Claudette. But finances are a bit on the tight side of things, so I decided we were staying home. I was so nervous about this plan, as we were going to be alone...on Christmas. I had never done that, even when Jeremie was with us.
It was super hard to do all the Christmas shopping alone, wrapping the presents alone, and doing everything alone. I missed having someone to bounce ideas off of. That was the hardest part of Christmas. So I was pretty exhausted by Christmas Eve night. But, for some reason I was also really excited. I was a little goofy and wrapped EVERY LITTLE THING...and I mean even little candies :-) I don't know why, but it was so fun to see them unwrap things and not have a clue to what it was going to be :-)
I also made this Christmas my cooking Christmas (which I'm scared to death of cooking, as I hate making mistakes and avoid things I'm not comfortable with, but it's the new me, trying things that make my heart thump harder!). We had MeMe and PePe over Friday before Christmas and had a turkey dinner with all the fun stuff to go with it. And amazingly enough, no panic attack! I had so much fun cooking the whole day. Then the kids and I decided we were going to make all of our favorite things the whole weekend! My mom sent us a Honey Baked Ham for Christmas Eve., so we had that and her scalloped potatoes, which were the BOMB! We also decided to have friends over that night as well. It was so much fun!!!
Christmas morning was a lot of fun. We opened presents and then I went back to bed :-) Then we went for Christmas dinner to Parowan. Which I LOVE Parowan. And I'm so going to move there! It has been one of the places I just LOVE driving through. I tried to buy there before we built our house. But I couldn't quite get Jeremie to see my vision. Although he did love Bryce Canyon and going up to the Ski Resort. I just can breathe when I'm there. I love how small it is, and beautiful it is. So stay tuned, that will be my future town...oh yes, it will be mine ;-) Plus I want little horse :-)
I am incredibly boring. I've never really done the whole celebrating of New Year's thing. I really enjoy my bed and sleeping and I love watching movies and relaxing. So I enjoyed my 4 days off of work, studied my brains out and cleaned my house. Quite relaxing!
So going to work, finishing up school, raising kids, trying to figure out how I can dejunk and simplify my life and live it. I'm enjoying exercising for the first time in my life. I am finding out more about myself everyday. The kids are doing pretty good. I think we are finding our groove. I'm looking forward to 2012 being a great year, full of growth and opportunites to try new things and enjoy the wonderful life that we have.
I know that Jeremie trusted me, and I know that he trusted my decision making abilities. It is one of the qualities I miss about him most. Of course I'm not always so sure of my decision making abilities! But I think that mistakes are meant to be made, life is meant to be lived, and success comes in many different forms ;-) Cliche' I know! But when I start second guessing myself. I just think, what is the worse thing that is going to happen if it is a mistake? I just make it, don't ruminate about it and move on. Well okay, I ruminate a bit, okay, okay...a lot!
I have to laugh a bit at myself. When you have been with someone since you were 15, and all you envisioned was being with that person for your whole life, and then find yourself at 35 having to envison something completely different for yourself. It is SUPER SCARY! And it just might be this week. But I've found myself excited to figure this out.
Well...life calls...peace out!
Love,
Cori
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