Christmas day 2025

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 Merry Christmas! I am still processing some of my thoughts on the Holiday traditions that I want to keep versus the ones I do not want to keep. For now, I need to decide for sure where I want to be 9 months of the year.  Christmas dinner is delayed until my younger sister returns from Washington where she is meeting her daughter-in-law for the first time. She is having a great time! They are stationed in Washington state. My older sister went to Hawaii to spend Christmas with her oldest grandchild (almost 3) they have a very close relationship. My other sister went to Colorado to see her daughter and her family there. Me, I decided to visit a new ER for DH for Christmas this year. This one tradition I DO NOT want to continue.

I am leaning toward not getting any more animals as the noise level with the turnpike right next to the house is annoying for me. I can only imagine how the birds feel. Perhaps it is just the season, but in Colorado they laid all winter albeit less, there were still eggs to be had. Unless something changes in the Spring, there will be no more animals, and I will be on the hunt for a new property. It might be the old one or maybe just a small one somewhere. I wish I would learn to be content.

The weather here is very nice. That makes for lots of bugs. Different bugs, not timid ones either! Yesterday while visiting the ER the youngest child discovered a wasp on the curtains and therefore could not proceed down the hallway into the house. She retreated to the garage and stayed there until I returned. We then went to town for a pizza and discovered that Walmart had closed for the evening. It was okay we wouldn't suffer without things from Walmart. We headed home and enjoyed the rest of Christmas eve.

This morning the dogs were up by 4 and ready to go outside. So, I was up also. I am not unhappy here, but I have to work harder to keep this place up and tend to animals and kids than I did in Colorado. It will take time to get a routine down and make it work.


The table was cleared and ready for food, the children were happy and lightened the mood. Save this picture, for time will tell, it will never again be so clear, 'til we sell.

It is all I can do to not take down all the decorations, and the day isn't even over yet... I will try hard to give it a year but unless things change, I see us going back to the other house.

Enough whining for today... I have boxes to sort and put away. Also, list to make for things that need doing. And the crazy refrigerator is working again. I am so over this refrigerator; I am sure I have never seen anything so fickle in my life. Except maybe me...

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