Well I am FINALLY done with ALL of my Christmas shopping! All of the presents are wrapped and under the tree, and I have ten whole days to just enjoy it. My tree looks so beautiful with all the sparkly white lights and the colorful packages under it. I was sitting in the floor last night wrapping the last gift for my niece, and I was thinking how fortunate I am to be able to have gifts, a tree, and a home to enjoy it all in. So many people are not that blessed this year - Hurricane Katrina victims, those who are sick, those who are out of jobs. The Christmas party we are going to tommorow night says to "bring an unwrapped gift for toys for tots." Saturday, my neighborhood, along with a couple of other big neighborhoods in my area, are bussing residents out to actually hand gifts out to needy children - children who will have no Christmas otherwise. It is so wonderful that people always think about others who have less then them this time of year.
One dark spot in our Christmas is the situation with Brent's dad. I wrote in an earlier entry that Brent's dad hit his mother with divorce papers the day after we got married (they had been married for 34 years!!) Brent has really had no relationship with his father since this happened because he is pretty upset with his dad over the fact that he decided to find a girlfriend BEFORE he got divorced. This has been difficult because Brent and his dad have always been super close and this year will be the first Christmas in his entire life that he doesn't spend it with his dad. Very sad. I hate to see my husband sad, but life just sux sometimes, I guess.
I cannot believe my one year wedding anniversary is 4 months from tomorrow. Hard to believe. We went to St. Lucia on our honeymoon, which was PERFECT. But Brent loves the Cayman Islands and really wants us to go there. If we can discipline ourselves enough to save some money, we are going to try and do that for our one year anniversary.
Enough rambling for now - more later. 35 degrees here and raining. Again, no snow.
3 comments:
I wish I was done with mine! So we are both newlyweds! Yours in April mine in February. We should get together in March and celebreate!! Lelly
Hi Ash. I LOVE the pic of you in your about me section. Listen, go to dying4happiness@aol.com. Thats Vernae. Shes WONDERFUL. TEll her i sent you and that you need the pic resized. Give her a link to your journal. She will make it fit perfectly. You are so beautiful. I love reading that you are happy and content. Brents dad has to live his own life and live with his mistakes. I am so very sorry for what he did to his wife, marriage and son. In time, the pain may subside and things can work out. I hope his mom finds a 30 yr old hot stud to date. LOL
Love you, lisa jo
Hey!! I finished our shopping on wednesday omgosh it was pure craziness out there.
Sorry to hear that Brent is down about his dad, that really can be a blow to the gut. Maybe one day they will be able to hug and makeup or whatever it is that men do. Im sure its not nearly soon enough though.
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