Somehow this year the holidays had me super stressed out. All of the gifts I gave went over well, so at least there is that. Otherwise, nothing went as planned. I'd even been debating the obligatory "bah humbug, I hate Xmas" post, but refrained, because despite it all, I'm lucky, just having any Xmas, let alone four, is something to be grateful for ( Read more... )

I haven't really made much secret in the fact that I am not by any means looking forwarding to putting in five Christmas' in three days. In fact, I'm pretty much over it before it's officially begun. My mother has called me every day since Saturday with some new Christmas thing, from what she's cooking to issues with her tree falling over, and ( Read more... )

Strangely, J and I don't have a lot of Xmas traditions, outside of the norm, so for the most part we just have the standard American Xmas. This year however, he made the ornament pictured here. It's really quite lovely, and our first ornament that has any kind of sentimentality.


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