Season's Greetings!

Merry early Christmas. I love this season! It's one of my favorites. I love the baking and the family gatherings. I love that people come from all over the place to just be together. Tonight is Brenton's Christmas party. I am really looking forward to it because it will be my first taste of the Christmas season this year. Hopefully it will put me in a Christmas shopping spirit..I don't know why (maybe it's my lack of joy for already) but shopping this year has hit the back burner. It's not that I don't have a million ideas of what to get people, trust me I'm thinking about it constantly through the year, but I just don't want to have to shop for it. I'm the male type of shopper..I go in and get it and leave. I don't care to window shop or graze around, I'd rather be at home sipping on some hot chocolate while I work on a cross-stitching picture.

The other day Brenton's work decided to cut out "Christmas" and re-insert "Holidays". This is offensive to me. The "holiday" is called CHRISTmas! It's our christian celebration! It makes me sad. I don't ask those who are Jews to call Hanukah anything other, or Muslims to call Eid anything other. I don't have a "Holiday Tree" set up in my house, I have a Christmas tree set up! Grr...I'm extremely frustrated at my offensed state. That's my second rant of the day.

Let's go 3 for 3. I have a stupid cold! I call it stupid because I don't think it's very smart! haha. It started out as a really sore throat, like someone had taken sandpaper to it. The second day was like knives were in the back of my throat and every time I swallowed it would stab (which surprisingly felt better than the sandpaper feeling). The third and worst day I woke up and didn't say much to Brenton as he left for work because my throat was so sore...but as he left I went to say "I love you, have a great day" and it was like a dying frog had entered into my voice box and took over. He gave me a really strange look and said, you should go back to bed. And that's what I did for the whole day. I slept. Yesterday I woke up with a cough but felt much better and became more productive than I have been in the last 4 days. And today I still have the nasty cough, which I give until noon to dismiss itself, and then a party tonight :)

I've been looking over my blog for the last while, yes it hasn't been updated very frequently(my bad) but it is also lacking in pictures. I feel as though I must fix this soon.

One of my favorite Christmas Memories: I remember going to my Grandma in the Yellow House's house and watching the movie "Annie" and jumping into the heaps of snow outside her door and reading her "Homemade Remedy" book. I loved reading that thing. Also playing the game "MasterMind". I loved that Grandma in the Yellow House loved playing games. She would sit with us for hours and be undistracted. It was absolutely wonderful!