A year ago, my family and I were traveling to Florida to take our Christmas cruise out of Tampa, celebrating being cancer free! On the way we stopped by to see our friends the O'Steens. To say the least the visit was wonderful and the cruise was an event. If this gives you any idea, whenever we see advertisement for a cruise we all GROAN.
This year we are thrilled to be in MarDo, a funny name for Oak Ridge. Our girls think it would be wonderful if they (the town of Oak Ridge) would name it after Marshall and me, our personal joke, that has caught on. I've been off from work since the 17th and for the first time in my life, I haven't filled every minute with...... I've enjoyed just being. It's amazing how peaceful and restful I feel right before Christmas. Now don't get me wrong I haven't been sitting around doing nothing, actually I've been doing what I love to do piddle. My Christmas shopping was basically done before Dec 1, much done on line.
One thing we did this year that helped me was, since we all have a google account, I created a google document that we could all access to create our Christmas list, everyone used this to begin shopping. Before Christmas Mar and I created a Christmas budget. I hope we stayed true to it. I've noticed that the closer it gets to Christmas the more impulsive shopping I do.
Ginna arrived last night, Lucy hopefully tonight and Carrie tomorrow. I love being with family.
