I worked a 38 hour week this past week. I’m used to working maybe 1 day a week (not counting being a mom at home). I am pooped! I know the money will come in handy at the beginning of next month though. I know all of you full timers are thinking “so what. I do it all the time.” Well, I don’t!
Today was the rehearsal for the church’s Christmas program. I went to be crowd control. After about 30 minutes, I wasn’t needed anymore. I left right after the second run through started. The snow was coming down pretty good at that point. The roads on the way home weren’t real great. This afternoon Robert, Laura, and I went up to New Richmond do get groceries and pick up a few other essentials. I was glad I wasn’t the one driving. The forcast is saying 7 inches, with blowing and drifting. I’m curious how big of a drift we’ll have in our driveway in the morning, and how badly 170th St. will be drifted. I’ll be surprised if I can get out to make it to the actual Christmas Program tomorrow. I’m supposed to pick up the meat/cheese trays and buns for the potluck dinner. I’ll make a phone call to see if someone else can maybe help me out with that. Making it to church just isn’t worth it if the roads are bad. We’ll see what the morning will bring.
I can’t believe that Christmas is this week already. I am not ready at all! I have no presents wrapped. We just got the tree up last week. I’m having a hard time getting into the spirit of it all this year. I’ll be home Monday and Tuesday with Laura. Robert has Wednesday off. We’ll have homemade chicken noodle soup that night. Robert is communion assistant at church for the 7pm service, so we’ll be going to that one. Christmas morning we’ll have our little celebration and opening of gifts. Then we’ll head up to Robert’s parents’ for Christmas dinner and open gifts up there. We’ll be coming back home and spending the night here. Friday morning (assuming weather cooperates) we’ll head down to my parents’. We’ll be there Friday to Sunday and celebrating Christmas on Saturday. It’ll be bittersweet because John may not be home for Christmas next year, and it means he is shipping out soon.
None of us are ready for him to leave. I may not have the relationship with him that other siblings do, but we are still close. There is so much that he’ll miss when he’s gone. I know it’ll be hard for him to be gone too. I am glad that I’m going back down a week after Christmas for his going away party.
Well, time to finish up supper. I’m hoping that I’ll be updating here more often, but we’ll see what reality brings. I feel like a lot of people are leaving LJ or just not updating as much. I don’t want to just let this journal go. It’s theraputic to write.