I didn’t take my comfy pants off for days till last night. (Not the same pair all that time, mind you. Eww.)
I didn’t put bows on the presents. Wrapped and done.
I didn’t even use many tags. (Just coded them by wrapping.)
We didn’t have a beautiful family picture for our Christmas cards – I ended up making a collage so all four of us would be represented.
I didn’t get out of bed before 9 a.m., ever (even on Christmas morning – our children ROCK.)
I didn’t make “real” cookies with cut outs or beautiful icing (and Santa still liked them just fine…he told me so.)
The Bub didn’t change out of his Christmas jammies for more than 24 hours, and that was just to change into new ones.
I didn’t cook anything on Christmas eve. (Pizza. Thank you.)
I didn’t take enough pictures – I was too busy being in the moment. (But I’ll probably regret it.)
I didn’t pick up the millions of itty bitty legos that have been underfoot for days. (Still haven’t. I kind of surrender.)
I didn’t make the bed once, even with tons of family here.
I didn’t take one piece of Christmas decor down. (But I’m feeling the itch.)
I didn’t mind one single bit when the whole family sat down and watched Despicable Me during Christmas dinner. I loved it – it was easy and fun and relaxed and US. (We love that movie!)
I didn’t break out into hives when the house was trashed for 36 hours straight.
And then I still didn’t clean it after 36 hours – I just left and went shopping. :)
My husband and I didn’t exchange gifts – because being debt free is going to be our gift to each other and our family. (SOON.)
Every year, I have all of these visions of what our holidays will be in my head -- usually there’s a soft glow around everyone, birds are singing (somewhere) and I look 15 pounds thinner…it’s a great vision. In my head. :)
And those visions pretty much never happen. It’s never perfect. I never accomplish all that want to. Every year I say, I’ll make a list of those things I want to get done and make sure to do them. And every year life gets in the way.
A whole lot of “didn’t” happens.
And every year I realize how very OK with that I am. Our holidays don’t end up our like my visions -- they always turn out so much better. So sweet. So close. So much family. So much big, fat, LOVE.
I hope your holiday was all you (didn’t) envision and so, so, so much more. :)
I’ll be back tomorrow with an update on my office redo!
