Friday, October 24, 2008

Isn't It Funny How Fast This Year Has Flown on By?!?!?

I can't believe how fast this year is coming to an end... I very clearly and vividly remember the very first day of 2008 as if it were yesterday. Ah, yes... a beautiful, cold, wintery day. There we were in our old, tiny 2 bedroom apartment, all cramped in. Friends and family were over and there we were, drinking the night away & welcoming in the new year with lots of optimism & good wishes of wonderful things to come in this new year.

Fast forward 9 months an dhere we are in October a.k.a the beginning og the End of The Year Celebrations. 2008 is almost over. Gone. Finito. And we are no longer in our tiny, cramped 2 bedroom apartment but in our very own house! There's no doubt that this year has been full of wonderful, wonderful blessings for me and my family. First and foremost, we are all alive & healthy. Sounds simple, huh? But I truly believe that that's something that too many of us take for granted on a daily basis. Just being able to wake up every morning next to the man I love. Being able to get up off of my bed and standing on my very own 2 feet. And then seeing my daughters be able to do the same, day in and day out, running around the house... singing, dancing, laughing, crying, fighting, basically driving me crazy!!! That is all the proof that I need that they are healthy, happy little girls and that is what I am most grateful for. All the rest is just icing on the cake. and thanks to God, this year, as gloomy as it may have seemed at one point, has provided us with soooooooo much frieking icing on the cake that WOW, I can be nothing but grateful. We have been able to fulfill a lifelong dream of owning our very own home. Not an apartment. Not a rented house. Not a leased house. But our very own house!!!!! OUR house!!! Never would I have imagined being so happy to actually pay a bill. Yes, I said it. I am ecstatic when I actually write a check toward the end of the month and put it in the mail because it's the payment toward the mortgage of our very own house! That is the best spent money ever!!! Just ask my girls and they will confirm that. My girls, my poor, poor girls. They're so good! They not only know, but understand, that since we now have a house payment, which also includes taxes, insurance, much larger bills, maintenance, etc. we have less cash to go around to do the fun little extras in life... And they're so good about accepting that. I kind of feel guilty. But whatever, with their very own room with brightly painted walls in their very own chosen colors, new furniture and bedding in there, that should be good consolation enough! Right?!?!?

Back to my point, here we are looking Halloween dead in the eye. We're less than 2 weeks away from it! Costumes, candy, trick or treating... I can't wait! Then of course comes Thanksgiving. Mmmmmmmmmmm, turkey.... Again, I can't wait (except for the part of me havin gto cook and all, but the end result is so worth it!) And then immediately following Thanksgiving comes one of my favorite holidays= BLACK FRIDAY!!!! Can I hear a WooHoo?!?!? What?!?!?! It's NOT a holiday???? Well it should be, lol... 'cause there's a party in my wallet that day!!! And then, the culmination of all holidays, the best of the best..... CHRISTMAS. The best day of the year, for many, many reasons I cannot even begin to cover here. And after that, we bid this wonderful year of 2008 farewell and again welcome in a new year, hoping and wishing for bigger and better things in 2009.

I'm stressing already! just thinking ahead about all these festivies that are so fast approaching. I feel like a deer caught in the headlights, just standing there staring straight ahead, knowing its coming my way, but yet I can do nothing but just stand here in awe...
My sister and friends already started buying Christamas gifts... Sh!t I haven't even gotten my girl's a Halloween costume!!! WT??? And you already jumped ahead 3 events?!?!?

Either I am the greated procrastinator in the world (after all I did buy my baby's costume last year 1 day before Halloween) or I like to live in the moment. Yeah, let's go with that one. It sounds more positive, don'tcha think??? LOL. Either way, this year is soon coming to an end. I just realized that and I am flabbergasted (ha!!! I bet you didn't realize that I knew such big words! Yeah, I can pop those out every once in a while, lol) So off I go to get started with the 1st End of Year Celebration a.k.a Halloween. Hopefully they still have costumes available for my girl's in their sizes, 'cause we don't want to reproduce last year's fiasco of me actually trying to make one myself. That was a joke!!! And no, I didn't keep my promise of learning to sew and be so good that they'd be begging me to make them their costume. Let's just say life gets in the way. Yup, either that, or I am in fact the world's best procrastinator. Judge for yourself!!!

lates!

9 comments:

Rachel said...

It's wonderful to own a home...i know how excited you are!
I too have Halloween costumes to get this weekend :)

Rachel said...

It's wonderful to own a home...i know how excited you are!
I too have Halloween costumes to get this weekend :)

Rachel said...

It's wonderful to own a home...i know how excited you are!
I too have Halloween costumes to get this weekend :)

Rachel said...

It's wonderful to own a home...i know how excited you are!
I too have Halloween costumes to get this weekend :)

Rachel said...

can you delete the excess comments geese I love you and all but how did it get on there that many times hehehehehhehe

Joy said...

Yea the mortgage payments get old after a while:) trust me we have been here 9yrs and it is no longer fun.

I made Abby's costume but bought wyatt a cheap Ninja from Target!

I luv luv this time of the year I get all excited and nervous about cooking the turkey, something about the posibility of ruining over a dozen people's Thanksgiving will do that to ya.

I LOVE christmas time especially since we have kids it is SOO exciting to watch how excited they get

Diane said...

Hey, welcome back! I'm so glad your year has turned out so well... sorry it went by so quickly (HOW does that happen?!).

Oh, and by the way, you can't be the world's best procrastinator... that would be me... or I'm the world's worst... hmmmmm... not sure.

Michelle said...

Congratulations on buying your first home! It is such an exciting feeling!

I'm totally lagging this year. We went Halloween shopping weeks ago and the girls didn't see anything they liked. Now they are going to wear repeat costumes for the first time ever!! I'm going to title their Halloween scrapbook pages, "Pete and Repeat."

Amy @ Six Flower Mom said...

The past year for us has been a whirl wind of chaos which at first and for most might seem a lot of heartache BUT indeed there have been so many blessings in disguise.

Procrastinating is great!!!! Or at least that is how I justify it!