Hey there readers! I hope everyone had a merry, merry Christmas! As you know I have been M.I.A the passed month because the Christmas season has kept me even more busy than usual. Between buying gifts, baking cookies, working on projects at work and having five different places to go it's been crazy town around here. Although I must say it was all worth it! I had a wonderful Christmas this year! It was the first time in my life when someone asked me what I wanted that I didn't know what to say. I have everything I've ever wanted. I live in a nice apartment, I have a great job with a great boss, and I'm getting married in nine months! I feel very blessed and thankful that things are finally going my way. Things weren't always so great and happy for me. There was a time when I was very angry and depressed. There was a time when I thought I'd never be happy again. I always wanted to be happy I just didn't know how. I slowly started to crawl out of this ditch that I put myself in by going to therapy, reading books, taking classes, spending time with my friends and family and one day I realized I wasn't sad or angry anymore. Ever since then my life has gotten better and better. I think a lot of people are always looking for the "easy way" out of life. I know for a while I didn't want to do anything all I wanted was for someone to come and rescue me from my life. That's why I was in bad relationships that were going no where and everyone was like "What the Hell are you doing?" You can't wait for a guy or girl or anyone else to save you. You need to do it yourself. I know it's scary and you may not know what to do, but trust me in the long run you will feel so good and proud of yourself. You did something that you thought you couldn't and nothing feels better than that. anyways let's talk about December: The first weekend of the month Kevin and I set up our Christmas tree and put up our decorations and Christmas lights while listening to Christmas music. The following week we started doing our secret Santa's at work. We gave two small gifts first then a bigger gift at our Holiday party. The first gift I got was Burt's Bees lip balm. The second weekend of December my mom and I met up with my brother Tony and my two nieces Naomi and Kira at Peddlers Village for the Holiday festivities. We walked around and went in shops, saw Santa and Mrs. Claus in the parade and even decorated gingerbread cookies. My Gingerbread man looks evil!!!! The next week I received my second secret Santa gift: Wish Paper A day or two later we had our holiday party for the center. we went out to eat at this Italian restaurant where I find out Kristen was my secret Santa and she gave me my final gift: Philosophy Christmas cookie shower gel and sugar sprinkles lip gloss. I got Sam. I got her a $5 gift card to Starbucks, a box with anti-bacterial hand gel, cherry clap stick, air-borne and lotion in it and warm cozy slipper.socks. The following week was crunch time for the holiday projects. This year I decided to make something a little more simple so I got canvas's and had the children make Christmas trees with their hand prints which turned out really nice. One little boy in my room was weird about me using his hands so I painted his feet instead and made this....... Then we did our Santa cards again with hand prints. We received two new ornaments this year. One from our friend Robin and one from Kevin's parents. I love them both! I got my nails done a few days before Christmas and they still look great! I totally copied off my friend Robin when I saw those red tips I was like "I want those too!" On Tuesday my mom invited me to do a yoga class with her in the morning and I accepted. It was fun and felt great on my back! After yoga we became to bake. We made Gingerbread men, sugar cookies, jelly thumbprints and hazel nut balls. Christmas eve we went to my mom's where we ate roast beast sandwiches and exchanged gifts. I went to my brother's house for a bunch on Christmas day and later on Kevin and I went over to his aunt and uncle's house to celebrate with his family. Yesterday we went over to celebrate with my dad and step-mom and today we went out to lunch with Kevin's parents.
That's all for now. Have a Happy New Year Everyone!!!!
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Hey there my awesome readers! Can you believe it's December already? Soon the Holidays will come and go and before you know it Spring will be here! The older I get the faster time goes. Which is both good and bad. It's good because I'm excited about the things to come like my bridal shower, wedding and honeymoon. It's bad because life is short and once it's all over its over. But we still have a long time before that day comes and I like to live in the now so to speak. I'm pretty happy about the Holidays coming up although I feel completely broke as most people probably do around this time of year. December is a very fun month but it's also very stressful when it comes to money. Everyone spends more than they normally do because everyone is buying gifts for their friends and family. Just remember the Holidays are a time to give but you don't have to spend an arm and leg to get really nice gifts. You just have to pay attention and get the person something that they really need. :) They will appreciate the effort. Anyways let get to the favorites.... i had off for the week of Thanksgiving so I spend most of my time running errands, cleaning my apartment and spending time with my mom. We went out to lunch one day and afterwards stopped at this cute little antique shop. Kevin had to work on Thanksgiving so the day before I made sweet potato casserole and my famous chocolate cream pie for him to take into work with him because they were having their own Thanksgiving there. I also made another sweet potato casserole for my mom's house since I was going to go over there to eat. thanksgiving was very nice. We ate a yummy meal and made little pilgrim and Indian hats with my nieces and nephew. Everything was delicious! On Saturday Kevin and I put up our Christmas tree while listening to Christmas music which was nice. Thats all for now. Have a great weekend everyone!!!! Don't spend too much money!!!
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