Here is my promised 'catch-up' post for our December happenings. Next up is January...which I hope to get posted with less 'lag' time between posts.
December was pretty much a whirlwind of activity, as it usually is. This year seems extra frenetic and weird in some ways, more relaxed in others. The frenetic aspects stemmed from feeling not quite in the same time warp as the rest of the world. Our time on Kauai really messed with my sense of time, which is not my strong point anyway. It took me all of December and part of January to catch up with the pace of my every day world.
December is dominated by preparations for Christmas, of course, so I won't bore you with details. The hardest and coolest part of this Christmas season was our resolve to do a cash only Christmas. We've been implementing Dave Ramsey's
Total Money Makeover principles to get our debts paid off. We're making nice progress, though with a few setbacks here and there (Murphy
is alive and well) and didn't want to get caught up in the feeding frenzy of Christmas and ruin our progress. Because of our trip, we were down to a minimum of cash reserves so it was a 'slimmed down' version of gift buying this year. It sure feels good not to have those big credit card bills come up in January, though!
I have to confess I got 'big screen fever' early in the month and just
knew life would not be complete or satisfying until I'd upgraded to a giant TV. We've had our 'door buster sale' 27" TV for over a decade and I was feeling left behind.
Everyone was getting a big screen except me. Boo hoo. Thank goodness for my drive home...I listen to Dave Ramsey's show every evening and he addressed this very thing one night when I was really struggling. I was able to see how I'd gotten sucked into the discontent of not having
things when it is
relationships that life is really all about! Ah...that is a much better place to camp.
Blessings to you and I'll catch you up on more recent happenings soon...
