When I originally turned the computer on this evening, I had all intentions of writing our little Christmas letter. However, I'm still on a slight high with the excitment of our wedding so I was going to be super cheezy and do a combo thank-you notes and christmas letter. Some would equate this to lazyness but seeing as I love my husband, I love you reading this and I LOVE Christmas (if you REALLY know me - you know how much I really do love love LOVE Christmas) the combo letter made total sense to me. I even had super cute Christmas paper. I also have a love for sticky notes and fancy paper. :)
I've actually been debating this thank you card/Christmas letter idea since ..... well... October? It's in my mind - not always on the front burner - but it's in my mind nonetheless that the appropriate thing to do after recieveing gifts is to send thank you notes.
So the pressure starts.
I love Christmas. And I love writing. And I would have loved to have written a nice little Christmas letter. And by the day after Thanksgiving I realize I'm running out of time. Because the time goes so fast.
More pressure.
And now. Here I am. December 19th. I don't even really feel like my home is as Christmasified as I'd like it to be and I STILL haven't done the letter. Or thank-you notes.
Actually. It's almost midnight. On December 23rd. Merry Christmas Eve, Eve. :) I didn't get to even finish this blog entry when I started it.
See? I told you. Time flies.
I am glad I didn't freak out and write a bunch of last minute Christmas cards or letters or thank you notes. I'm not into doing things when I'm feeling stressed out about it. ;) It may or may not make sense to you, but it makes total complete sense to me. Many times I have seen people (ok, mostly us women) who get pressured about things. Generally around the holidays. Things like letters, cards, decorating, cooking, cleaning, pinterest happy so our homes can look like the cover of a Better Homes and Garden magazine. Don't get me wrong - I think it's totally ok to look at that stuff - hey - I am both a Pinterester and a reader of said magazine. And it's fun to dream about hey, what if I did stencil my walls with that Moroccan pattern? Or what if I did try that new recipe? It's fun to have an "I Did It" board on Pinterest!! And it makes us proud. At least it makes me proud. ^_^ But let's not freak out about stuff we couldn't quite get done. It's not that it will never get done. It just hasn't gotten done yet. So I say....
One step at a time.
One day at a time.
Little Moments.
Because one day, years from now, the cards and letters are tossed, the decorations get replaced and sometimes we leave behind the Moroccan stencilled walls to live inside and paint new ones. ;) The people you're with will and should always mean more. This doesn't mean I'm not doing thank-you notes. I'm just saying. :)
Anyhow.....hopefully that encouraged someone......
Oh and would you look at that....it's 12:30. That makes it December 24th. Time flies. Merry Christmas Eve. <3
