So THIS is Christmas!

So this is Christmas...bring it on! It's taken me til the tender age of fifty two (and a half) to realize what the season CAN mean.


"So this is Christmas
And what have you done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
Ans so this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young

A very merry Christmas

And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear
And so this is Christmas
For weak and for strong
For rich and the poor ones
The world is so wrong
And so happy Christmas
For black and for white
For yellow and red ones
Let's stop all the fight
A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear
And so this is Christmas
And what have we done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
And so this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young
A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear
War is over."

It's been exhausting at times, it's been scary more often than not but  has also been  fulfilling. We're all still here and alive...that's a  good start!
We've managed to keep our house and have been blessed beyond belief. I'm still looking for the twenty pounds I lost...I think my pup Charlie  found them.

My oldest son is doing great now, my youngest son is waking up to reality and my daughter is full guns ahead with plans for her future which include plenty of student loans and more gray hair for me...but we will make it happen.
My life is blessed in so many ways. We are so much better off than millions and millions and millions of others.  I have a wonderful family and I have wonderful friends...who could ask for more?
There have been Christmas seasons the past few years when I worried about buying my kids presents but friends took care of that for me. There was one year we couldn't afford a tree and a co worker showed up while I was at work with a tree for the kids to decorate. Friends showed up with groceries and my kitchen shelves were stocked.
The goodness of people never ceases to amaze me. I don't consider myself pitiful...I consider myself grateful. For twenty years Tim and I rolled along , making more money every year and living a comfortable life. Then we hit the skids ...then we were blessed.

With MUCH help from family, friends and even strangers we have battled back. At times I worried how we would make it  but we did.  I have so much to pay forward it's ridiculous but look forward to being able to.

This Christmas is different. We still don't have a lot of money but are so close to being close to being almost caught up that it makes my heart sing.
My kids are all now old enough to know that their Christmas present is having a roof over their heads. It makes Christmas even sweeter.

Throughout our troubles we've always tried to help someone else. Simple donations to a foundation pick up or giving someone on the streets of Atlanta a dollar. "You reap what you sow."

When my pup went blind people rallied and helped. I could have never afforded to help him but friends did.

This Christmas I am blessed once again. A friend suggested me for a job which  has benefits while being able to keep my current job. I don't mind having two jobs, in fact I feel lucky!
It's going to be an awesome Christmas. It's going to be an awesome New Year.

Is your glass half full or half empty?  Either way you are half way there. To all the people who have loved and helped me...my heart is not only full but bursting.

So I have a new fence for my pups thanks to my Bro & Law, have my pup's heart worms taken care of thanks to new friends and have a fund started to help him see again.

I have three kids who are healthy and a husband who I expect to find every night in a fetal position at  the back of our walk in closet banging his head against the wall, being married to me...but he isn't. He loves and supports me and urges me on every day. I am surprised he has put up with me this long...he must think I have a secret  life insurance policy!

I do have a policy...a policy that I have lived a good life and loved as much as I could. I am grateful for all my blessings and hope to live long enough to pay it forward.

If I don't, know it was truly and most sincerely appreciated. I am the luckiest woman on earth.

Til Next Time....Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!