We have spent the last five days celebrating the Christmas holiday filled with cooking, cousins, gingerbread house making, parties, shopping, wrapping, photo ops, Christmas jammies, gifts & more at my in-laws. Now that we are nearly finished with our 5 hour drive to my parents’ house with a stuffed to the brim car packed with no rhyme or reason, 2 little ones who didn’t nap, colds upon us & plenty more festivities to partake in, I am reminded that none of that matters. We had a wonderful 1st half of our “Christmas vacation” and am more than excited to finish the holiday season with my family back in my hometown. We WILL catch up on sleep. Our car & suitcases WILL regain their order. Our colds WILL pass. And most importantly, we are making magical memories with our boys. I am very thankful for all the blessings in my life and am reminding myself that the vast majority of the stresses at this time of the year are trivial matters, most of which we won’t even remember in a few days.
If you are like me, sometimes we need to stumble upon some words of wisdom to remind us to celebrate the season with a smile on our face instead of focusing on the stresses on our mind!
Wishing you & your family a very merry Christmas! See you back here next week 🙂
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December 29, 2014 at 7:16 AMMerry Christmas Rachael! I’ll one up you and say that we had the stomach bug run through our house with house guests involved. I am so glad you are enjoying every minute! 🙂
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January 1, 2015 at 8:50 PMMerry Christmas & happy new year!! I’m so sorry to hear you all were sick! No fun at all 🙁 i hope everyone is on the mend and feeling back to normal. Have a good weekend!!