Well, it's nearly that time of year again and I'm just now preparing to put the tree up with the boys. I'll be glad when it's up, I always am, but for now, the dirty work....dusting, vacuuming, cleaning, cleaning, cleaning, then...on to the decorating! Oh what fun!!!
By the time we're done it will look exactly like what it is supposed to: a bit of each of us everywhere! I used to want to do it all myself, all neat and orderly and properly matching etc... but now I value each small handmade ornament put ever so closely to the other. It reminds me of all the beautiful cold winter days spent together doing crafts and making homemade treats for our friends and family. Those days are nearing their end as Christopher and Matthew are out growing everything else, so they are getting too big, (they think) for such things. A.J. still enjoys it, although he'd never let on about it to the others, so I will make him feel as the others do; like he's being made to do it. James still enjoys these things too, (I think it's because he's never had brothers and done things like I do with the boys). Never the less, it doesn't matter why-only that I have been blessed with another year to celebrate CHRIST and the true meaning of Christmas with my family.
It's funny that I'm so near what is possibly the end of my marriage, and instead of thinking of the last days of our family being a whole; I'm thinking of this as being another new beginning coming up in my life. Only GOD knows what this next year holds for me and the boys and Anthony but I know that whatever it is.... it will be for mine and the boys' and even Anthony's best.... the BIBLE tells me so!
I'm going to finish the cleaning part of decorating now so A.J. will think it looks "Pretty" in here when he wakes up in the morning.
Pray for me and my 'New Beginning' as I will be praying for y'all.
More to come soon.....with pictures too:)
