Holiday Countdown - 1 week to Turkey Day!

Wow!! This year has been a quick one! Full of adventures, challenges, friends, our first real vacation....and the list goes on! No wonder I'm worn out all the time and no wonder the year has gone so fast!! My body told me "No" earlier this week and just quit for a while. I literally spent 3 days in bed, and for any who know me well, or even at all, know that I just don't do that!! Needless to say, I'm glad that's over!! And so, it's time now we turn our attention to the holidays. The madness and mayhem start with Turkey Day and end sometime after the first of the year when we all suffer from turkey and stuffing hangovers that we tried to nurse with pecan pie. We're all fat and sassy and no body has any money but generally has pretty cool new toys to play with instead. I'm thinking maybe somewhere in there we've missed the bus and forgotten what it's all about. Sometimes we remember, but sometimes we get "wrapped up" in the gifts and the decorations and the parties....OR - maybe I just feel this way because the pressure is on! It's time to be shopping and I have to help put on the Murphy Employee's Club Christmas party and I am realizing how little time we really have to get it put together!!! Oh how we need a craft store here - I'd take any of them, Michael's, Hobby Lobby, Jim Bob's Crafts, whatever! Any of them would be nice, but, no sense complaining - it is what it is and so we just do the best we can! At least they have taken the consideration to pipe the internet in along with the sunshine!!!! Yay for the small and simple things!!