This week we are working on the living room. Boy does mine need this! Since my living room doubles, triples, quadruples even as my dining room, bedroom, computer/scrap room...oh and Austin's playroom, it is the messiest room in the house and never gets fully cleaned. A quick tidy here and there but NEVER a deep clean. But, it's getting it now, and I am so proud of myself and so happy with what I have accomplished already, just this afternoon!
Here is what my TV and Computer spaces looked like this morning and what they look like now:
Another part of this weeks challenge is to answer at least 2 of these questions, but I am going to try and answer all of them if I can!
· Do I see Holidays time primarily as a time for entertaining friends and renewing long lost acquaintances or as a time for family? We do a little bit of both during the holidays. The week before Christmas we usually spend visiting friends, dropping off cards and gifts, and presents depending on how close of a friend it is. Then Austin and I usually spend one day at my parents house, sometimes Christmas Eve, sometimes Boxing Day. Christmas Eve we usually end up at my aunt and uncle's for dinner with them, my cousins, and my grandma. Then on Christmas day it is just us. I'm not sure who 'us' will be this year, whether it will be 3 or 2, but either way, just us!
· How much emphasis do our Christmas activities place on the spiritual side of Christmas? (or Hanukkah) Honestly, we do not place a lot of emphasis on the spiritual side of Christmas. Sometimes we go to church on Christmas Eve with my aunt & uncle and family, but otherwise we don't do anything. Once Austin is a little older and understads a little more I would like to put a little more emphasis on it.
· How involved is my family in the Holiday preparation? Totally not involved! LOL! It's allllll ME! My parents often provide the turkey, roasting pan, and sometimes some of the veggies, depending on how I am doing financially. And they often get a phone call Christmas morning with questions on how to cook things! I am only 23 after all, lol, not exactly full of experience when it comes to these things. But, other than that, preparation is all me...cooking, baking, making/signing/sending cards, buying/giving gifts, decorating. Austin does think he is helping with some things though, lol!
· What activities are particularly important to our family at Christmas or Hanukkah? To myself? We don't have a lot of activities that we do. There is a little town light up celebration downtown that we like to go to and watch Santa come down off the roof, and go for a hay/sleigh ride aound downtown. And I like to go for walks and look at the diferent light displays. Oh, and of course we have to take Austin to the mall to have his photo taken with Santa!
· Why do we observe the traditions we do in our house? I don't really know that we have any traditions yet. When I was still at home, one tradition we had was that the tree was never put up before December 18th, because my birthday is on the 17th and my parent's didn't want to take away from that. But, I don't continue that tradition in my own house, and my parents don't know that I am out of the house either, lol!
· How important is an elaborately decorated house, homemade gifts or food, to my feelings about the Holidays? I HAVE to decorate my house. Not necessarily elaborately, but it has to be decorated, I don't know why it just doesn't feel like Christmas without decorations! And I must make homemade gifts for certain people, people I am closest too, because so much more thought and caring/love goes into a homemade gift. And Christmas is about thinking about and caring about and loving those around you!
· What would my ideal Christmas be like? This year it would be ideal to just get through it without and drama or arguments. If that means Austin and I spend Christmas just the two of us, then that would be wonderful!
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