My last assignment was finally handed in and that weight is off my shoulders. It's time to prepare for Christmas.
It has been a year since I got the 5 ft tree. Last year I put it up alone, this year, the kids will do it.
The rainy season has kicked in too. Christmas is always wet for us, not white.
The personal stuff still weighs heavy on my mind but I am practicing at managing it. Proceedings are not over yet, a couple of hurdles yet to go over what is called the 'ancillaries.' But I am less worried over that.
Today saw the slow beginning of spring cleaning. The first are the children's bookshelves. There are so many good books and yet the boys who need to get in the most reading have the toughest time about it. They are not into my definition of 'good' books, they are into beast master, monster,... ghost and creature, ..power or action figure fiction.
I end up buying books they will read so that they do read.
Why is it so much harder for boys to read books than girls?
I was thinking maybe I should pay them to read the good books !
I had to make space painfully and so many of these books will have to go to the thrift shop because I know they will never get read at all here. So sad.
The new year will hold many new experiences for us, and keeping those in mind, I am looking forward to it.
Like the rain that washes the air clean, so too the new year will bring us a cleansing of the negative.