I LOVE holiday's

I love holiday's, I really, really love them. I don't know if I love them because of all the decorations and everything or if it is just something that just spices up the year and creates a little excitement. My favorite holiday by far is Halloween. The costumes, pumpkins, candy and trick-or-treating, the slightly sinister quality of the whole thing. I just love it.

I probably have about 10 or more boxes of holiday decor in my one-bedroom apartment and that doesn't include the 10 Christmas trees. If I had the resources or the space I could easily rationalize doubling or tripling that amount and I honestly can not convince myself to part with a single thing. I tried to before I moved and I just couldn't do it. The best part about it was that my dear friends didn't even try to make me because they too knew that it would be too hard for me. I once nannied (if that is even a real word) for a family that had a whole set of housewares for almost every season and major holiday. We are talking dishes, glasses, comforter sets, towels (for all rooms) and home decor. I worked with them off and on for several months and so changed over their home a couple times. While the first time I thought it was a little crazy I then fell in love with opening the cabinet to valentines dishes or sleeping in a bed of fall leaves. It was perfect! I decided it was definitely a long term goal. A few years ago I did buy Christmas dishes, but alas this is as far as I have gotten. But one day my friends.....one day.

My Door

At a bible study session this fall the speaker shared a brief suggestion about creating a poster board listing things you were thankful for. Something about the idea stuck with me. So I cut slips of paper and put them up on the door and they have been there ever since. The new series of blog posts will be based on those things that are my favorite things in my life, the things that I love the most and that I am most thankful for.

Ready, set, go....

Back at it

So I have taken a hiatus, if you will, from blogging. I don't really know why to be honest. I think that it is quite funny looking back now. Why is it that when you have the most to say you say the least. I find that to be a very true for me.

The end of 2008 was an incredibly busy time involving quite a few road trips. A trip to Nashville for my 30th birthday, Little Rock, AR for some friends wedding which was really more of a family reunion then just a wedding. Then a trip back to Nashville for Christmas and New Years. In the middle there my family came to Dallas for Thanksgiving which was more eventful then could possibly be imagined.

This time was also one of the most difficult as I am continuing to adjust to life in Dallas and more then the change in city I am trying to learn to live in an area without the community of family, friends and support that I have been so fortunate to have had around me for so long. **Disclaimer - I came to this city into the arms of the most amazing adoptive parents and my respect for them has grown every month that I have been here. In addition since almost my first day at work I have gained the friendship of a wonderful girl who has definitely got out of her way to make me feel welcome.

All this to say, I don't know why I stopped but I am going to get back to it.