Keep Christmas Well .

by chuckofish

Well, after last week’s illness, I am back! I picked up a virus that caused laryngitis and couldn’t make a sound for four days! Mr. Smith ran amuck with no one to tell him “No!” in a stern voice. The doctor gave me steroids to make my voice come back and thankfully, the course ends today.

I’ve wanted to do one of those “Morning Routine as a Corporate Girly” videos you see on Instagram all the time because my house is seriously so cozy in the morning. Don’t worry, the amount of effort it would take to record myself walking down the stairs and then repositioning the camera to catch me turning on the lights and making my coffee etc. keeps me from doing so. That, and the sight of myself pre-getting ready for the day.

When I’m sitting on the couch, in my cozy house, decorated for Christmas, with a mug of hot coffee in my hands, and my puppydog who is getting to be very sweet as he matures out of puppyhood sitting on my lap, it is difficult not to feel incredibly grateful. The year has not been without its hardships, of course, but as we approach the final week and a half of the year, I know I am so blessed to be where I am. I hope you feel the same about your lives!

It should come as no surprise that I am looking forward to a holiday break. I am taking two weeks off from work (barring major disaster). Hallelujah! And to include one last Richard Scarry meme before the end of year, I will be channeling BusyTown vibes during this time.

Just kidding, I don’t have any enemies.

I know my mother already included a bit from the last chapter of A Christmas Carol, but I want to include some too.

“Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have the malady in less attractive forms. He own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.”

Merry Christmas!