I have such mixed emotions about the holiday season. On one hand, I LOVE them. I love celebrating Christ's birth; I love celebrating Kayleigh, Grace, Josh, Carson, Ashley, and Blake's birthdays; I love Thanksgiving turkeys, Christmas decorations, music, kid's faces on Christmas morning. Ah, I love it all.... well, almost all of it.
While I love the actual experience of the holidays, I do not love the stress, cleaning, traveling, present buying, and money pinching of the holidays. It makes me so sad that something that I love so much can also be a source of so much stress. Part of it is that I am not very good at knowing what to buy people, and therefore, I stress about it. I stress about how much money is spent in such a short amount of time. I stress about where and what we are doing when. I am a people pleaser by nature and it seems that around the holidays you are bound to upset someone. :( I hate that. Overall it has become a time of year that stresses me out!
This birthday, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years season (whew, that is a lot in the next two months), I am going to try to not stress. Instead I am praying for overwhelming peace and joy. I know that God has blessed me with this time of year. It is wonderful. I get to celebrate Christ's birth with my closest family, I get to give thanks to God for all that he has blessed us with, I get to celebrate another year of my loved one's lives. How much better can it get?!
I say this but how can I make this a reality? 1- Pray for peace and joy. 2- Set a budget and stay within it. 3- Take one day at a time. 4- Stay focused on the 'reason for the season' Jesus Christ by reading an awesome devotional book. 5- Blog about all the things for which I am thankful to God. I want to be focused on Christ this holiday season. Sounds like a plan!
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