Our Small Christmas

I was looking at our small little Christmas tree in the corner. I think it's 3 1/2 feet tall. With all the craziness that's been going on lately I realized how glad I am to be having a small Christmas this year. All the awkward and painful situations that I've been through or watched my loved ones go through this last year seem less horrible knowing what Christ went through and what we're celebrating.

So I love our little Christmas tree and our little presents we had to get creative about because in the end it's spending this time with family and not spending money on things that will be broken in a year.

College Graduate!

That's right! I'm completely done with college...unless I decide to go back some day to graduate school. I took my last final Thursday night and just about skipped back to my car when I was done. The U only does one graduation ceremony a year though, so I'm not sure if I have to wait until them to get my diploma. That would seem silly though. I graduated with a bachelor's in Sociology a minor in psychology and got a criminology certificate along the way. I keep feeling like I should be doing homework; it's weird actually having free time! Now we just need to get Chris back in school....and figure out what he wants to do. :)

Life

Things are so crazy right now! By 3:00 pm tomorrow I will be down to two classes (from my seven that I took). Sometimes I think I was stupid to take so many classes, but being done earlier is making up for it. Also the fact that I'm going to miss the tuition hike next semester is nice too.

I just turned in the keys to our old apartment yesterday. It's so weird not living in the student housing village any more! I'm going to miss some of the people but definitely not the apartment. At least we got a "When we were first married" story to tell our future kids. Speaking of kids, Tiffany and Mark I am so excited for you! I know I've known for about a month that you're finally adopting an amazing little girl but it still makes me so happy!

We're slowly getting our new place put in order. I'll post pictures after I get it all how we want it. I'm going to paint one of the bathrooms too, so I'm excited to have a project. It will be easier once I'm done with school and not making a 45 minute commute both ways six days a week. I feel bad for Chris though who will be doing the commute for a long time unless he can find a new job closer to home. It's just his luck that when we lived in the village he originally had a job way out by where we live now. And now that we've moved he has a job way up by the village. I really appreciate all the hard work he does for our little family. He's such a great husband and I can't figure out why I deserve to have him in my life some times.

I'm so excited for Christmas to come! We're having a poor-man's Christmas which I absolutely love! I'm tired of all this stuff that we're "supposed" to have. I'd much rather do things with family. In spite of that I still need to figure out something to get for Chris. He's always buying me little presents and being cute like that so I need to do something for him. Now if I can just figure out what.

My bosses at the library gave me a job proposition. I've already agreed to transfer out to my other job though. I think I'm going to stick with Jamba even though I don't like it there. It's going to be more stable long-term than the library. I just hate that the library is so far away because I love working there. It's probably my favorite job I've ever had. Such is life though.