it's an octopus's garden
Octopuses?!
Octopi's?
Hee.
I don't know...
All I know is he really really really likes his octopus, so-- Jack, Coley, and Jared-- good choice.....
I keep telling him that he's lucky he's getting anything other than coal after the couch-eating incident... but he doesn't listen. And he's still really freaking cute.
Sigh.
Got to celebrate Christmas yesterday with E and the boylies. Such a good day. Such good times. I love those peoples so so so much.
And we made trees.....
Ummm, Tia?
Where was the forewarning on how long it takes???
Hmmmm??
Or about how many times we'd say-- whoopsies, I dropped another pin.
Yeah.
$100 dollars of pins and foam and extra buttons later..........
Hee.
So worth it just to sit and talk to my sisser for hours, though.
And aren't the flowery ones cute, too?!?!
Tee hee... and you can see e's cute greenie one growing in the background. You cannot see Jared's blue ornament ball. Ooooof. That's still making me giggle. Bad Aunt. Bad Aunt.
In other news...
Max isn't writing a Christmas letter this year... Each time I (err, he) sit down to type one up, it either comes out a) super depressing or b) way too light hearted. There's no real easy, fun way to talk about everything that's happened this year. You can't gloss it over, you can't talk like it hasn't happened... but I also don't want to depress everyone who gets our letter. What it comes down to-- I don't think you are ever prepared for everything life can throw at you. You can never expect the unexpected, and there's only so much sadness you want to face at one time. But I look back at this year-- from losing Alex, to losing pregnancies, to the little things like an exploding water heater that seemed so big at the time and seem so small when I think about things in context-- and I am just so glad to know that I can still look at the world and see the good, see the beauty, see the blessings. I will always miss my sister. I will always wonder what if on so many things... but man. There's still so much good in life. And that is what I'm keeping in my heart this Christmas. Life is not easy. But life? It is good. It really is. And I think that's what Alex would want us to remember right now....
Merry Christmas, Happy Chaunakah, whatever you celebrate this year-- celebrate love, and laughter, and life-- and don't be afraid to remember what was good.
xoxox,
g
Octopi's?Hee.
I don't know...
All I know is he really really really likes his octopus, so-- Jack, Coley, and Jared-- good choice.....
I keep telling him that he's lucky he's getting anything other than coal after the couch-eating incident... but he doesn't listen. And he's still really freaking cute.
Sigh.
Got to celebrate Christmas yesterday with E and the boylies. Such a good day. Such good times. I love those peoples so so so much.
And we made trees.....
Ummm, Tia?
Where was the forewarning on how long it takes???
Hmmmm??
Or about how many times we'd say-- whoopsies, I dropped another pin.
Yeah.
$100 dollars of pins and foam and extra buttons later..........
Hee.
So worth it just to sit and talk to my sisser for hours, though.
And aren't the flowery ones cute, too?!?!
Tee hee... and you can see e's cute greenie one growing in the background. You cannot see Jared's blue ornament ball. Ooooof. That's still making me giggle. Bad Aunt. Bad Aunt.
In other news...
Max isn't writing a Christmas letter this year... Each time I (err, he) sit down to type one up, it either comes out a) super depressing or b) way too light hearted. There's no real easy, fun way to talk about everything that's happened this year. You can't gloss it over, you can't talk like it hasn't happened... but I also don't want to depress everyone who gets our letter. What it comes down to-- I don't think you are ever prepared for everything life can throw at you. You can never expect the unexpected, and there's only so much sadness you want to face at one time. But I look back at this year-- from losing Alex, to losing pregnancies, to the little things like an exploding water heater that seemed so big at the time and seem so small when I think about things in context-- and I am just so glad to know that I can still look at the world and see the good, see the beauty, see the blessings. I will always miss my sister. I will always wonder what if on so many things... but man. There's still so much good in life. And that is what I'm keeping in my heart this Christmas. Life is not easy. But life? It is good. It really is. And I think that's what Alex would want us to remember right now....
Merry Christmas, Happy Chaunakah, whatever you celebrate this year-- celebrate love, and laughter, and life-- and don't be afraid to remember what was good.
xoxox,
g
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