A Road Less Travelled

It’s been busy around here. Not only are there the normal Christmas preparations going on, but this year food has been extra expensive so there’s been more fiddly work to do. We’ve made our own korv for a couple of years, but this year we ground up all the meat before making the sausage. Dried apples are really expensive so we dried our own for the fruit soup. It’s good work, but it takes away from vast amounts of time I devote to writing posts. Maybe I’ll write something incredibly witty between now and Christmas, but I really doubt it. I just kinda wanted everyone to know.

In the interim, Seth asked me to write my own blurb for our Christmas letter. It’s so hard to write about myself for a letter that’s going out to a combination of people who know me better than I know myself and people who wouldn’t know me from a funny looking cactus. I mean, I would have thought I’d have been used to it because I write here on this blog, but I guess I just pretend no one reads this. On the other hand there’s no real guarantee anyone reads the Christmas letter. Anyway, here’s the blurb for any and all who are interested.

This past year feels like it’s been an important year for me, though in a bunch of small ways. There was no big happenings that changed me all around, but the year was full of small changes that have helped me feel more and more comfortable in my own skin. Very little on the outside has changed- I’m still living with Seth and Crystal, I’m still a full-time aunt/nanny, I still like bright colors and large hand gestures, I’m still the most excitable person I know and I still write short tales full of whimsy. But I’ve come to feel comfortable doing all those things and being all those things. It’s a good feeling and I’m hoping the coming year just continues that trend.

Currently, 2009 is looking to be more of the same for me. I am hoping to publish another collection of my tales and I’m planning on visiting Josh and Adiel in February to help with their new baby. Maybe something big will happen, but right now I’m planning on a year of laughter, hard work, and good friends.