10 days to go!

10 days till Christmas, 12 days till my birthday ....

all of this would be more exciting if Preston was going to be home, but it looks like he wont get to come home till January sometime :( boo. He is having a really, really hard time emotionally and physically with this job and I just pray he can stick it out and not quit. At first we thought he was going to be home for the week after Christmas and now we dont know when so i hate not having a certain date to look forward to. I'm totally bummed at the thought that he probably wont be here, we haven't spent a Christmas or birthday apart in 5 years, so im trying to not let it spoil the season for me:) but it still stinks. I just have hope that maybe by some chance he'll get be here. I have shopped for everyone and wrapped for everyone all by myself, blah, I need my other half!

Thank you Lorri Anne for changing my blog background! loooove it :D it made me smile ....

Tonight i went to dinner with prestons grandparents and then we drove around looking at christmas lights, it was fun:) and tomorrow is wednesday and that means its time for this busy weekend! actually thursday and friday are packed too, babysitting, work christmas party, moms family is coming down saturday for christmas. i;m going to try and enjoy it all . . . i miss my husband and cant wait for him to come home!

JwF

Oh my, 15 days!?!?!

wow, its almost the middle of December already?

how crazy is that! just the other day it was summer and life was a breeze :)

I have a Love/Hate relationship with Christmas, i love the lights, trees, food, family time and giving presents! but i hate the stress that comes with the Holidays. every year since my daddy was little they went into our woods and cut down their Christmas tree each year and he has always done that with us, such memories cutting down a tree each year:) bringing it home and tying it to the ceiling so it doesn't fall lol, below is the winner picked for 2010, she really is a beauty compared to some we have had:) AND no strings on her yet!

Wood Family Tree

My Birthday is also in Dec. which i have always really hated it being right after Christmas and my brothers is the day before mine! i always envied the kids who got to have summer birthday parties at the Lake or somewhere fun ... December is cold and wet and yucky and not a good time for a birthday lol but what do ya do! I turn the big 24 this year and i must say i am a little freaked out about that, i feel like life is going by too fast and i want to be young forever!!

some good news we have had the past few weeks is - Preston was able to take a course for truck driving and passed with flying colors after his 6 weeks and has a job! hallelujah! :) i dropped him off in Dallas sunday night and he had 2 days of orientation which turned into 4 days and he finally goes out on the road tomorrow with his trainer ( he rides/drives with a trainer for 6 weeks) the bad news is that he will be gone a lot and i miss him terribly already:( i havent spent more than 5 days away from him in 6 years! and that was years ago when he went to Paris Junior College for a year. so yes i am so not looking forward to all his time away but he is supposed to be home for christmas and my birthday as of right now but that could change and then gone for another 3 weeks with trainer till he is out on his own and he should be home most* weekends then ::sigh:: i am proud of him for taking on this and i worry about his safety constantly but i did that here too lol. This is yet another challenge in life/marriage and we will work our way through it and learn from it all. God is good, all the time!

I must get off of this computer and get to bed! with all my alone time ill be having now i see more frequent blogs again, if i have no one to talk to i can always talk to myself on here! :)

JwF