Greatest day!

Tyler and I woke up at 11:00am, yes, 11:00am on Saturday. We spent the night at his parents house but everyone else took of early for a weekend in Yakima. We stayed behind in Idaho and decided to have a lazy day.

After waking Tyler read a book in front of the fire for a while as I continued to lay in bed "resting." From there we made a bed of blankets and pillows on the living room floor and watched "P.S. I love you." It was so fun to just be close and enjoy a movie, and good call to put Gerard Butler in the movie because Tyler willingly watches since he was "King Leonidas" in the movie "300."

Then we cleaned up his parents house a bit and headed back home. Tyler took the dogs to the lake while I showered and cleaned our house a bit. Then we headed to Bed, Bath, and Beyond for some kitchen must haves. Meanwhile, we got a call from a good friend and his wife that they were in town from LaGrand. We met at Costco to eat and then headed to ColdStone for ice cream.

Since parting from our wonderful friends and ice cream I have puttered around the kitchen, making room for my new waffle iron from my mother-in-law and Tyler has watched a football game and played his new video game (yes I know, videogame, but everyone needs their vice. Mine are probably trashy shows on ABC).

I also did some editing on PhotoShop and watched a few tutorials for some new tricks. What fun! What a wonderful day, no complaints from Tyler or myself, just a wonderful lazy day between lovers!

Holiday blues

I don't want the title of this post to concern anyone. Christmas is amazing, wonderful, and one of my favorite times of the year. Even with all of these good feelings about Christmas, the holidays are a hard time for me. I think I blogged about this last year too, but here it is again, making me an emotional cookie baking crazy lady!

There isn't really one thing that makes me feel sad around Christmas, but just the absence of secure/fond memories. I haven't had a Christmas with both parents since 8th grade and because of this I don't really have any traditions that I hold near and dear to my heart. Yeah, I can remember some of the things we did when I was younger, but sometimes they are hard to remember without remembering the later years.

My heart often feels "hurt" during the holidays, I don't know how to explain it. It is a literal, tear-jerking, pain.

So how do I get past this? I'm not really sure. I know that I obviously need to pray about it, year round! It is only God who can bring security during the holidays, not Tyler or my own will.