I can find lots of reasons not to be productive sometimes. If you know me well, you will know that procrastination is one of my greatest talents. Like right now for example... while I should be cleaning my house and wrapping presents, I am looking at cute pictures I took of Zoe yesterday (when I should have been doing my piles of laundry). I will work on this in the new year... maybe. What I've found awesome is that when it comes to photo-related things, I don't have this problem. How lucky I am to have a "job" (still hard for me to call it that) doing something that I never tire of. I am ever so grateful. Even if I am totally guilty of procrastination, I love my camera because it makes me stop and take in all the little moments that I don't want to ever forget. Especially now. If I can bottle them up, in a sense, my laundry can wait.
On another subject entirely, the holidays kind of stress me out. I totally want to be one of those people that gets their Christmas shopping done by early December and enjoys the anticipation of Christmas, singing Christmas carols (god help anyone who ever has to hear me sing), drinking hot chocolate and being all jolly. But, everrrryyy single year this is me: "I am totally going to start my Christmas shopping in August this year." [End of December comes, usually Christmas Eve Eve]: "Our Christmas cards are late again and I still have 23498 people to shop for!" I am not a shopper. I wish I was like a lot of girls I know with the "retail therapy" thing. Totally opposite for me! Shopping makes me super anxious and just isn't my thing. However, when I walk out of the store, bags in hand, I am totally stoked. I love coming home with the big pile of things, I just don't like the process of getting them. Even though I'm totally beating myself up about all my procrastination habits, there is this giant Christmas spirit burst that hits me on Christmas Eve Eve... and it's awesome! It's like it doesn't feel real to me until I'm anxiously and excitedly rushing around, finding fun things in weird places, wrapping presents, staying up too late... and then I have the satisfaction of having it all done and enjoying our Christmas Eve and Christmas morning traditions.
This is our second Christmas with Zoe, but my baby is totally turning into a kid, and I'm okay with that! (I swear). She's really starting to like toys and new things, and she gets the cutest little concentration face, like she's really WORKING playing and learning with her stuff. I'm really excited for her to get some new things this year and really experience Christmas for the first time. Plus, giving is totally my favorite part and it couldn't be more fun to give to a family that you're so in love with. And because no one likes to read that many words without something to look at...
I call this "there's no place like home."
and this, "oh, holidays!"
Merry Christmas Eve Eve! I can't wait to share more of our Christmas and New Years, oh how I love a NEW year... :)
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