MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!It's the eve before Christmas and I have been totally overwhelmed at how blessed I feel this year! I got sooo many wonderful gifts I'm not sure how to take it all! My family's tradition is to open all our gifts on Christmas Eve and wake up late on Christmas morning. There has been a vast change in my feelings about Christmas. I have for the last few years (as I've stated before) felt a little distant towards this season, but this year it has been quite different! I was really looking forward to everything; hanging out with the family, Christmas pageants, and the presents I bought for people, just everything! I sometimes wonder if my change in feelings towards Christmas is because I didn't have high expectations. But in regards to gifts alone, even if I were to name everything off that I got for Christmas I think anyone would think that it was a lot of great gifts! I almost feel bad. And I don't believe that I've justly expressed what I even feel.
Lets see..
- Sam bought me a
car stereo which I absolutely love! And David played a huge part in getting it installed. :)
- My best friend Rachel got me a plate of goodies and included 3 gift certificates!
Bath & Body Works,
Barnes & Noble and
Best Buy! :D And also a really cute book mark.
- Dick from work got me some candles and a cute address book, journal box set.
- The youth even got me a blue glass vase (which I have collected for a while) and also a gift certificate for
Barnes & Noble!
Oh and I received $100.00 from my boss at our work party!
Tonight I opened up what my family got me...
- My parents bought me the
Anne of Green Gables DVD Trilogy! A movie which was a HUGE part of my childhood! I can't wait to watch it tomorrow! :D
- Grandparents got me
This Present Darkness and Piercing the Darkness.
- My sister got me these adorable pink slippers! They are soooooo comfy! I love em!
- My brother bought me the biggest shock! An iPod! And not just any iPod but a
U2 Special Edition iPod!!!!
Oh and Carlos at work drew me a picture of an image that has a lot of meaning for me. And he's going to complete it in a series of three images so I can get them framed! Here is a scan of the picture below. Isn't he an awesome artist!?
Christmas has been an enormous blessing. And my family loved what I got them so it was even better! I am just so appreciative of everything that I've been given. It's more then I could have ever even hoped for!
So I say goodnight and wish you all the very best this Christmas!
CD Player: Franz Ferdinand & Jimmy Eat World are my favorites tonight.
Mood: Overwhelmingly grateful!
Link of the Day:
MinneSoLong - Interesting blog I ran across in surfing the web. It was her photography that caught my attention.
posted by Charity at 12/24/2004 11:59:00 PM 
