It is Friday, and I still haven’t posted here
yet! There are a few reasons for the
delay:
Thomas had surgery on Thursday to put in a second
pair of tubes and his adenoids removed.
I am embarking on a totally new project that has
required time for preparation. Stay tuned
on this one – I’ll make the announcement on Tuesday!
I have been totally preparing for Christmas. In fact, I would be surprised if Santa doesn’t
ask me to join his team as an official elf.
I am suffering from blog guilt – I haven’t been
reading or commenting on blogs. I have
been neglecting Mommy on the Spot this week.
I have not been as active on my social sites.
But Christmas is one of my most favorite times of
the year. It is such a magical time of
year that I am trying to be present for Marie and Thomas (despite the above
list that didn’t even mention Harrington’s last minute business trip to
California).
But in spirit of honoring my love of the holiday and
my passion for blogging and my new obsession with YouTube, I have decided to
use YouTube clips to describe me at Christmas.
It usually starts out with Harrington and I having a
variation of the conversation like Ellen and Clark Griswald share (in which I could
not find a clip – YouTube Fail). It
starts out with Ellen (Harrington) telling Clark (me) that her parents and his
parents were going to be staying with them during Christmas.
Clark responds, “All my life I’ve wanted to have big
family Christmas.”
Ellen cautiously says him, “It’s just that I know
how you build these things up in your mind.
You set standard no family event can ever live up to.”
Clark replies in disbelief, “When have I ever done
that?”
Ellen lovingly reminds him by saying, “Parties. Weddings.
Anniversaries. Funerals. Holidays.
Vacations. Graduations.”
After I blow off Harrington’s cautionary reminders,
I usually march ahead with my child-like enthusiasm and make lists of all the
fun holiday things we will do as a family, just like Buddy the Elf (minus the
elf costume). (Note to self: consider finding elf
costume for next year).
I then become so excited about Christmas I start to
take form of Maria Bamford’s character from the old Target Christmas commercials.
Inevitably, I end up having some kind of meltdown in
which I end up sounding like this:
Which brings us full circle with me being the female
version of Clark Griswold.
Yep. This is
me at Christmas.
I promise to have a real blog post that will be
announcing the new direction my new life is taking. (Re: I am no longer in denial and signed on
the dotted line).
How is your holiday season coming along? Are you a Clark Griswald/Maria Bamford/ Buddy
the Elf type of Christmas person? Or do
you lean more on the Grinch side (which, no judging. I am a total Grinch about Halloween.)
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