Peaceful...
It's gray outside (grey? I never know - please enlighten me if it matters how one spells that word, as I've been too lazy for my entire life to look it up), which is absolutely lovely to me. I know a lot of Socal people hate this weather. They are the same ones who have been exuberant on Facebook the past few months about "Another beautiful SUNNY day in Socal! YAY 80 DEGREES! I LOVE LIVING HERE!" And the like. I'm sorry friends, but it's my turn now.
To add to the lovely, I have been on vacation the past week, and will continue to be through the end of December. It has been a year since my last vacation, and having some rest before crazy baby Roberts enters the outside world is medicinal to the soul. Tonight, Aaron and I get to find out the gender of another baby Roberts. His brother and sister-in-law are having a party to announce if their baby is going to require them to buy "a shotgun or a whoopie cushion", as my husband puts it. So that's pretty fun.
I also get to hang out with my dear friend Michelle on Monday. She has been in Bolivia the past few months as the beginning of a two-year commitment to missions work there, and it turns out that she gets to come home for Christmas. I am beside myself that I will get to see her face. Yeeeeee.
Alongside such happy things, my life is difficult and weird right now. I'm kinda thinking that God wants me to learn to keep living with peace and joy in the midst of imperfect circumstances, because, well, I have a long track record of really sucking at that. It's very hard for me to put up with imperfection. I am the kind of person who has a hard time just resting, because in the quiet I end up obsessing about any little detail of my life that is "off" that my brain happens to land on. Yup, that is my natural tendency. Sounds fun, doesn't it? It makes me a decent problem-solver, but a very poor relaxer.
So, messy life: You are not going to ruin my vacation, if I can help it. Thankfully, I have a husband who helps me chill out. The gray/grey weather helps, too. Whether you have trouble resting or not, I hope that you, dear reader, are able to find a measure of peace and joy this Christmas season, in the midst of all that is going on in your own life. I would give you a plate of delicious homemade cookies right now, if I were with you in person, and if I had actually made some. That's one of my own personal Christmas traditions - talking about baking, but never actually doing it. Anyone else have that one? :)
To add to the lovely, I have been on vacation the past week, and will continue to be through the end of December. It has been a year since my last vacation, and having some rest before crazy baby Roberts enters the outside world is medicinal to the soul. Tonight, Aaron and I get to find out the gender of another baby Roberts. His brother and sister-in-law are having a party to announce if their baby is going to require them to buy "a shotgun or a whoopie cushion", as my husband puts it. So that's pretty fun.
I also get to hang out with my dear friend Michelle on Monday. She has been in Bolivia the past few months as the beginning of a two-year commitment to missions work there, and it turns out that she gets to come home for Christmas. I am beside myself that I will get to see her face. Yeeeeee.
Alongside such happy things, my life is difficult and weird right now. I'm kinda thinking that God wants me to learn to keep living with peace and joy in the midst of imperfect circumstances, because, well, I have a long track record of really sucking at that. It's very hard for me to put up with imperfection. I am the kind of person who has a hard time just resting, because in the quiet I end up obsessing about any little detail of my life that is "off" that my brain happens to land on. Yup, that is my natural tendency. Sounds fun, doesn't it? It makes me a decent problem-solver, but a very poor relaxer.
So, messy life: You are not going to ruin my vacation, if I can help it. Thankfully, I have a husband who helps me chill out. The gray/grey weather helps, too. Whether you have trouble resting or not, I hope that you, dear reader, are able to find a measure of peace and joy this Christmas season, in the midst of all that is going on in your own life. I would give you a plate of delicious homemade cookies right now, if I were with you in person, and if I had actually made some. That's one of my own personal Christmas traditions - talking about baking, but never actually doing it. Anyone else have that one? :)
posted by Amanda Lane at 12:02 PM
3 Comments:
I love this post! What a great way to enter into motherhood, being able to be at peace(or at least trying to) and having rest...and a great way to enter into Christmas (having time off and enjoying it). Oh, and grey can actually be spelled both ways...for real! Enjoy this precious time!
Ditto on the weather stuff. Give me overcast and cloudy or rainy and stormy any day! It doesn't depress me. Rather it energizes me. I get excited with it.
Totally understand the imperfection thing. Seems like comes up every year around the holidays for me. It boils down to being married to someone who has a huge family versus my tiny family and where we're going to spend our holidays. Never changes, so why does it always surprise me? Oh yeah: imperfection! :-)
It should be a wonderful time of year for us as God blessed us with a job offer for me on the day before Thanksgiving! Talk about wonderful, perfect timing! I start my new job on Monday. New year: new job. Praise God!
Merry Christmas, Amanda to you and Aaron. So happy for you guys that you'll be welcoming your parents' first grandchild. Your son will be so loved (and spoiled-rotten). But, that is the way it should be.
Thanks for the encouraging comments!
And congrats on the new job, Joe. That's so great!
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