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I swear to God that if I didn’t have a blog I would have a load of gossip for you about my holiday. My best friends that know me, know I’m not fibbing. Since starting this blog my life has gotten increasingly quiet. Usually, I have stupid crazy stuff happen to me all the time. However, in the universe’s twisted humor, it wants to give me no material whatsoever to write about. Since starting this blog, there have only been a few times when something has happened that made me look to my hubby to say, “Oh, I’ve got to blog about that for sure.” Then he looks back at me and usually says, “Oh, no you don’t got to blog about that for sure!”

Damnitt! Why do I have to be so respectful of boundaries? Where’s the fun in that? Bad girls have all the fun.

As I wrote how the universe has given me no material I realized that it did. It usually does. I just tend to think I’m going to put someone to sleep if they had to be tortured by reading some of the normal stuff that happens or if they have to read my more “sentimental” posts.

Thing is, that’s me. I am sentimental. I am emotional. I ponder a lot of things in my life, in life in general and in the world around me. I want to be true to myself. I want to be authentic. Most, of all I want to be true to you all. So I decided that’s what I’m gonna continue to do.

What brought all this introspectriveness on? Something I call the “aftermath”. The aftermath to me is the day(s) following December 25th of each year. Some years it’s more bearable than others. This year, I will admit, I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed. I’m looking around at my house and it looks like my home threw up on itself, as one of my best friends would say. There are toys everywhere. Boxes everyhwere. Dishes everywhere. Everything is everywhere!! I don’t know where to start. Hell, I don’t even want to start. I keep my house pretty clean so this is overwhelming for me because I’ve been a stay at home mom for about 5 years now. This is what I do. I clean. I cook. I take care of my 3 kids, I mean 2 (my husband only counts when I’m mad at him). I’m guessing I just don’t let my house get this far gone usually, so to see it this way is driving me bananas. A little mess never hurt nobody right? Right.

Really, the mess was worth seeing the kids faces light up and hearing Aryanna let out these eye squinting, spine bending, shoulder raising, ear piercing screeches when opening up something she reallllllllllly wanted. Seriously. She is that loud.

I had a wonderful time Christmas Eve at my mom’s house with her side of the family. We had great food, great gifts and great family there. Here’s me watching the kids opening their gifts at her house Christmas Eve.

After we left there we booked it home an hour and a 1/2 to see Santa in our neighborhood before we went to bed.

Then the kids woke up to the presents under the tree. I managed to keep them from tearing everything open long enough to take this picture together.

I think part of all this also, is that I’ve been up the last 3 or 4 nights until 2 or 3 in the morning and then getting up 4 or 5 hours later between all the cooking, shopping, wrapping and cleaning. I feel like my brain is slowly shutting down. So for now the mess will remain.

Please feel free to comment me and commiserate. I need to know I’m not the only one feeling like sleeping for a month right now.

Also I am sharing some Link love with other mom bloggers that have shared their Christmas photos so click this link to check them out as well.