End...

Well, this is it! The end of this weird year! 

I have a lot of hope for 2025. Well, not really. We'll see what happens after surgery and recovery. Right now, that's all I'm focused on. 

I don't know if I'll do a year in review or not... Maybe. But it'll be short since I didn't post a lot in 2024. 

Mainly I spent the year in pain and it impacted so many things for me. I'm ready for the pain not to be an issue anymore. 

It's good that we opted out of the various evening invites we had. Everyone is turning up sick. I'm not convinced we're not going to end up with some form of crud, but we're trying our best! It is what it is though. All we can do is our best. 

That's all I have for now. 

Behave! 

After the Chaos...

It's done! 

I hope your holiday was as awesome as ours!

There was a ton of food, laughter, conversations, and good feelings. I wasn't allowed to do much as far as prep and clean up, but I did what I could and tried my best to be okay with sitting out. 

We had a blast, but I have to say, I'm glad it's over. Now it's just the clean up and reorganization of my house. 

We'll get to that this coming week. This weekend was about relaxing. This is the first weekend in months that we haven't had an obligation. I slept in both days and we just hung out watching dumb tv. And napped.

We also figured out our plan for New Year's Eve. Well, we knew our plan already. We're home. Staying away from germs and therefore missing out on any and all of the gatherings we've been invited to. But we're having an epic dinner that includes an appetizer and dessert. Yeah, we're going fancy. Ha! 

Hopefully you'll hear more from me in the next few weeks before surgery. I'm going to do my best. 

That's all I have for now though. 

Behave! 

Very Merry!

Well, here we are! Christmas is commencing in just a few hours!

I'm almost ready. No. I'm not.. We still need to get our dog a present. Trust me when I say this is a very important thing. She loves to open presents, which is why you won't find any wrapped gifts under our tree unless we're home. 

We also have a few gifts to wrap, food to make, and a house to straighten up, but we're in the homestretch. 

Christmas Eve should be a hoot. Most of the family is coming. There will be a lot of talking, laughing, eating, and talking. Though I do hope for an early evening. I will explain a little further down. 

Then Christmas Day and a birthday. K4 will be 25. We're having stromboli for dinner and her usual ice cream cake. The kids are coming over, which will be fun chaos. And lucky for us, we're off the day after Christmas. 

So, this time last year I started having consistent pain in my hip. I'd had on and off pain for months before, but once I laid down it would stop. Then that stopped being a thing and it hurt all of the time with very rare times of no pain. I thought it was my sciatic. At the beginning of summer I couldn't take it anymore and went to the walk-in orthopedic clinic. 

To make a long story short, I'm having my hip replaced in two weeks. Things have progressed horribly. I am in constant pain and it's hard to get comfortable. I don't sleep well. I can't do half of the things I want/need to. I'm using a cane now and have a special step stool to get in our truck. My tolerance for chaos is pretty much nonexistent right now and I'm exhausted all of the time. I'm very frustrated by my own limitations and it doesn't take much to make me cry because the pain keeps me on the brink already. 

That Man is a saint. He has to put my sock on for me and help me with so many things. He's taking care of the majority of the household chores and has to deal with my whining and restlessness. 

And that's where we're at. I haven't touched my writing in at least a week. But hopefully I will get back to it over the next two weeks. Christmas is my social cut off. I can't take the chance of getting sick and delaying my surgery so I'm quarantining. There won't be any New Year's Eve gathering for us, but I'd probably just be cranky and uncomfortable anyways. 

And that's that. 

I hope you have a wonderful day however you celebrate. 

Behave! 

Holy Cow!

I definitely didn't mean for there to be that long of a silence! 

Sorry about that! 

So what's been going on? 

Insanity! Or maybe just chaos. It's hard to know for sure.

We have like 2 weeks until Christmas. I'm not ready. I'm not even a quarter ready. Our tree is up, but that's about it. And it's a fake tree for the first time ever. It was kind of a necessity for a few different reasons. 

Every weekend is full from now until Christmas. And not just one day full. But it's all good stuff. 

Writing is slow. Very. 

That's all for now! 

Hopefully it won't take me another forever to come back! I'd like to do a more detailed post about what's going on.  

Behave!