So Thankful this Christmas

I"m beyond words this Christmas. #2 Challenge was to hold still and walk away. I have to learn to walk away and drop things and hold still before talking or acting out when something happens. What a lesson!! I 'd like to think we would all work on that, but I'm guessing we won't. And I'm betting it will be a struggle and never truly learned.

My great Holiday's that began when my husband woke me up on my birthday at midnight the moment my day started. He say's Happy Birthday, do you want to open your card? Ha yes I do please, but I can't really see right know, and I was sorta half asleep. So the comprehension at this point was alittle slow. But I managed to open it and read the wonderful card he picked out just for me. I'd really like to know where he keeps getting these cards? The wording on them, I'd say he sat and read a ton of cards before picking one out because wow! Next he hands me a rectangle shaped item wrapped in........FOIL! HA  yeah foil with a bow on top, I'd say I fell over with laughter but I was still snuggled in my bed.  he had talked about wrapping someone's gift for the holidays in foil cause he thought it would look cool. I don't know where he gets his idea but it was funny when he said it the first time. And then to turn around and receive it was even funnier!! :)) I unwrap it and low and behold it's a Intense DARK Chocolate 96% !! watch out people!!! Next he hands me a silver square shaped box. I open it and inside is another envelope shaped box, I unsnap it and there it is!! A secret I've always wanted. Now it's not a real secret secret, but I don't think I 've ever told him, let alone anyone else that i wanted a round disk silver pendant. And yet here I am starring at it with earrings to match!. Solid sterling heavy might I add very pretty pendant!! I LOVE IT! what a great way to start my birthday off. Going back to sleep was alittle rough but I managed :) I wake up to the smell of ...... Banana Pancakes! YES! When we first started dating he would make them for me when ever I would come over in the mornings, and life happens and I haven't had them in almost a year. I've mention'd them several times just in general over time. Can I say my guy listens when I least expect it!! I 'm off to work feeling the love, and who cares if no one else remembers today because I won't forget it!
All day when ever I would speak to him on the phone he would say Happy Birthday, I believe he told me more times then I could count.
To top it all off a wonderful Girlfriend took me with her to EL Fenix for dinner :)) HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!

We had 3 family dinners to attend, I feel obligated to go to everyone of them, but sometimes at the last minute I just wanna sit where ever I am and drown the the silence. I feel busy all the time so I'm no 100 percent sure if I am ever really fully present where ever I am. But none the less we did have fun at all three. And no one fell off the crazy wagon :)