Five full work days sure makes for a long week, sheesh! Coming back from Thanksgiving is always tough - but here are a few things that helped me power through the week... #1. Authorization to blast my Christmas music!!!! Jace (a.k.a and to be referred to during the entire month of December as bah humbug (BH)) has a pretty strict December 1st Christmas music start policy so I am so very joyful once the 1st rolls around. The X-mas tunes make me feel connected to my family and I look forward to breaking them out every year (I'd easily play them all year long). I can close my eyes and remember the cold Illinois winter and walking into the house to see our festive tree covered in lights and ornaments from both Jeff's and my adventures in school art projects. The fireplace is crackling, my Dad is rockin' his Santa hat and watching "A Charlie Brown Christmas" with Jeff and Mom's baking some cookies she bought from the latest school fundraiser (like mother, lik...
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