My Ebenezer

I’m not quite ready to rejoin the “real world” yet. Although our Christmas weekend was very hectic, I enjoyed the business and being around so much of our family.

This week between Christmas and New Year’s often feels like a wasteland. The new year hasn’t yet begun but Christmas is over and there are only a few days remaining. I don’t know why it feels like a “nothing” week but that is how I’ve always thought of it. Christmas and New Year’s are so big and the week in between just kinda gets lost. I mean, really? Does anything exciting EVER happen between Christmas and New Year’s?

I’m sure there is a lesson in here somewhere about making every day count and I could fill this page with something inspirational to motivate you to turn this week into an amazing adventure…….but I’m just not feeling it. I say, take the week off. Even if you have to be at work, work as little as you can get away with and spend your days dreaming of all the wonderful things 2006 will bring. Then plan to make them happen.

Blow this week off and enjoy the slower pace for the few remaining days of 2005. You deserve it and even if you don’t deserve it, take it anyway! You’ll make up for it next year, won’t you? I’m taking off this week. The last few days have been virtually “adoption stress” free and I’m going to continue that. I’ll assume nothing noteworthy will happen between now and next year so I’m just not going to think about it. We’ll return to the usual adoption related posts after the New Year…..or not. We’ll just wait and see what mood strikes me.

In the meantime, go ahead and tell me what your resolutions are. I have only one. But I won’t tell you what it is until you tell me yours.