So i love this holiday. i love the gorgeous decorations, i love celebrating Christ's birth, i love the spirit this time of year brings. the spirit of giving, of happiness. So Kathryn and I were at Sam's the other day, and i just so happened to have paid for my groceries in cash (lately it's been debit card, but we're getting back to the cash system) and had change left over. well, i wanted Kathryn to know how important it is to "share" with others when we have extra. so i told her that there was a red money can outside where people can put money inside to help those who don't have enough food, etc. and we could share our change with those people who need it by putting it in the money can, but only if she wanted to. of course she did, and she had fun counting all the coins as she dropped them in. i told her we can tell people Merry Christmas as a hello or goodbye and it makes people happy to hear it. so she began chanting Merry Christmas all the way to the car. gotta love those kids. =)
so today was the Relief Society Christmas Party, and my SIL Jenni got to come with me. it was SO nice! i really enjoyed the yummy food and all the cute crafty ideas! i will employ them to the best of my ability. it just so happened that we had planned to go to Hobby Lobby after we got out and we were both feeling pretty crafty after that. so i gave in to my "budget" and got a $4 wreath and about $2 in decorations to put in it. oh and the over the door holder was $3. not a bad deal. i have been wanting more Christmas decorations around the house since we put up our tree that daniel assaulted...no ornaments in his reach in other words. it looks so sad and pathetic. and since we are on a budget, we can't go get anything. well, $10 is not so bad. and it has me excited about finally having a wreath on the door! (i had no idea how cheap they were!)
on a side note...we finally got rid of Henry(our dog). it has been really stressful for me to want to have the house clean, and to go through the trouble of vacuuming and mopping only to have it look dirty again in 30 mins. now i know with kids there are always toys everywhere, and the house never stays "clean" but with a dog, it a different kind of dirty. pet hair littering the couch and floors, causing hair balls to develop in only 2 days after vacuuming... dirt being tracked in from the shortage of grass in our backyard...and it just kept getting worse with Henry's new neighbor friend Buster teaming up and digging holes everywhere and needing a bath every night... it was becoming too stressful to have to settle for a dirty house. and there was of course the fact that Henry wasn't neutered and so with the new neighbor dog not being neutered as well, their was a peeing contest constantly going on...poles on the porch, kids toys, my garden, yep, anything that got left in the yard they had to mark it. and it was going to far. no matter how much i sprayed and cleaned where they peed, they kept coming back. it was quite frustrating watching them pee on the patio, kids toys, etc. so much so that i began to no longer like Henry. i couldn't afford to get him neutered, there were more important things like paying the mortgage and electricity that needed our money, and he was in need of his next round of shots, and heartworm and flea treatment, and we just couldn't afford it. we couldn't keep him any longer. so a nice family decided to take him in. i'm glad that he's not our problem anymore. i know that sounds incredibly harsh, and i love dogs don't get me wrong. but we only took Henry in b/c an old lady couldn't handle him anymore...and we were told he was potty trained and 18 months old. turns out he was 7 months old and not potty trained in the least. just aggravation from the start with him. he wasn't meant to be our dog. and i must say, it's been quite nice having that responsibility lifted. i can focus on other things now and i get stressed out much less frequently. i don't have to follow him around the house wondering if he is going to relieve himself while i'm not looking... i can have a clean house again! and kathryn doesn't ask about him...i told her another family took him in becuase we couldn't take car of him anymore, so he lives somewhere else now, and she left it at that. maybe when they are older and we can afford it, we'll try this dog thing again, but it was too much for me to handle by myself.
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