December

This is my first official Christmas alone, its a weird feeling not having anyone around (besides the dogs of course!) during the season. Last year, I had Mitch and we went up to visit his family. The year before that I was still living at home with my dad. This year it's me in the house, doing my own shopping, deciding what and how to decorate.
Not to mention having to fend for myself. Making my own meals, picking my own bedtime, my own shows, when to do my homework, doing only one set of laundry. Its a weird feeling, I have never been quite on my own before.
Its easy for me to live alone..when someone else is paying the bills though! lol. Its nice not to have to worry about when that paycheck is coming in and what it is going towards. It's all taken care of, I just have to budget for myself. So, its not as stressful as living alone would be. At least I have that going for me.

Its been just over a month since Mitch has been in Kuwait, and it's been a different experience than I expected, that's for sure! I was expecting not being able to keep in touch, besides a once a week phone call, and the occasional skype session. But, the base Mitch is at has wifi! So he has been able to use facebook messenger on the wifi and we are able to talk everyday. Typically one of us is tired when we are talking, with the 10 hour difference. It is either my night and his morning or afternoon, or my morning, and his evening. So we usually only talk for a while, but it is nice to run out of things to talk about, versus not having enough time to talk about what we really want to. I feel really blessed to be able to keep in touch with him at most times.
The time has gone by pretty quick, but when I think about what we have left to go, it seems like only a small time.

Well, onto more fun stuff!

    I hung some ornaments from the archway

 The yard lights. Janice and Kaden supervised :P

 Janice and I made those Jingle all the way wood blocks. We want to add some curly wiring and hang bells on it arched across the top, so it's not quite done. I decided since I don't have a tree up yet, that this would be a good way to display our special ornaments. I love ornaments!

I am pretty proud of the house decorating I've done. I still don't have a tree, or put stockings up but I still am enjoying just the decorating I've done.