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It seems my gadgets are conspiring against me! I had so many bloggy ideas in my head and pictures to match in my camera. Last week, I spent time writing out in the country, and over the weekend my husband and I went to our 10-year class reunion at Texas A&M. I’m sure I’ll get back to that tranquil bloggy place where I write about some event and tie it into some inspirational metaphor. But the fact that my camera erased all of my pictures has left me a bit discombobulated! And I’m working on a computer which crashed last week (which by the way scared the living daylights out of me since I thought I had lost months’ worth of work…but thankfully I did not), so I’m a bit gun-shy to use the computer. At this very moment, I’m not “bright and shiny Michelle.” Maybe some cute picture will lighten the mood:

It was a Feliz Navidad, indeed!
This year, we had Christmas at our house. December is always so very busy, but I felt that I was handling all of the hustle and bustle rather well. My mental to-do list to prepare for Christmas: buy presents (check!), clean the house (check!), keep us all in one piece so that we arrive on Christmas Day safe and sound (the most important check!). On Christmas Eve, I told my mom that I was looking forward to the Christmas dinner at our house.
She said, “I know! You’re hosting Christmas this year! We’ll bring the turkey like we planned and whatever you make will be wonderful.” Oops! Planning the menu! That was one check I forgot.
Did you know that by 8 p.m. on Christmas Eve pretty much all of the grocery stores are closed?! It’s true. So, we bought our Christmas Eve munchies at CVS pharmacy. A can of nuts, gummy bears, pita chips. Yumm-o….or, not so much. On Christmas morning, the only store that was open was a Hispanic mercado. My Mexican husband, who knew his way around the mercado, came to the rescue and loaded us up with all sorts of goodies. Our Christmas dinner consisted of mom’s turkey along with tamales, tortillas, mango salsa, jicama, and guava juice. Not quite the stuffing, asparagus, salad, and cranberry sauce menu that we’re normally used to.
Oh, it was quite a Feliz Navidad, indeed!

“Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.” ~Flavia Weedn

Last weekend, I said goodbye to two dear friends, who happen to be one of the greatest couples that I’ve ever met. While we don’t get together all that often, there is still that idea that they will be moving away.