After Christmas Blues

So now it's all done in reverse, EXCEPT you have to dust and sweep BEFORE you put everything back in it's place. You have to find a place to store the "good" boxes that can be re-used. Along with all the other re-gifting items. You then have to be creative with all the OLD stuff that you had sitting around collecting dust and make them look better than they did before you replaced them with the snowmen and santas.  This process seems to become more and more tedious to me each and every year.  However, my children still find all of these decorations as part of tradition and you just don't mess with tradition!

You work for 6-8 weeks prior to this day in preparing for what might possibly be a three hour period of jolly good ole times.  Then when the house is quiet and trashed to the max, you wonder.... is it worth it?
It most certainly is when the kids are still loving it, but believe me... the second that I see they no longer need or desire all of the stuff around, it won't be around.  Now if you are planning several get togethers or parties and such, then yes I believe it would feel more worth it. But when you live out here in the boonies and no one stops by to see all the wonderful work you have done.  It feels pointless.

Wow... I am really sounding like a scrooge right now I know.  Sorry, it is just that my kids were gone at noon yesterday and my husband returned to his man cave and I was left with this disaster that I knew was only mine to clean up.  I can not bring myself to do it.  Not today, maybe not tomorrow.  I have other pressing issues on my mind.  Like trying to get my website up and running so that people know exactly where to come to buy my book !   It has been very difficult the past couple of months with explaining the process of print on demand books and how to obtain them.  So I am going to stock them myself and ship them to you personally with a signature on top!

I have struggled with the site for a month or so (in between all this other hoopla) and I have not been successful in getting the shopping cart to work properly.  So I decided this morning to bite the bullet and pay a professional. Ugh... there goes what tiny profits I had made thus far and they were suppose to be used to buy the books.  I feel a loan coming on soon from my ever brave and blind supporter, me spouse ;D

So stay tuned just a few days longer and you can visit www.jenjohere.com and purchase your books directly from me !!!!!  You can look at it now, but it is just contents of the book and about the Author yada yada yada... but soon, you can actually hit "add to cart" !!!!!

Thank you all and I am sorry that I am such a downer today.  Oh wait ??? Is that my son in the other room packing up ornaments??? I bet he wants to go to the girlfriends house again today, I know how he works.  Pretty smart kid ;D

Happy Packing to you and Happy NEW year to all !!!!!