I have been so domestic today, I want to explode … and it’s not even 1 p.m.! Who knows what else I will be up to today! In 4 hours, I have cross-stitched, made a lemon meringue pie, made sweet rolls, gone to Michaels …. ummm I think that’s it. Certainly more home-y stuff than I normally do in a month!

I ended up getting my brother a gift card for Christmas which I know is the easy way out. But really, what the hell do you buy a 26-year-old man? I normally like to buy actual presents but with him, it’s just too tough. He does drive a pick-up truck so I suppose I could have ordered a truck bed liner, but it’s easier just to slap down $25 at Barnes and Noble lol.

I have been making an effort to pray/meditate daily and I feel like it’s really made a difference in my demeanor. Like when I was on that flight the other day with the screaming infant five feet from me, I felt sorry for the mom, who was traveling alone with the baby, and just wanted the little girl to be comfortable and not scared. Today my mom and I were in the car and this old jokey Christmas song came on, the one where people are bitching about 12 different things about Christmas. I mean, Christmas comes every year, why not just prepare for it? Gah. Stuff like that drives me crazy.