Sweet Vacation

This year, my school district put us on a modified traditional calendar so I have the entire week off this week.  It’s so wonderful to have this entire week to prepare for the holidays.  We spent today doing more cleaning.  My wedding dress is boxed and put away, finally.  Our guest room is no longer the wedding room.  It has a cleaned out closet, books sorted through, dusted and swept.  The bedding is being washed (I sleep in there sometimes because I tend to be an insomniac) and it feels like I’d like to have company again!  The living room floor was mopped for the first time in a long while and we scoured the bathroom.  Rob sorted the office out, the floor was mopped and overall, the house is coming into shape.  I guess with the idea of vacation means I have time to get caught up on all the things I haven’t had the time or energy to do.

Tomorrow is holiday baking with my mom.  We bake cookies and breads for gifts and for the various holiday entertaining we do through the month.  They’ve returned from their cruise we enjoyed dinner out with them last night.  The holidays last year were so chaotic with Rob moving that we didn’t really enjoy the whole build up.  This year, I’m savoring each plan we make, each party we will attend, each day I have with my family, my husband.