Holidays

The Holidays have been pretty tough this year. Last Halloween I packed away all of our decorations, lights, etc., since we just began framing (November 2017) and I couldn’t imagine that we would be spending another Halloween, or Christmas, in our Kenmore home. We were thinking, with framing happening when it was, that we’d totally be done before Summer. With the idea that the building process should be about 10 months, we figured we were already 4-months in from when that timer started. We were wrong, so wrong.

Our son, Max, was so excited for Halloween this year, and it hurt because I really couldn’t bring myself to unpack the items that we already packed away in boxes. We have a lot of decorations that we purchased over the years, and I really debated about putting them out, but I just got so sad whenever I went in the garage and began searching for them. I couldn’t help but think about how disappointing it is that we still are not moved in to our new home.

I did end up putting up some decorations for him, but it was far from what I really would have liked to do. I really feel like I let him down and that hurt. I should have pushed through it and found the decorations, but it is what it is now.

We’ve made plans to be out of town for Thanksgiving; We’re flying to Hawaii on Thanksgiving day, and will be returning to Kenmore just before Max’s 4th birthday. For Christmas this year we are considering leaving town as well, thinking of maybe going to Southern California, but we’ll see. There is a chance that parts of the house might be ready, but we are trying really hard to not get our hopes up.

If we stay or go, we’ve basically decided that we’re going to get a Christmas tree and place it in the new house. Will try and make the best of it.