After it's all over

I haven’t blogged in so long I think my blog has forgotten who I am. I managed to miss all of the Christmas festivities, the New Year’s celebrations, and the holiday cheer in general. So here I am. And now, all I can think to say is “so.” It’s like one of those awkward pauses in an already awkward conversation. It’s in those instances, though I’m typically shy in uncomfortable or new social situations, I tend to laugh nervously, a little too loudly, or suddenly vomit forth a mass of personal information that I would normally die before saying. Somehow though, in those instances, I can’t seem to stop myself. It’s like I’m outside of my body watching me embarrass myself. And then the more embarrassed I get, the more I tend to say, until my husband is mortified by all of the things I’ve just told someone next to him. Of course I’m equally mortified. But…

Not sure how I got there… Ok, I’m regrouping now.

The holidays were wonderful-- at least the part that wasn’t taken from me by the fire and its aftermath. I had my own little Mary, who looked beautiful beside her Joseph. I was able to give the people on my list things that I wanted to give them. I threw a pretty fun, if last minute New Year’s Eve party. I finally finished hunting for, picking up, washing, sorting, and delivering things for my extended family. In fact, they picked a couch we got for them about 2 weeks ago, and that was the last of it. I’m glad to be done with that stuff. I’m back to teaching the little 1st and 2nd graders on Wednesday nights. I’ve already been to a couple of PTA meetings, planned some class activities and sorted through financial business. I started BSF again and we’ve begun worship practice again (which, by the way, has been the highlight of my weeks). I’ve taken all of my family to the dentist, taken the ones who needed it to get haircuts, paid bills, shopped for groceries, gotten Cox out here to switch us, taken the girls to dance a dozen times…

So here I am in January, halfway through now. Where am I? What am I doing? Nothing. Feeling a little down I guess. I mean, I can’t even think of one thing worth saying on my Facebook page. What’s wrong with me.

I think it’s probably just post-holiday, post-busy-with-the-fire letdown. I don’t know. Oh well, don’t mind me. I don’t have anything enlightening to tell you. Hope you all have some entertaining things on your blogs, because I could use a laugh.