'Tis the Season

For early Christmas decorating! ❤

FUN! lol

My surgery's on Thursday, and I feel sure that this cheery, festive atmosphere will speed up my recovery process! lol  Mom and I spent most of the past weekend transforming my house whilst enjoying Christmas music and tasty snacks. The Whitaker fam came to help us get the massive tree boxes down from the attic on Saturday. 

I insisted on a pic with my fun photo props... and I love that everyone but me looks kinda "meh" about the idea of this Christmasy photo in mid-October. lolol

The boys were much more excited about getting to sit on my "cotton candy couch" again, so yay for this cuteness!

Frankie opened this ceiling door, and a cricket immediately fell out and a large spider web swung down with the attic stairs... and I knew in my heart that I'd made the right decision never to set foot up there. lol  And here I am taking a pic of others doing the hard work, which reminded me of the great garage remodel of 2009. lol  

The boys playing in my storm shelter whilst Frankie was in the attic!

Mom put them right to work fanning the tree branches!

This was randomly on Facebook yesterday and made me laugh.  I'll claim the extra joy, though - sure!

Fun side note:  Saturday also marked my one-year anniversary of living in Moore - thankful for a home I love and for feeling more settled into this new season in my life!

I wore the same clothes to celebrate (not deliberately, but I did wear the exact same shirt this weekend). lol  This = some good memories from my moving week!

And a few from the building process...

The hysteroscopy is a relatively minor surgery, but it's still my first surgical procedure in over 20 years.  They're taking a biopsy, so pray for no signs of cancer.  In addition, I have a video presentation due this week where I am required to do a live counseling role-play and then receive live feedback from all my Practicum classmates... which does not thrill me, although I trust there is purpose in it.  Anyway, between that and hormonal things, regulating my emotions and stress levels has been more challenging this week.  I'm in a very full season with a lot going on and some big future decisions on the horizon, a season where I'm reminding myself to take it step by step, and that God's grace will be enough day by day!  He is faithful in big and small ways, like the way it came together at the last minute this morning for another CR to cover my trial tomorrow (after I felt stressed over that all weekend).  Anyway, for anyone else feeling a little overwhelmed, this post was encouraging to me on that front...

"Don't let your hearts be troubled.

Trust in God, and trust also in Me." 

~Jesus, John 14:1 ❤