It is now
just under one week to Christmas Day. I
am not where I wanted to be now; but considering all the unexpected
circumstances I’ve been dealing with, it’s not too bad.
I am happy
that I got started early with going through the house room by room. While there will always been more purging to
do (especially with losing my vision – not much point in keeping a lot of
things, such as books).
I did not
get as much done as in previous years; but considering that the more problems I
encountered, the less help I got from the ones I had most counted on .. it’s
not too bad after all.
My biggest
problem at this point is with shopping.
I did not “plan ahead” to not be able to leave the house, or to not be
able to drive. For that matter, shopping
is no longer fun when I can’t see things; and shopping on line just isn’t
possible at all. I used to prefer
waiting; but clearly my priorities in that regard have to change.
Also, in
the past I started just after Halloween to get decorating done. This year I waited until after Thanksgiving
since I had a big crowd here for that.
Since I did less .. and since I’ve had extremely limited chances to do “holiday
things”, it’s worked out OK. I’d like to
think for next year I’ll go back to decorating early.
The truth
is, I have no clue what will be my situation by next year. I hope I will still be here in this house I
love. And I hope DH will still be here
with me. But in truth the only thing I
can pretty much count on is that my vision will not be improved (and will most
likely be a lot worse).
That being
said, I need to revise my whole plan and start in January. My original plan was a room a month, and I
need to go back to that.
This year
there will be no piles of pretty packages.
There will be no big Christmas dinner.
I expect (I hope) our grandsons
will come by sometime in the evening; but that depends on what time they get to
their dad’s house (might be too late to come here). In the end, it will most likely be just
another day here. But it will be one
with pretty lights anyway. J
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