Anxious!

It is the Eve of Christmas Eve! This year has been a bit different for me. Normally I would be home in WA by now, waiting for Santa to arrive at my parent's house. But this year, all my family is travelling to the East to spend Christmas together at Julie's house in WV! That means that I 'get' to work all the way up to Christmas Eve this year. It's been rough the last several working days. Partly because it doesn't feel like the holidays if I'm working, and partly because my co-worker travelled to the Dominican Republic so I am in the office by myself. While it is normally VERY quiet around here during the holidays, this year is different. AARP has been buzzing with activity, which means a lot more work for me and my little company. Budgets have been cut, people have been let go, temporary labor requests have been more closely monitored. So it seems as if I haven't been able to be very cheery because of the busy, hectic work load.


BUT!


Tomorrow will come. I get to pick my parents up at the airport in the morning and we will meet everybody up in WV for an awesome Christmas!! That is - if Seattle airport doesn't get shut-down. Why did it never snow that much when I lived there? Hopefully there won't be any problems getting Mom & Dad out here.

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Last week my attempt to get friends to go see the DC trees proved about half successful. Trav and Scott were able to attend with me and I was so glad! We had a nice hot Italian dinner before we headed out in the cold to see the trees. Good company and good fun!

Me with the Capitol and Capitol Tree

Me, The Wasington State Tree and the Washington Monument in the background.

Travis and the National Tree

Scott and the National Tree

(Scott has lived here 9 years and never seen this!!)

Me and the National Tree

The 3 of us being giddy

Christmas White House

I added snow to my blog! I think it's fun to watch it fall. :)