I know it’s a day late, but…
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas!
I hope the holidays were spent with your family and friends in joy, laughter and lots of love!
Ciao!
Merry Christmas!
Month: December 2024
Twas A Week Before Christmas…
Sorry for the delayed post, but last minute Christmas shopping and wrapping up gifts has kept me fairly busy this week. Along with failed cookie recipes and planning for my family’s Christmas get together this Saturday.
Hopefully my new batch of cookies will go better in the morning, fingers crossed!
Not much to report at the moment other than the madness that now surrounds Christmas. So here is my little Christmas shock this year…
On Thursday this week, we had decided to take Valeria to have her photo taken with Santa. Woo exciting! I’m personally indifferent about the whole thing and find it a little….creepy to have my kid sit on a strange man’s lap. But I digress. Back to the story here, so I dress Valeria up in a cute little winter sweater, black pants with little silver stars at the ankles and did her hair in cute little pigtails at the back. I know I’m biased, but my goodness she was so freakin’ adorable! Anthony and I also dressed up just in case we could photo bomb. WHAT!? Yes, we are those parents, don’t be so surprised! We head to the mall and get in line, than we find out we needed a reservation to see Santa.
Let me repeat: A RESERVATION! I find that utterly ridiculous.
I remember when I was a kid, you would stand in line and wait to get your turn to sit on Santa’s lap and tell him what you wanted for Christmas and than FLASH, photo taken and off you went. Mom would pay for the photo and you would be on your way to the food court or to walk around the mall with your parents. Now you need to pay in advance and reserve a spot to see Santa. Who was barely at his chair to be completely honest, I swear every time we walked by he was gone and my dad even saw him walking around the mall. Needless to say, we didn’t end up getting a photo with Santa and they were fully booked for the rest of the week. Fine by me to be honest, we’ll just have to reserve a spot next year I guess.
I was completely rolling my eyes on that last sentence.
Now onto my reoccurring feeling regarding Christmas, now bare with me and I’m sure people probably don’t have a similar opinion about it, but it’s just my thoughts. I’ve been feeling that the Christmas Season has really lost it’s meaning and it seems to have the expectation of being more and more extravagant with gifts every year. I love buying gifts for our parents, the kids and our little family (my daughter and husband), but I feel like it’s always a competition with family on how much you buy/spend on gifts. And honestly, I am so exhausted over it. I feel like it’s lost it’s meaning; which is celebrating Christ’s birth, being charitable and spending time with friends and family. Cherishing those precious moments and celebrating traditions.
There is so much pressure put on us during the holiday season, not to mention if you host Christmas at your house, look out! But I wish we could get back to the basics. Put a limit on gifts/spending (hey even make some homemade gifts!), decorate the best you can, cherish the family traditions we have (and maybe make some new ones), being with family/friends, go back to church and just really take the time to appreciate everything we are given throughout the year. Let’s take the pressure off shall we?
I want to change things next year and embrace….simplicity. We will see if it comes true, just got to manifest it first.
Anyway, that’s my little Pre-Christmas rant for the week. I hope you had a wonderful week wherever you are in the world!
Ciao!!
Winter….Oh Man…
Well, winter is here and frankly I am not thrilled in the slightest. Having to layer myself was always a pain, now try to layer a slightly defiant and fiercely independent fourteen month old.
Not an easy feat I have to admit.
Though, I will say that some days are easier than others and she actually helps to dress herself; grabbing her socks, boots, jacket, etc. But going anywhere, even a walk, and having to throw on layer after layer is exhausting.
Plus, Valeria hates the snow. It’s kind of comical to be truthful because this is the first year she is really getting to experience winter and all it’s bone chilling, yet mildly beautiful, offerings. We bought her a full snow suit so that she can play in the snow; her snow suit, boots, hat and gloves were wrangled onto her and we stepped outside. Mind you this was about a week ago.
We had been getting some winter storms, so we had a lot of snow in the yard. My husband and I thought, she is going to love this! It was packing snow too and for anyone who doesn’t know what that means, it’s perfect snow to build snow men and have snowball fights; it essentially holds together really well and is slightly heavy. We popped her down in the snow and she immediately started crying. To be fair, the snow was about chest high for her. We began to show her to throw around the snow with her mittens, to make a ball in her hands and even made a mini snow man (more like a little snow tower, but eh!) and she stopped crying. We had to dig around her so that she had room enough to turn and walk the little bit that she had. Needless to say, she wasn’t really enjoying it much, but I did capture a very cute photo of her at that moment in time. Pretty sure my husband had more fun in the snow then she did!
The snow has slowly began to melt, but I still find it difficult to do much with her outdoors. The weather is a bit deceiving because it could look sunny and beautiful, but you step outside and you are freezing your ass off!
So, I’m trying to find indoor activities to do with her and we do take her for walks during the day. But you know how it is, that gets very boring after a while.
I thought about getting her one those little coloring boards that you can wipe it away after and they can doodle again, but then I thought she may be a little too young. She loves music, so we’ve been putting a lot of music on for her lately. It’s just, she is such an active little girl, that I want her to get as much energy out as possible and to be able to use her creativity and to learn all at the same time.
I might do a little research and see what other parents suggest, and any suggestions in the comments would be so appreciated!
But that’s all I have for today and I hope you have a wonderful day or night wherever you are in the world!
Ciao!!
Realizations
I haven’t written in some time now, if I’m correct, since after my daughter’s first birthday. Though don’t quote me on that since I didn’t exactly go back to check. Sorry! But I’ve missed the writing.
When I started this blog, it was basically for me to have an outlet; to share my experiences as an everyday mom, what I went through (and still going through) emotionally, physically and well, everything in-between. To be honest, I never thought it would be anything and I really never thought anyone would actually be reading it, let alone on a regular basis.
But than, I started getting follows and comments and I felt….amazing that I was actually being read by someone in the world. Slowly but surely it began to grow, but than what was joyful in the beginning began to feel like….a bit of a job. Posting everyday, trying to come up with interesting and not boring tidbits from my life as a stay at home mom and wife, well it was becoming tedious.
There were days when I felt like I didn’t want to blog at all because we had a boring day at home just playing in the house or going for a walk around our block. Or emotionally I wasn’t having the best day, postpartum depression is great, isn’t it?! So, as the year went along, slowly but surely I pulled away.
But tonight, as I was laying on the couch watching a teen television show from the early 2000’s (*cough* One Tree Hill), I realized I really miss writing, I missed my outlet. Now, I won’t lie, I have started a personal written journal where I state all my deepest and darkest thoughts I don’t want anyone online to read. Y’all don’t need to see that! But I do miss documenting my daughter’s milestones, achievements, what she’s learned and so on. That really meant a lot sharing those moments.
So, I’m not promising I’ll write every day, but I will promise to write at least once every week. I’m going to aim for Wednesdays, but there will definitely be potential for more posts. And, I’ll be writing for me and I won’t give in to the pressure I put on myself to write for everyone else.
So, I hope you stick around, enjoy the future content of my blog and I would love to hear from you guys in the comments.
Have a wonderful night or day wherever you are in the world!
Ciao!!
Mama on the Move 
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