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<\/a><\/p>\nAlso- remember how I told you I was not going to have any sweets in December?\u00a0 I have failed you…and cheated twice.\u00a0 Which I am pretty stinking proud of actually!\u00a0 Once for an office holiday party and the other in a moment of “that time of the month” weakness where I was feeling ragey and emotional and the only thing that could cure it was to climb on the fridge and get after the chocolate stash.\u00a0 Can you blame me?<\/p>\n
In the coming weeks I am excited to share some awesome things happening in 2015 (no not babies yet) AND a new and improved blog! Blessed in the mess is getting a makeover!\u00a0 So, you won’t see any posts until close to the new year while I work the tweaks out.\u00a0 Stay tuned!\u00a0 I hope you all have a wonderful holiday and don’t forget to take a moment in all this hustle and bustle and forget the presents, forget the packed calendar and just give some love to Jesus and to those around you, that is the reason for the season!<\/p>\n
\u00a0 Stay blessed in the mess \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
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Can you believe next week is Christmas? WHAT? When did that happen?\u00a0 Since I am married to Clark Griswold, I usually feel like we celebrate Christmas for waaaaay too long.\u00a0 But this year, with the little incident we had with our pup, it did not put us in the best of spirits at the start of the season.\u00a0 But now that he is on the mend, we are finally getting back our Christmas cheer. We are going to see a “dental specialist” on Christmas Eve morning for Wyatt (yes, I had the same thought- there are dental specialists for dogs??) so we are crossing our fingers that we get a clean bill of a health and that he won’t need a second mouth procedure done.\u00a0 The odds are actually looking very good.\u00a0 For the time being, he cannot play with any other dogs or even run with me until he is fully healed up.\u00a0 So it has been a great excuse for me NOT to run and get more into my crossfit and yoga routine these last few weeks.\u00a0 If my running buddy can’t run, I can’t run.\u00a0 We are a pair. Shain actually promised Wyatt and I that as soon as he was healed up, we would all go on a family run. OMG. Those of you who know Shain know how big this is.\u00a0\u00a0 He better hold to it, even if it is just a run down the block. Going back to the Christmas cheer thing- I am SUPER stoked about our holiday schedule this year.\u00a0 Typically we are going 3-4 places a day,\u00a0 and usually we split up a lot to cover more ground.\u00a0 This has always left me feeling exhausted, crabby and incredibly empty during a time where you are SUPPOSED to feel full and happy.\u00a0 This year will be the first year that Shain and I wake up together on Christmas morning! YIPPEE! AND our family gatherings are very spread out which is going to be wonderful.\u00a0 More quality time and less rushing out the door and forgetting what this season is all about! It is bittersweet to not wake up with my brothers, but I guess that is part of growing up. Also- remember how I told you I was not going to have any sweets in December?\u00a0 I have failed you…and cheated twice.\u00a0 Which I am pretty stinking proud of actually!\u00a0 Once for an office holiday party and the other in a moment of “that time of the month” weakness where I was feeling ragey and emotional and the only thing that could cure it was to climb on the fridge and get after the chocolate stash.\u00a0 Can you blame me? In the coming weeks I am excited to share some awesome things happening in 2015 (no not babies yet) AND a new and improved blog! Blessed in the mess is getting a makeover!\u00a0 So, you won’t see any posts until close to the new year while I work the tweaks out.\u00a0 Stay tuned!\u00a0 I hope you all have a wonderful holiday and don’t forget to take a moment in all this hustle and bustle and forget the presents, forget the packed calendar and just give some love to Jesus and to those around you, that is the reason for the season! \u00a0 Stay blessed in the mess \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1682,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions\/1682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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