It's a rare occasion during the school year to have a Sunday morning off from church. One that is not off for us to travel someplace or because somebody is sick. Not that I don't love to go to church, it's a big big part of my life and I am proud and happy to belong to my church. It centers me and grounds me. My husband and I are both very involved in our church community, filling many volunteer positions. One of those is working in the nursery with my husband. Our daughter goes with us, and our son goes to Sunday school. When we go to church, our whole morning is taken up getting ready for church, then we go to church and get home well after our normal lunch time. Everybody is tired by then, we usually have a couple of coffees, regroup and then catch up on last minute chores that we planned to finish on the weekend. So essentially Sunday is "church day" and that is wonderful. We need to work on our afternoons to make us less stressed, but essentially it's a good day. We've decided to take a good day a step further by instituting a Sunday night Games Night.
But there is something so deliciously decadent about planning the day off.
My husband is helping friends in the morning with a reno project, but he will be home late morning. The children and I will spend a lazy morning in our p.j.s, maybe bake something special. When Daddy comes home, we'll crank up the Christmas music! We'll bust out all the unbreakable ornaments, and all our new ornaments that we are going to make today. We'll drink obscene amounts of hot chocolate, eat a lazy supper in front of a Christmas movie... play games with the kids (as per our new Games Night) It will be a day of pure Christmas preparations, and Monday morning the house will be transformed. Not only in appearance but in spirit.
Christmas is coming... and we'll be ready!
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