Random Catch Up- Christmas Even and Sunday Blues

I've been a little under the weather and I don't know if it's because the snow is so deep or what, but it's been taking me quite a while to get out from under it. This is our front walk after last Wednesday's snowstorm.

When I'm away from blogging too long, I always feel like it's hard to get back into it. I don't ever know where to begin. But here's Outside the Box and Fash at Christmastime. He's complaining that her stocking is twice the size of his and thus, may contain more gifts. I.T.'s aunt knitted these stockings when the kids were born. I guess the pattern elongated over time.

 This was a favorite Christmas moment. Ever since the kids were little, we've always read the Christmas story from the Bible before we open stockings and gifts. Here's I.T. reading the story with Pilgrim in the background. It was so nice having Pilgrim home.

And then, as always happens- off he goes back to California. This is Pilgrim on the right, then his roommate, his neighbor from Cali and his roommate's girlfriend-at the airport. A bunch of nice, musically talented kids.

Maybe I've blogged it before, I don't know, but Sundays are doomsdays for me since the empty nest thing hit. I always miss the kids the most on Sunday. Sunday was always family day at our house, so I guess it just feels extra empty on Sunday. Church should provide some solace but:

 I'm not experiencing any community at the church we've been attending for about fourteen years and that makes me not really want to go there. But it's hard to find a new church. I've been attending church all my life, I would have thought that by this point I'd feel a real sense of belonging within a church family. So that whole situation compounds my Sunday blues.

But today is Tuesday. Tuesday is not a day for the blues. I'm feeling a little more energy today than I had yesterday. So, I'm going to steam clean the carpets.