Stuff I Should Have Posted in December

If you didn’t text me your address…You didn’t get a Christmas Card from me this year.

I wish I was the kind of person that was incredibly organized to the point of actually having people’s addresses somewhere on my computer or little black book…..but I am not. If you didn’t answer my text in order to get your address…..you didn’t get a Christmas card from me this year. (….and did I save those addresses for next year?…..Nope!!)

However, I have been wondering what a yearly update to my friends and family would sound like …I guess in order to keep it light and positive….it would be a very short and boring letter. Something like this….

Dear Family and Friends:

This year has been a good one for me. I purchased my house, which has been a lifelong dream. I love what I do for a living and my niece is neither on drugs or pregnant (for this we are all thankful) . So, in the overall scheme of things….I’m truly blessed with a great life and I am thankful for every piece and bit of it.

Now, in my ‘I am no longer 39’ years on this Earth , I have learned several important things. One is that a family’s shiny exterior does not always represent the true struggles and imperfections that life brings.

Not that I want to point out the negative, but sometimes admitting our struggles can help someone else who might be struggling too. For example….this is what my yearly update would actually be if I was totally honest.

Dear Family and Friends:
I purchased my home this year…yay!! (I keep forgetting to pay the HOA dues though…my bad!).

I keep gaining and losing the same 10 pounds over and over again. Not to mention my clothes keep shrinking in the dryer.

I find more and more hair in my shower drain each morning because I forget to take my vitamins....and I am afraid I might be getting shorter.

I lost my precious baby dog this year. I held her in my arms as she passed away. My heart will never be the same again.

My niece told me she has 3 tattoos on her back and that she did not want to go back to her 2nd year of college….WTF!!

It turns out that neither in person nor online can I find a nice man to make an ‘honest woman’ out of me. Match.com keeps pairing me up with the 'physically fit' outdoorsy types....REALLY!! (Why can't I have the slightly overweight computer geeks!!)

I have a patch of hair on the top of my head that keeps growing in white….kind of like Cruella DeVille.

I noticed the skin under my eyes does not bounce back as quickly as it used to….and I don’t have any money saved up for a face lift yet.

My dream Italian vacation….still on hold.

Merry Christmas!

Aren’t you lucky I don’t have your address?