Skipping Christmas

I absolutely love this movie... Actually, it started as a book called Skipping Christmas by John Grisham.  I read the book first, but I knew a movie was coming out and who the actor's were going to be, so it was really hard to read the book and not picture the actors saying everything.  It was still a hilarious book, and I watch the movie every Christmas season.  Love it!

However, I never thought I would say "We're skipping Christmas this year"   Ok, well, we're not totally skipping Christmas.... We're just not decorating...  We've bought presents (frugally) and we're attending all the Christmas parties, and we've been talking up the birth of baby Jebus to Deken like crazy.  But there's no tree in our house, or lights out side.  No swags on the mantle or garland in the archways....  Just two little elf candle holders on the table that were a gift from the other day and Deken and I cut out some snowflakes and a snowman from some coffee filters, to hang in the windows....

The reason?  We think we will be in Uganda for Christmas (YEAH!)  We're not for sure yet, still planning, but Deken's passport arrived the other day (yes, he's coming with us!!!) and we are on the last leg of our 'approvals wait'.  We are soooo hoping to be together, as a family of FOUR for Christmas....

We're not sure it will all work out (flights to Uganda at Christmas? Yikes!) But either way, it will be very soon, and we thought that lugging out the millions of Christmas boxes, from the already frozen attic, would be too much this year... Plus, we don't know how long we will be gone, and we don't want to come back to a dead and decaying tree with droopy decorations all over.. (yuck for cleaning up!)

Please pray for a speedy ending to our wait!  It's so hard to hear "Your baby girl needs her Mommy"  and not be able to jump on a plane that day to go get her....  Soon though, very soon...  I can't believe it's December 12th already!  We could be holding and tickling our baby girl in 2 weeks!!! Ugh! I can't wait!!!!

So long Christmas decorations.... This year there is a little girl about yeah high (imagine the arm motion) that is so much more important than you! (insert squishy face with tongue sticking out and a little nah-nah nah nah nah-nah)

Merry Christmas!!!!!!!

~K