This year has been horrible for DH and I. Earlier this year his employer went bankrupt. Thankfully within a week I got a full time job. I wasn't making nearly enough as DH so we started going into debt....but we were still hopefull that DH would find a job. This worked out well all summer until I lost my job in September. My jobsite closed down. Since the time DH lost his job he probably applied at 200 different places here which is a lot since this are is so small. A couple of months ago DH FINALLY got a job offer, but the town is 15 hours away. My kids miss him like crazy and so do I. We are trying to sell our house in this crappy housing market....and it's been on the market for 2 months now. We are living paycheck to paycheck (paying morgage here and rent for him up there). We still have the debt...but we'll pay it off as soon as the house sells.
I have been so depressed lately thinking about what Christmas is going to be like for my kids. They are 3 and 5 and huge into Santa. I kept thinking how crappy it's going to be for them when all of the things they asked for from Santa they won't get. I managed to buy them one small gift each, so hopefully they will be happy with what I chose.
Your probably wondering why I'm happy. Well today I woke up and said "Smarten up! Don't be miserable!". So I came online, googled for some ideas and today I have broken up all of the kids crayon stubs and made them new crayons. I printed them off some transformer and spongebob coloring pages. I've made playdough. I made fingerpaints. So now my kids will each have a coloring book (5 year old LOVES transformers and 3 year old LOVES spongebob), brand new cool crayons I made, playdough and paint. Even though Christmas isn't going to be big and extravagant this year, I'm hoping these small gifts will mean a lot to the kids. i have more craft ideas that I am trying to figure out.
I'm just so happy that I kicked myself out of the rut and can think positively about it all!