It's official.......what now?

[mishka422]

(((((Lisa))))))

thanks for checking in on me and the good wishes. Working in a couple of hours so the rest of my day will be shot, but such is life!

Strange thing today. Gabe dropped Marc off at 11:30a and when Marc came in he said that Gabe was waiting outside and wanted to know if I wanted help getting the Christmas decorations down from the attic. Darn it! I had to turn him down because I wasn't ready to do that. Bummer! I told him I wasn't ready today but thanks for the offer. DRAT!

Marc and I have been discussing Christmas plans since he got home. Thanks to you Donna, we are going to make those lanterns. I've already called a bunch of my friends and asked them to save their big cans. I hope I can get my hands on enough of them to make enough lanterns. Now I have to find wire hangars. I guess if I can't find the hangars I could use pieces of wire or something. Marc seemed really excited about making these and frankly so am I! Thanks for the wonderful idea!

I told Marc to make a list of 10 things he wanted for Christmas but that he would probably only get a couple of them. He said he's come up with some ideas and write them out for me. He knows things are tight and that this Christmas isn't going to be like it usually is. He seems just fine about that and I'm glad. He really is a pretty happy kid most of the time.

He was talking about Christmas morning breakfast and I told him I didn't know yet where he was going to be that morning. He didn't understand why not and I told him that our custody arrangement for this year has his dad having him until 9pm on Christmas Eve and then I have him until the New Year but because of our work schedules we may need to adjust that. We'll just have to wait and see. We might have to do our Christmas breakfast another day. He was ok with that too. Thank heavens!!!!! He's handling all of this really well so far. I know it's going to get tougher on him the more he's surrounded by it, but at least he's not going to be too shocked by the changes since I'm making a point of talking to him about it.

I am so grateful to all of you here for being so kind and loving toward me. I only hope that I can be half as helpful to all of you some day.