I love my family. I am really excited about the upcoming holiday season. However, just because I'm looking forward to it does not mean it will be easy. Actually I know it will be one of the hardest. The decisions that have to be made, the family who I love who we won't get to see, and the travel arrangements will all add to my stresses.
I have to decide where to go for each Holiday. I grieve inside because as much as I love both sets of families, I want more for them to love and be attached to Evelyn. Its weird that I want to see them but I REALLY just want them to see her. I don't know how better to explain. I want Evelyn to grow attached to her extended family. We live so far from everyone I'm scared this will be a challenge. Thanksgiving has always been the holiday we spend with my family, but a large portion of my family and Ben's will be in central Texas making it the most favorable choice. However convenient this might be it means Evelyn and I will not get to see my sister, and probably not my parents. This breaks my heart. Hopefully God willing my dad is working by the holiday's and they won't be able to travel, but even if they can travel my sister will not be able to leave her retail job. sigh!
I also am aware of how difficult it is to travel with a baby. I don't think I want to travel for both Christmas and Thanksgiving. But to see everyone I believe we are not going to have a choice. I plan on spending the majority of Evelyn' future Christmas' at our house. I want to establish family traditions of our very own. Again this makes me super bummed that we live in a city all alone and so far from all our family.
I have to decide where to go for each Holiday. I grieve inside because as much as I love both sets of families, I want more for them to love and be attached to Evelyn. Its weird that I want to see them but I REALLY just want them to see her. I don't know how better to explain. I want Evelyn to grow attached to her extended family. We live so far from everyone I'm scared this will be a challenge. Thanksgiving has always been the holiday we spend with my family, but a large portion of my family and Ben's will be in central Texas making it the most favorable choice. However convenient this might be it means Evelyn and I will not get to see my sister, and probably not my parents. This breaks my heart. Hopefully God willing my dad is working by the holiday's and they won't be able to travel, but even if they can travel my sister will not be able to leave her retail job. sigh!
I also am aware of how difficult it is to travel with a baby. I don't think I want to travel for both Christmas and Thanksgiving. But to see everyone I believe we are not going to have a choice. I plan on spending the majority of Evelyn' future Christmas' at our house. I want to establish family traditions of our very own. Again this makes me super bummed that we live in a city all alone and so far from all our family.
Evelyn is doing a great job holding her head up, however she hates tummy time. We (well I) am working on spending more minutes each day encouraging fun times on tummy. She unintintually had some fun with a ball last night. She and her super strong latch grabbed our new toy and she was flailing it around. It was cute to watch.
Saturday morning Evelyn and I participated in a walk for Alzheimers event. My friend and neighbor had a team and raised over $1300.00 dollars to help the effort. It was a nice way to wrap up our week visiting grandpa and remembering grandma Evelyn. The weather has been great. I love fall.
I'll end this post with a few pictures from our walk.
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