I have so much to be thankful for Christmas this year.  I know thankfulness is usually a term that is synonymous with Thanksgiving. . . but I am finding myself being more thankful now.  Now that I find my world isn’t spinning around in chaos.  In the past thirty days, we have been part of a whirlwind of hectic days.  I packed up an entire household. . . moved it, unpacked it and made it home again.  I had many photo sessions, all of which are completed in almost every aspect (minus a full wedding that needs to be edited). . . the last of the blog posts will be in a couple of days.  And I continued to stay at home with the boys.

But this week, I have had some time to breathe.  And it is incredible.  The house isn’t completed by any means.  But we can survive for now in almost unpacked. 

I wanted to make sure that I wasn’t entering into the Christmas break season still spinning around in circles.  So this past week, I actually sat on the couch a couple of times.  Read some things about our trip to Disney.  Surfed the web, though briefly.  Watched a couple of t.v. shows.  And even once, I think I closed my eyes and tried to take a thirty second nap.

Nonetheless, I am still stressed.  It’s something that I’m working on.  Money is always an issue lodged in the back of my brain.  We will close on this new house in February, and well closing costs are much higher than I thought they were going to be.  I think the moral of the story is to not sell a house and then rebuy it back.  Only insane people do that.  Having two cars in the shop in one week, with a price tag of over a thousand dollars also doesn’t help.  But trusting that God has it under control is really the only thing that I can put my hope in right now.

Looking back on the past three years with my best friend, James. . . wow.  What a journey.  I could’ve never dreamed up what has happened.  And for that, I am thankful.

So, Merry Christmas from the Chases.  And I pray that we all remember the reason for the season.