Getting A Life

Life post University is a little strange but I am getting there and vastly enjoying having my life back. It is very relaxing approaching Christmas without juggling homework. It was actually a delight this year and not a pressure to decorate the house, took my time going through decorations from years ago, bringing back memories of when the boys were little. The tree goes up this weekend. We have been quite social in December too, which is a new thing. Last weekend, Colin and I went on the Polar Express Steam Train Ride because it is my favorite christmas movie, so what if the train was full of kids, we saw Santa and went to a favorite bar after for drinks and appetizers. Our newly formed gourmet food club meets again next week to taste great food and drink good wines together, that will surely be a highlight. Joe and Katie promise me they will come home at some point. They have had so much snow in New Hampshire already I think all their free time is spent with a snowboard attached to their ankles on the side of a mountain, I just keep saying....errrr...finals!! I am looking forward to baking and cooking and decorating and just enjoying the moment. But....and I know this will sound crazy, I do miss Grad School, I had got into a zone with research and homework and writing and connecting with fellow students, I have always enjoyed the collegiate experience. But as much as I miss it I am not going to do it again, it really did play chaos with my life and its time to move on to some fun-less-academic-activity.

Have a wonderful December, I certainly am.