CHRISTmas with a Capital C

Well this is my first blog and I am already terrible at updating it. Maybe I will be better when I am in South Africa and my life is a little more interesting. I have just been spending as much time with my family as possible before I am gone for 5 months. I think it will be harder on them then it will be on me because I am way too excited! In fact I don't think it has really even sunk in that I am leaving in only.....20 days!!! Maybe when it gets closer it will become more of a reality that I'm leaving the country but right now I don't feel any different. I finally bought my plane tickets last week, and I am on the same plane as 2 other girls from Texas that are going! yay! It is such a blessing that I do not have to travel alone because that was the only thing that I was somewhat uneasy about. My mom also bought me a webcam for while I'm there so if anyone has a skype account give me your screen name and we can video chat while I'm gone. :) I had to get 2 of my shots yesterday and I still have 4 more to get before I leave. yuck. Needless to say besides my shots, webcam and plane tickets I have bought precisely NOTHING for my trip. I should probably have already started collecting shampoo and medicine and all the little odd and end things I am going to need but I haven't. So after Christmas I will be having quite a few shopping sprees to Wal-mart.

Tomorrow is Christmas Eve and it doesn't really seem like it's Christmas time yet. Seems like just yesterday was Thanksgiving. There is a house in Cleburne that makes Christmas so much better. You have to turn your radio to a certain station and their lights go along with the music. It is amazing I could sit there all night and watch it. Their lights blink along to my new favorite song of Christmas too, the song is "It's Called Christmas with a Capital C." If you haven't heard it you should check it out! It's awesome! Tomorrow we are going to Houston to spend Christmas with my mom's side of the family and I am so very excited. It's my favorite part of the holiday, getting to spend it with all my family who I haven't seen in awhile. Then after all my family leaves I am staying an extra week in Houston to help my grandma take her christmas decorations down and she's gonna pay me :) So it will be a nice little job and some nice one on one time with my grandma, who is an amazing woman.

Well that's about all that's going on for now. Besides the fact that I am reading a wonderful book that I borrowed from my sister and needless to say she might not be getting it back because I like it so much. It's called Encounters with God by James and Michal Ann Goll. So check it out! I hope everyone has a blessed and Merry CHRISTmas!!!