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The merry and bright holiday lights on the Christmas tree are begining to fade as I begin to ponder over when I will get enough energy to just pack up all the holiday trim and bid the Holidays 2009 good-bye. It would be much easier if we had a real tree here under the Big Top like my daughter had. Then I would have to hurry up and get that fire trap to the curb for recycling before it spontaneously combusts already. But the luxury of an artificial tree is I can choose to take it down and box it up tomorrow like I did last year or I can (be real lazy) enjoy it through the month of January like I did five years ago. Right now I don't have the energy or focus to get it done so I'm thinking it will be sometime in between the two extremes. Perhaps after the kids return to school next week. We shall see.

It has been a rather subdued, sometimes uninspired holiday season around here under the Big Top this year. Don't get me wrong. It was a very Merry Christmas. It was a simpler Christmas. Still, it was a merry and blessed one as we focused more on what we have, who we love and cherish in our lives and why we celebrate in the first place. It was indeed a very merry season. Still it took awhile for Mommy-Scrooge to get in the mood. That could have been a problem since I have been and likely always will be Santa's biggest, best helper under the Big Top.

Thank goodness for the free Holiday music from iTunes as well as my own holiday music collection to melt my cold heart just a little earlier this month. It opened me up to a creative writing/blogging experiment this month that inspired me, challenged me and reminded me that even in the midst of my wallowing in my little self-pity party about how sucky this year andcircumstances was, I really am a fortunate and blessed person. I got to go places. I met people. I made friends. I learned new things of value and of no value whatsoever. I grew closer to people in my life. I took on challenges that I never imagined and I rocked them. I redirected my focus on my health and my family. I stepped out of my comfortable little box in so many ways. Just when I was to declare 2009 The Suckiest Year Ever, I came to realize in this blogging exercise that it really was a pretty good year, a pretty wonderful year. Perhaps it wasn't the best year ever but as I write this in my cozy, comfortable home while my healthy family sleeps, I have to say it really, truly was a wonderful year! Thank goodness it is almost done because I can't wait for 2010! At the very least I have the taking down and packing away of the Christmas decorations to look forward to next year. One can only imagine what other great adventures 2010 will bring to us here under the Big Top.

Happy New Year!

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