Monday, January 05, 2009

Holiday Break

Our holiday break was fabulous. On Christmas Eve we headed to Michigan to spend some time with Josh’s family. Christmas day was not as hard as I imagined it would be. There were a few rough spots where I had to fight back tears, but overall I did fine. This was the first Christmas in my life that I didn’t spend it with my family (and without my dad), and also the first Christmas where I received no gifts (well, we received two gifts of money, but refused to take them), and it was quite refreshing. I really liked how uncomplicated the holiday was in the absence of gifts. We spend the day just enjoying family and good food instead of having it cluttered by ‘stuff’…which is really what the holidays are about anyway. Here's a few pictures from Christmas.


On Sunday we came home and spent the next week pretty much around home. On Monday and Tuesday I wrote our resumes and sent them off to every employer with job postings in a forty mile radius. We haven’t heard anything back yet, so wish us luck! For New Years we went to a Rivermen hockey game with Rob, Melissa, Justin, and Rob’s brother Curt and his girlfriend Ashley. Then we went back to R&M’s for an awesome dinner – steak, salad, garlic bread, and twice backed potatoes. Yum! We watched the ball drop and called it a night (even though it was only 11 central time). Good riddance 2008. New Years day we hung out in our sweats all day and watched movies. Friday we did a little shopping and went out to dinner at a Thai restaurant (yum!), Saturday we hung out at home again watching movies, and Sunday we did some work on our rental house. Now it’s back to work. The break seemed really long and incredibly short at the same time.

We’re still up in the air about what we are going to do concerning the buy-out. It’s such a hard decision – probably the hardest we’ve ever made, really. We think Josh has job security, but I’m not nearly as confident about my position. If you would have told me 3 months ago that we’d be facing this decision I never would have believed it….

2 comments:

AJ said...

Glad the holidays turned out better than expected!

Good luck with whatever you decide regarding the buy out. I know it's a tough situation and a tough time to make those kind of decision.

Jericho Rose said...

I didn't sell my engagement ring. I could never do that. It flashed through my mind for a second when K told me what just happened. You are sort of in a panic mode and think all of these crazy thoughts even though we were beyond financially stable.