Preparing for Christmas

     There is something about celebrating a Holiday that just isn't right when your Husband isn't home. Anders has been home for Christmas twice since I've known him.  Of course for me Christmas Starts the day after Thanksgiving when we put up the fake Christmas Tree and all the Christmas lights, we put up a real tree later on closer to Christmas.  He has made it for those events a couple times too, but never  in the same year.  I have those mixed emotions of excitement for the Holiday but wish he'd be home to really enjoy it. I always tell him he has NO idea what he is missing.  Of course there are SO many things he has no idea what he is missing by living more than 1/2 his life on a ship.   Right now though I know he wants to be home so I try to not sound TOO excited about things I'm doing so not to make him feel badly for missing it.  This year it will be that much better too with Grandbabies in the picture, but of course that won't change now so he'll get to enjoy that part next year and so on and so on since we hope this is the last season he works in December.   Meanwhile, he tells me dates when he expects to be home but Christmas is NOT in the picture for this year and with the weather being unpredictable out there this time of year I am not writing anything on the calendar yet.