It's me, Charity

My first ever Birchbox video!

This isn't that exciting of a post but I want to do better about documenting my life and happenings on this ol blog! Last week we got our first big snow of the winter. Which made it my first time to shovel! Yes, I have lived in Indiana for years but have never shoveled thanks to my family living on a farm with tractors and having an older brother. Now that I own my own house I'm responsible for shoveling. oh the joy. It was crazy cold, think negative temperatures, and I couldn't find my long johns, so I had to improvise a cold weather outfit. It wasn't cute, but it kept me warm enough that I was sweating when I finished! First, I layered leggings under my fleecy yoga pants, added thick socks, a long sleeved shirt, my fleece jacket, and put my winter coat over that. I wore two hats (both were not that thick, so 2 thin hats = 1 thick hat) and wrapped my piano scarf around my face as a make shift face mask. It wouldn't stay in place, so i took my pink scarf and ...

While I might not have taken a lot of pictures on Christmas day, once Snugglemuffin showed up in the days following, you'd better believe that Auntie almost wore out her camera! He arrived and after reading some books and playing with some toys he was READY for Grandpa to get home from work. He decided he would sit in Grandpa's computer chair with Eeyore and Baby Cow and wait to Surprise him.  Grandpa had a few hours of work left at that point :) After about 5 minutes of sitting in his chair B was more than ready for him to come home. So in order to distract him, we sat in the recliner and I got out my tablet and we listened (Watched- if you ask B) to some Christmas music on Pandora! So proud of my boy, his favorite station was Bing Crosby! Everytime Bing would come on he would nod his head and say "Yes. I think this is a good song" that's my boy!!!!  Snuggling and listening to music. He was transfixed watching the screen of my tablet. Not sure ...

Brace yourself for an Under-Whelming amount of Christmas Day pictures. I don't know what my problem was, but I barely took any pictures! In fact, I took so little pictures that I didn't even get one of my Mom. I promise you though, she was there, and she enjoyed Christmas :)  Even my yearly picture by the tree pictures struggled. I really only got these two good pics. I blame this on my Grams being in Heaven. She was the one that usually took them, and she was a lovely and WILLING photographer. She never complained about taking more pics or me changing my pose. Unlike some people whom I will not mention. So basically I either need to get a selfie stick or get myself another relative who loves me.  See, struggling!  Dad reading from Luke 2. Now if you have read this blog, and ever read a Christmas recap you know that my favorite part of Christmas is my Dad reading Luke 2! He always reads past Baby Jesus, one year we made it to the Death, Burial and Resurrect...