Wednesday, December 23, 2009

My Promise

I promise to not go online again until after Christmas (Dec 26, 1 am, I'm here, dudes.)

I promise to not stress over the stuff that doesn't matter (i.e. the throwing of the paper at my parents' house which stresses my parents out so I guess I really will stress about it a little bit because I don't want to upset them...)

I promise to spend more time this week with my family, reading books by the tree and singing carols and drinking egg nog (though I am with them 24/7 so I don't think I can really "be" with them any more but maybe I can be present more) (heh... PRESENT. Heh.)

I promise to stop writing posts that suck so much and to only put things up that I am proud of instead of fluffy, unedited bits of tripe that make me hang my head when I read others' brilliant and beautiful odes to parenthood, Christmas and life in general. (Well, I promise to TRY. It might still be a bit tripe-y at times...)

Hope your Holidays are sweet and peaceful and that you are surrounded by those you love, be they beside you in their earthly bodies or in the snow that falls from heaven to remind you of their love.

12 comments:

Kristabella said...

Merry Christmas to you and your family! I hope you have a wonderful holiday!

Unplanned Cooking said...

Have a Merry Christmas! I'll look for you after the 26th :).

Unknown said...

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your family!!

Sarah RDH said...

Merry Christmas! Enjoy the next couple days of being cut off from the internet world!!

Sue said...

Tracey, you're way too hard on yourself. We want to read you. The real you. I was just thinking yesterday that sometimes people try so hard to "package" themselves in beautiful pictures and stories about their perfect family and all their handcrafted doodads and homemade baking, that they've stripped their blog of anything real. We can't see the person underneath the perfection.

Star said...

Merry Christmas & HAppy New Year!!

Mike said...

Wishing you and your family a very Merry Christmas

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E... said...

Merry Christmas! I am proud of you and your break. I'm working on the present-ness, too. But I also want to read about your life, so don't stay away TOO long, and don't get TOO polished, okay?

Kristi said...

Merry Christmas, Tracey! You are one of the most dedicated and amazing moms I know. You're a whole lot more "present" than I am on my best day.

Enjoy that beautiful family of yours.

CaraBee said...

Your stuff is never tripe! I love reading about your life.

I had kind of been thinking the same thing, though. Not posting just to post, but to have something good or interesting to say. Sadly, it seems I don't have much of that lately. Sigh.

Merry Christmas!!

Manic Mommy said...

Merry Merry Christmas!

Hope you don't get the shakes too bad without your online life.

Cynthia said...

Hey Chicky...I hope you had a GREAT Holiday!

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