It can't be over!

I think December is my favorite month of the entire year!  It's so festive and everywhere you go there are likely decorations which, to me, make everything so much cozier and more friendly, plus there's the hot possibility of cooler weather, Christmas music, holiday Yankee candles, I could go on.  It also seems like the quickest month of the year because there is so much to do the days and nights seem to fly by so quickly it's difficult to pack everything into one month.  I'm all for starting the Christmas season in October, but I realize there are a vast majority of people who totally disagree. 

Regardless, this December we got to do our annual visit to Rock City--Enchanted Garden of Lights, which is where Phil and I became engaged and I believe this is our 5th visit.  To me this kicks off our holiday season, so if we are not there to go the days after Thanksgiving then we make the trip in early December so we get the jolt of cold weather coupled with the lights. 

This is our traditional picture at the top of the mountain with the city of Chattanooga behind us.  It is the most amazing view but remains nearly impossible to capture with any camera we've used so far.  Hopefully next year Lucy will be able to experience the lights along with us, but this year she was just too young to truck along up the mountain and the trails.



We decorated our tree.  I used red again this year and honestly only half heartedly decorated our house, but that's a discussion for another post.  Since my heart wasn't into making our home look "holiday perfect" I had a good time adding some pink feathers, lime green glittery bows, and giant lime green poinsettas to the decorating scheme.  It honestly reminds me of a tree from Dr. Seuss' Grinch movie, but it grew on me and by this point I love it! 

This station played Christmas music and we sang our hearts out everytime we got in the car.  Phil got into it too!  Honestly, I haven't had my fill and am still listening to the old, Christmas favorites.

I got to see my first actual snowfall!  I realize those of you who live in it are less than amused, but Phil and I were so excited that we drove up to Covenant College where the largest accummulation usually is so that we could really enjoy it.  We didn't realize they had changed the forcast and we nearly got stuck there on the mountain, but thanks to his 4 wheel drive and driving skills we made it safely down on the only road they hadn't closed yet.  Whew!  And sweet Lucy slept through the entire fun of snowmen and snow ball fights! 

Then we had Christmas with our sweet, sweet.  She didn't really understand the concept of gifts this year, but she did like the bows and the presents once they were unwrapped.  In fact the wrapped presents didn't get unwrapped until about 5:30pm once she slept off her grouchy of Christmas morning.  I guess if you wake me up and slap me on a Sit and Spin I may not be pleasant either.  Regardless, she was fairly mesmerized with all of it this year and I loved it.  This was after she got all of her Yo Gabba Gabba, Dora, and of course Elmo toys.  She was just amazed!  I think she's perfect.

Obviously we had a wonderful Christmas season!  While I hate to put away the decorations for another year and am forced to welcome in January and 2011, December knows it will always have my heart.  ;)

Home

It's amazing to me how one change in your home can make it feel totally different.  We have been in need of a new area rug for some time now and I've had my eye on this one at Target.  It's perfect in that it is thick unlike some area rugs that don't provide any cushion for my often tripping and falling Lucy and since we have no carpet in our house this thick one was perfect.  And for the price, who can beat it?!  But I waited forever for it to go on sale, because I don't like paying more than a dollar for things, and it never did so the other day I went ahead and bought it.  LOVE IT!  The color is perfect and the design is pretty great too.  Best of all, Lucy walked in circles on it like she couldn't believe her toes.  She loves her new rug as much as Momma.  Win, win!

If you're in the market for a decent rug I definitely recommend checking this one out!

And just like that I'm back!

I can't believe it's been two years since I blogged.  I have so missed it and now...drumroll please...I'm BACK!  Here's the quickie update since my last escapade in the blog world:  got married, found out 3 months later we were having a baby, experienced intra and post partum depression, and finally welcomed a beautiful baby girl whom screamed all the time.  All. The. Time. But now she's 15 months old and the most amazing person I've ever met and it's taken me this long to breathe and realize I can take a few moments to document all of the crazy and phenomenal moments on a blog, so here we are. 

And let's go ahead and address the title of my blog.  Nearly every blog I read is by a mom or a southern lady, or both and while I laugh at some of the perfection you pass off as your daily lives I keep coming back for more because as southern ladies we would never discuss how your adorable little girl's bow isn't always placed perfectly in her hair, so instead we'll just smile and both know the truth, no matter what you post.  ;)  AND since it takes one to know one, here is my little piece of the the blog world and yet "Another Southern, Mommy Blog."  I'm so excited!

Please join me for the journey!

As an aside, once I get things rolling around here I do plan on addressing the whole intra and post partum depression snafu that ran all over my life while I was trying to be the glowing pregnant lady that I tried to pass myself off as.  I hope that by discussing my experience it won't be such a scary experience for someone else and maybe by seeing what I went through it can take some of the misinformation and mystery away.  Not everyone is "classical" PPD!