Anyway, I’m so glad 2009 is gone, and I have faith that 2010 will be a year of great blessing and promise. So Happy New Year everyone and God bless!

This was also the first year I had a white Christmas tree. I had always wanted a white tree but I was the only one in my family or household that liked one, so we always had green. This time around we needed to buy a new tree, we didn’t have a lot of money, and I saw a cute 6-1/2ft prelit tree for only $30 at Walmart. We really don’t have room for a big tree anyway so I got one. We decorated it with blue balls, glittery icicles, and some assorted other ornaments that didn’t clash with my blue and white theme, and it turned out very pretty. I’ll have to take and post a pic before it comes down.

We also officially started the path to home ownership this new year. Our 3BR rental house, though nice, is really too small for the 6 of us, and though we have 1st option to buy it, we really need a larger house. We found a big 5BR, 3-1/2BA home w/a 2 car garage on a corner lot in the same neighborhood that’s been sitting on the market for months. It’s a foreclosure that needs a lot of cosmetic work inside (paint, trim and bathroom remodeling), but it’s in good shape overall. I have already claimed this house as our own in my heart, please pray that we can get financing at decent terms for it.

If we just lived in our house the one we’re in would be fine for a while longer, but we also work out of the house and need another 2 rooms in addition to regular living space for the whole arrangement to work out. Right now the “office” is a 2-car garage converted into a big room. My Ebay stuff is mixed up with my husband’s computer business stuff, and the room is always cluttered. It makes it hard for us to be efficient, plus it gets on our nerves, esp. my husband’s, because he wants me to clean my stuff up and put stuff away neatly, but I really have no more space to move anything around. I really need my own room for my business.

BTW, I didn’t get my eyes fixed yet; I’ll tell more about it in another post. I hope to get around to posting more often now that the holidays are over.