Category: Sundays with Stassi

 I made the decision to not return home to the states for Christmas holidays this year. One main reason is because I live on an island. I mean why would I go back to wearing jackets and boots when I can chill on a warm sunny beach in a bikini (lots of pun intended…)? But that decision has really made me reflect on my holiday experiences and what it means to me.

I’m a country GA girl, so winter holidays usually meant wood fires (whether it’s cold enough or not) mainly to roast marshmallows for s’mores! In recent years, it’s usually one of my twice/year visits home so I try to spend as much time with family as often. And I miss my family. But I’ve come to realize that everyone has their own families within the family and I usually feel like an outsider stopping through to say hello…

Patience and Promises.

Yep those are the 2 Ps I’m talking about and it seems as if they have gotten hand in hand for as long as I can remember. As a child, I remember playing in mom’s makeup and wanting my own. Specifically, I remember a shopping trip with some of my aunts and cousins where one of my older cousins was supposed to get contacts to replace her glasses. She tried and tried to pop that little thing in her eye, but each moment her finger drew near to her eyeball those eyelids would forcefully close causing her to miss the mark. Her mom had promised that she could get contacts that day, but my cousin got frustrated and gave up. She didn’t have the patience on that day to keep trying in front of all of us and the optometrist will not allow you to leave with…

Hmmmm I don’t know how I feel about the mainland’s​ end of daylight savings time (which we don’t observe btw)…

Benefits:
1. I can go to church at 10, grab some groceries & still get home early enough to catch the first quarter of the early games.
2. My body doesn’t have to adjust to time changes. I was already getting adjusted to darkness at 6pm so that doesn’t change.

Cons:
1. I can forget about evening shows and football games! It was already a stretch for me to stay awake until halftime of the night games, but now I probably won’t even make it to the end of the 1st quarter…who am I kidding…I probably won’t make kickoff!
2. I’m now 1 or 2 hours ahead of most of my family and friends. Most of them are not up when I’m awake, or still at work when I’m off…