Hectic Heaven

Plans and cutting back

I have been doing alot of thinking the last few days about Christmas... I think this year we will dramatically cut back, by at least half.. at least the kids will probably think its dramatic..lol... I have 5 nephews.. usually I spend about  20 each.. I will cut that to ten... DD and stepson the budget will be about 100 and DH and I discussed buying a meat grinder instead of exchanging gifts.. I will be making some of the things... most of which I already have supplies.. so that will help some to... I have the week of Thanksgiving off so I will  make most of it between now and then .. finishing up during that week..  I had thought about getting each nephew a nice pair of wool sock.. maybe next year I can even knit them  lol.. One nephew has several pairs I found out... so I may weave a guitar strap for him... 

 DD and SS I will buy one thing, and the rest I am planning on making...  I would like to spend less time during the actual season trying to look for the right gift and spend more time with family and enjoying holiday traditions..

The garden is totally gone now and the wild canaries are going from weed to weed eating the seeds.. I enjoy watching these small birds quite alot...

After I posted the last time something got a couple more of the chickens.. so until the outside run can be rebuilt they are penned up... :<  we have 3 of the 7 new ones left.. and 3 of the 7 old ones left.. which need to be put in the freeezer...

I have started mediatating most every day...which I beleive is helping my anxiety.. I am still however having heart palpitations..  I had an EKG the other day and will be going in for a echocardiogram on friday.. I will then wear a monitor for 24 hours to see whats up...hopefully nothing serious... they upped my thyroid and I am feeling some better...energy wise... I'm wondering if what I am dealing with might be the starting of menopause... sweats for no reason.. although I do not feel hot.. anxiety levels thru the roof at times for no good reason.. heart palpitations...and other things are not quite as regular as they once were...so if the heart thing comes back ok.. I will persue it some more and see of the hormone levels are dropping more... I am about 47 so it sure could be that..

Work is going great.. I love what I am doing this year...the kids although challenging are little darlins... and I love working with each of them..  I guess I should go and get ready for work.. It had just been quite some time since I last posted... I look in almost daily but quite often don't really feel I have any "news" to post... Have a great day.. and  keep our wonderful Veterans and soldiers in mind.. especially tomorrow...