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Mind. Body. Spirit.

Let’s be honest, it’s the holiday season and the only thing in my life that’s feeling like it is my bank account…’cause I have two perfect twin nephews and a perfect niece who need all the things from Aunt Alisa. Christmas is five days away and I JUST NOW had the thought that maybe hubs and I should’ve decorated or something. We travel to Alabama for the holidays to spend it with my family, so I’ve never felt it necessary to have a tree and all the other things sitting lonely in my house while we are away. And the fact that this year we now have 4 cats still in their kitten stage running around the house, a tree was clearly a hard NO. What an invitation to disaster that would be.

PS, I have 2 dogs and a husband to balance out the crazy cat lady situation. I am most definitely a crazy animal mama badass instead. If you’re going to judge, get your adjectives correct and I’ll let it be.

Meanwhile, back to the holiday season thing, I still love it so much. I love being able to go home and spend time with my family. I have a pretty incredible fam. Low drama; high silliness is what’s up. We’re just a bunch of weirdos who don’t hate each other and it’s a beautiful thing. When my mama was diagnosed with breast cancer, it was just before Thanksgiving that year. She didn’t waste any time having a double mastectomy and was able to come home from the hospital on Christmas morning. I think that’s when we stopped giving a fuck about the materialistic side of this calendar date. Nobody cared it was Christmas morning because it was the morning mama came home. It was the morning recovery began and the first of many more we were going to be able to have with her. And I’m still thankful and refuse to take it for granted.

I caught myself laughing a lot this week at work, at home, on text message, on the phone, etc. One evening at the house, I was having a full-on conversation with the animals because they were doing something silly and being hilarious. I had an old memory come to the surface when some warped-analytical-but-head in the clouds-super Christian made a comment about it being impossible to truly love an animal or object or some shit like that because LOVE is a spiritual/soul thing, blah blah blah. First, fuck off. Second, what a terrible way to live.

Naturally, I decided to list out all the things (non-human) that I feel deep, real love for at the moment. And I’m going to share those things here because ‘tis the friggin season!

1. My kids…the 2 pups, Gryff & Huck and of course my 4 kitties, Jak, Kai, Kona and Lani. Animal Kids > Human Kids all day, errrday!
2. My Apple Watch
3. Ellen Degeneres: Relatable on Netflix
4. The Neighborhood on CBS
5. Iliza Shlesinger’s Girl Logic book
6. Andrew and Amber Riposta’s social media updates from their Thailand vacation
7. James Corden and Cardi B’s Carpool Karaoke episode
8. Husband’s Oculus Go
9. My new silicone, non-turtle killing, straws
10. The new Google Home, Home Alone commercial

It’s always a good decision to spontaneously stop everything you’re doing for a moment and think on things you love, are thankful for, and/or things that make you happy. Materialistic or not, silly or serious, people or circumstances… it doesn’t matter. They all work together to create your life. Most of us naturally harp on the difficult, negative, and problems. We should afford the good things the same luxury, but more-so. Happy Holidays, folks!