When Expectations Exceed Reality

All too often i get myself trapped up in my expectations of what i think i would like to get for Christmas.  So, with the troubles and struggles i've had this year, i lowered my expectations way, way, WAY lower than i ever had before THINKING there was no possible way for me to be disappointed this year.

i was wrong.

Don't get me wrong, with the addition of Grace to our family, the new remastered Beatles CD's AND Beatles Rock Band game i got, i consider myself VERY lucky and blessed.  i don't have one single complaint about those tangible gifts.  It's the intangible ones i'm struggling with.  There were only 3 simple "unmentionables" (he says hiding his face) that i had in mind with only one specific one i had hope for. Yet, nothing.

Surely you know what i mean.

Those "things" we feel we can't share out loud about our lives?  Our situations?  Those things that we just shouldn't be asking for?  Now, i know they may be things we're NOT supposed to ask for because either our spouses, familes, etc... just wouldn't approve, or even God would not have for us.  But we still think about them, don't we?

Or, am i really alone in this thinking?

Sorry to whine but i'm just feeling a little bit like this guy, today.

Not to worry though, as always, i'll find a way to get over, through or under it and be fine tomorrow.

laters.