Online shopping: The Triple Blessing

I love Christmas. I love all it represents. I love that Jesus was willing to be born to humble parents in an even humbler environment. I love that it brings family and friends together. I also admit I love the opportunity to shop for things to bless my peeps with.

I enjoy boosting my pedometer with steps as I wander trough Homeworks, Gingerbread Toys and Everything Baby & Kids.

I like to think that I support local. But truth is, I support whoever provides what I want at the best price. So I also love the steps that I get in Winners and Costco. I generally resist spending my dollars and steps in Walmart, but admit I'm not completely opposed. And I confess that many, many of my dollars go to Amazon and Wayfair.

These days it feels like Christmas to me.

We are closing in on moving day, when we will be handed the occupancy permit and the keys to our newly constructed home and our official new beginning.

JimE's official job is to work his butt off and renovate this house we live in to prepare it for sale.

My job is to sit on my butt, research, and shop for detail stuff for our new home.

Sitting on your butt to shop is the new reality. We say that C-19 has brought this about. But truth is, while it may have accelerated it, butt shopping was well on it's way to becoming our reality long before COVID.

And I try to do all my eating and drinking at my computer with my left hand so my Apple Watch will register each nibble as steps.

Amazon, Costco.ca and Wayfair all love me.

And every day feels like Christmas.

The doorbell rings. And we play the guessing game.

Is it the coffee table from Wayfair?

I think it might be the loveseats from Costco.

No, I'll bet you fifty bucks it's the doormat from Amazon.

It is just like Christmas.

I get the joy and blessing of shopping and hitting "submit order". And then when it arrives, it's like a second joy and blessing to open the package and see what arrived.

At Christmas you get the triple blessing when you get to watch the recipient unwrap and receive the gift.

This time we will receive the triple blessing when we get to open the boxes ourselves and place the items in their intended locations in our new home.

I don't even know if I have the ability to vocalize just how grateful and blessed we feel.

And though it's hard work - renovating, packing, downsizing, deciding what memorabilia to physically take with you, and which to donate, and which to dispose of all together, it's exciting putting together our home. Our new beginning.

And we are grateful. So grateful.

For what was. For what is . For what is yet to be.