It’s Beginning to Look A lot Like Christmas

“It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.”

W.T. Ellis

Hey y’all, thank you for coming back to read what another week living in South Korea has been like! This week was more chill than the last one, with an unexpected surprise. Last Monday night, we got a foster puppy!!! Her name is Toni the Frenchie, and she is a 7 month old French Bulldog. We are keeping her for the next month until her flight back to the United States. She is a cute little thing, but my goodness is she still a puppy in training. Living on the fourth floor of an apartment building that does not have much grass around it does not help the potty training, but we are getting in two or three walks a day around town.

One night, Buddy and I went out for our weekly date night to a nice bar and grill in the Ville. The steak we had was amazing!!! If anyone from Memphis has been to Hopdoddy for burgers and has ordered their parmesan truffle fries, THEY HAVE THE SAME FRIES! We also had to run by the PX on base to get a few things, but we were gone for less than TWO hours. We had taken the puppy out to potty before we left, and we had left her in our little laundry room. Now as Buddy likes to present this story, what we saw when we arrived back home was from out of the Daddy Day Care movie. You know that scene when Eddie Murphy walks in the bathroom and the entire room is covered in poop and the little kid says “I missed…” Well, that is exactly what our laundry room looked like. Thankfully, we have a super awesome neighbor who came over and cleaned it up for us because he said we were overthinking the entire process. So yes, still potty training.

Buddy had to work on Thanksgiving, and we ended up not going over to his coworker’s apartment for dinner because we did not want to leave the puppy alone for too long. He ate some salmon patties I made for him while I ate a chocolate chip toasted pop-tart. Big celebration we had.. but the next night we went back to Texas Roadhouse for dinner after going to see what Black Friday sales the PX still had after everyone had shopped all day. Camp Humphreys has all of their Christmas lights up!!! It is so nice to see Christmas lights and decorations. The big Christmas tree isn’t lit up yet, but that happens this upcoming Friday. Hopefully Buddy and I will be able to go to the lighting ceremony.

While in the Christmas mood, I thought I would share with everyone the Christmas decorations we have in our little apartment. They’re not much and definitely not like the Christmas decorations I had covering every square inch in our apartment in Clarksville… but they do the job and still make me happy to look at. I brought the little Christmas tree and ornaments from Target with me to here (I packed the tree instead of packing a winter jacket…). I have the Christmas hand towels box to make the kitchen more festive, along with our hot chocolate packet boxes. They add color and festivity to our kitchen. And yes, we do have three stockings over our tv. Mine and Buddy’s are on the left and the middle, while the stocking on the right is for his best friend who lives in the apartment right next to ours.

Probably one of the best things this week though was getting a goodie box in the mail from my mom!!! My home address never looked so good as it did on the address form on the box. She sent me my jacket, a scarf, some winter hats, and a few Tuff-N-Ugly (our offroad group) shirts and sweatshirts. Thanks mom!!!

It’s supposed to snow this week and temperatures are going to be below freezing for the majority of the week, so the pupper and I probably won’t get out much. We might end up going to one of the markets in the ville though because we haven’t been to one yet. Buddy and I are also in the process of looking for a car. I’m still in the process of getting situated here and suddenly realized we’re going to be living here for quite a while. I’m starting to miss home, especially with the holiday season being here. But I’m also enjoying this adventure that I’m getting to have with my husband, and we’re going to have amazing stories to one day tell our children about. This past Sunday night (it’s Tuesday morning as I type this), I was cooking some chicken to go in Buddy’s lunch for the week. He could tell that I was a little down, so he turned on my Christmas music and we slow danced in our living room to Silver Bells (my favorite Christmas song). Knowing that he knew how to cheer me up in the best and festive way made me instantly feel so much better.

Again, thank you to everyone of y’all who are reading my blog posts, as well as commenting on them and subscribing to them! Until next week!