MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

So here we are...2 days until Christmas...NORAD will start tracking Santa tomorrow and I can't wait to watch him make his journey around the world and see the wonder on Katelyn's face!!!

The hotel that I work at is in dangerously low occupancy territory. There are plenty of extremely smart people on the management team here, yet no one seems to quite know how to fight the recession. I continue to expand my work in social media, and pitched to the other hotels in our group for me to do their social media too, but have heard nothing back and am unsure as to where to go next. I have had several interviews w/ other hotels, but nothing that's a "great" opportunity for me to grow in. There's no way I can earn anything close to what Scott was earning, and we need him to be blessed with another job or we WILL lose everything, but I also feel like, even though I can't earn anything CLOSE to what he was earning, I would like to explore my career options. I have toyed w/ the idea of forming an LLC and marketing myself to different hotel groups for social media services, but with us not knowing where we'll be in a month even, it's tough to make a decision and then stick to it.


In better news though, our girls are getting VERY excited for Santa to come tomorrow night. Let me reiterate, they are SO BLESSED. Our families have made sure that from Day 1 of Scott's unemployment, the girls have had no inkling that financial disaster is looming for our family. I have multiple bags and stacks of presents in my garage and in my closet to prove that.

I did tell Scott that he'll have it easy for his New Year's resolution - all he needs to do is find a job at some point during 2010! :) I applied the other day to be a JDRF advocate and assist them w/ their goal of finding a cure for Type I diabetes. I love this cause and plan to spend a lot more of 2010 raising awareness of (1) the disease itself and (2) how VERY close we are to finding a cure.

I hope that you all are ready for the Christmas holiday! We have made all of the major preparations and will now just focus on what's truly important - spending time with our families and cherishing every minute of it.


All my love,



Jessica