O.K. o.k. already -- enough harassing from some of you. I know I suppose I deserve it for being so delinquent in posting but seriously -- you have been just as busy as me and likely with the same things. :-)
I am happy to report I am 90-95% done with my shopping. Each year the shopping becomes a bit more challenging as my 9 nieces and nephews get older -- most are teenagers now -- but I still like to try to find something I think they will like. After all -- isn't that the whole idea for gift giving -- to think of a person and try to imagine what they would like? Unfortunately despite my plans I haven't wrapped a single package yet. Soon, soon....
This weekend was non-stop from the time I got to work on Friday morning until about 9:15 this evening when the kids were finally asleep. I had a fun Friday night with my sister Kim (technically sister-in-law but we don't get along like in laws :-) !!) shopping at Rosedale. We are so funny when we get together -- we lose track of time and we laugh a lot. We got hung up in Herberger's trying on boots not realizing that while they were open until 12, the rest of the mall closed at 9. We didn't make it out into the mall until 8:50! We did get some nice boots though!
On Saturday Bill and I had vowed to do a major clean up on the basement in preparation for our first year of hosting his family for Christmas Eve. We have a lot of donations that just needed to be logged and bagged/boxed up so we did that and Courage Center will be here Wednesday. We also bought a really nice coat closet/drawers piece of furniture that Bill assembled and we put inside the door to the basement from the garage. Now all our coats, hats, mittens, boots, etc. are housed nicely and out of sight. I told Bill when we were all done at about 1:30 this morning that my only comment was, "why the heck didn't we buy that a long time ago??!!" Our family room basement area no longer looks like a "dump all" area. The kids even liked it too.
Today was day one of a work segment for Bill -- he works Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and then is off for six days so we will be together for all of Christmas. We will cherish this year as next year reality comes back as Bill has to work Christmas Day. Boy do I get off track quickly.... Anyway so the kids and I holed up at home the whole day -- I only ventured out to grab the paper and let the dog out. I got all the beds stripped, got all the bedding washed and the beds remade, cleaned Ryan's room, cleaned my room, cleaned the kitchen, vacuumed and am on load number 8 or 9 -- I've lost track -- of laundry. The only thing I didn't get to today was any baking. Nor did I wrap up the Christmas Cards -- guess we all know what I'll be doing evenings this week.
Well, the dryer just buzzed -- that is my cue that it is time to put in the last load and put this girl to bed. I promise to have some fun posts this week as Anna has her Christmas program at dance class tomorrow night and at preschool on Tuesday night.
Don't let this made dash to the 24th stress you out this week -- grab a cup of tea, cocoa or wine and savor the true meaning for this holiday -- it's NOT about he presents nor Santa but boy is that easy to forget.
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