just a few more days......

Yes, that's right, only a few more days until school's out for Christmas holidays. Only a few more days of freedom for me to do a tree, plan what to cook, and actually make it all work, receive boxes of all shapes and sizes at the door from the "Brown Man" (that would be Booder, the UPS driver!) and find places to hide it all, only to have to find it again. Have you ever hidden your children's Christmas gifts, only to remember several days or months later and have to use it as an Easter happy and then go find something really cool for the other three kids to be fair to everyone?

I have ordered most of the presents for this year, simply because I don't want to be in the midst of all those shoppers and all the germs and all the lines and all the illnesses and all the extra stress that puts on the holidays. I'd rather point and click and wait for the Brown Man.....

Monogramming is slow this year. I say that, I'm still busy, (busier than I want to be!!!), but I'm not up til all hours of the night trying to complete projects for others.....for that I am most thankful.

I think the Hubs and I are not going to buy gifts for each other this year. We are going to take the needed "time to ourselves" trip. That is, unless he does as he usually does when we make this decision and gets something really great for me, and I am there empty handed. He just doesn't understand somehow, that if we aren't going to buy gifts for each other, that means nothing, nada, nunca, zero! I don't care how neat it is and how wonderful it will look on me or how you just couldn't pass it up.....I usually do have a "something" in the closet hidden for him, just in case, but it's kinda awkward to have to excuse myself in the middle of opening presents to run upstairs and grab his "not a gift" gift, wrap it and run back downstairs, pretending I just forgot it in the closet. Then we go round and round about how I had something for him, and he had something for me, and how we weren't supposed to get something for each other and how glad we are that we each had something for each other and how awkward it would be if we didn't......

Another of my favorite holiday treats is taking the kids to get flu shots... (NOT!) .here's the bus, gotta go!