The past few days have been go go go. I'm actually surprised I'm finding the time
to sit down and write about it, or the time to breathe for that matter. The hustle and bustle of the holidays always
seems to stress me out. I feel as if Thanksgiving to Christmas is an entire
month straight of pure craziness. If you asked me a week ago, that's exactly
how I'd tell you I felt - crazy,
stressed, anxious, how am I ever going to get all the stuff that needs to get
done, done? Not today though. This past
week has not only been productive, but fun!
It started when I broke my promise of never taking my
kids shopping by myself again. My oldest
was desperate for some new shoes for the holidays, so I ventured out on a rainy
day, a day that I just didn't want to be cooped up indoors. This shopping trip was phenomenal. Not only
did we get new shoes, but we left the store with zero temper tantrums, from either
kid. Amazing! I was so impressed by their good behavior
that I told them that if they each took a good rest during nap time that I'd
take them to visit Santa that afternoon. That's just what we did. I picked up my mom and we went to visit the best mall Santa around. One that
usually comes with a long line of hyped up kiddos. Not the case that late afternoon. We only had to wait behind four other
families! Again, amazing! My girls were very excited to see the big guy
in red, and happily smiled as they sat with him. We were able to get a great picture! (One that did not include me like last years
Santa's pic.) Last year they were a few seconds away from nervous breakdowns
and I had to jump in the photo at the last minute. Needless to say, I was
beyond pleased that I missed out on this photo op.
Speaking of pictures, I
declared one day this week to be holiday card photo shoot day. My kids were not thrilled but the candy canes I gave them first thing that
morning definitely helped. The sugar
high later was a bit of a different story, but all and all I had a few decent
shots. My mother-in-law designed a great
card for me, and I got those bad boys printed Friday and spent the night
addressing lots and lots of Christmas Cards. That tedious task is done! Did I
mention, I even found time to bake two dozen cookies with my kids and eat a
whole dozen of them? (I shared the other
dozen with my husband and girls.)
Over the weekend we spent a day with my dad and step mom. We got our Christmas tree, and my
kids got spoiled. A nice lunch, a trip
to a toy store, and $48 trip to the candy store. Pricey, I know, but that was only because my
husband said that he really liked the look of some dark chocolate turtle
candies that my father insisted on buying. We brought them home and I secretly had them for breakfast the next
morning. We spent the rest of the day putting
up our tree and decorating the outside of our house. The biggest miracle of all was when I dug out
our Christmas lights and all of them worked! I didn't even have to spend the
usual two hours trying to untangle them. The only thing that's left on my list is a few more presents to buy, and
to lose the extra five pounds I've packed on from eating cookies, candies and
chocolate Santa's.
I got this . . . bring it
Santa!
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