Christmas Countdown
It's time for the annual Christmas countdown. We are in the final stretch and have about four and a half shopping days left!
Somehow, the tree has survived and is still standing tall in our living room on its antique steamer trunk base, surrounded by the play-yard that was once designed to contain the very children it aims to now keep out!
My tree has been the recipient of many a Kaiden and Kian hug, and Vivie greeting.
It has endured through Kaiden and his many attempts at storming the play-yard gate by repeatedly ramming the weak joints with his push-me-pull-me.
It has even weathered the babies latest attempts at full contact Christmas tree jousting where it has been subjected to the babies running full tilt at it and attempting to poke it with wrapping paper tubing.
My Christmas tree is a trooper, with its new stand and all. I think it is safe to say that, but we do have to make it five more days...
I think that I have most of the Christmas shopping finished. I say that I think so, because you can never really tell when it is that you are finished until the stores actually close down for Christmas and that last battery and tidbit of candy has been purchased.
I even have most of the presents wrapped and under the tree. It's odd for me to have presents under the tree because usually, I have to wait 'til Christmas Eve to wrap them, for fear of the animals UNWRAPPING them to see what is inside.
Nobody has figured out how to get to the presents enough to even attempt an unwrapping. I have been so very fortunate!
I have only two gift purchases that MUST be made before Christmas and one of them must wait until Monday afternoon (my hermit crab has a friend on hold for him at Petco.)
The other purchase is something small that I just haven't been able to get out to do, yet.
Last night, in some vain attempt at avoiding the crowd, I ran out on a whim to do the Christmas grocery shopping.
Apparently, the crowd all had the same idea that I had, and they were there too...
Or, rather, I appear to have just missed them in some cases as the Dollar Store appeared to have been ransacked and had complete aisles that were totally void of anything, fixtures and all.
Did you know that Kroger's really doesn't have any sort of poultry seasoning for sale?
If they do, I couldn't even find a blank spot that could prove that they ever even had some to begin with!
I even ran by Sam's to grab the necessary 48 pack of double A batteries that every household should keep in stock for powering all of those chattering baby toys and even teen toys too!
I think that I have everything...I have extra wrapping paper, a spare bag of bows, a box of sharpie markers that will just have to suffice in place of gift tags, and even a box of tape.
There are marshmallows for hot cocoa, and some for our Christmas fire, there is flour for baking Christmas cookies and even pie ready for any visitors that may come by!
My turkey is in the refrigerator along with the ham, and the Christmas fudge is sitting on the shelf right next to them.
The only thing that I simply cannot locate, is an extra huge bar of Hershey's Chocolate for S'mores for our Christmas fire.
It's quite perplexing, really. I think I may have upset this little girl last night at Kroger, too, because I had been trying desperately to rummage through the rather large chocolate bar section that is kept high up on a shelf for safe-keeping.
I finally did give up, but the cute little girl came over to ask if she could help me. She must have been about 8, and was a few heads shorter than I.
I did smile and tell her that we were much to short to try and see what was high up on that shelf and that I would just wait until later and look again!
She was soo very cute and sweet, I wanted to give her a huge hug, but I didn't. I did remember to say, "Thank you" and she smiled as she went on her way.
I suppose I am not doing too badly if all I lack is poultry seasoning and a rather large bar of chocolate (no nuts!)
Now, all I have to do is remember where the rest of the presents are hidden, and hope that the last few arrive by parcel post in time to make it under our tree!
I wish I knew that things would slow down, now that the majority of the shopping is done.
Alas, but 'tis Christmas week, and the real work is really only just now begun!
Somehow, the tree has survived and is still standing tall in our living room on its antique steamer trunk base, surrounded by the play-yard that was once designed to contain the very children it aims to now keep out!
My tree has been the recipient of many a Kaiden and Kian hug, and Vivie greeting.
It has endured through Kaiden and his many attempts at storming the play-yard gate by repeatedly ramming the weak joints with his push-me-pull-me.
It has even weathered the babies latest attempts at full contact Christmas tree jousting where it has been subjected to the babies running full tilt at it and attempting to poke it with wrapping paper tubing.
My Christmas tree is a trooper, with its new stand and all. I think it is safe to say that, but we do have to make it five more days...
I think that I have most of the Christmas shopping finished. I say that I think so, because you can never really tell when it is that you are finished until the stores actually close down for Christmas and that last battery and tidbit of candy has been purchased.
I even have most of the presents wrapped and under the tree. It's odd for me to have presents under the tree because usually, I have to wait 'til Christmas Eve to wrap them, for fear of the animals UNWRAPPING them to see what is inside.
Nobody has figured out how to get to the presents enough to even attempt an unwrapping. I have been so very fortunate!
I have only two gift purchases that MUST be made before Christmas and one of them must wait until Monday afternoon (my hermit crab has a friend on hold for him at Petco.)
The other purchase is something small that I just haven't been able to get out to do, yet.
Last night, in some vain attempt at avoiding the crowd, I ran out on a whim to do the Christmas grocery shopping.
Apparently, the crowd all had the same idea that I had, and they were there too...
Or, rather, I appear to have just missed them in some cases as the Dollar Store appeared to have been ransacked and had complete aisles that were totally void of anything, fixtures and all.
Did you know that Kroger's really doesn't have any sort of poultry seasoning for sale?
If they do, I couldn't even find a blank spot that could prove that they ever even had some to begin with!
I even ran by Sam's to grab the necessary 48 pack of double A batteries that every household should keep in stock for powering all of those chattering baby toys and even teen toys too!
I think that I have everything...I have extra wrapping paper, a spare bag of bows, a box of sharpie markers that will just have to suffice in place of gift tags, and even a box of tape.
There are marshmallows for hot cocoa, and some for our Christmas fire, there is flour for baking Christmas cookies and even pie ready for any visitors that may come by!
My turkey is in the refrigerator along with the ham, and the Christmas fudge is sitting on the shelf right next to them.
The only thing that I simply cannot locate, is an extra huge bar of Hershey's Chocolate for S'mores for our Christmas fire.
It's quite perplexing, really. I think I may have upset this little girl last night at Kroger, too, because I had been trying desperately to rummage through the rather large chocolate bar section that is kept high up on a shelf for safe-keeping.
I finally did give up, but the cute little girl came over to ask if she could help me. She must have been about 8, and was a few heads shorter than I.
I did smile and tell her that we were much to short to try and see what was high up on that shelf and that I would just wait until later and look again!
She was soo very cute and sweet, I wanted to give her a huge hug, but I didn't. I did remember to say, "Thank you" and she smiled as she went on her way.
I suppose I am not doing too badly if all I lack is poultry seasoning and a rather large bar of chocolate (no nuts!)
Now, all I have to do is remember where the rest of the presents are hidden, and hope that the last few arrive by parcel post in time to make it under our tree!
I wish I knew that things would slow down, now that the majority of the shopping is done.
Alas, but 'tis Christmas week, and the real work is really only just now begun!
posted by Mimi Rankin Webb at 9:58 AM
Mimi is the mother of four: a 12 1/2-year-old boy and 1-year-old triplets (two boys and one girl). She is very happily busy taking care of everyone, whether it's the triplets' multiple doctor appointments, attempting a shopping excursion or volunteering to plan her son's school renaissance festival.
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