For lots of sugar....
Early present opening......
Blurry picture taking......
Watching new movies (the sandlot) with real people and new words.....
Tasty treats and gifts to and from neighbors.....
And lots and lots of present wrapping.
It's also the season for daily list checking and rechecking and daily mental breakdowns (me); sick kids (Elliott); greedy boys (Wyatt), crazy babies (Quinner) and dads who don't go to work, but don't really know what to do when they are at home. There have been and will be more tears shed. I miss my grandma's terribly and nearly every time I've wrapped a present in the last few weeks I've cried. Wrapping my grandma's hundreds of presents every year was something I always looked forward to.
We've watched all our Christmas movies and the advent calendar is almost finished. All our parties have been held, hosted, and attended. The gifts are wrapped, charities have been donated to and neighbor gifts have been delivered. I've wavered between thinking we've gone overboard with too much to thinking that we don't have enough, and adding a couple extra things.
I read in a book a few weeks ago, that Christmas is hard for women. We all want to create those perfect movie moments for our families so we go out of our heads to prepare: food and gifts and wrapping and generosity and "over the toppedness", just to make sure our children, husbands and other family members are in sugar and toy comas and dancing with sugar plum fairies.....all that work just to let the credit go to Santa and his elves. And we end up curled on the couch, wishing for a xanex at the end of the day. Or maybe that's just my Christmas wish. (kidding.......)
It's okay though. I love to give gifts. I like to get them, too, but I love to give them. I'm so excited to give my gifts this year. Hopefully, they are well received. So dumb to worry about such things, but I do. And I'm excited to see my boys faces on Christmas morning. Hopefully Santa won't disappoint.
Merry Christmas!
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