Try as I might to deny it, Christmas is upon us. It’s knocking on the door and rattling the windows. It’s calling my home phone every hour and leaving voicemails on my already-crowded-and-never-listened-to inbox. We were out and about all day on Sunday and if there’s one thing I noticed it is this: Christmas is Here. It don’t care that temperatures will be up near 70 degrees today (Seriously, WTF, Nevada??). It doesn’t care that I haven’t even begun to think about decorating (at least our exterior is mostly done already, since we never took down last years decorations) (don’t you want to be our neighbor??). It doesn’t even care that we haven’t even had Thanksgiving yet. The fact of the matter is that Christmas is rapidly approaching and if you aren’t shopping your guts out by now then you totally FAIL.
So in the spirit of Yuletide and all that rot, I’m going to share with you my Holiday To-Do List. Because don’t we all have one of these? At the very least, this little exercise might help organize myself so that I can at least hope to get some of these things done.
- Compile and burn Christmas CDs for Holiday Gift Bag. I THINK I know what songs I want to put on there. But I should probably stop putting this off and just get it done. This is an EASY task.
- Finish making the ornaments that Harry burned out on making after he made 1/2 of one. SIGH.
- Paint and decorate the remaining picture frames (we have one done. Sort of.
- Make holiday candy and treats for Gift Bags. This could be dangerous for my waistline. Especially the fudge part. So I think I’ll make Kile do it.
- Purchase Whole Foods reuseable grocery bags for the Gift Bag. It’s sort of an important component, actually. *cough*
- Dig Christmas tree out of the garage and assemble. Then decorate it. Then pray to Baby Jesus that Liam doesn’t entirely dismantle it.
- Do the Santa gift thing. We (sorta) know what we’re going to get. But we probably won’t be making any purchases until after Thanksgiving.
- Find presents for Kile. GULP. Since I’m pretty much a hermit and never leave the house alone with the kids, this could be… interesting. Hellooooo online shopping!!
- Make more fudge. For myself. (Who am I kidding??)
- Do the post office thing. *shudder* Hmm. On second thought, delegate that task to Kile.
- Oh crap! Christmas cards! I almost forgot. Yeah, since I actually have some to give out this year, I should probably do those too.
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wow… that’s quite a list, Marilyn. No wonder the holidays are stressfull since my list looks alot like that one. I’ve actually got a jump on a few presents – nothing for Paul or Elizabeth though. I got a few 2009 photo frame calendars from Michael’s for the grandparents, and the pictures are printed, I just have to put them in the calendars. And I have Christmas cards, and enough stamps. Now I just need to actually sign them, put them in envelopes and address them. And somewhere in there, will be shopping. And going to the post office. And making the holiday cookies. And decorating the house. I think that’s it. I HOPE that’s it.