tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10365105.post8637014490556949903..comments2023-09-28T05:56:04.896-04:00Comments on In the Merry Old Land of Oz: I laughed...JOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15892606500707914021noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10365105.post-10998762438874521562007-11-16T23:07:00.000-05:002007-11-16T23:07:00.000-05:00All right, OK, knock it off you two. You're killi...All right, OK, knock it off you two. You're killing me. It's Friday night at 11pm and I am still at work. Tomorrow at the crack of dawn, somehow my bag will be miraculously packed (despite the dirty laundry piled up in my room right now) and I'll go get Sh from a friend's where we'll zoom off to a soccer tournament for the weekend - b/c somehow I volunteered to chaperone. Meanwhile I skidded to a stop at the baby shower at work today (with Sh in tow b/c she had no school and we were on the way to the friend's) and realized I forgot the shower gift for the shower I suggested but never got around to planning (glad someone else at work had time). <BR/><BR/>I have given a lot of thought to Christmas. I love Christmas. I have no shame in decorating for Christmas before Thanksgiving. If I had time. Which I don't. And the only plans I have are for, well, work. I'm hoping to have the kids and a free weekend all at the same time in early Dec to go chop down a tree (hopefully we'll have time to go farther than the neighbor's yard to do so...they might get mad...) And what's funny is this is the year I was going to decorate EARLY b/c I COULD (no one else to complain that it's too early). Ha ha joke's on me. <BR/><BR/>And actual gift shopping? With the new "family" arrangements, I don't even know who is on my LIST!<BR/><BR/>So quit making me feel bad with your organizing and cleaning! Or at least come on over and get started at my place!mehhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04128716136200049390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10365105.post-21717248438670584332007-11-14T10:32:00.000-05:002007-11-14T10:32:00.000-05:00Woohooo, go Mrs. Oz! Glad you're FLYing!I have st...Woohooo, go Mrs. Oz! Glad you're FLYing!<BR/><BR/>I have started Christmas shopping and Christmas planning. I know what activities we're going to do, and a general idea of when. Some of the outdoor ones are weather-dependent (I ain't traipsin' through the zoo for ZooLights if it's 35 degrees and raining sideways y'know?). I also don't have J's complete dance program schedule yet. <BR/><BR/>And I never manage to get cards out before Christmas somehow, but hey, at least my cards stand out that way (vbg). I have no idea what to say in a Holiday note. I'm too wordy or something, I guess.<BR/><BR/>Really, it's the whole "buying" and "decorating" before Christmas that's a problem. My own personal revolt against materialism (or something like that).<BR/><BR/>But in the past couple of years, our Christmas Crafts haven't been quite so central to the decorations and required so early in the season as is the case this year. That kind of tipped my hand, much as I hate to do it.<BR/><BR/>The best planned Christmas I ever had was the the one before M was born. She was due in mid-Jan, and I didn't want to be house-sized pregnant and standing in Christmas lines with a newly potty-training 2.5YO, or walking 20 miles from the parking lot hinterlands in a December rainstorm. All shopping was done before Thanksgiving that year, and I don't think I set foot in a mall other than to have J buy S his present and to check out the lights and decorations once.Carol P.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17820349273932220071noreply@blogger.com