somebody waits for you, kiss her once for me...
I was just thinking about last night and how freakin' hilarious my friends are. We had such a great time. What with Bre and her thoughts of doing nice things for us, but never actually doing them or Rachel (aka the Bucket) telling everyone she didn't care about anyone else really to Meg and her usual corny jokes that only make you laugh b/c she's the one telling them. We did a yankee swap and Bre was the only one to take someone else's gift b/c Meg had gotten some champagne (which we of course cracked open and shared that night). I'm so used to the yankee swaps where people are cutthroat and make alliances just so the person that stole their gift won't end up with it. I'm going to the Christmas Eve party where we do that tonight. My grampie used to always want the scratch tickets (someone always puts those in), he didn't care about anything else and people would get booed if they took them from him. And then there's this ever infamous cat puzzle that seems to mysteriously make its way to the swap every year and whoever gets stuck with it is picked on all night.
The holidays are so draining... its like we build up to this one day by buying tons of food, presents, and sending out cards that will inevitably be thrown away anyway. We exhausted ourselves for those days and then they're gone like that and we're expected to go back to our regular lives like nothing happened. Its so funny. I always get really disoriented around the holidays b/c time seems to move in a different way than normal. But they can be fun at the same time, especially when you have two younger siblings that still believe in Santa around. Its a tradition that the kids get to open one present on Christmas Eve and so Zeke and Taylor swapped the gifts they "got for eachother" and it was so darn cute. They just get so excited. Zeke was telling me earlier that he was so excited for Christmas that he couldn't even do anything! He helped me wrap the gifts for our Mom that David (my step-dad) always has me wrap b/c he hates wrapping. Zeke would bring the present from the garage where we were wrapping into the house and then run back to help w/ the next one. One time he brought up two bowls of chips for us saying we were probably hungry after all we had done. It was so cute. Then when we were bringing all the supplies back into the house he dropped his bowl of chips and when I bent down to help him I dropped mine. He thought it was the funniest thing ever... which it really was. I love little moments like that.
Ooooh so cool... my Mom just told me that she ordered a soft, fuzzy Patriots throw blanket for me for Christmas but it didn't come in time. Hopefully I'll get it this week. I'm soooo pumped for that!!! Holllerrrr atcha boooyZZZ!
Well I gotta go finish getting ready for church...
peace OUT
The holidays are so draining... its like we build up to this one day by buying tons of food, presents, and sending out cards that will inevitably be thrown away anyway. We exhausted ourselves for those days and then they're gone like that and we're expected to go back to our regular lives like nothing happened. Its so funny. I always get really disoriented around the holidays b/c time seems to move in a different way than normal. But they can be fun at the same time, especially when you have two younger siblings that still believe in Santa around. Its a tradition that the kids get to open one present on Christmas Eve and so Zeke and Taylor swapped the gifts they "got for eachother" and it was so darn cute. They just get so excited. Zeke was telling me earlier that he was so excited for Christmas that he couldn't even do anything! He helped me wrap the gifts for our Mom that David (my step-dad) always has me wrap b/c he hates wrapping. Zeke would bring the present from the garage where we were wrapping into the house and then run back to help w/ the next one. One time he brought up two bowls of chips for us saying we were probably hungry after all we had done. It was so cute. Then when we were bringing all the supplies back into the house he dropped his bowl of chips and when I bent down to help him I dropped mine. He thought it was the funniest thing ever... which it really was. I love little moments like that.
Ooooh so cool... my Mom just told me that she ordered a soft, fuzzy Patriots throw blanket for me for Christmas but it didn't come in time. Hopefully I'll get it this week. I'm soooo pumped for that!!! Holllerrrr atcha boooyZZZ!
Well I gotta go finish getting ready for church...
peace OUT