holiday spirit. or not.
How can Christmas be a week from today???? I need more time.
Matt and I have been working so hard on Christmas stuff for his mom that we're insanely behind on our own. We've bought one (1) present so far, and that's a scrapbook that I'm making for his mom from their 50th anniversary party photos--it's not even done, but it's close. Which wouldn't be so bad, except we've got a bunch of presents that need to be sent down south. We've got her Christmas letter pretty much ready to go, and we're trying to get her to finish going through her addresses and making corrections, so we should get her cards out today or tomorrow... but we haven't even started our own. Matt got her apartment decorated the weekend after Thanksgiving; we still have boxes everywhere.
*sigh*
She's getting more and more frail by the week. We're expecting her to have to move into assisted living sometime next year, and she's going to hate that, but she's getting to the point where she just can't live on her own--she could barely get out of a chair without help even before breaking her wrist. (Which is doing much better, thank heavens. She's still wearing a splint, but she says it's hardly bothering her any more.)
So, today: Finish the scrapbook, take care of the presents that need to be shipped. Tomorrow: Our Christmas cards. Clean house. Decide on Christmas Eve menu. Sunday: More cleaning. Bake cookies. Avoid watching the Bears get pummelled by the Ravens. Monday: Christmas shopping liek woah.
This'll be over soon, right?
Matt and I have been working so hard on Christmas stuff for his mom that we're insanely behind on our own. We've bought one (1) present so far, and that's a scrapbook that I'm making for his mom from their 50th anniversary party photos--it's not even done, but it's close. Which wouldn't be so bad, except we've got a bunch of presents that need to be sent down south. We've got her Christmas letter pretty much ready to go, and we're trying to get her to finish going through her addresses and making corrections, so we should get her cards out today or tomorrow... but we haven't even started our own. Matt got her apartment decorated the weekend after Thanksgiving; we still have boxes everywhere.
*sigh*
She's getting more and more frail by the week. We're expecting her to have to move into assisted living sometime next year, and she's going to hate that, but she's getting to the point where she just can't live on her own--she could barely get out of a chair without help even before breaking her wrist. (Which is doing much better, thank heavens. She's still wearing a splint, but she says it's hardly bothering her any more.)
So, today: Finish the scrapbook, take care of the presents that need to be shipped. Tomorrow: Our Christmas cards. Clean house. Decide on Christmas Eve menu. Sunday: More cleaning. Bake cookies. Avoid watching the Bears get pummelled by the Ravens. Monday: Christmas shopping liek woah.
This'll be over soon, right?