I don't have to send one because I update y'all about every little nitty gritty detail of our lives (complete with pictures) at least once a week as is.
so there.
anyone want to validate me before I feel a twinge of guilt?
I suppose I should feel badly for those who don't have our blog as their homepage or in their list of bookmarked sites...but whose fault is that? maybe I'll send a Christmas email with a link to the blog.
and does everyone realize that Christmas is next Monday?? I certainly did not, until the pastor mentioned it at church...oops...
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You shouldn't feel even the ittiest, bittiest, tweensie,weensie twinge of guilt.
Signed, (sighed?) the overacheiver who's so exhausted from all this holiday "to do" list that she can barely get up off the couch. And to think.....I had my christmas shopping done and WRAPPED and delivered by Thanksgiving!!!(can we say "OCD"? or perhaps "HATE holiday crowds!"?)
Duh! The "christmas letter" is for people you never talk/ write to the rest of the year.
Uh,
dear ones,
yesterday I cleaned some of the laundry room and told someone else to wash the dishes and made emergency "bus" party treats and regifted a couple of gift bags. Today I will herd 3 year olds and try to get them to sing their way through a Christmas program. Tomorrow I will worry about the boys who have no gifts and yet will be here for Christmas day, and finish a couple of good intentions started last month.
yes, right on target with other years!
LOL...I think you should have posted that with a family pic of you all in red with santa hats ;-)
and yeah...you're validated...I'm not sending a letter eitehr...I barely did cards...
Darryl's birthday is Christmas day so yeah...I knew it was coming fast...but wow...where did this year go!?
I have a proposition.
We should eliminate Halloween. We should celebrate the Canadian Thanksgiving date - in late October. We should have nothing in November, except 2 long weekends (4 day), approximately 6 weeks before Christmas (Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday) (around Veterans Day), and approximately 4 weeks before Christmas (Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday) (the latter can have the traditional big sale days). Additionally, there will be approximately 3 additional yet random (get you in the mood days) snow days - regardless of your climate. Christmas will remain on December 25th, since obviously you can't change the Lord's birthday for convenience. Students/Teachers of all ages will get a minimum of 5 days before Chrismas off, and no school between Christmas and New Year's Day. (we work through Friday this year and I'm grumpy about it).
Anyone working nights won't have to, and they'll have enough time to adjust their body clocks before the big celebration.
So, there. It's not actually more time off than we often have, yet it feels like more. I would have enough time to "do" a good job with both Christmas and Thanksgiving (at school) if they weren't close together, and eliminating Halloween would just be a bonus. At home, I still would probably do a lousy job of decorating and purchasing and creating but oh well.
"Additionally, there will be approximately 3 additional"
okay, skip one "additional" :)
" It's not actually more time off than we often have" - refers to school calenders basically
jim- I said validate me, not make me feel guilty for not talking to people I'm supposed to care about!
mom-wouldn't that give you 35 days off (including weekends) between november 1 and december 31? That would officially be more than waaz, who gets a mere 30 days off every two months? Really not fair, either, considering he works 12 hours and travels for at least another hour each day, and you work (play?) three days a week.
and for the record, I have two little fabric trees, a poinsetta, and a present for the boy that we already opened and used, and we bought one present for someone not located in Sicily, and that was some poop for the inlaw grandpa. Oh and we do have one ornament hanging from the poinsetta. Tell me you've got me beat in the decoration and purchasing department.
poinsettas are poisonious (or however you spell that) when eaten.
Just wanted to share.
And AB:people working nights still have to work nights b/c people still get sick over the holidays......bummer. your dream world doesn't work in mine. ;)
ps, em, u know amy got operated on last week?
no?? she's fine, I presume...
gallbladder out, minor complications, it was inflammed.
yeah gall bladders aren't much fun when they act up...had mine out in September...
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