Parents and in laws are taken care of now. Just gotta buy for kids, husband and niece.

14 days to go!

Yep, we're down to the last two weeks (including today)!

I wrapped all my pressies yesterday and will get the last couple of little ones today then I'm all done.

Next week is cake icing and sweets week! Yehaa. That should be fun. :)

I started wrapping today. But I'm not going any further until I have proof the toddler can leave the presents under the tree without tearing into them. (If not, I'll have to come up with another place to stick them all until Christmas.)

Right now the big item on my to-do list is make all the necessary phone calls to organize which side of the family is coming to my house when. But I can't, because then they'll ask me what food they should bring, and I won't have a good answer because I have no plan about what to serve yet. I hate organizing social events.

I love organizing that sort of stuff. Give me the numbers. I'll do it for you Clod. ;)

ETA: When my boys were that age, we didn't put the presents out till Christmas Eve when they were in bed. That way it helped us keep up the Santa myth. It really worked too because I'd get the kids to leave cookies and milk for santa and a carrot for rudolph along with a card. In the morning the cookies would be gone along with the milk, and the carrot would be mostly eaten (by me of course, rudolph doesn't really exist) and there'd be a card for them from Santa.

I swear they loved it and it made their day so special.

Wha wha what? No Rudolph????

Yes, it's true. Santa has been lying to you this whole time. The real Rudolph died decades ago, and he just keeps replacing him with a new reindeer that looks the same. Just like Lassie. Santa is a lying bastard, is what I'm trying to say.

Whaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh

-sniffles- No... no Rudolph? He's... are you... My Christmas is now RUINED :(

There IS a Rudolph* - she was here visiting not too long ago.


*Rudolph happens to be the last name of a friend of mine. This time of year she gets the "Where's your red nose?" bit quite often. Swears she can't fly, too.

12 days to go!

Yep, I've definitely lost/added a day somewhere. Sorry to those of you already panicking, but now you have even less time to get your shit together. :)

11 days to go!

We're making rumballs today. Yummy. :) Might get around to making coconut ice too or chocolate fudge.

ok ok, I actually spent a couple hours today - got the tree, got it up and the lights on, got all my kids done and decorated the house some more. The impending year and the financial negativity that is coming has sucked a lot of the merriment outta me.

The house looks nice and smells wonderful. Perhaps I'm starting to warm up to it a bit.

It's about time Scrooge. ;)

GAH!! Okay okay, Trea, don't panic, it's still more than a week away... presents? Check. Wrapped? Damn, nope. Tree? Fuggit, gotta get Ted to lug it out of the cabin, and there's no ornaments for it. Cooking? Screw that, we're going to be out of town. OH, damn, I forgot to get the animals Christmas presents. I KNEW I was forgetting something.

That's cool. Venison steak and a