Planning Ahead

John and I took a look at our calendar for November and December to figure out our plans for Christmas. We decided that we are going to squeeze in a trip to Michigan this Christmas! Yipee! That also means that Santa will be coming to our house a little early....December 18th to be exact.

FYI boys...if you are old enough now and reading this blog..... we didn't really celebrate Christmas ON Christmas day every year. We changed Christmas so that it fit better into our schedule. We also changed some of your birthdays so that they fell on a weekend. This was before you could read a calendar or tell time, so you probably won' remember anyways..... but now you know! This kind of information will help your therapist down the line...

So if we count backwards, our Advent calendar needs to start on November 24... the day before Thanksgiving. And we only have 4 more weekends to shop until "fake" Christmas.

So we started working on the Christmas prep laundry list... On Thursday we headed to the outlet mall to get some matching Christmas picture shirts for the boys. Little did I know that Thursday was the official celebration of Veterans Day and there were close to a million people shopping at the outlet mall with us. Luckily we got to the mall before it opened and got a good parking spot because by the time we left people were fighting over my spot. I packed the kids lunches and as we picniced on the grassy spot next to the van I literally had at least 10 people ask me if we were leaving. I simply said "sorry, no we are eating lunch first".

Then I actually had a woman say "Well, don't you think that that is a strange spot to eat lunch?"

I said "Ok, bye bye lady"

Then today we picked up some new Christmas cd's for the van. It doesn't feel like Christmas until the music starts. I should have just bought the single of Jingle Bells because the boys want that one song on continuous repeat and "NOTHING ELSE MOM" (followed by exasperated sigh). We don't want to hear "any of the other 123 songs. This is our favorite!" I can't wait until my ears start to bleed.

Then today I sewed some Christmas pillowcases for the boys. They were a big hit. I am hoping that they will inspire the boys to sleep in and dream of Christmas. (Did I mention how much I HATE the time change? Can you say 4:45 am?)


Our Christmas excitement level is really starting to climb over here. And that's good, because we have to get there a week before everybody else. Santa's coming early this year boys and we have got to be ready!

By the way... if we are moving Christmas up, then Thanksgiving is this Thursday. I can't wait! Gobble Gobble!