My husband and I finally got to do some Christmas shopping!! It has been a tough year financially however boy we sure have been blessed. Despite Jarrett’s illness, and all of the hoopla we have had to go through, he made good grades this semester at college! Lots of hard work and I believe my oldest has successfully completed his first semester of high school. But back to sugarplums and shopping….
We go shopping and when I drop the kids off at my mothers my oldest daughter has secretly brought my ready-made gingerbread dough with her in the hopes that they can make cookies. Well initially she is disappointed because my mother had given me her cookie cutters to use with the dough at my house, and I have the rolling pin as well….this did not stop my children. As their mother and to prevent a fuss for my mother to have to deal with I tell them to get creative, use a butter knife, or a plastic knife to cut out the desired shapes. Ok, so this does leave my mother in a bit of a pickle, but hey she’s had to deal with worse, she raised 5 kids. So we get the kids settled at my parent’s house and go about our business.
We don’t know where to start. We have five kids of our own and the money is kinda slim….but we are used to that so we start thinking of a blend between Santa and practical. I won’t go into details but I think we did quite well and I don’t think the kids will be disappointed one bit. Well maybe the oldest, because he thinks he HAS to have an ipod or he’s gonna die. But I am on the fence about that because he has nooooo idea what is in store for him and NO it’s not an ipod, because Santa is on a budget, but it is hopefully gonna blow his socks off. We did good, I am convinced of that. I am also convinced that in the end, the kids appreciate the gifts but know the real reason we celebrate Christmas.
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