This is an interesting development. I’m ready. Presents are all wrapped and under the tree. The house is clean. Everything sparkles and smells nice.
And it is three entire days before Christmas. I got kind of a late start out the gate this year but everything just fell into place. The parking fairies were even on my side.
Normally I’m plagued with Christmasy nightmares of realizing it’s Christmas day and I’ve completely forgotten to buy any gifts and I’m frantically going up and down the aisles of 7-11 trying to find something that isn’t a dusty can of baked beans or 10-40w motor oil to give as gifts.
I was a wee bit tardy getting to the post office this year. I showed up on Wednesday morning to mail off a package to a certain 53575 zip code (Ahem. Please tell me it arrived and fluff the bows, will you) and there were only two people in line ahead of me. I remarked upon this to the postmistress and she just looked sternly at me over the top of her glasses and said "that’s because everyone else has already mailed their packages." Whoops.
Next year I am going to forgo ribbon embellished with glitter. It as insidious as confetti. I’ll be sweeping and vacuuming glitter until Labor Day. And you think I’m exaggerating. One year we had a New Year’s Eve party (back when we could actually stay up past 11:00pm) and someone brought confetti. I was finding that confetti for YEARS afterward. We even moved and I was vacuuming it up in the NEW house. Explain that one.
Well now I’m going to make myself a Christmas Cosmo, put my feet up and just enjoy the tree for a few days. I wish for all of you peace and joy. Merry Christmas.
Congratulations! That is quite an accomplishment. We are baking cookies for the next few days and I hardly wrapped any gifts yet. Merry Christmas!
Ohh Christmas cosmo, yummmm. Looks like you will have a perfect Christmas. Merry Christms and please tell Sarah Merry Christmas too. xoxoxo Clarice
Oh, Andrea, everything just looks so perfect. I wish I could be sitting by the fire with you, gazing at your beautiful tree! My dining room table is Gift Wrap Central, and my bedroom isn’t much better. My sewing room is a complete disaster, I can’t begin to describe the chaos in there! I need Santa’s Elves to turn up and give me a hand!
Oh i can not wait!!! Your packages are clean, snowy and crisp!! Lovely!!!
Can’t wait for lizz’s bday tomorrow, then christmas eve and then the big day!!!!!!!!!!!! ENjoy the boys being home for x-mas, did you get my coogies??
Isn’t it nice to actually get to relax & enjoy the days leading up to Chrsitmas day?! Your house looks so lovely & cozy! I wish you a wonderful Christmas with your family!
xo, Bren
(p.s. I understand about the confetti thing. . . One year we had an Easter egg hunt inside. . . & I found an egg a week later. . . & then another one when I moved. . . 9 months later! Yikes!)
Your packages look much nicer than mine. I am not the best wrapper and usually rush through that task. Enjoy that cosmo and have a Merry Christmas.
Yes, I know the 7-11 feeling. I’ve even been tempted to last minute re-gift that random gift the distant aunt sent, then I feel guilty and head out to the drugstore or any place that’s open. The worst is when someone gives you a gift in person that you weren’t expecting and you don’t have one for them. Present drama. There’s too much of it. I love Christmas, but I do wish it were more like Thanksgiving sometimes and just less about the gifts. But then again, gift giving can be really craft inspired and fun, right down to the wrapping, like yours! Hope you have a great Christmas.
Ah – confetti! We had confetti at my niece’s house one New Years Eve – that would be my evil niece and paybacks were a lot of fun! Someone (!) dumped one sack full into my sisters car – talk about the gift that keeps giving!!! And my daughter and her friend were covered with it. We took it home (now in our car); slept (now in our our beds) and went to my MIL’s the next day and even she was finding confetti well into March!!
What fun to remember! Happy New Year!