*UPDATED*
I optimistically invited a relatively large portion of my family to our house for Christmas Eve. At first I thought it would just be an open house sort of deal, come and go as you please and not have to make a meal. Well then my aunt who usually holds an annual event at her house needed to cancel because of a death in her family, so my house became the main event. Insert “ahhhh” now. Under normal conditions, this maybe wouldn’t be cause for panic, however, we are leaving for New York at 9:30 on Christmas morning. Therefore there are so many things I need to accomplish before we leave…
Pack for the kids
Pack for Louie
Pack for myself- I still have a few necessities for each of us that I haven’t packed yet: undergarments, hair straightener, diapers, louie’s jeans.
Pack the gift suitcase- my husband is a giver. he can’t just give people gift cards and make it easier on himself shopping, or on me for packing purposes, nope our gift suitcase weighs 35 pounds. Did I mention how excited I am to take 2 kids, 4 suitcases, 2 carry on bags, a diaper bag and all other must haves to the airport with just 4 hands to carry it all.
Clean the house… AGAIN- i spent most of the weekend cleaning the house from floor to ceiling, but if you have a toddler you know it doesn’t stay clean long. I have 2 toddlers so it was messy even quicker. THANK YOU KATIE FOR LETTING TREY AND HARPER HAVE A PLAY DATE TO FREE UP A FEW HOURS! YOU ARE A GODSEND!
Decorate Christmas Cookies
Make chocolate covered pretzels
Make Brownie balls
Go shopping… AGAIN – need an apple pie, soda, sour cream, mini keg for the beer tender, and one last gift for my brother. Again, HUGE THANKS TO KATIE!
Figure out how to fix the ham we bought at Costco
Prepare potato casserole, corn casserole, and any other fixin’s I decide to make.
Clean the house again before we leave for NY. make sure all the garbage is out
Wake up Christmas morning, early enough for the kids to open a gazillion presents ( i hit up the dollar store this year) eat, clean, and make it to the airport by no later than 8:00am
Please pray for me as I take on all these tasks this week. Oh an I forgot to mention I have a viewing and a funeral to attend today and tomorrow.
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! BE BLESSED!!!!
3 Comments
December 22, 2008 at 6:40 pm
you’re nuts. i say hire somebody to come clean your house and do the kids’ christmas morning on wednesday (that’s what we’re doing because we’re leaving on wednesday…they don’t know the difference)! also, what’s wrong with the ham?
December 23, 2008 at 1:24 am
I’ll be praying for you for sure, that sounds CRAZY!!
January 7, 2009 at 1:40 am
just read your updates/crossouts…thanks for the shout-out. it was no problem and helped me get some stuff done at my house. let’s do it again sometime.