Friday, December 11, 2009

Where did time go?

Well as of Dec 5th I was officially the mother of an 11 year old...what!?!  It seems every day I wake up..and both my kids are a year older...I just don't know where the time is going!  It certainly isn't doing my laundry lol!  Next month will be my little girl's turn to amaze me..she is turning 9.........eeek!  Please remind me NOT to have any more kids around this time of year! 

  Christmas is about 2 weeks away, and I am basically D O N E shopping..I say basically because there are always more things I could buy....and probably will.  Still have a few more big boy toys to get for Hubby..he's been such a good boy this year lol.  He's easy, as long as he has a bottle of whiskey from Santa and some meat pie (delish) he's good to go.  The kid's are a little trickier, but not by much!  I think they both made out pretty good this year, considering I warned them ahead of time that I didn't know just how much I would have to devote to spoiling them.  But I did make sure that they each got a good chunk of wish list items, which is usually my main goal of the year.  Once I got them each every single thing they asked for..and ya know what?  They weren't any more excited than they were when I got them only 1 or 2 "must haves" so I decided from now on I would look at the "want" and "need" items...and tweak them with what I want to (and can afford to) get.

I am lucky, even though my son is one of those "need the best of the best" kids...neither of them are ever disappointed on Christmas, they thoroughly enjoy giving as well as getting, and just the whole Christmas experience..which is awesome!  My daughter is super easy, one of her "gotta have it" items this year was a new pair of slippers!  Yep I can totally handle that!

Well, here's to another pre-Christmas meltdown avoided...and happy kids on Christmas morning!  I can't WAIT to see what Santa has in store for us this year!!!

How cute!!  Dontchya just LOVE my faux brick wall?  I painted it all by myself! haha


8 comments:

Madison {Life Happens During Naptime} said...

Actually I do love your faux brick wall, and your tree!

Found you on MBC =)

Grizzly Bear said...

Ok sister I am so going to say whatever on the whole done with shopping.. ugghhh I havent gotten there yet. And the tree I made j get a new one got it yesterday still in the box, I know lame lame... hey I am trying something new this year , wait until the last minute to get your crap done and maybe the stress will help burn off the pounds.. I dream cant' I

Have a good one!

Anonymous said...

time does fly ! doesn't it?

awsome photo..

Unknown said...

I love your tree and your faux brick wall. That is really neat. I would have never thought to paint a wall like bricks. So cool.

I came over from MBC! I am now following you.
Heather
http://ratherbechangingdiapers.blogspot.com/

Shelley said...

I love the wall!!!

Visiting from FFF @ MBC! I'm a new follower! Love for you to come visit me!

~Shelley @ www.shelleysswag.blogspot.com

Shelley said...

I just saw your "About Me"...that is EXACTLY how I describe myself...."quirky"!!! LOL! You can tell by the way my blog looks ;P

Mel at Adventures of Mel said...

Your tree is so pretty. Following you from MBC.:)

Oh My Baby said...

Following you from MBC 50

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