Christmas has a lot of planning. There are the presents that you have to buy, and more importantly, budget for, and the decorations and on and on.
Yesterday, I realized I had many things to do still. After going to school from 8am to noon, in which I had two clients, I went straight to my parents for the Falk Christmas. It was nice. My Mom made a traditional German dish that I really appreciate after making it myself. We all pigged out and opened presents. They were so nice to us and got us a clothesline for our backyard. Think what you may, I will be a little ghetto if it saves my some money.
So I get home and want to take a load off...no. I get David ready for work and then realize that Santa will be pissed if he doesn't have cookies. I started baking until it was time for church. In between all of this David calls and tells me that he and his partner will be coming home for dinner around 8:00 and wanted me to have something ready for them. Really? With 3 hours and nothing ready? Yeah right...Me N Ed's it is! Thank goodness they were open until 7:30.
I get home from church and I start cleaning up a little...gotta make the co-workers think I do something after all.
They get to the house around 8:15 and we eat dinner together. A lot of stress though due to calls coming in and lazy officers not wanting to share the responsibility. Don't get me started.
After they leave and the boys go down, I see that I need to get the presents out of hiding and put them in their appropriate place. I also needed to do some last minute wrapping and prepping. I finally get to bed around 11:30...ahhh!
At 5:30 today, my wonderful, kind and considerate 4 year old comes into my room and yells, "Momma, it's Christmas and Santa came! Hurry up!" I replied something to the effect of, "It's too early!". David actually encouraged me to get up and crawled out of bed. So I was up at the crack of dawn! Not a favorite of mine.
So I am happy to be at home with the boys in bed after another long day of playing with their new toys. I will not hold it against them that they fell asleep in the car when we drove thru the subdivision on Alluvial. That was more for me anyway.
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