I'll tell you what I believe - I believe I am SO not ready for the holidays.
Every year I vow to be a total Pinterest mom, to snap photos of my children laughing beneath the holly-trimmed fireplace mantel, donning their brand new Christmas Eve pajamas.
Spoiler alert: This isn't going to happen. But I will try my darndest to make it a reality.
Right now our reality is the fact Sam has said to me at least five times in the past week, "Moooooommmmmm,when are we going to do our Thankfulness Treeeeeeeeee????"
The kid doesn't forget anything. And he's right - the Thankfulness Tree was our favorite family project last year and deserves a repeat.
This is not our actual tree, but it looked a lot like this. Of course, because I am running around like a crazy person (in a hurry. on fire.) by November, I didn't actually take a picture of said tree. But ours really did look like this. I have no idea who those people are in that picture.
So, we have to get the damn tree done this week. It's sort of a mandate or else I fear someone will come knocking on our door to confiscate my mom card.
I also have a pile of update letters for Royal Stage I need to send out. Because a fall update is going to quickly become a winter update if I don't get my rear in gear and send those suckers out.
If I accomplish those two tasks, I shall have a celebratory glass of apple juice and prepare for Thanksgiving, which is my all time favorite holiday. I REFUSE to be stressed about Thanksgiving and instead be thankful about all we have - because seriously we are so incredibly blessed.
Following Thanksgiving, things will likely proceed as follows:
- Mail Christmas cards
- Receive Christmas cards and then frantically print out and mail more of ours to those we forgot to send them to until we got THEIR card and realized
- Rejoice in the knowledge this is the first year both kids are old enough to know better than to gnaw on any portion of the Christmas tree
- Restring the tree with my grandmother's vintage bead garland approximately ten times as Charlotte snatches it for her jewelry collection the moment I'm out of sight
- Argue with my mother serveral times over Christmas plans. "Yes, we really do want you to come visit. No, it won't be a burden. Yes, we promise not to ever give away the toys you buy the kids EVER."
- Attempt the selected Pinterest projects for three of my favorite people born in Nov/Dec
- Frantically run out and buy gifts to replace the Pinterest projects that didn't turn out anything like they were online (shocking).
- Christmas shop completely online
- Find some of the same items at a better price at a store
- Explain to 59,283,583,000 people why we don't do Santa at our house
- Have a gorgeously wonderful, peaceful, reflective Christmas Eve
- Wake up way too early on Christmas morning and receive renewed strength for the day from our kids' smiling faces
- Have a stressful Christmas afternoon
- Bake Jesus' birthday cake with Sam and enjoy it before bedtime
- Carefully deliberate over New Year's plans
- End up going to bed at 10pm despite our best efforts
Hello, January. Repeat.
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