Only 5 pay periods until Christmas...

If you are paid Bi-weekly like me, then the aforementioned is true. Only 11 Saturdays for Shopping as well. This is crazy for people like myself who haven't thought a thing about it. This year is just flying by. I have no clue what I am going to get for Koby, or Chris, or any of my family or friends. It is crazy to think, that I have just a little amount of time to get this done. December is a crazy month for us. My Birthday is the 11th, then Koby's on the 16th, then Chris's is the 29th. And you always have business Christmas parties sprinkled in there, along with Church plays,and parties as well. It is a very busy(and expensive) time of year for us! And you would think because of that I would start planning ahead of time...yeah...not so much! I am the one scrambling at the last minute, trying to get something that the gift receiver will like. Trying to find the thing I want to give, at the last minute which usually means going to 10 stores and still coming up empty handed. Trying to find wrapping paper to wrap the gifts I settled on, which is like finding that proverbial needle! Always buying a few gift cards, just because I seem to remember at the last minute....someone I forgot! I wish I could get it more together...but year after year, there I am wading through the crowds, scrapping up what I can find, waiting in endless lines, and leaving exhausted, defeated, and frustrated!
Then, there are people like my Mom. People that literally have over half of their shopping done by the 4th of July, and wisely sit home on those busy Fall weekends, while the rest of us are making the news for lining up at 2am, and fighting over the latest must haves. People who buy Christmas presents, the day after the Christmas, for the next year...you know saving time and money(wow...what a concept). People who put up their decorations with Disney like magic, and remove them with the same ease. The gifts they give are thoughtful, and well-suited, as if they could read your mind, and the outside of the box is a gift in and of itself. Wrapped with the shiniest paper, curliest ribbon, and stuff I don't even know the name of to decorate the boxes. They have it all together, year after year, never forgetting anyone, or anything along the way.
Will, I ever make it to the "other side". It's doubtful! I keep trying, and saying I will do it, and year after year I make the same choices, and end up in the same boat as the year before. Well, I guess there is always next year!!!! Happy Shopping...and let me be the first to say Merry Christmas!!!