**regarding my earlier post, I have decided that there is no way I can make an infant and a toddler spend that many hours in a vehicle and be able to sleep at night, So I will be watching the Girls for as long as it take their mom and dad to get their stuff all moved. it might inconvenience me, and it might make me bitchy by the end of the day, but I simply am not mean enough to force those babies to suffer like that!**
We had our shopping day on Saturday and while we were in Costco we picked up a gift for my Grandma. Grandma likes decorations and the like so we got a set of three snowmen. The largest is 18 inches high and they are quite cute. The only problem I have with giving Christmas decorations as a Christmas gift is that she has to wait a full year to be able to display them. I wonder if It would be OK to give it to her two weeks before Christmas so that she could at least enjoy it!
We also finalized out list for each other and the boys. I told Hubs that I wanted new slippers – I wear leather ones, the kind with fur round them, and I wear them till they fall apart. I had dug my slippers out last week and was very sad to see that the sole of the slipper was completely detached!
I think it is So funny that for Christmas this year the boys will be giving me slippers! As a child, every year the three of us, my brother, my sister and I, would hunt for the perfect pair of slippers for our mom, and now here my kids are giving me slippers!
We used to get my dad ties – the el cheapo ones, not nice silk ties, and socks! One year, The first year mom gave us each money and set us free in the mall to shop, I was so excited, so proud that I had found the perfect gift for my dad. I bought him a great big package of socks! He needed socks, he had told me so. I could hardly wait until Christmas Morning for him to open his socks, I must have been all of eight years old. Well sure enough, Christmas Morning came, and my dad opened his socks.
Honestly, and my father still doesn’t believe me, I had NO IDEA that socks came in different sizes! I had bought my dad a package of socks that fit MY feet, not his! I really had no idea! I can still remember the big pile of socks on the shelves, packages upon packages of them, I remember looking at the price excited that it was within my ten dollars a person limit, and i remember not thinking to check the size of the socks!
When you were a kid, did you do anything like this??
