I guess one could say that the fact that I have ninety billion things to do in the next four days is all my fault. After all, Ive known that Christmas was coming for roughly three hundred and sixty days now, and still, all last week I pretty much sat on my butt!

At least this way, I figure there will be no need for me to whine and complain about how I need fat burners and diet pills after Christmas is over, I will probably lose ten pounds just running around int he next four days getting things ready!

Besides the baking that needs to be finished – and trust me, it;s a lot of baking that needs to be finished, there is the general housework that I need to get done, PLUS the laundry… unless you think it would be OK for the kids to run around naked on Christmas morning? I mean we DID get them new outfits and they could wear those … so it would only be a few hours of nakedness.. right? RIGHT?

Pfft. I’m going to do the dishes in about twenty minutes, then make supper, then after the kids are in bed I will be decorating cookies, and then? More dishes!

Monday I will be making the pies and Tuesday i will eb makign the pumpkin rolls, Wednesday we will be at the inlaws and Thursday of course is Christmas. Somewhere in the middle of all of that I need to find the time to do about 15 loads of laundry and wash the floors. And maybe, if i’m feeling energetic, I can cleant he bathrooms too?

In family news:

My inlaws are leaving for Mexico on December 26th. The need to be at the airport at 4:30 in teh morning, and have recruited Hubs to drive them. To say he is less than enthused to be getting up at that time in the morning would not be an exaggeration.

The ticket thingys my in laws printed out come full of rules they must follow. Like their luggage, two bags each, can only weight 45 pounds each. They keep packing and re packing their bags and then bringing them over here to set them on the scale. I told them to just take the scale to their house, I’m not going to need it, but they refuse to be logical.

Im finding it doubtful that they will manage to successfully pack their luggage properly, but they do get to take carry on bags with them. In My father in laws, he will have all his medication, but I suppose MIL can pack a few extra odds and ends into her carry on..

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In hopeful news :

Speaking of travel, My sister is NOT going to Texas now in March. She has found, like I hoped she would, that saving the amount of money she would need to take a trip of that magnitude, is very hard to do. She still has firm plans to go..sometime, but the date is not set and I am ever hopeful that things will change in the time it takes her to save up the money.

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In Cute news:

My six year old has a loose tooth. he refuses to pull it out, even though it is barely hanging in there, becuase he wants to wait  until Christmas eve so that Santa and the tooth fairy can meet each other!