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Nov

28th

The Holidays are Coming – Save Me!

Category: Life & Family, Mama Kelly's Musings | Written by Mama Kelly

Today marks the first day of the last “lazy weekend” until after New Year’s. The only thing that absolutely must be done is to drop off the kids at individual sleep-overs (one being for a birthday party) and to drive by the Mall and pick up jewelry I had dropped off to be re-sized.

Granted, there are other things I SHOULD be doing. I should get some things done in terms of cleaning and organization as I would still like to see Miss Artistic in her own room by Yule. I should clean my bathrooms. I should start packing away some Thanksgiving food into the freezer. I should try and organize the mass of paper that came from dismantling Gamer Dude’s desk and moving its contents onto and around the desk in our bedroom.

I should do some more holiday shopping (as well as pick up a birthday gift for the Elder who will be 15 the day after Xmas). I should think about starting the wrapping. I should start the cards as well.

Because, while Christmas is still about 4 weeks away there is really not all that much time left to get it all done. In two weeks the family will be coming over for our semi-annual “tree trimming” party and in three weeks our friend “E” will be coming up for our own holiday visit and cookie baking marathon.

This leaves me less time than I might otherwise have to do everything that needs doing, especially as I will still be working my usual hours and running the kids back and forth to Tae Kwon Do.

But, it will all work out. It always does. Every year I work myself up into a fine panic and every year Xmas morning dawns and I have managed to get everything done.

So, ignore the craziness and stress-inspired rantings that I’m sure will be appearing here over the next couple of weeks and enjoy your own holiday season to the utmost.

Blessings

Mama Kelly

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One Response to “The Holidays are Coming – Save Me!”

By phoenix2327 on Nov 29, 2009 |

Hello, Mama Kelly. I hope your Thanksgiving was joyful and bountiful. Oh you remind me of my mother-in-law. Every year she would run herself ragged preparing for Christmas. Shopping for gifts, hiding them in the ‘scary’ attic so the grandkids wouldn’t go snooping, buying food for Christmas dinner, decorating the house, wrappping everyone’s gifts (and I do mean everyone’s, depite both her daughters-in-law insistence that we could wrap own gifts and take some of the pressure off her). And then on the day, she would be up at 0dark00 to get the turkey and ham in the oven, and prepare snacks for everyone who came to visit.

Although she seemed to be like a headless chicken at times, not once did she ever ask for help and she always turned down offers of help. Christmas was her ‘thing’. It was her time to shine. She was a good mother to her sons, a joy to her grandchildren and her sons’ wives were the envy of other brides who wished thay could’ve had a mother-in-law like her. I don’t know why she felt she had to shine, when she always did anyway.

I suspect you feel the same way and not just about just Christmas. I think you feel that holidays are the time to show everybody just what you got. And you certainly have a lot. You’ve got good a good family, good friends…a good life. Seriously you do.

So please forgive me if I read about your streesful holiday preparations with a grain of salt. I think you love it really and if everything went smoothly, it just wouldn’t be feel like Christmas. (lol)

Blessings on you and yours for a wonderful Yule.