and I'm talking crazy long, and it just seems to multiply by the day!! Every year I have big plans, to be all festive, bake daily, take many Christmas outings, and fill this house with the Christmas spirit. Ugh, it seems like every year I fail at this hope, or should I say dream. In reality the stress of Christmas is overwhelming, the many school Christmas parties, remembering what kid needed the cotton balls, the ornament, or the nine bags of M&M's, choosing which extra parties we can make it to on the same night, it all seems to get the best of me. So I baked cookies once, made rice krispies once and that summed up my baking so far for the holidays :( There are cranberries in my refrigerator waiting to be strung with popcorn, projects that I planned one doing with the kids, and many cookies recipes waiting for us to bake. On top of all this I wanted the older kids to do some kind of community service, which unfortunately doesn't look like there will be time for. All of this leaves me feeling like a failure!! While I would love to say I have time to squeeze in the last this last minute Christmas cheer feeling, I don't! Let me give you the rundown on my next few days...
Today-Christmas party for Olivia, decorating for Olivia's winter wonderland Birthday party tomorrow, grocery shopping, making cake pops, and Olivia has a Christmas play tonight.
Friday-Dr. apt first thing in the morning, Harrison's Christmas party, setting up the finishing touches for Liv's party, party from 3-6, Liv has friend spending the night taking them down to Charlotte to ice skate at the outdoor ice rink, Jack has his first dance, shew I think that's it!!
Saturday-Sqeeze in some of that Christmas fun, Christmas party, and taking the kids to drive through the lights and ice skate.
Sunday-Liv's B-day!!! She wants to go see Tangled!! This day will be filled with trying to please the Birthday princess!!
Monday-another Dr. apt, and my parents show up..ahh!!
On the positive side, my Christmas shopping is done, the goal of a "smaller" Christmas was thrown out of the window by my husband once again this year!! The sucky thing is when you have older kids you can spend a LOT of $$$ and they still only have 5-10 gifts to open.
Hope everyone else is fairing a little better in the whole Christmas cheer thing, I have to learn to just make it happen and find the time!!
On a side note I stress so much over Olivia's parties, she is very hard to please!! Last year I transformed my front room into a spa, and I thought it was adorable, well she didn't agree! This year we're going with a winter wonderland party, she only decided on this party on Sunday, so I've been running around trying to buy up all the snowflakes I can find and stressing about giving her the perfect party!! Then I think this child is going to be 9, she is way too demanding and hard to please!! She should just be happy she's having a party, right??
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Jessy, if it's any consolation I am in the same boat for Christmas. Every year I have these lofty ideas of the "perfect holiday season" and every year I end up scrambling last minute to day anything and hating every minute of it. It's really hard, and it all feels so demanding.
ReplyDeleteAs for Olivia's party -- boy do I hear you. Molly's is in January and OMG last year she wanted a Junie B Jones party. Like what was I supposed to do for that? This year the diva is choosing between spa and nancy drew mystery. Seriously. WTHeck right?! I am certain not pull off either of those things and am considering offering to take her up on her offer to skip the party and take her to Chicago. (On a side note what kind of 8 almost 9 year old makes such an offer?!)