With only a little over two weeks until Christmas, it seems to me that time is speeding up! I don’t even want to confess how far behind I am this year. My life has been pretty wrapped up in the 15 Days of Holiday Sweets. This is both good and bad – good in that the cookies for the cookie trays are done and in the freezer (except I am still making today’s cookie, and the Original Bacardi Rum Cake Recipe for Christmas Eve dinner), bad in that this really should have been done months ago.
Last year when I did 15 Days of Holiday Cookies, I had them finished in October. We went down to Florida for two weeks in December to set up the condo and buy some furniture, so before we left my tree was up, the menu planned, all the foods were purchased, yada, yada. I look back at Christmas 2013 as a fairly organized operation.
Christmas 2014 is shaping up to be anything but! The tree has to go up this week, or I swear we will not have one. Seriously! I decided not to put up outside lights as we want to head out of town (weather dependent) fairly early in January (yes, we are snowbirds), so I don’t want to take down lights in the middle of a 25° day during a January snowstorm. Call me crazy! I’m just not that into winter after January 6th.
Hubby’s mom flew in from Vegas for Thanksgiving. That meant we had Thanksgiving dinner at our house, and that is something we seldom do. The prep and clean up for that event pushed me back a few days. (That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.)
My to-do list includes shopping with Sonny-boy. I swore that tradition was over fully expecting him to find a full-time job out of area and move away. He did find a full-time job, and it is about 10 minutes from me! Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on your point of view), he lives in a “cool” area in Buffalo and has to schlep out this way 30 minutes or so every weekday. What a goof. I guess you are only young once though, and living in the “cool” section of a city is fun when you are a 20-something. Anyhoooo he is all for a day together Saturday where we shop (as little as possible, neither one of us are shoppers), go to the movies, and have lunch together. It was his suggestion, and I was not turning him down. We don’t see each other nearly enough these days.
I have to get the tree done, check the menu and what we have to purchase to complete it (it is nice that it is pretty much the same every year), check the linens, and go to the bank for green-gifts.
When I break it down like that, it doesn’t look too bad. For some reason, I think there is more to my to-do-story than what I listed though.
So, how are your holiday preparations going!?
Stephanie B says
Today is my husbands birthday so I took a half day at work to come home and surprise him by decorating the house. This was a foolish idea. Now I have nobody for the heavy lifting! Haha. We finished shopping for our four year old (for real this time!) And have gifts for his teachers and some small items he picked out for family members when he asked if he could buy presents himself this year. I bought a gift for my aunt and that’s it. I’m so far behind!! And we are hosting 3 parties in the next 3 weeks! Every year I swear we aren’t going to host again and then we do lol. Somehow it’ll all come together….I hope!
Ann says
OMG! You are hosting 3 parties over the next 3 weeks!? Boy Stephanie, that is ambitious. I’d probably take days to clean up, then have to start all over again with the next party. I hope all goes well.
Ann
Marie says
I have the tree up and the lights on the tree and the cat IN the tree. I keep pulling her out and she keeps going back. So…I’m thinking I’m not going to hang any ornaments. That means the tree part is done! Shopping, almost done. Wrapping, nope. Cards, not yet. Baking, not even close.
Ann says
Cards! I think the only people I am sending cards to this year are in response to people who sent to me.
Marie, you can always try this.
Ann
Marie says
LOL! In this hectic time of year, I totally missed that one! How cute.