The clouds are moving out, but I don't really see the sun yet.....but I do see blue sky! Ohhhh the sun just popped out!!! It's going to be a sunshiney day!
This weather is making my hips hurt. I think it's arthritis, and the oxycontin doesn't seem to do much for it. But once I get moving for the day it goes away. Thus, I keep moving as much as possible.
I didn't shop yesterday....but I did move....organized all I had already bought, and trying to figure out what still needed to be purchased. I did accomplish a lot, and am ready to go out again today. I may not finish today, but at least I know exactly what I need, and what stores I need to shop at. Almost everything I need right now are gift cards. Both from restaurants and stores....mostly restaurants left! I'm really at a blank figuring out what to get for the boys stockings. It's easy to find things for the girls (at least for me) and with Jack at 20 and Matthew 7, you can't get them all the same things. What I'm looking for are things under $3 as stocking stuffers. The girls already have at least two more items than the boys....so hope somethings will come to me while out today.
I put out a call for a fellow shopper to take me, and Patty Tkach volunteered and we will go out this morning around 11 a.m. and then have lunch. Maybe go back shopping after lunch, if I haven't gotten enough finished by then. Only need two before this weekend, and the rest can wait, cause we won't be celebrating Christmas with my kids and grandkids till after the 25th anyway. I haven't seen Patty for a while, so it will be fun to catch up with her.
Don't have any big plans for the rest of the week. Church on Saturday and then on Sunday the kids are coming to help decorate the house and put up the tree and get it decorated too. I'm still set on putting real tinsel on the tree, even though a few years ago I gave up having a real tree in the house. I will put real tinsel (lead tinsel...not cellophane) on the tree. Of course it has to be carefully placed on each branch, not crooked and tangled. I sometimes have to straighten it after people have left, and it becomes an obsession to keep it looking perfect. My mom taught me how to put it on the tree, when I became old enough to do it right. I don't think I have ever let my kids put it on, as I don't trust them to be patient enough. It may be time to find one or two of the grandkids who would care enough to learn how. You haven't been able to buy real tinsel since the 70's, so I keep it from year to year, and even have a box never opened So when the season ends, I carefully take it all off, and then the kids can take the rest of the decorations off and the tree down. I spend several evenings, listening to Christmas music and putting tinsel on the tree, admiring all the ornaments collected over the years. We've bought ornaments from each country we visited in Europe on one vacation, and still have a couple of glass ball ornaments I bought and put on our first Christmas tree. I also have the nativity scene I bought for our first Christmas. So it's all a very sentimental process that I love. Christmas is full of traditions, and it's hard to let some of them go, but over the years I've had to give some of them up and make new ones in their place.....but some live on, and when I have to give them up, I'll find something else to take it's place. It's just the love and happiness it all brings that will never end.
Okay enough....they just played a commercial for Children's Tylenol and they are singing "You are my Sunshine" how special is that!!! The love will never end.
Hope you have a sunshiney day! Love and Prayers, m
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