Reflections on Christmas gifts 2004……….

We tried to scale back a bit this year for Christmas. So I bought two largest items for Bill for Christmas and Holly one big Item and just a few things for griffin expecting that his grand parents and his aunts would fill the gap. Well one of the Items for Bill was meant to be for his birthday New Years Eve but, I decided to give it to him for Christmas. Bill has rounded out Holly’s stuff and we got a few more things for her as well. Holly then needed to get things for me and Bill and Griffin. Well in the end we only really scaled back on Bill’s dad, as we couldn’t think of what to get him. We will gift him more after his hospital stay this week. My mother is another that we sort of scaled back on as we have yet to send it to her and it is a group of hand made cards that I made for her. That was an effort and a half as it was as I was hopping to find more time than I did before my return to work. I still need to finish up the Hand made part of Bill’s Mom’s gift, as we need to get some Pictures copied for a scrapbook. Hopefully we will be able to get that all together before Mother’s Day. I love making things for people but with an infant and a full time job and Holly and all the fun stuff that is going around I really had no time this year.

Because of my father-in-law’s Hospital stay my mother-in-law was the one who really cut back. The pile of gifts that was under the tree was a quarter of what I am used to seeing. And we had two more people this year. We even said grace at Christmas dinner to everyone’s surprise. I think because she was a nurse and the diagnosis is cancer (early stages easily all removed is the prognosis). She is just freaking out.

Speaking of freaking out MY Mother is loosing it she duplicated gifts and even gave me the wrong size of shirt for my father. She is just loosing it! I love her dearly but this season has bee a trip with her. Bill talks about how blond she is. Bleached below the roots I’d say. I called from the store where I was going to Buy the shirts for My dad for his Birthday and for Christmas and she told me “ he wears a 16and half 34 or 35 which ever is the longest sleeve” If you want to know he is actually a 17and a half 35 and If you want to know all the things wrong with her statement please email me. Now as they cannot return it to a store near them they need to mail it back to me and I will have to get new ones and mail it back to them I am hoping that in the Lands end Inlet I can order from the catalogue and have it sent free. I know some places do that.

What a wacky season it is.