I installed a scrap booking program on my work computer and have been working on small projects when we are not busy. I love it, and I think I'm fortunate enough that my boss is a really nice guy and as long as I work when work needs to be done it doesn't seem to be a problem! Have I mentioned lately how much I love my job and the company I work for!! ;) I have so much to do, this month has been crazy busy! This weekend our Moms group is having a xmas party for the kids and I volunteered my place! There will only be six of us but my house isn't that big so I'm worried about not having enough space!? I guess we will just make the best of it but I am have two days to clean the house, make some more nut n' bolt (munchie) mix, bake some cookies and dye my hair! O - and wrap the present for the gift exchange!
Our living room is being engulfed with toys and I'm worried it's just going to get worse with Christmas only 15 days away!! Jacob has soooo many toys and he is only one and a half, I can't even imagine what our house will look like in a few years! I'm hoping to teach Jacob that he needs to give some gifts that he no longer plays with away to people that need it, once a year he can pick out any toys he wants to give away (hopefully a box full).
I am also hosting Christmas dinner this year for my family, which is a first! It will be the second time I have ever cooked a turkey and hopefully it turns out as good as my first. I just need to practice my stuffing, last time I think I used too much thyme and it tasted funny. We are celebrating on Christmas Eve - presents and all! It is my hubbies family tradition that we would like to carry on with Jacob. Santa comes to our house Christmas Eve night, after supper, which makes it a little tricky to get all the presents under the tree without the kids seeing! But it is so worth it to see the miracle light up in their eyes! We are hoping to carry on the belief of Santa for a few years and hoping that our family will participate in the lie. My brother isn't really on board, he wants to be the "cool Uncle" that gives the cool gift that Jacob will remember. But we want EVERYTHING to be from Santa, so hubby says if my brother puts a tag on the gift saying "from Uncle J" then hubby will take it off and replace it with one that just says Jacob or from Santa. I'm kinda on the fence about the whole thing, I like the idea of having Jacob believe in Santa but I also think he needs to know that people you love give you gifts as well and you give gifts to people that love you. So I think for the first few years in his life we will be all about Santa but then when he starts school and finds out there is no Santa then we introduce the gift giving to family?
Speaking of Santa ... I took Jacob to see him last night and ... he freaked out!! I had to sit with Jacob and Santa to settle him down. So I had to decide .... do I take the picture of Jacob crying on Santa's knee or the one of both of us with Santa ?? I took the one where he is freaked out! It was funny, and cute in a mean mom kind of way. I thought it would make for a good story years from now when Jacob understands but I also took the picture number of the good pic just in case I change my mind and want a "good" pic of Santa. I have 2 days to decide if I want to spend another $20 on Santa pictures?! :)
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One thing that my parents did when we were little that worked really well was that they always had one big gift from "Santa" and then all of the little things were from Mom and Dad. It worked out well because we still had the Santa part of it, and he always gave us the biggest and best gift, but we did know that we were getting gifts from our parents and other people as well, so we learned to be appreciative of those gifts as well. It is nice for the child to be able to say Thank you to the person who gave them the gift :-) I don't know if this helps :-)
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