Next year you get to use cool gift bags and you'll get a few years out of themI’m actually wrapping and it’s not Christmas Eve!!! I don’t have much to wrap, but I’m usually frantically opening the wrapping paper at 1am on Christmas Eve.
Maybe this year I’ll just have to add the ribbons and bows, and wrap Santa’s presents at 1am.
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Only elves wrap
Like for all the steps but Wait? What? You're still in a boot? Please tell me you meant cute boots. Otherwise {{HUGS}} and GWS xoxo
Thanks! I’m very particular when it comes to wrapping paper, and embellishments.
This was his first Christmas, I think I had one hour sleep that night.
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I haven’t gone that crazy again.. but I always try to tie it together.. here’s my favorite Christmas morning photo to date.
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This year I switched things up by choosing a gold paper, and I still have to make it to hobby lobby for “Santa’s paper”... it should all come together though.
I'm there right now. We are mostly OFF work until the new year with a few minor exceptions of scattered days of coverage. I gave up several years ago on trying to do it all. I gave boundaries to my clients guilt'ng me.
I gave myself realistic expectations to what would be done after decades of trying to accomplish it all. All being expanding always. I have a blessed family core. Families at times do unforgivable things that we are left to pretend didn't happen. Family Cores move on despite the creepity that a higher power will have the final say.
We will go to my Mom's for Christmas Eve a tradition always. I don't know how much longer this will last. I strongly believe my Mom is in the onset or in the midst of Alshemiers / Dementia. Her 5 Sisters all went this road vs 7 Brothers who did not suffered and females life ended with it. Recent Holidays have been difficult with Mom, worse since my Dads passing 2 years ago. Compassion but not pleasant. But my Sis and her family is coming to town so we will try again as Thanksgiving was to say a tad stressful. Understatement.
Christmas Day however will be about us as a small family core celebrating the season. I so look forward to Christmas Day.
Next year you get to use cool gift bags and you'll get a few years out of them
There's something about not having a house full of paperI like some gift bags, too, but not all the presents. I love wrapping paper, ribbon, etc., too. Plus, there's just something about ripping open a box that's been wrapped -- kind of a primal activity -- cavewoman style!
ps the boys still wrap
There's something about not having a house full of paper
(Glad the boys still wrap.) Like I said, it's fun to have a mix of bags and wrapping paper. Bags are also great for people who just don't know how to wrap -- if my father was still alive, he would have loved bags! (He always asked me to wrap my mother's gifts for him, because he was clueless about wrapping. 
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I pick up things for everybody throughout the year, so yup lots of stuff but they don't get anything except on Christmas or their birthdays unless it's with their own money. It balances out for the most part there's also clothing on everybody's pileHa! If you have a house full of paper, you must have a ton of gifts at Christmas?!
, a special ornament and seeing we don't do junk food for the most part, a special candy in their stocking.
I pick up things for everybody throughout the year, so yup lots of stuff but they don't get anything except on Christmas or their birthdays unless it's with their own money. It balances out for the most part there's also clothing on everybody's pile
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I'm sure the Native Americans wholeheartedly agree with your argument.In all sincerity, I feel as though I have accidentally started a "fa**y packed" language war here. I call for a Christmas truce here, at least, until after Christmas. After that it should be a no holds barred discussion on who improved on the gibberish that is sometimes referred to as the Queens (Kings) English.
One can always give thought to the fact that just because someone created something doesn't mean that they didn't make some mistakes along the way that had to be corrected by a more insightful society. Just sayin!
Hey, what's right is right. Can't alter reality to fit our desires you know. I take it you are declining to acquiesce to the request for a truce?I'm sure the Native Americans wholeheartedly agree with your argument.
