We have a tradition that started last year - checking out a bunch of Christmas books from the library and keeping them under the tree with the Christmas books we own to read throughout the Christmas season. I keep trying to brainwash the kids into how much fun it would be to wake up Christmas morning and just find books as gifts, but I haven't quite sold them on it yet. If they only knew all the wonderful choices Santa has had to choose from for each of them!
(I took a picture but with all the Christmas rush haven't taken it off the camera. So just imagine for now. Maybe someday I'll post it.)
I was pulling out the materials we needed to make more felt ornaments this year and found 3 books in a 4 book set that I bought last year for a certain little girl. She got one for Christmas and I forgot about the rest. Oops. Would be fun to travel in time back a year and find out why they were hiding in there.
Love the whole online shopping thing. How parents did it before, I don't know. So nice to research, read reviews, compare prices, then with a few clicks your order is on its way. One thing has me scratching my head, though. Amazon, or people that sell on amazon, change their prices really frequently. Sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. There is a book sitting in the "buy later" section of my shopping cart that drops by a penny or two every day. One of these days it will be free, and then I will buy it. Something else was $19.99 when I added it to my cart. A few days later it was $39.99. Then it partially dropped down again. It's an addiction now, so I have to pull up my cart just to see how the price has changed. One day it was $85! Supply and demand maybe? Who knows, but wow.
Back to late presents, though. I finished the quilt that I gave to my sister and brother-in-law for Christmas last year - hooray! It turned out just as amazing and beautiful as I knew it would. I thought I had quite a bit done, but it took me sewing while watching most of the first four Harry Potter movies to finish it up.
(Again, I have a picture waiting on the camera.)
Jamie was gone for almost 20 days in a row (came home for one night, not even 24 hours) starting the early morning after Thanksgiving. It was mostly for training back in Massachusetts, but then off working. The song "I'll Be Home For Christmas" became a lot more meaningful because we really missed having him around. Since he got home he's been cooking like crazy, always a bonus.
Anyway, back to finishing up those final few Christmas surprises!
haha, don't you LOVE amazon! I'm with you this month I spent a lot of time checking my cart to see which prices had gone down enough for me to buy!
ReplyDeleteWarning about amazon.com: Yes, the prices go down, but then *BAM* They jump back up in price. That's what happens with the Tess DVD I got. I didn't want it to jump higher, so I just bought it. :P
ReplyDeleteI did not know that about Amazon. I love the tradition about the books under the Christmas tree!!
ReplyDeleteI'm happy your man is home to cook for you. I always find presents after Christmas that I forgot to give. The kids keep asking me, "Are you sure you don't have anything else for me? Go look somewhere just to be sure."
ReplyDeleteI like to watch the prices on Amazon too. I've had some things in my cart for years just because it's entertaining to watch the prices change.