STORM2K

Hope everybody is ready for Christmas. Also for everybody that will be gone and the ones of you that will be home from my family to yours have a happy and safe Christmas and NewYear Also that Santa is good to each and everyone of you!!!!

Hmmm... guess that depends on what you call "ready" - but I'm thinking I'm there. Another year about to be done!

Christmas day needs to come already! I keep thinking of more gifts to give. I ended up getting all the women who will be at my mil's on Christmas day some really fragrant hand lotion that one of my customers make. That's 14 new gifts. Now i feel bad that the men won't get anything. So i brave the traffic earlier and go out to hobby lobby and get 15 gift bags that i will fill with azsnowmans caramel corn and my microwave pralines.

Yes! I am ready for it to be over with. I've already gotten the majority of my stuff(most of it today at the grandparents). I have lots of new money and more clothes. I feel a post-Christmas shopping trip coming(and NOT for clothes this time!)

I'm ready for it to be over with too. I've heard "I want'" so much that my joy is "spent."

LOL Ed. That is how it is around here too.

I am ready for Christmas. My presents have been wrapped for so long I had to dust them.

I'll do that next year. It was tough this year. We had to wait until the last minute to do the shopping this year. I have one more person to shop for tomorrow (christmas eve) and then I'll be done. It's just not fun to be under the gun like that.

FINALLY all presents are wrapped.

Now I have to wrap Marty's for his kids!

I want the holiday to be over with as well. I'm exhausted. I need some down time badly.

My family is here, I've prepped everything for the big turkey spread later today, and I've been sampling all the chocolates in the house for the past two days. I could really use a nap, but snoring on the couch when folks are visiting is still socially unacceptable.

I'm way ready for Christmas! Just got some last minute shopping done with my family, and oh, was it ever hectic! Just gotta remind myself that it could get worse.

i am ready! ready since christmas began 3 weeks ago lol!

I'm ready. Had the stuff wrapped for hubby a week ago.

Now he's another story - he's out shopping right now!

You couldn't drag me out in that crowd. no how, no way.

How sad! Look how many people are exhausted and ready for the end of Christmas. This holiday is my favorite, and not for receiving - I really do enjoy the giving.

Last August, we went on a little shopping trip to Mexico with some good friends. That particular couple was looking for a certain pewter turkey platter. They had already told another family member they were sending one for Christmas, but really wanted to keep it for themselves. A four-month "argument" over disposition of the turkey platter ensued - that everyone has been ribbing them about.

I hopped on ebay a couple weeks ago and found the exact turkey platter. We gave it to the couple in question last weekend and I got the biggest warm fuzzy watching them open it. They were just shocked we found THE turkey platter - which was the only one of it's kind on the internet. Guess you have to go to Mexico to find it in quantity. Dean opened it and stood there with his eyes bugging out for a few seconds and Patty shrieks, "It's the TURKEY PLATTER!!" and rips it out of his arms and clasps it to her bosom.

I was pretty sure they would go ahead and let the other one go, so now they have a platter of their very own. It's the little things, ya know?

We brought the 112 personally written cards to the Post Office yesterday morning and finally decorated both the big trees yesterday evening.

My sister and her dog are on the way over right now. We're going out for an early dinner and then to the 8p.m. candlelight service at our church. Tomorrow will be fairly low-key, opening only 1 small gift each; but when my daughter, son-in-law, and "granddogger" are back from their road trip (to his family) next weekend, we're doing "big Christmas" with a traditional ham + turkey dinner, all the gifts, and a trip to the beach (if it's not raining).

I'm going to make one batch of cookies this afternoon (for Santa!) but not the rest until closer to the weekend.

I still have to wrap the "goofy grab-bag" gifts I always buy for anyone who's here when we do the major present opening, but that can wait, as well.

So I'm pretty much ready -- and amazed that I am!