One more week til Christmas!

[thewop]

What are your plans this week? Any holiday prep? Shopping left to do?

[dec13th]

Good Morning,

All shopping & wrapping are done! We have to assemble and de-box the Santa stuff on Xmas eve. I have a lot of food shopping & baking & cooking & cleaning to do tho as we have company on the 24th and 25th.

[Deleted]

We're doing good here actually! I just have 4 gift cards left to grab I forgot last night.

A couple things to wrap.

Christmas is here this coming weekend, so it's my day off and Rubes is at daycare so I can get my haircut, do some last minute stuff and clean.

I work the rest of the week and Friday is grocery shopping and minor prep stuff.

We have a busy weekend but actual Christmas is tame and relaxing so that'll be nice. Hs family isn't until New Years. I really like how it's all spaced out one thing at a time this year.

[tarheels]

I'm not even in the Christmas spirit yet. I'm going to try hard to get there this week. Between late exams sucking the life out of me and temps in the 70s, things just haven't felt very Christmassy here. I might go buy a live 3' tree today (yeah, my house isn't decorated at all; in fact, life's been so busy I haven't changed any decor since July!). Since we don't celebrate Xmas here at this house, and especially this year with what I said above, it's tempting to pretty much ignore the holiday season altogether and just show up for Christmas Day at MIL's. Sucks, but DH isn't here, so I'd be decorating for myself. Yes, all my shopping's done - going to wrap this evening I think.

[thewop]

We did spring cleaning in December to make room for DD's old toys, and because it just needed to be done. I still need to buy some gifts for the H, but I just don't know what to get him that won't seem like a waste of money. Almost everything is wrapped and ready to go. I've got a few large things to wrap. I still need to go grocery shopping for Saturday dinner with my family, but I'll most likely get out of work super early on Friday, so I'll have time then. Other than that it's just kind of waiting for this week to hurry up and be over. We need to make sure we keep the house really picked up throughout the week so we don't have to end up deep cleaning it again on Saturday morning before people start coming over.

[emoflamingo]

I'm trying to get the spirit but I am still struggling.

I have only a few things left to buy. I'm making a gift basket for my MIL and FIL that has some wine, a wine stopper, a bottle of blue cheese stuffed olives (any other ideas for inclusions?) and I have to buy the basket and the wine. I haven't wrapped a single thing yet either.

[thewop]

Dec 17, 2012 11:27:34 GMT -5 emoflamingo said:

I have only a few things left to buy. I'm making a gift basket for my MIL and FIL that has some wine, a wine stopper, a bottle of blue cheese stuffed olives (any other ideas for inclusions?) and I have to buy the basket and the wine. I haven't wrapped a single thing yet either.

A wine journal? We have one I bought at World Market last year for like....$4. I use it quite a bit too. It's nice to keep track of wine that we drink in case we want to pick up another bottle.

[statlerwaldorf]

I am sick, but I'm hoping to get over it soon. We are going caroling this week. I also have some volunteer work that I am excited about. Shopping is done. I have a few site-to-store items coming this week, so I will have to make a quick trip to the mall. I also need to figure out what I will be cooking and go to the grocery store. I have a gingerbread house I want to decorate too. I bought a doll highchair for DD and I still need to paint it.

[sierramist03]

I have a lot of baking and cooking to do and only one day off between now and christmas I also still have to get my parents christmas gift.

[mrs.jacinthe]

I'm mostly done with shopping, but I'm headed out this afternoon (to the mall, ick) to nail down some stocking stuffers for R and some candy to go in the parentals' box before I ship it tomorrow.

Tonight we're wrapping and getting ready to ship. Tomorrow we're shipping.

I've also got a ton of baking still to do.

[mrsemilys]

I still need to run to Guitar Center and Target to get a few more stocking stuffers for DH. Everything else has been purchased and wrapped. I need to clean the house towards the end of the week and make Christmas cookies. I'll also have to make a big trip to the grocery store since we are hosting and I'll be making a lot of food.

[simpsongal]

We had a successful Christmas party this weekend - I spent the day recovering yesterday. Now I need to wrap, buy a couple more gifts, and prep the house for hosting my family this Christmas. The party gave me a bit of headstart, but I need to wash some sheets and towels.

I'm going to start making Christmas cookies too!

[roselis]

Wrapping and decorations are done!
I have a party to prep for as we are doing an End of the World party this Friday.

Christmas Eve we are going to my Mom's side of the family.
Christmas morning we are opening gifts at my house, then going over to my parents house for brunch and more gifts. XH is picking A up at 1 and will have him the rest of the week :-(

[pumpkin]

I love the Christmas season but this year jus can quite get there. I keep thinking that I can't do Christmas until I'm unpacked and organized, but that isn't going to happen anytime soon!

I have a couple little things left to pick up tonight and am waiting for one more package to arrive. But what i really need to do is get a couple of packages in the mail tomorrow or Wednesday at the latest. Other than that I have almost everything wrapped. Oh, and I need to finish getting my christmas cards out.

[emjacobs]

I'm enjoying the christmas music and the decorating, but I really can not get into the commercial aspect of the season, and I'm really starting to hate that the holiday has turned in to a shopping and gift based holiday and not about spending time with family and celebrating the real reason of the season. And food, you can't forget the food.

[Deleted]

Everything is bought a wrapped. Presents for H are under the tree, presents for family Christmas have already been delievered to my moms house. Just have to do our holiday grocery shopping. I'm planning to do that tomorrow after work.

[aweilba]

Well... on most years, I'd be done with school and on break by now, which is when I do my holiday shopping. But this year, we are done on Friday, which means I've got so much left to do! I did start some shopping, but I'm not even close to finished yet.

[prazenjc]

dh and i are finally going to get around to driving into downtown chicago, see the lights, Christmas displays, eat at a nice restaurant and do some shopping for each other. we do this every year as a tradition.

we are mostly don with our shopping otherwise. we are having a special dinner on Friday night w/some close friends.