Procrastination and Christmas lists

PROCRASTINATION folks.. it is my middle name. It is what I excel at. There are SOOOO many things I am suppose to be doing right now. So many in fact that I don't even know where to begin so instead I think... HMMMM this is the perfect moment to update my blog. It is seriously amazing that I can even dress myself in the morning.

Is anyone else freaked out that is is already the end of November? I seriously feel like I blinked my eyes and the year was almost over. That may have something to do with the fact that our Christmas lights are still on our house. Yes I said still. The only thing worse than being a procrastinator is being a procrastinator that married another procrastinator. When June came around we both looked at each other and said ahhh... let's just leave them up. What's the point in climbing on the roof and taking the lights down when we just have to put them back up in SIX months. Not to mention now we can snicker when we see all of the husbands in our neighborhood angry, shivering and cussing as they pull out the ladder and hang their lights while their wives order them around from the safety of the ground. In fact these are probably the same neighbors that made fun of us for leaving our lights up all year. Who's laughing now? We are... that's right.

It's that time of year again.... the dreaded Christmas shopping. Oh how I loathe Christmas shopping. What happened to the days of shopping for my kids and just picking things that I know they will like? I can still do that for Sophie for the most part because I know that anything she gets she will be happy with, and Jake is pretty much the easiest child to buy for on the face of the universe... HE ASKED FOR COPY PAPER PEOPLE. I was like "um sure you can have copy paper. I'll buy you a whole box of copy paper." and his reaction was similar to the one you would get from me if someone told me they would clean my house every day for the next 20 years.

But HOLY HELL... what is up with tweens? Isaac writes a list and you seriously have to have a glossary to figure the freaking thing out.. Maybe a map in the front would help.. (you know like in the Lord of The Rings books) Everything has a brand name (some of which I've never heard of) specific color or pattern and then they are ranked in order of which ones are most important and then there is the issue of "if you can't find this one then I guess this one over here will suffice." What??? Hello!! Does he know how many different pairs of Blue Nike football gloves are out there??? It's like he's trying to make my head explode?! Don't get me wrong, other than his crazy, mind blowing Christmas lists, he is honestly a DREAM child so I feel very lucky to have him, but wow.

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