Let The Christmas Madness Begin

[KP the nut]

Christmas cake iced - yay for me.

 

[Sailorgal]

KP & Gizmo,

Don't feel bad about the wrapping. I used to work for a shipping company and can't seal a box properly! Those guys would shake their heads everytime I tried to use the big packing tape. It looked like I was creating a mummy wrapped box!!!!

Aaah Christmas...I used to make gingerbread men and give them away. Alas, no more. :(

Simple Christmas this year.

 

[Queen Boudica]

I have made my friends small Christmas puddings and I bought a whole load of herbs and some large pots to plant them in. So they will each get a large pot of herbs. I just have to make sure I plant them this weekend!

I had to go to Kmart to get the pots yesterday. A shop I truly hate, but it was the only one to sell plant pots in the shopping center and I had no intention of driving anywhere else. I get there and the kids are playing up and arguing and my youngest tips her water bottle all over the floor.

We were all already tired as we had been shopping for 2 hours. I am somewhat impatient and telling them to stop fighting.

I go to look at the pots and there are none that I really like then I see some big ones but my kids are arguing, so I decide to distract them by sending my son to get a trolley. He takes ages to come back and I am wondering where he has gone and getting worried so I decide to leave my daughters with the pots and go and look for him. My youngest starts to follow me but I tell her to go back with her older sister.

I am rushing round trying to find my son, when my eldest comes running up and I think "Why have you left your sister?" But my son was with her, he had returned with the trolley.

As I am walking back to them I hear the announcement by one of the Kmart staff to kids in the store about how dangerous it is to play with trollies and ride on them (which, I suspect is what my son had been doing and why he had taken so long and maybe he was at this very moment he was giving my youngest a ride )

Then another anouncement about how parent's should keep an eye on kids in the store at all times. Hmmmmm Do you think they were talking about me? :mad: The terrible mother. :cry:

Better experience today. Found the perfect Christmas present. Christmas penguins that laugh and fart when you press their foot. I don't know why but you just cannot help laughing when you hear these penguins laugh and then they fart a few times and that just had me and my daughter in hysterics.

I bought 2 for friends' kids and then found out they were reduced to half price when I went to pay for them, so I could not help but buy another one for myself - um I mean my kids!

 

[KP the nut]

Christmas penguins that laugh and fart when you press their foot

Fart jokes are the best, you can't help but laugh.

 

[Britt.f7]

Hubby wanted "Man tools"

I think men just like to have them. My husband has a pretty good supply but he isn't much of a handyman, poor guy. My FIL had a whole slew of them that his dad bought him over the years that he never used. Guess who gets them.:laugh:

Simple Christmas this year.

Nothing wrong with a simple Christmas. Sometimes those can be the best kind.

The terrible mother.

You are not a terrible mother. You are a normal mother who was tired with tired kids. The only mother's I have ever fault with are the one's who do not pay attention at all. You were obviously quite aware of what was going on, though you were trying to get your things done. Not every parent can leave their kids behind, though it definitely would make life easier at times. I know I've had those moments.

One day when we were out shopping and had gotten my boys, including my husband, all the things they were looking for, my men started getting cranky because now it was my turn. I just needed a couple things, but they were all complaining, including hubby, about wanting to get home. They were all old enough to know better. I know I definitely wanted to scream. I'm sure people walking by thought that I had dragged them out with the amount of complaining they were doing! UGH.

 

[Queen Boudica]

Why have I bought my 5 year old a dolls house and a kitchen both of which require major assembly and I am going to be working till 5 in the morning on Christmas eve to put them both together? :oops:

 

[Deleted member 12723]

In my own way, I will be really sad when christmas is over. I love the lights on the tree, and I have so enjoyed watching christmas movies this season. I will be really sad. It is coming up fast. I will leave my tree up until New Years Day. I will hate to pack everything up.

I have really enjoyed the holdiay season. Today was a wonderful day. I felt so much better. I am full of the christmas spirit. I am sad it is almost over. I am glad we are doing grinders this year. We will just graze all day. No big meal to clean up after. I will bring the leftovers home with us. I will go over to my daughters house at nine o clock so we will get to see the girls open up their presents. Mabe I will go for frappes tommorow. I have been trying to watch what I eat, but I fell off the wagon today. There is always tommorow to start over. I have enjoyed this holiday season. I just wish I could figure out my pictures.

 

[HëllaBubz]

They were all old enough to know better.

It is a worldwide phenomenon. I have a brother and a partner.....you put the two of them together, and they start a whining/yowling duet as soon as they finish their shopping and I start mine.

A well placed death glare or threatening to put back the chocolate almonds usually works. :devilish::ninja::p

 

[Queen Boudica]

OK now I have a huge dilema, I have spent more money on one child than the other and now I have to go out again and find another present so that my eldest child who is already jeolous of her brother and I know will work out exactly how much was spent and be counting the number of presents they each got. But then I might spend more money on her and have to get another present for my son to even it up!

Grrrrrr Why can't they just be content with an orange in their stocking!

 

[Britt.f7]

Well I have to run out to pick up the gluten free cookies and do some grocery shopping for Christmas meals. Not looking forward to facing any crowds. :(

find another present so that my eldest child who is already jeolous of her brother and I know will work out exactly how much was spent and be counting the number of presents they each got.

This is how my son is, he is the oldest too. This year I told him he is going to get less gifts because his cost more and I didn't want to hear any grumbling. He said, "mom I'm not 15 anymore!". No, he's sixteen! :hilarious: I always, throughout their childhood, tried to get the same amount of gifts but why in the world do we do that to ourselves? Shouldn't they learn that that isn't how life goes? Sometimes that just works out that way. I know, I know, I'm one of the parent's who probably just encouraged his bad behavior by doing that all the time. ARGH! :banghead:

I will go over to my daughters house at nine o clock so we will get to see the girls open up their presents.

My FIL does this every year since the kids were little and he moved next door. He no longer lives next door as of last year, but he drives over here to see the kids open them anyhow. They are in their teens now, but he still enjoys it. The boys, however, especially the oldest, wish he would get here earlier! 8 is even too late for them. I think this is funny since I believe this is the only day of the year my eldest wakes up early when he really doesn't have to! :roflmao:

 

[Queen Boudica]

I have just finished making the dolls house. Took me ages but not too difficult, just very time consuming. And it is huge. I have hidden it in my walk in wardrobe as that is the only place big enough,... just. Now I can't get to any of my clothes! And I still have the kitchen to make which is even bigger. Ughh

 

[KP the nut]

Well, I am pleased to announce that there is no Christmas madness in the KP house. I am so calm, I think H is a little freaked. Everything is under control.

Last week, I put my orders in at the bakery (bread rolls), butcher and green grocer. Earlier, we waited until the rush had dies down and then went and collected all the orders, no waiting, no hassle.

Tomorrow my main grocery order will be delivered between 12 - 2pm. I'm so pleased I don't have to brave the suppermarket. All those crowds on a buying frenzy - yuck. Instead, it will all come to my door including wine, beer and all the heavy stuff.

All H and I have left to do is some housework, then the party can begin.