Breakfast at Tiffany's

not too much to blog today. its freezing cold. i am very happy that the weekend is almost here. although, i will be extremely busy. tomorrow night is the christmas parade that my boys are participating in, saturday they have a christmas play rehearsal for church, and saturday afternoon is a ladies tea at the church that i will be attending. the christmas season is here whether or not i want it to be. it always amazes me how quickly christmas comes every year. its like in march i always think, "christmas is nine months away..thats a long time from now". then september rolls around and christmas is three months away and i think thats still a lot of time. then all of a sudden its the day after thanksgiving and there are crazy people shopping before the crack of dawn. and boom, its christmas time. it also amazes me how early stores put christmas stuff out. i remember doing costume shopping early october and seeing an aisle of christmas decorations. i am reading Skipping Christmas (the movie Christmas with Kranks is based on this book) and it makes me think about all the insanity that goes on during christmas. trees, lights, santa, decorations, insane shoppers, food you eat that makes you gain 10 pounds, christams parties, $5-$10 gift exchanges. i try so hard every year to budget my shopping and it never fails there is always some kind of gift exchange somewhere. usually at work. but now the boys theres a gift exchange with each of their dens for scouts, and now they are having a gift exchange at their morning day care. its only $5 each. but it all adds up. i do realize that don't have to participate in these gift exchanges, but then they would feel very left out. and i don't want them to feel left out of anything.

christmas for me is all about time with my family. i have gotten to where i don't care if i get any gifts anymore. for me it is so much more fun to give gifts and to watch people open them, especially my kids.

i guess i had more to blog than i thought.