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12/22/2004 Archived Entry: "It's a wrap!"

All of Tabitha's gifts are wrapped and under the tree. Well, not the one I still haven't found, but all the others. Of course, Chris and I still have a doll house to build late into the night on Christmas Eve, but I'm less than concerned. We've built most of our furniture and it's never a problem so a dollhouse shouldn't be either. Maybe I should erase that for fear of jinxing us? LOL Today Miss Tabitha and I are going out to do our last minute shopping. I don't need to go to a mall or toy store though, so it's not as bad as it could be. Barnes and Noble, Best Buy (which will probably be the worst), and one place I can't mention because it would give the hubby a hint as to his gift from me iffen he happened to read this before Christmas. We'll be picking Chris up from work in the afternoon and then heading to Disney so we can *finally* watch the Christmas parade and fireworks. Out of everything I'm buying today, I'll only need to wrap two items, the rest are gift cards, so essentially I'm done :) Gotta find that one gift though *sigh* I think I'll have Chris tear the garage apart tomorrow when he gets home while I'm at Target and the grocery store. I guess I'm not cooking anything for Christmas Eve, I didn't offer this year as I have a severe lack of energy and my mil didn't ask me to bring anything. Christmas day we eat at home just the three of us and I just do a make your own sub sandwich spread and various cheese cubes. Very simple and it suits our day perfectly. I try to keep it as laid back as Christmas can be. Tabitha opens her stocking in the morning, then we munch on cinnamon rolls (out of a can this year due to that whole lack of energy thing), then we open gifts. Whenever we get dressed and ready to go we head over to my in-laws' for more gift exchanging and visiting. Then we'll head home for lunch and give my mom a call and we'll either go to her or she'll come here with my sister. Then it's late afternoon and Chris and I start the great "opening boxes of toys and attempting to extract them from there little plastic twist tie confines" adventure. Always good for the child to learn a few new swear words, lol.