The stockings are hung. My mother makes all members of the family a stocking. You are not an official member until you receive your stocking. Luckily, Gabe's was done a couple of months ago.
Our beautiful Christmas tree has finally been decorated!! We should only have a few more presents to put under the tree since Santa actually comes to our house and leaves most of the presents unwrapped. Luckily, Santa thinks that since Jesus only got three presents on his birthday, all children only get three presents from him. Great thinking, Santa!!
My mother is the craftiest woman on the planet. She made us an entire set of ornaments that are hand sewn and beaded!! Aren't they cute?! In addition, my mother also gets everyone in the family an ornament that has some type of signifigance for them. Here they are:
Guy's yearly Star Wars ornament. The obsession never dies. Besides having gotten Mabry so into Star Wars that she can recite any line and if you show her approximately three seconds of any of the movies, she can tell you which of the six movies it is from, Guy has now gotten Gabe to focus on Star Wars movies as well. Did you know that it is possible to find a Star Wars movie playing at any hour of the day?
Mabry's yearly ornament is Tinker Bell. She is extremely into Tink this year.
My ornament from my mother is a tree that is quilted with phrases associated with family.
Gabe's is a Winnie the Pooh and Piglet looking into a cradle. Adorable!!Today, Gabe is officially one month old!! He has survived being Guy and my child and being a little brother to Mabry. Isn't that amazing. No major trips to the hospital yet! We might be an okay family. No pictures of the little one though. Today, we accomplished several things. We drove to Olive Branch to go to the bank (yes, that is the closest branch to where we live 26 miles!!). We went to the Wal Mart there to do our grocery shopping. Shopping at the Holly Springs Wal Mart is hell since they never have anything and you run into all of your present and former students and their parents and have to have impromptu parent conferences, but I have never experienced anything like the Olive Branch Wal Mart. For one thing, there were more people in that Wal Mart than at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. No one observes the proper shopping etiquitte of pushing their buggy to the right--no, they have to drive it up the middle of the aisle. Also, who the hell stocks the shelves of a grocery store between the hours of ten and three on a Saturday, especially a Saturday before Christmas!! That's why they are open 24 hours--stock at night!!!! Anyway, enough ranting. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
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