the truth be told

I have a confession. 

I am not feeling the "spirit of shopping" this Christmas.   This is kind of a good thing since
Christmas really isn't about the shopping.  I would be perfectly fine waking up this Christmas
and just hanging with my family and making a big breakfast and going somewhere fun for the day.
NO presents, NO wrapping paper trash to clean up, NO 4:30am wake up from the kids (they are
getting better with age, last year was I think 6am).  I know it sounds totally Bah Humbug, but I am
not feeling that, just not feeling the material part of Christmas this year. 

The good part of all this is I don't have any little kids I have to buy toys with a billion different pieces. 
I hate toys that have a ton of pieces.  Legos for example, hated those things but the kids loved them. 
I never had patience for picking all those little pieces up, if they were on the floor when I was cleaning I
would just suck those little pieces up with the vacuum hose.  As mean as it sounds I even love the slurping
sound the vacuum hose made as those pieces got sucked up.  I could just hear the vacuum saying "thank you, I was so hungry".
 Ok that sounds so mean but it was so much easier than picking all of the pieces up. 
I always believed that if my kids ever got a gift that was a toy that was either noisy or a ton of pieces that
the mother of the giving child didn't like me. 

So now we know I have issues with messy and noisy toys, lets get back to me wanting a
No Shopping Christmas.  I sure wish my kids were on board with this idea. 

Every year my kids ask me what I want and every year I say the same thing,
"Peace and Quiet".

This year I would say let's just bag the whole shopping thing
and go on a cruise. 

Now that I got all of that out of my system, I am off to take the kids to the mall and then home
to clean for company.   My cousin is coming to stay this weekend and I am so excited to see him. 
See now that's what I love about Christmas time, Family.....not shopping!