It’s been a few days since I last posted…a few C-R-A-Z-Y days.  The Christmas festivities started Sunday, and came to a close late last night.  I’m tired!  How about you?

From the opening ceremonies to the closing, and all the games in between, Christmas 2007 was terrific!  Many great gifts were given as well as received (My husband upgraded my LG cell to an iPhone!) and most importantly, much quality time was spent with great family and friends.  What more can one ask for?
So our itinerary was as follows:

Christmas Eve eve:

3pm- Mom and Dad’s for dinner with Mom’s family

Christmas Eve:

11am- Brunch & presents at my In-laws
4pm- Grandma’s house for dinner
8:30pm- Mom and Dad’s house for presents with my immediate family

Christmas Day:

3pm- In-laws for Christmas dinner (both my husbands family and my family celebrate holidays all together…makes things so much easier!)
I have to say I was definitely the least prepared/organized for Christmas this year than any other year in the past.  Listen to this…

Scotch Tape was a hot commodity Sunday night because both my husband and I needed to wrap our gifts for each other/everyone else!  I purposely bought another roll of tape at the store on Friday so that we would each have our respective tape rolls to be wrapping gifts at the same time (we ran into this dilemma last year, ran to the store for more tape- only to leave it behind on the counter!).  I however failed to check that the roll of tape we already had in the drawer actually had tape left on it (as my husband reminded me).  Of course it didn’t, so I ended up handing over super long pieces of tape so hubby could get his wrapping done.  Come 11pm, I was shot!  I had wrapped everyone else’s gift except for his.  No big deal, I’d take care of that in the morning, Christmas Eve morning.

The morning is here and I force myself out of bed to get to the gym for my 6am sculpting class so I could then get to Kohl’s when they opened at 7!  I had just a few little things left to pick up.  After taking care of these last little details, I raced home to wrap hubby’s gifts (I only had 2 hours before we had to be at his parents for brunch) only to run out of wrapping paper!  Now I didn’t just have a few cheesy rolls of paper.  I’m big into wrapping paper and buy in bulk from Costco.  Plus, I had bought another one at the store that morning to make sure I had plenty.  Well plenty wasn’t enough.  So when our Christmas Eve festivities were complete at 11pm, there I was, still wrapping. 

To top it off, I baked cookies Christmas morning to bring to my in-laws and when trying to cover them up, ran out of saran wrap!  I never run out of saran wrap.  So I get the aluminum foil out, and run out of that too!  WTF?  I always have back up boxes so that I don’t run out. 

I don’t think I’ve ever run out of so many things over the course of 2 days in my life.  It was funny, although you probably had to be there.

To top it off, today I was the crazy ass that went to the mall to take care of exchanges.  Needless to say I am ready for a little vaca.  I think I will be going to bed shortly!

I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas!  Now we gear up for the New Year festivities…Although we do not have any plans as of yet.  What will you be doing this New Years?  I would love to hear your plans!

Revision:  I forgot to mention…I ran out of Christmas cards a few weeks ago too!  Apparently I underestimated just how popular many cards my husband and I would be sending out :o}