Well this is it. The final day. Then the big day & its over for another year (hear my relief in that statement?).
The problem with this time of year is the after-effect of being in the sun too long without proper protection. Everything is painful regardless of the copious amount of organic aloe gel I've been slathering upon myself every hour on the hour or thereabouts. I'm going to have an awesome tan-line!!!
I've never been one to get really annoyed/upset at one of my babies that I'd want them to go away... Wait... Not normally... But the sudden clingyness of one beautiful baby and the attachment around two certain arms with those clingy claws has made me feel like throwing one baby out the window. I can still feel that scraping feeling of prying her out of one arm with both hands attached to it. Yeah, it stings a little.
You'd think that after all my life living in Australia & experiencing this sort of after-sun-torture I would think a bit deeper but apparantly not. Another lesson to add to my qualifications.
Just so you know I now have aloe gel in my bag aswell as spray sunscreen spf30+ & sunscreen in the car.
*sigh*
At sometime today I will wander through the shops attempting to purchase the rest of our gifts. What do you get a 4yr old that likes lip balm & people? I'm hoping I find something.
I did manage to palm off gift wrapping to the bigger kids but I can hardly get them to wrap their own right? No? Maybe they could do each others... Except they'd tell them what it is. *sigh*
So I still have too much to do and not enough time/motivation/energy to do it all in.
I'm having organisation-envy and making those same plans to 'do it different next year' so I'm not in the Christmas Eve Dilema like all the other disorganized people out there.
We have church tonight. Michael's on worship, he's heading to the gym soon, and got to drop a car off on a trailer later. He's even talking about buying another chicken or something.. I've got a house to clean, gifts to buy, errands to run, washing to bring in/wash/hang out, gifts to wrap and preparations to commence. I'm tired just writing all that. Think I'll call in re-inforcements... Hubby is too busy to help when & where I need it. Damn.
Until tomorrow...
Have a Blessed day!!
I'm off to pray I get everything done..
Xxx
Edited to add: I did the Christmas shopping for the kids with the kids. They were mostly good & I hurried. That's 27 gifts bought and not wrapped. I also got something a bit special for tomorrow but you'll have to wait for that.
Get this, following Miss Amalia the princess who.loves.people not stuff. Around in the toy shop. She suddenly says to me "I want this!" Finally she chooses something right... Anyway its a fancy pink throw away once opened box with activities for little girls including lots of pieces that will soon get lost and not picked up. I ask her why do you want that? she says cos its got ***textas*** so I got her lots of textas with a special book to colour in. That's her!! That's what my little girl is like!! Now I can say she likes clothes, lip balm & paper/textas/drawing... Homeschool mums dream child or what!!
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