(Raising my hand...) Ahem....I'd like to change my vote, if I might.
I come from a rather prolific family. My four siblings have thirteen children and eighteen grandchildren or so. And Dear Husband has four children and now two grandchildren, and the children and some of the grand children are married, so there are spouses to consider....and on and on and on....
Today, I realized that a wrapping room is not as bad an idea as I first thought. For the past two weeks both dining tables in my house have been covered with wrapping paper, tape, name tags, gift bags, ribbon of all texture and (taking a deep breath) gifts.
Someone else who has a large extended family must have decided that they would like to see their dinner table during December, or maybe they wanted a place to stash all the gifts until the big night....er...morning....ummmm DAY!
We have a stash of gifts to take with us on Christmas Eve that will fill the trunk and back seat and a couple of laps. Then there's the stash that will go with us when we visit Dear Husband's side of the family. And there's a smaller stash for us to open Christmas morning. Sounds like overkill, doesn't it.
If I had planned a wrapping room for this house, I would have added a freezer to store cookies and shelves to store Christmas cookie cans! My house has been disrupted for days between the cookies and gifts, and I'll be very happy to get it back. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind giving my family gifts. I just need to be more organized about it.
So, maybe that wrapping room wasn't such a bad idea after all.
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Ooh--I like your freezer-in-the-wrapping room idea. Go for it. Tell your Dear Husband that this "small" addition to the house is what you want for your next birthday (with the stipulation that you not have to install the shingles, yourself!)
Sounds like the Zero Population Growth people failed to find your families in time. Although I am a card-carrying member of ZPG (in my mind, at least), my family have actually practiced Negative Population Growth (with the notable exception of my one niece who produced four grand nieces for me.) Hunky Husband's family has performed similarly.
Posted by Cop Car | December 22, 2005 6:25 AM
Posted on December 22, 2005 06:25
Yeah....I was rather proud of the addition of the freezer to the wrapping room. Actually, we need TWO bump-outs on the house. I want a green house too. The only thing that's stopped me is that I'd have to give up the view down the south lawn from my office to get one.
And, you're RIGHT! I'm never doing a roof again!
Posted by buffy | December 22, 2005 7:42 AM
Posted on December 22, 2005 07:42