(Raising my hand…) Ahem….I’d like to change my vote, if I might.
\nI 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….
\nToday, 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.
\nSomeone 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!
\nWe 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.
\nIf 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.
\nSo, maybe that wrapping room wasn’t such a bad idea after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(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, … Continue reading