Party Pics

Good afternoon.

I slept most of the afternoon away, its that time now, PMS is over and now I have to fight to stay awake for any length of time. Oh well, at least I should be in the reasonably-happy-human-for-one-week mode over the holidays when Hubby is home.

I received 2 Christmas cards yesterday, both from nephews. The one nephew, though we usually do exchange cards, I somehow wasn't expecting one from him this year. I only see him about once every other year at family functions. The other one is one of the nephews who is older than me. We had started visiting each other and keeping in touch a few years ago. He moved down east this year and I had no address for him. Though I did look him up online, I wasn't sure it was him I had found. It was. Again wasn't really expecting a card this year. So both were pleasant surprises.

I think I proved to myself that I was wrong. I waited until the last possible second to mail out my cards. And people sent me cards all on their own! So I was wrong, it wouldn't be the first time or anything.

I was able to get Hubby a cool gift the other day. Its something I always think of getting him until the time comes and then I forget all about it. I just happened to see a skid full of them on sale for half price in Canadian Tire and happened to have just enough Canadian Tire money on me at the time too. I was actually looking for something else, for someone else, when I saw them. And I got it for half price!

Looking through some flyers this morning, I couldn't help but notice there are a lot of sales this week. Maybe putting it off until the last minute isn't such a bad idea after all. I guess the stores want to be sure to get rid of all the stuff they stock up on just for Christmas. I love shopping after Christmas. Thats when I usually buy wrapping paper and stuff for next year, dirt cheap. Usually find excellent deals on ornaments then too.

So far it seems we have stuck to our plan of toning it down. But it is a little sad. I have mixed feelings about it. I guess I just got really used to the overdoing it, and its so much fun that way! Its also back breaking wrapping and hiding it all lol.

One year, when Little R was much younger, just at the age of starting to question the whole Santa Claus thing, still a believer, but having doubts, I needed a new hiding spot. There were a bunch of empty boxes under the stairs in the basement, from having recently moved. I thought that would be perfect, she would never think of looking in there, she knew they were just empty old boxes. Not only did she look, and find those old empty boxes filled with wrapped presents, she confronted me about it! I guess that was the year the truth almost came out, though I'm sure I made up some lame story about how we do buy some stuff and say its from Santa, but there is still a real Santa.

Long lost are the days of standing in line at the mall, amongst throngs of whining and screaming children, just to get an over-priced picture of your kid sitting on Santas knee. I miss that lol.

I'm coming to realize that I'm not going to be a good empty nester. I never really thought much about it before, but lately, with Little R heading off to high school next year, its starting to cross my mind more and more. I'm not going to like it. I won't know what to do with myself. I used to think I looked forward to the peace and quiet. Now I kind of wish I had had more kids. I wish we were in a position to adopt, because I would, in a heartbeat. Hubby and I have even talked about it and he feels quite the same way, believe it or not. Who knows, maybe I will actually get my home business up and running and that will be my baby.

I've been taking pictures...just not getting any good shots. I guess I could post a couple from that party last Friday. As I said, we left early, were only there for an hour and a half or so, people were still arriving as we were leaving. I didn't even get any pictures of the hosts nor any of the group shots I was hoping to get. Well, we left the camera out in the truck for one thing, didn't even think about it until it was time to leave basically. Duh. I didn't even take these, Hubby did lol. Here's one of me just sitting at a table, one of Hubbys extreme close up jobs, and then a couple of the folks from an msn group I'm in.

The party was hosted by a bike shop, the owners of which are also members of this msn group. Its all kinda strange and weird, its where cyber world and real world mix together. We either met people online first and then in real life, or met them in the real world and then found out they were in this online group. Its been odd....