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MacBeth
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Number of Christmas cards so far sent: 0 
Percent of gifts purchased: 50 
Percent of online purchases arrived: 20 
Christmas schedule of Masses with kids needed this week: 6, with several unconfirmed 
Number of recording studio sessions this week: 1 (with accompanist unconfirmed) 
Number of exams for Trip: 7 
Number of kids asking to go to the Mall: 4 
Number of kids willing to take a younger sibling to the Mall: 0 
Favorite time of year: Christmas! 
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Oh, yea. Right there with ya!
I have a small percentage of shopping done, a smaller percentage of moving done, an even smaller percentage of decorating done...
Gotta laugh to keep from crying! 
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MacBeth, I feel your pain. And considering how early I started "talking" about Christmas, you'd think I'd be ahead of the game ...
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Put that post in the Hall of Fame...
Macbeth, you forgot one thing..."Urgent Prayers sent up for Patience"!!!
My eyes sort of glaze over during this Season...( I know, MARY, You are just shaking your head up there right now, thinking, "Girls, I rode a DONKEY 9 mos, pregnant!!)
Hang in there!!
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Oh MacBeth! Thank you for this post!!!
Sending you hugs 
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| I know, MARY, You are just shaking your head up there right now, thinking, "Girls, I rode a DONKEY 9 mos, pregnant!!) |
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LOL!!!!
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MacBeth
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4 lads mom wrote:
"Girls, I rode a DONKEY 9 mos, pregnant!
Hang in there!!
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Gosh, you're right! All I need is a donkey in this mix . Thanks for the reminder; I needed that.
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The good news is that Christmas always happens no matter what we have gotten done or not gotten done!
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I can't help with the rest of it, MacBeth, but my Christmas cards always go out during the 12 Days of Christmas ... no guilt at all! You can call them perfectly timed.
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Thanks to all of you for letting me know I am not the only one!
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MacBeth wrote:
Number of Christmas cards so far sent: 0
Percent of gifts purchased: 50
Percent of online purchases arrived: 20
Christmas schedule of Masses with kids needed this week: 6, with several unconfirmed
Number of recording studio sessions this week: 1 (with accompanist unconfirmed)
Number of exams for Trip: 7
Number of kids asking to go to the Mall: 4
Number of kids willing to take a younger sibling to the Mall: 0
Favorite time of year: Christmas! |
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Value of MacBeth's post: Priceless
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Hey I'm ahead of you! I got one Christmas card delivered tonight. By hand no less
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My cards aren't sent, either. An interesting observation... I haven't received nearly as many cards as I did last year! Appears we are not alone, ladies.
Merry Christmas!!! (Especially to the poor postal workers who apparently will be very busy for the next few days)
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This is the funniest post ever!
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MacBeth,
If it helps, I've not even bought my cards let alone taken "THE" picture!
And with sick kids, not sure it'll happen soon.
Surviving here in Sacramento....
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Cards? What cards?
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ladybugs wrote:
MacBeth,
If it helps, I've not even bought my cards let alone taken "THE" picture!
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Tried to take the "picture" last night. I think I took 50 pictures, and not one had 4 kids looking presentable (how do you folks with bigger families do it? Photoshop???).
I hope the kids feel better soon, Maria. Sick at Christmas is not fun. 
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I am 100% there with all of you. My UPS guy won't deliver because of our dogs. We have to keep them in all day this week so that we can get deliveries.  I *think* (read that hope) that I've shopped enough for my immediate family. My mom and dad, poor souls, have waited years for the little things I get them. I have trouble being so far away knowing what they want or need. And I haven't exchanged names with brothers or sisters or their kids for years just because of that reason. I have this *thing* with buying suitable gifts for a person, you know, something they'll use.
We managed to buy for the giving tree at church the last day before it was due to the tree. My kids kept picking names off the tree right 'til the end!
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MacBeth wrote:
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send me your 50 pictures and $50 and i will send you back "the" picture.
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MacBeth wrote:
ladybugs wrote:
MacBeth,
If it helps, I've not even bought my cards let alone taken "THE" picture!
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Tried to take the "picture" last night. I think I took 50 pictures, and not one had 4 kids looking presentable (how do you folks with bigger families do it? Photoshop???).
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This year, I opted for the shutterfly card that allows nine little pictures in a collage. I still coudln't get *one* where Paddy didn't look dorky...
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