that time of year

It is that time of year ALREADY! We (the big kids and I) started wrapping Christmas presents today. Alvin and the Chipmunks even accompanied us! We are over half done with the gifts that we are going to buy and now we have to pick up some gift cards. Our goal this year is to be completely done Christmas shopping before Thanksgiving. We do not want to juggle 4 kids with the unpredictable weather while finishing our shopping. Plus we have found, over 90% of the time, that if we are looking for a specific item, it is cheaper on Amazon than in the stores! Now I am not trying to be a cheap skate but if we can save a few bucks here and there why not? We have yet to decorate for Christmas. T was a little antsy in his pantsy when he had some time off from school but we came to a mutual agreement that it was just tooooo early. We settled on the first weekend in November to set up the tree and decorate for Christmas. That is still early but with the baby coming and the end of T’s second block if we don’t decorate in early November than it will not get done until December 18^th or so. And we want the kids to be able to enjoy the Christmas decorations longer than a few weeks.