Preparations.

Christmas Eve Eve.

Usually the day I start to freak out because I realize I still have SO. VERY. MUCH. to do still in order to make it the most awesome magical christmas ever.

And this year is no exception. Except that this year I have a few other added crazinesses thrown in to the mix. mostly in the form of small children.

since I feel like I am about to lose my mind, i am going to share it all with you. This isn’t meant to be a list of whineyness, although it probably will degrade into that at some point. But here’s what I have to do in the next 48 hours – and this is mostly just to help me keep track of things:

• Not scream at whiney children who are asking 9834 questions at all hours of the day.
• Break up fights between aforementioned children over whose turn it is on Club Penguin.
• Make 398735 snacks for aforementioned children who apparently have the metabolisms of cows with 7 stomachs.
• Clean all the bathrooms.
• Run all the laundry (about 5 loads).
• Fold all the laundry.
• Put all the laundry away.
• Make a grocery list for meals for this weekend.
• Shop for groceries for this weekend.
• Print recipes for stuff to make this weekend.
• Bake cookies and decorate them with the girls.
• Shop for two more gifts for Kealey, one more for Karissa.
• Get Christmas pajamas (shopping without dragging at least 2 children along is next to impossible).
• Talk to the nurse/GI about how to stop kendall’s gut from bloating up like roadkill, leaking like a geyser, and control her tummy pain.
• Find Ben’s stocking.
• shop for stocking stuffers for whole family. (yes i wait till the last minute for this and i don’t know why).
• wrap all the gifts (luckily an awesome friend is coming to help me with this right now!)
• get one more gift for darling nephew.
• put kealeys hair in curlers and dry it.
• edit all the wedding pics from last week. No way will this be DONE – but I want to get some up for the family.
• chiro appts including x-rays for the whole family this afternoon. more fun than you can shake a stick at.
• Eve of Christmas Eve service at church tonite. Also more fun than I can imagine since it will more than likely now include a kid on a pump and O2 who cannot go in the nursery.
• And I think that’s it…Hap-Hap-Happy Christmas!

In the ten minutes i have been trying to type this, I have now taken three phone calls, fixed 7 snacks, repaired a blown fuse, called the respiratory supply company, lugged an E tank upstairs troubleshooted a leaky regulator, put the baby to bed, and am now trying to get presents out of hiding spots and up the stairs to Wrap Central!

I WILL survive this day!

The T