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Christmas is now twelve days away, and despite my getting such a head start by doing most of my shopping in Florida, I think I'm more behind than I've ever been.
![[gift icon]](http://www.confoozled.com/smilies/icon-o-matic/christmas/xmas_gift_4.png) Gifts are all bought, with exception of my gift for Chris' family's Secret Santa exchange. I hit a snag, though, when the coordinated gift wrap set I ordered ended up on backorder. It just finally came on Monday, so I started wrapping things right away so I could get things shipped out to my family on time. And that's when I discovered that it is extremely difficult to wrap gifts with a puppy running around. At first we tried putting him in the crate, but since I was standing right there at the dining room table and making all sorts of fun paper-crinkling sounds, all he did was scream his head off the whole time. So we let him out, and somehow I ended up wrapping gifts by myself and supervising Brooskey while Chris played Call of Duty 4 on his Xbox 360. I got three whole gifts wrapped that night. Tuesday night was poker night, so I was on my own again... but this time I worked in the bedroom with Brooskey crated in the dining room with the lights off, so he stayed nice and quiet. Still, bending over to wrap gifts on a bed isn't exactly easy. I got three more done, and a nice knotted up spine the next day. Last night, we were blessed with a calm, tuckered out Brooskey who was unbelievably well-behaved while Chris helped me with the one gift that was too big for me to handle by myself, and I finished up the rest on my own. By the time I was finished, Brooskey was actually asleep under the coffee table! So now I have two boxes shipping out today to my mom and my sister Dana, and hopefully two more shipping tomorrow: one to my sister Rose, and the big one to my dad, sister Lacey, brothers Evan and Rick, and my niece and nephews.
![[Christmas tree icon]](http://www.confoozled.com/smilies/icon-o-matic/christmas/xmas_tree.png) We got our tree up a week and a half ago, opting to leave it undecorated for a few days to make sure Brooskey would leave it alone. He hasn't left it alone completely, but he's been a lot better with it than I expected. He definitely understands that he's to leave it alone, but every once in a while he decides he doesn't want to do what he's supposed to do. We're pretty well convinced we did not get the tree we tagged back in October. If you can imagine what a Christmas tree would look like with severe scoliosis, that's what we have. And we never would have tagged a tree with that bad a bend in its trunk. But not much we can do about it at this point... so we managed to position it to look fairly straight, and we'll make do. Oh yeah, and it's still not decorated. Turns out it's even more difficult to find time to decorate a tree with a puppy, than it is to wrap gifts. I'm about ready to pay someone to take him for a few hours so we can decorate the tree, and then just take a break! Don't get me wrong, I love Brooskey, but sometimes I feel like I'm going to completely lose my mind. Do kids make people feel this way, too?
![[santa hat icon]](http://www.confoozled.com/smilies/icon-o-matic/christmas/xmas_santa_hat.png) Christmas cards were supposed to be a quick and easy job, too, considering I printed the cards and the envelopes so that I wouldn't have to do any actual hand writing of anything. But, I had to go and forget several people, which means I now have to print more... and I still have no stamps. (Okay, I'll admit that the stamps are probably in the mailbox - we just haven't had the opportunity to check it. Having a mailbox that's off in another building is such a pain.) My goal is to finish them this weekend and have them in the mail on Monday.
![[candy cane icon]](http://www.confoozled.com/smilies/icon-o-matic/christmas/xmas_candy_cane.png) In case you hadn't noticed, we now have some cute Christmas icons courtesy of IconBuffet. They are available for use in comments, too, but only until Christmas... or sometime in January when I get around to actually removing them.
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