CHRISTMAS TO DO LIST FOR MOM
-make extensive shopping list for gifts: your parents, his parents, teachers, Sunday school teachers, coaches, neighbors, his secretaries, classmates...oh and your own kids
-shop for said gifts, wrap gifts, hide gifts....forget where you hid gifts. Buy more. Find first gifts in back of closet in March
- make extensive shopping list for food/parties/meals - family party #1, family party #2, Christmas dinner, classroom treats, office treats.....
-shop for perfect family photo clothing
-insist on final approval for husband's photo outfit...
-schedule family Christmas photo - plead, plead, plead with children to smile or at the very least IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT IS GOOD AND HOLY - STOP CRYING!!!
-mail Christmas cards and family photos
-decorate tree, set out all the little doo-dahs that make your children smile. Hang stockings.
- wrap presents
-send correct presents with appropriate family member to school, office, church....
-help with class parties.
-Take Tylenol (lots)
-make sure children see Santa Claus
-put 257 miles on car looking for whatever toy your child (and every other child) can't live without this year
- spend all evening before each party cooking, baking, preparing food that you won't get to eat
-bake cookies
-bake more cookies
-gain 7 pounds in 1 month
-lie awake at night wondering what gift you forgot to buy
-try, try, try to hang on to the Christmas spirit despite that fact that you are nearly in a coma
-promise yourself that next year you will make things easier on yourself.
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CHRISTMAS TO-DO LIST FOR DAD
-get approval from wife on photo outfit. Never argue.
-smile for photo
-enter mall at 4:00 pm on December 24th. Forget wife's size and favorite color. Buy gifts anyway.
-assemble toys until 2:00 am
-wake up on Christmas and play with children while telling wife how good all that cooking smells
-eat
-turn on football games
-unsnap pants and fall asleep on couch.
-tell yourself how relaxing the holidays are
2 comments:
I will throw in my husband's umbilical hernia procedure to be done over the holiday break. That will lead me to actually get to STAY HOME some. . .I plan to have lots of fires in the fire place, and he will be wearing elastic waisted pants with no need to unbutton this year. :)
You are so funny. How do you come up with these things? I can't wait to read more.
Megan
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