
I’m not sure exactly when it started. I suppose a quick look back over the dates of my posts would tell me, but I’m too lazy to do that and it wouldn’t really matter anyway. I feel like a tornado came in through the front door of my life and scooped me up and I’m still just up there in the air going around and around and around in circles.
My son’s fiancee is now halfway through the pregnancy and I have absolutely no idea how that much time just slipped through my fingers. We’ve just about emptied out the garage so hubby can get to work on the conversion. This was supposed to have been done in October – and it’s coming up on Thanksgiving!
Thanksgiving. That means Christmas is right around the corner. I haven’t even thought about Christmas. The last few years, I’ve been on the home stretch of my gift buying by Thanksgiving. This year …. eh. Hubby wants to give cash to the kids and I’m all for that. But he wanted to give cash last year and then decided that there had to be SOME presents under the tree which translates into …. last minute shopping. It’s just so stressful. And no, I really don’t want or need to hear anyone say that they are finished. You early shoppers just talk quietly amongst yourselves … over there ->
I’m working frantically making lists and cheat sheets for the person who fills in this job behind me. I’m just like that.
The dog goes to the vet today to have his stitches out and my daughter lost a filling this weekend, so Friday I have to take off of work so I can take her to the dentist.
I thought once the kids grew up, things would get easier. I think I thought wrong.



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November 17, 2009 at 3:20 am
kyooty
I have not started shopping, does that help? As for the pregnancy, everyone else’s pregnancy flies by, it could be yours and then it would go super slow. Count your blessings
November 17, 2009 at 11:49 pm
atiredwife
Oh Lordy … I AM counting my blessings that this almost 50 year old woman isn’t the one pregnant!
November 17, 2009 at 6:21 am
Fantastic Forrest
Yes. You thought wrong. But it helped you get through those years, right?
November 17, 2009 at 11:50 pm
atiredwife
Yep … sort of like believing in the tooth fairy. By the time you realize the truth – you’ve made it through anyway. Good to see you Forrest!
November 17, 2009 at 7:43 am
Mad Woman
Meh. Christmas. Not looking forward to it this year, and am not even remotely prepared. Maybe next year.
Deep breaths.
November 17, 2009 at 11:51 pm
atiredwife
It’s the whole “gifts” thing, you know? I just can’t think of another thing to get anyone.
November 17, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Devilish Southern Belle
Yeah, I feel sometimes like I’m along for the ride just like you……the tornado thing and all. My place sure looks like a tornado knocked at the door, too. I never get my Christmas shopping done by Thanksgiving. Never.
November 17, 2009 at 11:52 pm
atiredwife
Exactly. Along for the ride … and trying desperately not to get knocked off somewhere you didn’t want to land!
I knew I liked you – you late shopper, you!
November 17, 2009 at 11:07 pm
Ginger
I’m in a tornado too, or something like it. (“Tornado too” looks funny, doesn’t it?) Between trying to get ready for oldest son’s baby, working overtime, worrying about the middle son’s family in Michigan, worrying about father-in-law and trying to get ready for a visit from in-laws at Thanksgiving, I’ve not even begun to think about Christmas. Well, that’s not true. I had to think about it Sunday night because my dad called to discuss the annual Pa Bill & Shelba Christmas Papal Visit. Bleh! OK, now I’m done thinking about it again. I think I’ll go fix myself a Bloody Mary now.
November 17, 2009 at 11:53 pm
atiredwife
Shelba!!! Oh no! I’ll just keep telling myself that at least Shelba isn’t coming to my house! Can you imagine her with my THREE dogs and two cats … and Kirk. LOL!!!
November 19, 2009 at 4:04 am
Ginger
Now THAT is some mental picture, there! Ha ha…Shelba with your three dogs! Thanks for making me at least smile today!
November 20, 2009 at 6:09 am
Gray Matter Matters
Isn’t that why God created the internet. Stores? What stores? Oh, by the way Happy New Year (what, the rest of the year is going to fly at warp speed, right?)