Are You Ready for Christmas?
Posted on September 16, 2007 - Filed Under Mom Stuff, Personal |
Every year, I make all these grandiose plans for Christmas and every year, I end up scrambling to find gifts and get some sort of food together for the holiday. Forget about cookies and Yule logs, I´m hard pressed to finish crocheting a hat for the baby!
I think I just need to be more organized. This year, I decided to start in January, because I wanted to make a quilted tree skirt and cross-stitch stockings for both boys. But the kits I like don´t ship here and I can´t get the right colors if I just download the patterns. So, I started making little cross-stitch ornaments.
Everything was stored in my craft bag, a woven plastic tote with my yarn and Aida cloth and thread. I had it under my desk. Then Irving cleaned and put it outside in the kitchen, which had a roof, but no walls. Then the builders tossed it outside when they were moving things and since it is the rainy season, everything got soaked and moldy. 
You may be asking why I didn´t rescue my craft things during this time period. I have to admit, I forgot. I had this great month-by-month plan done up to get stuff made . . . and I let it fall by the wayside and got busy with other stuff and didn´t even notice my bag was missing until I found it outside. So, all the work I did way back in January was for naught.
Anyway, looks like I´m not the only one with the poorly organized holiday problem. There is a very cool website called Organized Christmas where you can print out lists and there is a whole special Christmas prep list that starts 6 weeks before the actual holiday, to get you nice and organized. I´m totally doing it this year!
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