On the Road Again.

I am doing last minute Christmas shopping with my mother-in-law. I am pretty much done, I think, but need to tie up a few loose ends and come up with a few amazing ideas. I am trying to keep the Christmas spirit, but just want this holiday to blow by. Bahumbug, I guess. Our lights lie on the ground in the front yard in a make shift mess. Donovan carefully informs me that his friends and neighbors who wait for the bus with him each morning don't really "get" it. It being the wimpy heart I fashioned on the ground out of lights after myself, the younger boys and then Aubrie tried to hang ourselves. Hang the lights I mean, of course. And now, my beautiful mantel greens, the one decoration I was adoring are dead.