Christmas is Coming!!!

I tell ya, I always have a hard time during the Christmas season.  Being an ex-Jehovah’s Witness, I didn’t grow up celebrating the holiday.  I only embraced it on my own in my 20’s…not to celebrate the birth of Christ (cuz everyone knows he wasn’t born on December 25^th) but to celebrate the people in my life, i.e. family and friends.  The gift purchasing really didn’t start until the Nephews and Nieces arrival.

Now I’m in a quandary of what to get them.  The Boy, I know, I’m giving cash.  He’s driving out to visit so the money will help with gas, etc…with a little left over for something. My Beanster is 11.  I’m thinking a Kindle Fire.  I don’t think she’s at the right age for a iPad, and they are expensive.  This would allow her to access the web for school, watch Netflix and let me monitor how she takes care of it for her Apple future.  I was also thinking about some clothes and maybe a jacket.

What do I send the kids in Omaha? One is 19, one is 16 and the other is 8.  I need something easy to mail and age appropriate.  I can always do gift certificates for the two older ones, but the 8 year old is gonna take some thought.  I don’t really buy for adults, so it shouldn’t be too bad. 

God knows I haven’t done a Christmas Newsletter in a long time….my guess is since 09. 2010 is the breakup year where everything happened all at once and 2011 was the house renovation year.  I moved in (officially) March of 2012. Guess I need to get off my tushie and do that as well…but I just don’t see it happening this year.  Wonder if I could get a picture on Santa’s lap…that would be fun!  Although I did write a letter to Santa last year….and he did give me what I asked for, so I’m not doing half bad.