Back around Columbus Day, while shopping with my mother and Autumn, I ran into my midwife at Target. We were getting a jump on our shopping. My midwife said hers was all done and all wrapped. She's not the only one.
Despite spending nearly a week in Pittsburgh because of my father's surgery and going down there for another week's worth of appointments, my mother's pretty much done with her shopping. And she's wrapped.
My sister has been filling out adoption paperwork, gathering recommendations and driving all over the place getting fingerprinted. She's probably emotionally exhausted. But her Christmas shopping is all done. It's also all wrapped. I thought this was pretty amazing until she told me the other day that she was all done with her holiday baking, too. She made two of our family's favorite cookies, plus made cutouts and invited her goddaughters over to help decorate.
My mom's been baking, too. For all I know, my midwife has racks of gourmet-looking cookies boxed up, too.
As for me -- I used the very last of my time off yesterday and today. I'm 95 percent done with shopping, but I haven't wrapped a thing. And with two dozen people to buy for (plus a few things for stockings), I'm just glad I've got the shopping almost done.
Today my goal is to wrap. And to bake. Last night I made up some cookie dough for sugar cookies. Today I plan to roll it out and bake them. Tomorrow, Autumn and I can decorate together after we do Breakfast with Santa.
This is the grand plan, but knowing how things usually go, I doubt my plans will go as planned. I guess you'll have to wait and see!