Last year while shopping at Old Navy, we spotted a shirt on clearance. It said: "Who needs Santa when you have Grandma?" We bought it and put it away for this year. She wore it on Saturday for Christmas caroling at Grandma and Grandpa Liccardi's house.
After this past weekend, we've found that shirt to be true, but it's not just Grandma at fault, even though she's a big cause of the excess. It started with Saturday's Christmas carols. That night, a friend of the family brought Autumn a gift. Then for Christmas Eve, during the big extended family gathering, Autumn came away with more toys and a book or two. And then yesterday happened. Grandma and Grandpa were unleashed. Let's just say we were lucky to get everything in the car.
Santa must have had an inkling that this would happen, because the gifts at our house were much more restrained... other than her stocking, Autumn had one little toy, one big toy, some clothes and a nice, big ducky bath towel.
But the thing is, this coming Friday we go to my parents' house to celebrate with that Grandma and Grandpa, plus my five siblings and their families.
I have a feeling we're going to need to do some major closet organizing next week...