I am mostly broke, all the time. My new job, while lovely affords me precious little in the way of expandable income. and this makes Christmas scary for me. I had already decided not to try to craft my way through Christmas this year. It's a lot of work and after almost 11 hours of work(plus driving), 6 hours of sleep and 2 hours of arguing about bedtime, I don't get much quality time with my munches. I don't want their memories to be, "Mom always made us cool stuff, but man was she in a bad mood at Christmas every year."
I've convinced Jeeves to work with me on scaling down Christmas this year and allowing the blessings of our extended family to rain all over our children and let our gifts to them be more economical and meaningful.
He's on board but I still anticipate being humbled by his generosity with gifting things to me at Christmas. He seems to think I'm lying when I tell him I don't want much. This poses an issue when I don't get much for him. Because I think I've gotten him to agree that we are going to not get much for each other and then he breaks the deal. I desperately want to not spend Christmas morning feeling guilty for my lack of gift expertise.
I don't actually have a direction here, this was just weighing on my mind today.
Happy November All.
1 comment:
I wish Christmas wasn't about the gifts but no matter what you do it's there lingering. We scaled way down to just the three of us and my parents and grandma but it's still uber hard.
Just keep reminding him of the deal and hopefully he'll stick to his end of it.
Nice to hear from you. Keep plugging along, it's gotta get easier some day. At least I keep hoping and praying it will.
Blessings!
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