The 12 Things at Christmas that have kept me from blogging this month:
1. Daily Advent Calendar is kicking my ass.
2. We’re busy scrambling for candy thrown by cute little scouts.
3. Grandparents on both sides who ask me to shop for the kids. This is great in that I do love having control over what toys come into the house, but my basement looks like a haunted house, with sheets covering piles of hidden treats.
4. Annual Christmas target practice.
5. 135 Christmas cards. You know that line in this song where he says “I don’t even KNOW half of these people?“. Kind of like that.
6. Sinterklaas, which has one of the scariest Christmas stories ever. If you don’t behave, he hits you with a stick and shoves you into his sack. Don’t believe me? Well, David Sedaris says it’s so.
Here, the children are relieved that there will be no stick-hitting/sack-stuffing:
8. Meeting my niece for the first time and seeing my beloved sister-in-law who are up from Florida for the week. I’m getting baby time, y’all.
9. Making gingerbread men. I swear to you, the kids did this one all by themselves. Should I be worried?
10. Working like a busy little elf on cool product reviews and helping to get another website back into flight.
11. Wondering how the kids managed to make the creepiest looking snowman ever.
12. Taking up a new instrument. Badly.
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