Christmas shenanigans

When people tell you time flies, it really does when you have kids. I always say I am going to start my Christmas shopping early, be ahead of the game, and done in no time. Of course, the procrastinator in me didn't allow that to happen, again. Gets me every time. I did try though this year, but things blur by and the next thing you know Christmas is here. In fact, this year was a bit embarrassing I must admit. I knew I was a bit behind, but I thought I still had time.

I had gone on Pinterest and came up with cute ideas for gifts this year. I know most people just buy what they want anyways at my age, so I thought they would like something a little more special this year. Well, as we all know, Pinterest ideas can go one of two ways, a fabulous idea that will likely be repeated, or lets not try that EVER again. I chose to do ornaments with the girls hand prints on them. Cute idea right? I'm sure it could have been cute. I mean they did turn out okay, but I would definitely make some changes before I recommend it to anyone else. You see, we got a little gutsy and decided to use kid friendly glue for the handprint and glitter over it. Having one little hand print on an ornament would be difficult I'm sure. Trying to get your little tot to open their hand, not smear it on the ornament, themselves, or you can be a bit tricky. With twins it's even harder. I may have gotten one twins hand on the ornament perfectly, but then to get the other to cooperate on that same ornament? Not likely. We made a bit of a production of it. We did all hand prints of one childs, let them dry and went back later and did the other childs. If I had to do it again, I would have went with paint. Or as my husband suggested, traced their hands and then replicated it ourselves on the bulbs. That would take the fun out of it though right? Let's just say Adam and I finally completed this project about an hour before we had to be at our families Christmas Eve party.

Somehow I had been off a week. I thought Christmas was the following week. Up until the weekend before, when my Dad who was going out of town mentioned his flight. "What do you mean? I thought you left next week." I had said. "Katie, Christmas is this weekend." Eeee welp I certainly screwed that one up (I can't be the only one who has done this right?) Adams present was ordered the following day (thank you Amazon Prime) as were a few others. Thankfully I had actually been done with the girls shopping and just had to wrap it up.

Even with all the chaos that last week, flying around trying to get everything finished up for Christmas, it was a great one. The girls were just old enough to realize they got new toys to play with. Maybe not the entire Christmas idea, but they had a blast. We got them a little kitchen and a princess tent with some other smaller things. Most of it they will share anyways at this age. Personally I think they would be happy with just about anything. Don't stress Christmas shopping especially when they are young. They would be just as happy playing with the boxes.