Christmas lists

Things I got done yesterday

• cleaned up the kitchen
• mailed the Christmas cards
• picked up my car from the Ford dealership (who wanted to charge $880 for my repairs) & arranged a new shop to take the car next week (for $500-600 instead—still pretty ouch, and there goes my Christmas cash)
• bought the last couple of small presents (while worrying about how much money we spent this month)
• finished planning all the holiday cooking
• bought all the groceries I’d need (while worrying about how much money we spent this month)
• cooked the first big dinner stuff
• finished the sourdough starter and made the loaves
• fell asleep early and forgot to bake the bread

Things I still have to do today

• bake the bread
• make stuffing, my birthday pie (my birthday is Christmas day), jello salad, and tomorrow morning’s breakfast casserole and French toast
• wrap the kids’ presents (which I’m going to do as soon as I post this since strangely they’re still asleep at this hour—this is what comes from worrying about money. I haven’t done it earlier because William has shown an alarming interest in opening presents this year.)
• clean up the study
• scrub my bathtub so I can crash later tonight
• get Santa set up after the kids are in bed (including rebuilding the bunk beds—and Chris and I aren’t sure if we can build them in the living room and move them or if the kids get a very exciting pile of bed pieces and mattresses)
• collapse and pray for Christmas to be over