Christmas

I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas. Mine was great. Santa was very good to me this year :) My kids got a lot of nice things. I think we are going to have to work on being more appreciative with the younger one. I know some of it is the Asperger's, but some is also the spoiled rotten coming out. It was great being off work for four days straight. I need to take vacations more.

I tried to do some cleaning yesterday but for some reason the house looks worse after I start cleaning than before. I did get two closets done and most of the laundry put up. I HATE putting up laundry. I just have no room. I keep throwing out clothes but I still can't fit everything into my closet. And of course I never have anything to wear. Sheesh. I'm going to have to work on it some more this week.

I want to shop some more too. I just can't seem to stop. I usually don't do a lot of shopping during the year outside of the usual grocery and Wal-Mart shopping. I go nuts at Christmas. That's when I start finding all this stuff I want and need. I bought my husband and me a lot of presents and put them under the tree. He looked at me funny when he saw the tags that read "to mom and dad from mom and dad".

I shopped just about everyday in December and then all day yesterday I shopped for the stuff that I didn't get that we needed. I only had to return one thing this year out of all the presents I bought. Somehow I managed to buy two of exactly the same game for my oldest son so we had to exchange one of them. I just looked at my bank account so I guess I'm done shopping until next year :) (except for birthday's of course). There's a song on a CD my son has called "maxing out our credit once again". It's on the Bubba Claus CD. That is so true.

Our aspie son had a meltdown on Christmas Eve. He does every year. Poor thing. You get him all excited all month and then by the time Christmas is here he's so anxious and overwhelmed he just can't handle it. Next year we need to do it differently but I'm not sure how I'm going to do that yet. Oh well, I have a whole year to think on it.