Dec 26 - The Aftermath

Libby Pritchett

Libby Pritchett

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So, what's on your plan for the day? Do you shop? Clean? Relax? Go back to work?

I'm on vacation til Jan 2 (yes, I know I've told you that, but I'm so dang excited that I keep repeating it. LOL!) And I can't stand the thought of Christmas lasting another minute, so I'm getting ready to go in and take everything down. By this afternoon, my house will be de-Christmasized and back to it's clean & orderly ready-to-be-shown-to-any-potential-buyer-on-a-whim state.

We have 1 gift to return, but I don't that I'll do that today. I also need to pick up a gift from Best Buy and call Dell to order a new cord for DH's laptop. The fun truly never ends. LOL!

I've got so much scrapping I want to do, so I'm hoping I can get to that by tonight. Once my house is clean again, I'll feel MUCH more creative.

So, how do you recover?
 
DH didnt get time off for christmas he never does. He has to work a double shift today. So i'm here with the kids cleaning up. Gonna take the tree down this weekend before the new year i think. just vacumed everything up. All the wrapping paper is finally gone out of my house. my daughter is bugging me to show her the pictures she took with her new little camera. which isnt good enough for her she wants one like mine that she can see her pictures LOL. told her if you take care of this one then maybe.

Other than that gonna try and rest not getting much sleep lately.

Hope everyone's holiday was great.
 
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the thing about mother in law's that I normally hate (I feel like she scrutinizes everything in my house..lol) but she cleaned so well with me yesterday that my house is back to spotless. I have NO toys laying around, no trash, no food that's not in it's place..I LOVE it hehe..I gladly let her get in my way yesterday just so I didn't have to do it lol horrible I know...

My tree is coming down sometime this weekend. There's still a few gifts under it for some family that didn't make it out yesterday but is stopping by hopefully this evening
 
I'm sitting on my but relaxing (ok ok.. I'm doing laundry, but I'm pretending to relax! :p ) T is taking monkey boy to his aunts-- i am staying hoooooooooome :thumbup: Nothing to return.. oh oh .. I'm typing on my new keyboard woot! :thumbup:
 
I'm at work. Blegh. The tree won't come down until after the new year. We're home for 3 days, then heading to NY to spend the long New Year's weekend with my family. I have to wrap their presents still, lol.

Next year we are definitely taking off the rest of the week. This kinda stinks.
 
We have some accessories/stuff to pick up today (batteries, a lightbulb for the Easybake, etc), and I'm taking the kiddos to the gym right now so I can get some of those holiday calories burned off before the childcare closes.

I'm in denial about the Christmas decorations...if I ignore them, do you think they'll magically disappear? ;)
 
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We have some accessories/stuff to pick up today (batteries, a lightbulb for the Easybake, etc), and I'm taking the kiddos to the gym right now so I can get some of those holiday calories burned off before the childcare closes.

I'm in denial about the Christmas decorations...if I ignore them, do you think they'll magically disappear? ;)
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Our Christmas wreath stayed on the front door until I had to take it down and put one up for St Patrick's Day last year. :) So no, but who really cares? Christmas decorations are fun!
 
OMGosh - it looks like a bomb exploded in my house!!!!!!!!!! It's going to take me all day to get this place clean!!! :(:(:( Plus, the baby is sick so I am taking him to the doctor this morning. Hopefully they'll be able to give him something this time.

ETA: Can someone please stop these stupid toy manufacturers from zip tying every little teeny tiny toy 20 times!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have some clothes to exchange so I might get that done today.... Other than that, clean, hold baby, clean, hold baby some more......
 
I am so with you Kat not only about the bomb but also the zip ties! My house is a complete disaster! Toys and stuff everywhere! My girls both got a Little People set with a bunch of little parts. Took forever to get everything out of the box and now all those parts are all over! :blink:

Hope to get things a little straighten up but I feel like sitting here doing nothing! lol
 
Life here has returned to somewhat a 'normal' pace. Debating whether to take the tree down or leave it up til New Years. Will start pulling some of the decorations down and putting under the tree so that, at least, things will all be in one spot.

With all the buying of presents, cleaning the house, and cooking...I'm really thinking that the day after Christmas should be Mother's Day! LOL No, not really, I like the warm day in May.

Hope everyone had a fabulous day.
 
We're good for today - toys put away, garbage taken out, food put away already...

Just lazing around, drinking coffee, listening to some tunes and kids occasionally bicker over a new toy.

Our main concern is getting a new vehicle before next week - check out my personal blog to see what happened to our van!

www.leahryden.blogspot.com
 
Oh my goodness Leah!! I'm so glad you are all ok! Accidents of any kind scare me when it comes to cars. We were having car trouble driving home from Pittsburgh last night and my mind was coming up with all sorts of awful things that could happen.

I hope you get a new vehicle that you like though!
 
Not much going on here today. I did run out to Wal-Mart to buy some more batteries> We only had one toy that took them, but it needed a C and all I could find were 3 AAs and 9volt so I decided to stock up on everything. The decor stays up until after NYE, when we have a party.

I suppose I'll be doing dishes today if want to make anything for dinner tonight.
 
I'm way bored here at work, but my mojo is incomplete. I've got 3 LO's sitting in front of me not quite finished, lol.
 
Well I started the day thinking I was going to just stay home and clean up all the Christmas stuff and then DH called and needed me to come to the office...they had to layoff a bunch of his guys :( Hopefully we won't be shutting down the whole company-UGH!

So after that I decided I was out anyway so I went to visit my nephews and took all the boys to the park...it is beautiful here today...low 70's and a nice breeze.

Now I'm home and L.J. is down for a nap so I guess I should get busy with the cleaning.
 
Nothing too exciting going on here. DH is sleeping cuz he worked last night and works again tonight (7pm-5am). The boys have been watching some cartoons and mostly playing with their new toys all morning. And I have been in our home office feverishly cleaning and organizing it. I'm totally avoiding putting away our x-mas decorations. :) At least I have a clean office!! :)
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It's a lazy day here, Tony's parents left today, my dad and stepmother are coming tomorrow. I'm catching up on laundry (almost done), and need to do bathrooms. Otherwise, I played the Wii most of the day LOL. I go back to work tomorrow for three days, then we're off again, until the 2nd.
 
We hung out here until about 11:30 and then headed to Rachael's (inlovewithdots) house for a bday party for her youngest. I stayed there until about 4 and then came home to do some more hangin! I leave my tree and decorations up until New Years day just because I love Christmas so much but I did have every single present put away within an hour after opening! LOL!
 
Toys R Us exploded all over my living room, and it's driving me batty! I went out shopping today to find some storage products, but no luck. By the time I dragged my fat, preggo butt out the door this afternoon everything was pretty much picked over. Luckily my mom is coming over tomorrow to help clean, purge, and organize. Gotta love her!
 
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