After a middle of the day weekend trip to Target this past weekend, I decided I was done with the stores. I have one person left to buy something for and it is my Dad and I am getting him Eddie Bauer stuff which I can buy and ship all on line.
Than I remembered another friend who just had a baby. She bought Matthew a beautiful rocking horse his 1st Christmas. This gift totally trumped anything else we bought and he loved that thing during the 1st two years of his life. Now granted at the time she was single and did not have kids but still... This may seem like a no-brainer but should I buy a gift for her little guy for his 1st Christmas? And if so, should I be extravagant (within reason of course) or just a simple gift?
Oh any ideas (I think Logan will be about 3 months old around Christmas)?
HALP!!!
Showing posts with label holiday hives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holiday hives. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Do you hear those sleigh bell jingling? Ring ting tingling YEAH...
I mentioned yesterday that I have my knickers all in a knot over Christmas shopping. Please just let me say that I know it is only November 8th. I know that Christmas is a whole 45 days away. That I should not have my knickers in a knot because, DUDE, that is a long way off. And, I do not have mass amounts of people to buy for and we are actually sort of mostly done with Matthew's shopping but I am still nervous and feeling on edge because the people I do have to buy stuff for:
#1 live far away so my 45 days is cut down to 30-35 days (for shipping) which is still a long time so (#2) these are the hardest people to buy for. It does help that I generally charge my husband with the task of buying gifts for his own family. I will not, do not, do in-law shopping as a general rule. Plus what I would buy and what Kevin actually buys are TWO totally separate things.
Reason #3 is really the crux of the matter: I am sort of a snob when it comes to gift buying to the point of paralyzing me into buying absolutely NOTHING. A good example of this: when I am in a group of people and someone asks me 'where do you want to eat?' I am like a bloody deer in head lights. My response usually goes like this "Ah ah ah, what do you like? I like anything? Hmm, ah... what do think of ah what do you like?" I am terrible at making decisive decisions, and try as I might to change this behavior I have come to the rousing conclusion that I am who I am (like Popeye... only less cartoon-ish... I think. Also, I am a woman and I do not have those biceps when I eat spinach. SHUTTING UP now...)
Reason #4 is also another reason to be a bit deer in the headlights-ish - my family tends to be a little er shall we say... ungrateful about gifts, no matter the cost or thoughtfulness surrounding the gift. If I had my druthers I would get everyone gift cards and be done with it. That way they can hem and haw over what it is THEY want to get but I know some people think gift cards can seem a little thoughtless, no? Maybe not so much any more but I think to my mother they would be... Not me, I love me a good gift card. It is like the gift that keeps on giving well into the new year some times! That I LOVE!
I am just feeling panicked because I have no clue where to begin. I guess a list would help, huh? Some organizational guide to gift buying? The plan really is this - make a list, check it twice, go shopping this weekend and maybe, oh lawdy help me, the weekend of Thanksgiving & the 1st weekend in December (that will be a desperate weekend... I will be tense and not nice...) and hope that I can figure out what to get everyone on those two or three shopping expeditions because I have to go to Detroit next weekend and our Christmas party (WAHOO) for work in the 2nd weekend of December (at the Conrad BABY!) The weekend of the 15-16... ohmigawd, I will SO be hyperventilating if I am still shopping that weekend and than HOLY SHIT one more weekend after that before Santa arrives.
Is this whole post making any of the rest of you break out into hives? Hmm, okay maybe not.... Suggestions welcome!! (web sites, stores, catalogs with cool gifts for 13 year old girls, 68 year old artsy moms, workaholic dads & brothers, and even something for a totally impossible to buy for husband - WOULD HE MAKE HIS LIST ALREADY!?!?)
The hysteria has begun, I am sorry you are witness to this, my total breakdown over a damn holiday (and I thought I coming to love this holiday...)
#1 live far away so my 45 days is cut down to 30-35 days (for shipping) which is still a long time so (#2) these are the hardest people to buy for. It does help that I generally charge my husband with the task of buying gifts for his own family. I will not, do not, do in-law shopping as a general rule. Plus what I would buy and what Kevin actually buys are TWO totally separate things.
Reason #3 is really the crux of the matter: I am sort of a snob when it comes to gift buying to the point of paralyzing me into buying absolutely NOTHING. A good example of this: when I am in a group of people and someone asks me 'where do you want to eat?' I am like a bloody deer in head lights. My response usually goes like this "Ah ah ah, what do you like? I like anything? Hmm, ah... what do think of ah what do you like?" I am terrible at making decisive decisions, and try as I might to change this behavior I have come to the rousing conclusion that I am who I am (like Popeye... only less cartoon-ish... I think. Also, I am a woman and I do not have those biceps when I eat spinach. SHUTTING UP now...)
Reason #4 is also another reason to be a bit deer in the headlights-ish - my family tends to be a little er shall we say... ungrateful about gifts, no matter the cost or thoughtfulness surrounding the gift. If I had my druthers I would get everyone gift cards and be done with it. That way they can hem and haw over what it is THEY want to get but I know some people think gift cards can seem a little thoughtless, no? Maybe not so much any more but I think to my mother they would be... Not me, I love me a good gift card. It is like the gift that keeps on giving well into the new year some times! That I LOVE!
I am just feeling panicked because I have no clue where to begin. I guess a list would help, huh? Some organizational guide to gift buying? The plan really is this - make a list, check it twice, go shopping this weekend and maybe, oh lawdy help me, the weekend of Thanksgiving & the 1st weekend in December (that will be a desperate weekend... I will be tense and not nice...) and hope that I can figure out what to get everyone on those two or three shopping expeditions because I have to go to Detroit next weekend and our Christmas party (WAHOO) for work in the 2nd weekend of December (at the Conrad BABY!) The weekend of the 15-16... ohmigawd, I will SO be hyperventilating if I am still shopping that weekend and than HOLY SHIT one more weekend after that before Santa arrives.
Is this whole post making any of the rest of you break out into hives? Hmm, okay maybe not.... Suggestions welcome!! (web sites, stores, catalogs with cool gifts for 13 year old girls, 68 year old artsy moms, workaholic dads & brothers, and even something for a totally impossible to buy for husband - WOULD HE MAKE HIS LIST ALREADY!?!?)
The hysteria has begun, I am sorry you are witness to this, my total breakdown over a damn holiday (and I thought I coming to love this holiday...)
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