Plans getting accomplished….

Tuesday  in mid-afternoon  Mystie

Well, I am almost finished with Christmas shopping. No, don’t shoot me. :) Remember, I’m going to be in the last few weeks of pregnancy in December, and that’s not really an ideal time to go traipsing through the stores or even having to think too hard. So, I began my lists in October, finished them up the first week of November, and now only have 2 more stops to make around town for definite items on a list and not for “something for ____.” Those stops should be accomplished this week, and then I also have 2 online orders yet to be placed, but I do have the items that will be in the orders. I have an option for one person on each of the online orders and I haven’t decided which one to go with and I am still waiting on confirmation of “Grandma Blueberry”’s Christmas present plans; last year I bought presents from her for the boys with her money, but I’m not sure if that is her plan again this year. So those online orders can wait. Since I know what I will order when the needed information is ironed out, I feel it’s practically as good as done. :)

Then I have a few gifts still left that I am making, and it might be too much to say those will be done by November’s end, but I know what they are and they are under way and involve sitting at home, so I figure I can do that through December. :)

I’m saving all the wrapping to do in December, though, because I have to have Christmas music for wrapping Christmas presents and I don’t get out the Christmas decorations or music until the beginning of Advent. Sometimes that’s right after Thanksgiving, but this year it actually begins in December.

I’ve also started my lists for what I’ll make for Confection Selection this year and what supplies I will need for that. I’m going to make a separate trip from my regular grocery run for baking supplies so that I can get another cheap turkey. I always try to get 2 or 3; it’s a lot of meat for one roasting and deboning session, which I hate doing, so it is more worth the time than getting whole chicken, it makes good stock, and I have quite a few good freezer meals I do with the leftover meat, besides just bagging some up in little Ziplocs to be pulled out when a recipe calls for “cut-up, cooked chicken.” We have one roasted turkey then each in January and February (and December or March if I got three) and eat turkey throughout the rest of the year in other dishes.

Time to start thinking through what I need to get done before the baby comes so I can make a list of that and start working on those projects. That’s what will fill my December — organizing the baby room and unpacking the baby boxes, putting away some bread and dinners into the freezer, and figuring out what I need to purchase for this first little girl and winter baby. :) If any baby of mine were to come early, it’d be this one. This is the one I’ve had the earliest and strongest Braxton Hicks contractions with, and she is still moving around like an escape artist who is attempting to find new and innovative ways out of her swimming pool. I tell her she can’t come out the top of my belly, but she doesn’t seem to believe me. And, the primary reason she’d be the one to come early is that I don’t want her to. I think in the long run she’d be much happier having a birthday a week into January, a week past the holidays, than a birthday right around Christmas. There’s this year and always the feeling that it’s time to not be pregnant, but then there’s a lifetime past that and I would prefer a breather between holidays and a birthday; moreover, a birthday in January, say the 10th or 11th or so, would put a nice little bright spot in a drab month. So, like I said, she’ll probably end up being my only early baby.

Well, time to go actually do something on some of those lists I have lying around, I guess…

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