Love The Holidays

The next month and half are going to be very busy around here and I am looking forward to every minute of it. Usually I am one of those people that waits til the last minute to do her Christmas shopping but this year I am happy to say that I have started early and already have half of my shopping done. This year my sisters and I decided that, instead of exchanging gifts with each other we are going to buy gifts for one of our friends family instead. She is a single mom that has been on social security disability for about a year now. She has 4 young kids and we are so excited that we will be able to help them celebrate Christmas.

Another thing that I am looking forward to- my best friend, her 2 kids and her sister are coming up from Florida on Wednesday. They are going to be in for a shock when they get here, it has been sooo cold! They will be staying for Thanksgiving and Mya is going to so excited to see her little friends again.

I am planning to shop on Black Friday again this year, but I am only going to Meijer which, in this small town, is never really even crowded. I remember last year we got there about an hour early (4am) thinking it was going to be full of people. We went in and got everything in our carts and actually had to stand around and wait til the sale started at 5am. There were about 4 or 5 others that had done the same, and we were out of there and back home by 5:30!