Xmas Shopping

I feel totally blah tonight. I can't decide if I am pissy, irritated, tired, sad, you name it... I can't decide. Ugh... it's only midnight and I feel like it's 5am. I should go to sleep, but I can't cuz I told my DH I would wait til 4am to let him in the house. Why to I have to be a paranoid freak and ALWAYS have to have both locks locked on the doors.... why? Cuz there are REAL FREAKS out there... ones who would like to help themselves to the inside of my house without being invited. I would rather stay up feeling comforted and safe, then stay up in bed and freak out at every noise I hear because I swear a burglar is coming into my house.

So, I have shopped and shopped and shopped like there is no tomorrow. We have a big chunk of Xmas done... YES, I said Xmas. I am excited about have something to show for it. I really thought we wouldn't be able to pull it off... but I am finding that we just needed a bit of motivation. Usually by now my closet is bursting with stuff, but it's only about half full this year. Hopefully I will be able to make some extra money after pics and get some more goodies. I shop year round for Xmas. Yeah, I am one of those annoying people who goes out the day after Thanksgiving to get "last minute gifts" because she has already bought everything. And I go out at like 4am... but this year has been tight.

My DH came up with this wonderful idea for Xmas presents this year. This is what kick started his motivation to shop. He hates shopping. And he loves this idea. Why does he love it? Cuz he doesn't have to do it. He wants me to make tie blankets as gifts to give everyone for Xmas. He's crazy. I told him if that was really what he wanted me to do, he better start buying fleece for me now, because I wasn't gonna kill my fingers by crankin' out 25 blankets in a month. So, he took me to go buy fleece. It's a big open warehouse type store, and Him and Lexie literally ran thru the aisles playing tag and peekaboo while I told the seamstress what length I wanted each bold cut. I spent $130 on fleece... and I don't even have alla the fleece I need. I think I got about 6 or 7 blankets worth... and a few of them have characters and such, so that's why they cost so much. His mom is a huge Betty Boop fan (her name is Betty) and we found some cute fleece for her. And I found a cute Hello Kitty one as well. A lot of the fleece I got was 50% off... and some only 3.99 a yard. It was the patterned fleece that killed us. He was flashing me dirty looks while I was trying to match bolts up, so I figured we would just pick some more up after these ones are done. He was all sweaty by the time I was cutting the last set of bolts. Lexie ran him ragged LOL!!

We went to Big Lots too. I had never been there, they just moved here. I had saw a ton of corny commercials for them, but we had never been by there. I AM SO GLAD WE WENT!!! It's like a upscale dollar store or something. We got a ton of namebrand kid toys/puzzles/books for realllllllly awesome prices. I spent less than $35!! We had a whole cart full... I was running out of places to put things. Care Bears, Boohbahs (don't ask... they creep me out too), Waterbabies (We have Mickey & Minnie, the Care Bears, and now we have Shrek and Donkey thanks to Big Lots), the whole nine yards. And they had scruncheez for like $1 for SIX. And they are the real ones, not some crappy dollar store brand. My kids think the barbies and cabbage patch dolls need to wear mine, so I never have any... now I have a dozen more... I am sure half of them will end up on doll's heads before the end of the year LOL!!

Also I have been hitting up a bunch of ebay auctions for those cute dresses I mentioned in one of my previous entries. I have most of the dresses I need... now I need tights and shoes, and hairties... if I do hairties. I haven't decided if I want headbands instead. Their hair is getting so long and pretty. I might wanna have them show it off.

I got a couple nonrelated auctions too... some other cute gymboree clothing for super cheap, and some much needed jeans for Reagan. I am not usually one to shop second hand for clothing for the kiddos, but for these prices, and the way they ruin clothes, I am not complaining. I haven't eBayed in awhile... it's been quite the ride LOL!! A few of the outfits will go to the girls as Bday presents/dressup clothes. Most were new with tags... and came creased and pretty, like they just came from the store. I am very pleased. and CHEAP!! Did I mention Cheap??!!

Okay, I will stop now LOL... didn't mean to yammer on and on