Christmas Eve 2012

I am really sad that I haven't gotten to do many posts lately,and even more sad that I never got to change my blog over to Christmas. I don't even feel like Christmas happened this year, although my living room sure shows it did lol. My family just seems to keep getting attacked and it's just been one thing right after another. Christmas Eve was NOT normal for us. I started my day out at 5:26 a.m. to get my 4 hours of work in. I started out in a great mood with my Christmas music going. Maddy woke up at 8:30, so I was able to get most of my time in before she woke up. Once I was done the rush was on. We ran up to my mom's so she could go with us to shop and see santa. Santa of coarse was the first thing on the list, however, when we got there the line was closed and we were told he would return at 2:00 p.m. My pea brain was not thinking because church started at 5:00 p.m. We ate lunch at Chick-fil-a and ran into one of my good friends who recently had twin boys. She also has a 3.5 year old son as well. After lunch we headed to Hallmark to get a special ornament. The ornament place we usually go to was not in the mall this year, which also made me very sad. I let Maddy pick out an ornament and she chose santa and rudolph. We went back to wait in line for Santa to return. Santa finally came and we were so excited. I started hearing people talking about how long it would be and when I heard maybe 2 hours I freaked out. We didn't have that kind of time because I still had to shop for my family. I'm not usually such a late shopper, but Manny's vet bill was NOT a planned expense and really hurt the finances. I decided to walk away from the line and again I wasn't thinking and Maddy got so upset. She didn't pitch a fit, but she was whining saying she wanted to see santa. I stopped and tried to explain to her what was going on, but she wanted santa RIGHT THEN! I couldn't go on with shopping until I got her to santa and I'm so glad I didn't wait. We headed over to another mall, Maddy of coarse is still clueless about what is going on and is still sad.On our way there she said she wanted Santa's chair to be red. When we got there low and behold is chair WAS red! I was almost in tears because God worked it all out. There was only two people in front of us and when we got there they had us go in and then shut the doors. We barely made it. We did wait for a while because they had to redo the people in front of us. When it was our turn the lady said their camera wasn't focusing and that was the delay. Maddy didn't really want to smile. She saw a baby in front of us who cried, and I think it kinda scared her.

You can tell we had waited a while. We started our journey around 11 a.m. and this was 3:30-ish pm. Maddy also has a cold that wears her down, plus she missed nap time. After Santa we hit Toys R Us and it felt like we were on the tv show Supermarket Sweep, if you even remember that show lol. I got presents for my two nieces, nephew, and cousin. After that mad dash we dropped my mom off at church and me and Maddy took her car back to her house so we could get our car. I thought we were done, but I remembered I hadn't gotten Maddy's Christmas jammies. By this point we were both exhausted and not feeling well, but she HAD to have her jammies. When we got to the mall I remembered they closed at 6 p.m. We got there at 5:50 p.m. The one store I chose to look had no Christmas jammies whatsoever and they closed the doors on us. My only option was to try Wal-Mart and of coarse they had none in her size left. Next year I hope to do this much earlier lol. We got home around 7:30 p.m. and hadn't even had dinner. I threw some mac and cheese on and tried cleaning a bit. I didn't even bother to wrap the jammies I got her. We didn't make cookies because Maddy really was feeling bad by this point. We didn't even get to make the reindeer food she made at school. I debated on whether or not to do those things without her. At first I wasn't going to, but then I thought about when she went back to school that she might get upset because there were no cookies for Santa and no food for the reindeer. I got a picture of the cookies, but not the reindeer food. Maddy still has yet to ask about either of them. Oh well lol. I went to bed around 3 a.m. because I had a house to clean, but just had to watch Teen Mom 2 first lol.

I normally look this up on the computer, but found it in the app store and HAD to have it lol. As you can see Santa was in Brazil at this point. I can't wait for next year. I think she will understand it a little better. I didn't even get to show her this year because she was feeling so bad. She went to bed with a fever :(

I made chocolate chip cookies for Santa this year and gave him chocolate milk. Maddy isn't a big fan of white milk anymore so chocolate it was :) I hope to put up our Christmas post by the end of the year, but considering that just gives me tomorrow I'm not sure how that will go.