December? No!!!!

I can’t believe it’s December. In my world, Halloween just happened the other day (I still haven’t managed to get a photo of all 3 kids in their costumes…)

I missed my cousin’s birthday (because I didn’t realize November was over).

My brains are completely scrambled.

For about a week, I was hyper-focused on a paper I was writing for work. It was all I could think about. When I turned it in, all the kids commented: “Mom, all of a sudden you are so happy! You are no longer snapping at everyone!”

Then, we hosted Thanksgiving. It was fun, it was awesome, our family is amazing. Everyone brought food, so we only made turkey, gravy, cranberry sauce, herring salad, and sweet potatoes. Still, it was a lot of work. I cleaned, and cleaned, and cleaned (I even washed some of the windows!) – kids helped. My husband did a ton of yardwork to get stuff cleaned up (the kids and I helped). Having people over is a very good incentive to clean up stuff that is not normally a top priority.

And then I sort of collapsed and did not want to do anything for the rest of the weekend.

Then I got confused with days and dates and nearly missed the 1st night of Hanukkah. Thank goodness my mother called to wish us Happy Hanukkah and I was all discombobulated because “but wait, but it’s not until tomorrow night! Right???” 

Wrong.

So there was a bit of a scramble to get the candles and the menorahs (luckily, our daughter cleaned and polished those the day before! All on her own!) and to wrap a couple of presents (seemed kind of silly to wrap things so that the kids could tear the paper off 5 seconds later, but they really really really wanted all their presents wrapped).

Am I sort of last-minute about wrapping presents and getting things ready for holidays? YES I AM.

And now it is December. And 2021 is almost over. I am not ready...