check, check

1. Decorate the staircase. Check.
2. Decorate the kids rooms. Check.
3. Help kids decorate their Christmas trees. Check.
4. Go grocery shopping at like 8 a.m. before the crowds get there. Check.
5. Buy self peppermint mocha as a pat on the back. Check.
6. Decorate the dining room, kitchen, office, bathrooms, and our bedroom. Check.
7. Throw out old dead mums that make the outside look like Hallowing instead of Christmas. Check.
8. Ride bike to gym. Exercise at gym. Ride bike home. Checkers.
9. Buy advent calendars with chocolate. Check.
10. Buy and wrap the beginning advent presents for kids and Rudy. Check.
11. Buy and wrap a few gifts already. Not even December 23rd, what's up with that? Check.
12. Christmas music blarring in the car. Check.
13. Ready to get this Thanksgiving over, so I'm not the only crazy one! Check.

Things left to do:

1. Finish Christmas shopping. *that can wait till Dec. 23rd at Walmart.
2. Decorate the Winter Wonderland in the game room. *doing that within this week is the plan.
3. Decorate the mantel for Christmas. *currently decorated for Thanksgiving due to children's insistance that it is a holiday that we should celebrate. Will do the 30 minute change out on Friday.
4. Finish decorating the patio. * Will take all of 5 minutes, so I'm sure to put that off until after Christmas and be pisssed at myself for never getting around to it.
5. Go get and decorate the big tree. *Patience, Young Grasshopper, patience. We must dine on turkey first.
6. Throw a few parties and go to a few parties. Can't wait!!! I have managed to crash myself on the invite list to a few already this year. By the way, when is your party? I am invited, right?
7. Just pass along general merriment and good will toward all man, woman, child, and animal (stuffed and real).
8. MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!