Finally did some Christmas shopping

I had my day all planned, but knew as soon as I got out of bed, those plans would likely not happen as I wanted. They never do. Sure enough, only some of them happened. I'm almost completely finished with my shopping. I have to pick up one more gift & it is set aside for me. Then the wrapping of what I did buy & delivery of the neighbor gifts.

I went searching for sayings to put on my gifts - rolls of gift paper & Mother is giving paper plates & Christmas napkins. I found a really cool blog, how does she? by Googling. The entry for the paper plates was found under 30 Neighbor Christmas Gifts Ideas.

Our Relief Society presidency brought Mother some paper plates & matching napkins in a Christmas theme, tied with a large ribbon bow. It has a cute little saying on it, but I couldn't remember what it was. Here is what I found at how does she?

A bit of "disposable" Christmas cheer! What could be better? No dishes, my dear!

Then for the rolls of Christmas paper, I don't remember where I snagged this from.We got a roll of Christmas paper a couple of years ago, I saved the cute little card that came with it. Of course, now that I need it, I can't find it.

"Wrap" yourself up in a wonderful holiday season!

And no wrapping. I HATE wrapping gifts.

Saturday, Dec. 11

Now, it really is Saturday. I posted last night at 1 a.m. I went to bed at 2, after reading my scriptures. My feet were SOOO cold, I couldn't go to sleep, so I "wrote" a talk in my head & the next thing I knew it was morning.

I felt so good today, I overdid. We went to Logan & shopped. I got the Christmas gifts for DUP at the Dollar Tree in Smithfield. We ate at Big J's in Richmond. When we got home, we took the DUP gifts over to Mother's, showed her & then I left them there.

I bought Christmas stockings again, only this year I filled them with wrapping supplies like adhesive tape, tissue paper, scissors, little gift bags & a pretty fluffy bow with matching ribbon. As either a personal gift, or something they can re-gift, I put in door knob hangers with bells. The Christmas stockings were satin, one silver & one gold. For the silver stocking I bought silver bells, silver tissue, silver gift bag & purple scissors. For the gold stocking I bought red & gold.

Don & I changed the beds at Mother's & I changed the dressing on Mother's leg. The wound looks really good. If it looks as good tomorrow, I'll go for the dry bandage & let it dry up.

I was so tired, I came home & lay down for a nap, from which I woke thoroughly chilled. Don had fixed toasted cheese sandwiches & tomato soup for supper. I have such a wonderful husband.

Annual shopping trip

If you read Facebook, this is a compilation of my posts over there. I have added details to them, LOL

Nick is really picky about his clothes. He has to have certain colors (black, gray & fluorescent orange) & a certain texture (soft, no seams). He has been this way his WHOLE life. So, today we were off to Logan to get shoes & pants for him. Wish he would have done it during the back to school sales. But I wasn't fast enough to catch him at a good time. 

Truth be told, I wasn't feeling very good during the back to school sales. I should've listened to Roxanne Froerer (Nurse Practitioners of Preston) when I had the bad gall bladder attack & had my gall bladder out sooner. But I digress.


Not too bad of a shopping trip considering. We got 3 pair of shorts for $3 each at Wal-Mart. Actually, we got 4 pair of shorts. One pair Nick didn't even consider. They are a brown plaid. I put them in the cart & explained that I was buying them because they were $3 & I could use the fabric, plus things like buttons, pockets, etc. I couldn't buy them separately for that price.

Ross didn't have anything he was interested in. We must have spent a total of 5 minutes in there. I am always so uncomfortable in there. I told Nick that, & he laughingly said maybe someone was killed in there. I said I didn't think so, we'd have heard about it. But maybe someone had been killed on the site. He knows how I feel about the Bear River Massacre Site. I have a hard time driving through that section. But, the feeling I get in Ross doesn't even compare to the sadness I feel driving through the massacre site. In Ross I feel like I'm going to crawl out of my skin. I get the same feeling in Target & Dillard's.

Next we went to Shoe Carnival. We walked right past Best Buy & he didn't go in! Wow! Miracles do happen. We got 2 pair of shoes & a WILD pkg of socks at Shoe Carnival. It was buy one pair of shoes, get one half price. I picked up some shoes for myself. The shoes I was looking at was on sale for $25, down from $69.99. They were the cheaper pair so I got an additional $12.50 off of that. I got a pair of shoes for $12.50!!! My kind of deal!! They didn't have tube socks, which is the only kind Nick will wear. His kindergarten teacher remembers him as the little boy that would play with his socks. Nick pointed out some wild fluorescent socks for me as a joke & I loved them, LOL. I couldn't decide between the bright yellow, orange & green or the green, pink & orange. Of course, the pink won. There is 6 pair of socks in one package. They were marked down from $4.99 to $4 a pkg. Then, we got to spin the wheel & got an additional $2 off of our entire purchase!! Oh, & Nick found exactly the kind of shoe he was looking for!!!

K-Mart was our bonanza today. We got a black t-shirt with a glow in the dark Ghostbusters emblem & 2 pair of black heavy sweats w/3 pockets. Kewl!! He won't try clothes on, so I said we'd buy both pair of pants, one was an XL & one was an XXL, & he could try them on at home. We would return whichever pair didn't fit him.

He came home & tried them on. The XXL pair of pants were too large, but that's good. It shows he is losing weight, course he never has had a butt. His pants always hang half mast like plumbers pants. The Ghostbusters shirt was only a 2X, & is a little tighter than he's used to wearing. He's been wearing a 3X!! It is long, but it covers his butt!

Here's another plus. He found work shirts, the kind that mechanics wear. They are a navy blue, but he said he wouldn't mind having a shirt like that to put on over his t-shirts so they wouldn't get so dirty. Then told me it was something to think about as a gift!!!

Tonight before he went to bed, Nick wanted to show his Ghostbusters shirt glowing in the dark. He & his dad could see it right away. My eyes don't adjust to the dark very well. I could finally see it in my peripheral vision, but the ghost was fading, sigh. I said my eyes have never recovered very good in the dark, maybe I was getting macular degeneration like Nana has. Nick told me I'd better start taking the same kind of vitamins I buy for Nana.