Catching Up II

On Friday, after depositing my paycheck and running some other errands, I took DD over to my mom's house. My sister and her family were visiting from Cape Girardeau, MO, and I hadn't gotten to see them the day before, as they were at her in-laws for dinner. DD played with her cousins and my sister and I chatted. She said she and my mom got up early and went shopping for the big sales. I was annoyed, wondering why they didn't invite me to come along. When Mom had mentioned it the day before, I thought she was kidding. *shrugs* Oh well. I had absolutely zero dollars in my wallet anyway.

Later in the afternoon, I dropped DD off at my mother-in-law's house. I asked her if she'd watch DD on Friday night and possibly on Saturday night too. She said she would, so that was nice. I went home and did a little Christmas shopping. DH was working.

On Saturday, DH and I got up early and went Christmas shopping. I told him that even though we didn't have any extra cash at the moment, I wanted to buy all the Xmas gifts for everyone so I didn't have to think about it anymore. Thank the gods for plastic! We managed to get gifts for everyone, except I still have to go to one certain store for my sisters and sister-in-law. We were in the mall and I meant to go back to that store before we left, but I forgot. So I'll do it this Friday. We also got a load of groceries, which will hopefully last for more than one week!

When we got home, we put everything away, and sat down to watch a couple of movies we rented. The first movie was "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban." It was a decent movie, but so much was left out. DH, who hasn't read the books, said it was perfectly fine and he enjoyed it. The second movie was "Elf." I don't know what the hubbub was all about, because it's an average, predictable movie.

After the movies, we wrapped the gifts, hiding DD's in a closet. Then DH put up the tree and we strung the lights on it.

Needless to say, Saturday was a very long day.