12 Days of Christmas--Procrastinator Style

Day 1: Find tree and decorations. Decorate tree. Get in argument with DH about Christmas lights. DH stomps off to hang lights outside while I stew inside and continue putting up more decorations. DD gets in the way.

Day 2: Go Christmas shopping. Fight crowds. Get hot and tired. Spend too much money, especially charges on credit cards. Drive home. Feel huge shoppers' remorse. Start wrapping. Hide gifts from DD.

Day 3: Continue wrapping.

Day 4: Make out Christmas cards. Look for stamps. Decide to go to post office later in the week to buy Christmas-themed stamps. Decide that certain friends need a letter tucked inside the card, and hold off on writing letters.

Day 5: Decide what I might want to bake for the holiday parties. Go out and buy a couple more gifts, while wondering if I bought enough stuff. Continue wrapping.

Day 6: Think about writing letters to friends.

Day 7: Argue with DH about what gifts I bought for people. DD gets out of school and drives me nutty.

Day 8: Think about writing letters to friends. Go to family holiday party. Eat way too much.

Day 9: Sit down to write letters to friends. Take cards to post office. Mail everything.

Day 10: Think about doing laundry. Get phone call from my mother saying not to bake anything because she has baked up a storm. Bring a cheeseball instead. !

Day 11: Do eight loads of laundry, 7 loads of dishes, and start baking the Xmas goodies. Finish baking around midnight.

Day 12: Wake up to hurriedly unwrap gifts from Santa. Get ready and drive a half-hour to a family holiday party. Hurry through the day to make an appearance at yet another family party. Eat way too much. Go home and have Christmas all over again while we look at the stuff we opened in the morning.