11/23/12

Ahhh, the day after Thanksgiving. I don’t know why, but I love this day. No work, everything is quiet and back to normal. Christian did have to work today, so it was just me and the girls! They played some dress up and colored the morning away while I did some online Black Friday shopping. You really couldn’t pay me to actually go Black Friday shopping. I honestly think Black Friday is a complete joke. For one, most of the “Great Deals” the stores have, show up again over the next few weeks. Also, I just can’t stand what’s it’s become. I used to LOVE it – when it was ACTUALLY Black FRIDAY shopping. Christian and I would get up early in the morning, stop somewhere for breakfast, then head to the mall. We’d spend the day shopping, getting deals and lots of “gift with purchase” goodies. It was fairly calm and what it really should be. We’d stop at Target after our day at the mall and get a few more gifts, and pretty much do all of our shopping in one day. There was no standing in lines, camping out, trampling each other, chaos, angry shoppers or fights breaking out. THAT is what Black Friday should be, not the spectacle it is now. It’s sad to me, I miss our fun Black Friday.

So, on my online shopping – I got some great deals at Children’ Place and got the girls a couple sweaters for Christmas. I also got some awesome deals at Payless – finally got myself some new brown and black shoes (my brown ones bit the dust long ago, and I can literally feel the earth through my black shoes when I walk they are so bad. I’m not a big show person at all, so I just try to have my basics – brown shoes, black shows, winter boots and a pair of sandals or two for the summer. I also got Olivia a pair of “everyday” shoes and some dress shoes. Poor Amelia, she just gets the hand-me downs! LOL. Not for long though, they both just destroy their shoes now. Ugh.

The girls and I did spend some time playing in the snow before their naps. It was SO cold though, we didn’t stay for long, but we had fun, and they were exhausted, so it was successful. While they napped, I relaxed, caught up on the DVR a little bit and got all of our Christmas stuff out of storage (which was quite a task).

When Christian got home from work, we had dinner, and got the tree set up. Olivia was so into it this year, she was such a great help. Amelia was her usual ADD self and just ran around like a chicken with her head cut off. We got the lights on, and called it a night. I can’t wait to see them decorate it; they are going to love it.

Once the girls were in bed, Christian ran over to our neighbor’s house to hang out and have a couple beers. I, of course, settled in for a night with Dexter and did some playing online. Love me some quiet alone time!