It happened. I never really saw it coming, but it did; I finished my Christmas shopping! Now for some people this may not seem so fantastic, but for anyone that really knows me, finishing my Christmas shopping this early borders on the miraculous.
You see, for many years now, Christmas shopping and I have had a love/hate relationship. First off, I am not a shopper by any means for anything. If I find something I like, I go buy it. I don’t shop for stuff to see if something jumps out at me. So, looking for things for other people is taking shopping to a different level for me. Years ago, my elderly parents would give us money to shop for them for the kids and us for Christmas. So not only was I buying presents for my kids and grandkids, I was doing the same for them. For a few years, I would just call it quits and give the kids the money to buy themselves and their kids gifts. Of course as you might imagine they got tired of that pretty quick as well.
A few years ago with the constant urging of my children, I decided to do all the shopping for myself. This still left me with the dilemma of not knowing what anyone wanted or needed and I refuse to give gift cards. Close to Christmas each year I would send out a text to my older grandchildren for Christmas suggestions. The girls were pretty much on top of that but the teenage boys were not. Getting suggestions out of them was like pulling teeth so they usually wound up with the proverbial sweater, cologne and what not.
But this year was different. First off, I want to thank Amazon Prime for being such an inspiration. With my membership with them I did almost all of my shopping online and had the gifts within two days. A trip to the mall with my daughter finished off some of the other items and on, November 27, 2016 I finished my Christmas shopping before the calendar reached December. I still find this hard to believe myself. So I had to text my sisters to gloat about my success. I’ve never ever been able to do that to them. Feels good! lol.
So, short of wrapping all these gifts now, I am done. I can enter December with ease knowing that I don’t have to fight the crowds or rack my brain wondering what to get the grandkids. What a relief! You may say, “Why are you telling us this? We don’t care.” My answer, “I don’t know.” lol. But I’m done with my Christmas shopping and I’m going to “go tell it on the mountain”. For that reason, I am already enjoying this upcoming Christmas season. And for those of you who are not finished all I can say is “happy shopping”!!!