When Christmas tried to kill me.

So last year I loved Tara's elf, Bernard. Then I forgot about how much I loved him until I read her post again this year. And then I decided to turn into a spastic Christmas Over-acheiver. What a great way to get the most out of your holiday season! What a fun way to string out the gift-giving! The treat-eating! The memory-making! Right? RIGHT. TOTALLY. I WAS SO ON IT! I dug out the dust-covered scrapbook supplies (from the days when I was hard-core), and stayed up til 2:00am making these little gems.

Aren't my good intentions so cute?

And see how they're still un-opened? That's because Alabaster Snowball (yes I even googled elf-names) is a relentless, slave-driving, homicidal bastard. The first morning was fine, even fun. He suggested we "Watch Elf". Check! What's next? "Write your letters to Santa". Check!

Then the fun train started to speed up. Take a family photo! Buy a toy to donate! Make treat bags for your class! Don't forget your teacher! Visit Santa's Ranch! Make cookies! Now make ornaments! Go see Christmas lights! Now now now! It's all so much fun!! Go have MORE FUN!!! 

And it was all just TOO MUCH FUN. We got so behind !!ON THE FUN!! that we had to take a break !!FROM THE FUN!!

And that's how we turned into Advent Calendar Drop-outs.  

Which isn't to say that we still didn't do lots of things on the list. In fact, the treat bags got made. So did the cookies, and Narnia was AWESOME. 

We just didn't go on the "right" day. Because it turns out that I'm better at doing stuff when it happens to fit in. As opposed to when it's ON! THE! FUN! CALENDAR! Also, after emailing Tara that Alabaster was forcing holiday cheer at gun-point, she said, girl you are crazy don't you know you need to break it up with easy stuff, like 'cuddle'. And that was confirmed by the ever-reasonable Laura when I saw her calendar which included activities like "give someone a hug". 

Oh.

Yeah, so I'm not sure if Alabaster the Fun Enforcer will make a return appearance next year. If he does, he will definitely need to bring it down a notch.

Other than that, we had a great time. Here are a couple lazy, under-acheiver shots I grabbed Christmas morning.

They were taken 10 minutes before we were buried in the avalanche of boxes and paper and toys that (as always) needed to be surgically removed from the high-security packaging that we all adore so much.  

I HOPE YOU ALL HAD A MERRY HOLIDAY SEASON! 

Now it's onto the time of year when we get antsy about changing stuff up. For me that will mean giving this blog a little face-lift. Nothing major, just botox and a laser peel. Because I realized the other day that there are a two things I look for most when I visit a blog: 

1. A photo of the writer with some background info. 

2. Easy to find categories broken down by subject (not date)

Mine contains neither of those things, so I'm going to change it. If you have any other ideas about what you'd like to see here, (whether it's suggestions for content, opinions about design, organization, photo tips, personal stuff, business stuff) I'm all ears! Thanks for sticking around despite my lazy posting habits. I hope to change that up in 2011 too.  

xo

Comments

[Chasity]

we can so relate. hudson asked me again yesterday when he was going to get the surprises from days 1-6 on his advent calendar. yea, advent starts at our house on day 7...apparently.

[Momo Fali]

I'm changing things up as well. It's so exciting, isn't it?!

As for the calendar...even the "cuddle" one is setting the bar too high for me, because I would have to MAKE the calendar in the first place!

[Life with Kaishon]

It looks like your Christmas was fantastic. I remember those scrapbooking days too! : ) I am about ten years and ten months behind.

[Kim Greene]

I am laughing out loud! I have a hard enough time just remembering to move our elf every night (after it goes back to the north pole to report to santa of course) let along have it bring tasks. I'm impressed you got it going!