Welcome to Sunday Brunch. I awoke with a bad headache and took some Aleve and went back to sleep so I’m a little late. I have a ton of Christmas cookies for you and a nice pot of French Vanilla coffee so help yourself. I’m finishing up the last of my personal Christmas today. I got the out of town stuff out yesterday and today I’m wrapping my gifts for here.
As I have discovered over the last couple of years the biggest problems in wrapping gifts is Pixie. Pixie loves to “help” me with whatever I’m doing. I have tried in vain to be very quiet about making the bed but little Miss Big Ears can hear me even if she is at the other end of the apartment. Up she hops and I have to try and make the bed around her. I try to fill the food dishes and her head is right there. One of these days she is going to get “baptized” when I’m trying to fill the water dish.
Pixie loves present wrapping time. She sits on the paper. She grabs hold of the ribbon I’m trying to use. She takes off with the ribbon curls I’m making for the bows. She gets tape stuck to her so I have to stop and unstick her. I sometimes think it would be easier to wrap her up first and then do the rest of the presents. ;-)
Living on Social Security I have very little money so most of my gifts are homemade. I’ll wrap the presents today while watching my cooking shows. Maybe I can come up with the rest of the Christmas dinner ideas. So dig into the cookies and candy I have been making all week and tell me how you are spending this beautiful day. I know that as soon as I am done with my Christmas wrapping my niece wants me to help her. My brother is sending his stuff down to me to wrap also. While living with Mom I always wrapped his gifts as well as Moms and mine. He mailed the gifts at his expense. I was talking with him the other day and he was saying that the kid’s gifts wouldn’t be as nicely wrapped this year. I felt sorry for him and told him to mail everything to me and I would wrap them. Next Christmas he will be living down here so I’ll continue to make sure that the gifts are beautifully wrapped.
