Time Really Does Fly!!!

WOW — here we are just ten days before Christmas and seventeen days before a brand new year!!!! Where does the time go? Yeah, yeah, I know the old saying about how the older you get, the faster time flies by you………but, at this rate, when I’m ready to retire and enjoy life, I’ll be in a time when I wake up on New Year’s morning in one year – spend an enjoyable day celebrating – and the next morning I’ll wake up on New Year’s day the next year!!! Blink and it’s gone!!! What fun will that be???

I wrote the first paragraph as an explanation (OK, call it an excuse) for finding myself today — just ten days before Christmas — in that “oh no, I’m not ready!” rut I have gotten myself into every year over the past couple of years! I had such energetic intentions of being all done and able to just sit back and enjoy the season by now! But, alas, I let other things get in the way!

I have finished a great deal, but I still have some gifts to buy, my Christmas cards need to be put together and sent out, and I need to get the gifts that go out of state wrapped and shipped (at least they are purchased and currently on the bed in the guest room). So, I have quite a bit to do — but, I’m resourceful — I’ll get those out of state gifts out today and my Christmas cards ready to pop in the mail on Monday! The shopping that I have left is minimal, so that’s not a biggie!!! I’ll be completely done and ready when my Mom arrives for her visit next Saturday! (or at least all that is the plan at this moment! ha-ha)