And… it’s over….

As I pulled into the boy’s driveway Tuesday night, I realized that it would all be over soon… all this hype, all this excitement, all this everything…

Over.

And fast.

He told me that I wasn’t allowed to be depressed about it until December 26th.

Well, that’s today.

Consider me depressed.

I’m back to work.  The house is a mess.  The kids are getting bored with their new toys.  There is food coming out the wazoo and it’s all over.

At least for 330 more days.

The boy loved the book.  (And my apologies for the link not working.  See, the book came but it wasn’t printed right, so I reformatted it again and it’s still not right, so I had to make the book available only to me until it’s corrected.  Who knows when that will be.  But he did tell me that he was holding on to that one because when I was famous, he’ll have a copy of a book that’s rare.  I told him to hold on to his delusions.)

The boy loved all of his Christmas presents… from the jeans (oh.my.word. they actually make him look like he has a butt) to the cooking stuff, to the salt and pepper shakers (ok, i bought these only because I can’t stand that he didn’t have them) to the nerf machine gun.  Yes, I bought him a nerf machine gun.  I think I heard “I have the coolest girlfriend” eleventy bajillion times yesterday, but that’s okay.

The kids were pleased with what they got as well.  Matthew is in there now playing Rock Band and Samara, who received a slightly padded bra from Santa is admiring her chest, again.  (I don’t know what Santa was thinking… low rise jeans and a padded bra?  The man needs to be spoken too. — Ok, so I got those so that she would doubt the Santa thing just a little longer.  She knows that I wouldn’t buy them for her.  I’m a horrible mother.  But it worked.)

The printer that I purchased for myself?  The Mack Daddy printer?  The one that I have kept hidden for 4 weeks and made myself not get out and plug up early?  Um yeah…

Mack Daddy doesn’t work with a Mac.

I’m more than dissappointed.  It’s my own fault for not making sure that it was compatible.  But I’m more than bummed.  But come on, who doesn’t make things compatible for both?  Xerox apparently.  And really, just this printer.

So I guess I’ll be seeing if I can get my money back.

This post is so depressing.  It shouldn’t be.

This was the best Christmas that I’ve had in a REALLY long time.  Seriously.  Everything was perfect and the only thing that could’ve made it more perfect would’ve been a white one, and since we know that there’s a 10% chance once every 10 years, then we know that wasn’t going to happen.  But I was still hopeful, kinda.

I actually baked.

And cooked.

And entertained.

All things that I’ve never done at the holidays before, but I’ll have to post about them later.

But here was the best part of Christmas Day…

Know how I cancelled the cable and told the kids there was more to do than watch tv?

Well Santa (aka the boy) brought all the kids wheels…. so while his kids were visiting wtih their mom we took the kids over to the track… the very same track where we met the first time…

and if you would’ve told me then, that I’d be back there seeing this on Christmas…

I would’ve told you that you were off your rocker…

I mean seriously, what could be better?  50 degree weather, a track nearby to test out the new wheels, a method to expel the Christmas chaos, and a boy who comes with tools to adjust seats and handlebars appropriately?

Hope you had a very merry Christmas…

Until next time…