For our fifth date of Christmas (yep, we’re on a roll over here!), we headed out on Sunday evening to do some Christmas shopping.  I don’t know about you guys, but this whole “late Thanksgiving” thing is totally throwing me off.  Usually I get at least a few gifts done between Thanksgiving and the beginning of December, which helps me feel like I’m at least semi on top of things for Christmas (even if I don’t actually finish my shopping until the 23rd.  Or 24th…)

This year it feels like December is just flying by (stay awhile, please!), and I was beginning to feel a little anxious about the fact that I had only one gift completed.  (Y’know, out of like, a thousand.)  So, we bundled up in our boots, scarves, and coats, and braved the terribly cold California weather in the name of gift-giving.  (And if you live outside of California, y’know — someplace that has real weather, I’m sorry.  It must be terribly cold where you are.  All I know is that whenever it’s 55° or colder outside, it’s basically like we’re all living in Antarctica.  I mean, I don’t even own a heavy sweater.  What am I supposed to do?)

We hit the stores, and we hit them hard.  We even took a break in the middle to go have some Mexican food (shopping fuel!), and then shopped some more.  After our haul, we headed home and I wrapped gifts while we watched Home Alone.  Now our tree is looking extra festive:

I’ve still got three big gifts to wrap; but I ran out of wrapping paper, so those will have to wait.  And can I just say that it’s super awesome that Gap was giving away free gift boxes (as many as you wanted!), but man, square boxes are such a pain to wrap!  There are so many gifts under our tree that have an extra strip of paper over the bottom secured with packing tape because I didn’t cut the wrapping paper correctly to cover a square box.  Oh well, they look nice from the top!

Also, I may have run out of boxes by the time I got to my brother’s gift, so his miiiiight be split up into like 6 different bags.  Partially because it’s funny, partially because I’ve had these Christmas bags for years and never use them, and partially because who wouldn’t want to open 6 gifts (hello!).  A Christmas miracle, to be sure.

Well, due to our marathon shopping outing, I’m happy to report that we’re in the home stretch of present-buying.  Although, I haven’t even come close to finishing shopping for KC’s stocking…  Does Santa do IOU’s?

7 dates left!  Merry merry 🙂