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Too Much Social this Holiday Month.
Dec. 21st, 2016 12:10 pmNov 24th-27th: Thanksgiving weekend, in-laws visited. I did most of the cleaning and did most of the cooking this year. BTW, last years cranberry recipe with using only 1 cup sugar instead of 1.5 was spot on this year.
Dec 2nd: Hubby's fancy pants work Christmas Party.
Dec 4th: 4-H Shooting Sports, normally wouldn't make the list, but this year they are having kids sign up to bring snacks, and C volunteered to bring oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. We baked them the day before, and the amount looked pathetic enough, I added orange slices to calm my worries of ending up with not enough food. Good thing I brought extra, we had another 4-H group there, and the leaders had not bothered to give the snack bringers (us) a heads up that there would be twice as many people as usual at the meeting. Also, new Shooting Sports rules dictated the kids not shooting would have to be collected on the porch and reasonably calm and quiet (I could see this going terribly, terribly wrong with C and his natural energies, especially since the only game they had handy was bananagrams). I ducked home and retrieved my Uno deck, and probably played over a dozen Uno rounds, and have become the official parent to keep the non shooting kids occupied at all future Shooting Sports meetings.
Dec 9th: EVHT (girls' homeschool teen group) Christmas party. Potluck with White Elephant gift exchange. S also participated in the ornament exchange like the year before and ended up with a cute owl ornament. I finally managed to evolve my Gyarados, and there were an unusually high number of Magicarps spawning at that park, on that particular day, so I got lots of extra Magicarp candy. A younger brother of one of S's friends was watching me play my game and got admonished by his older sister that he was not allowed to play video games at the park - H and I wandered off after that so she could rant about how people in general were so hard to understand.
Dec 10th: House Filk. Potluck, White Elephant gift exchange. S re-gifted the one she got from EVHT - a giant Superman Mug with hot chocolate - but ended up with it back by the end because of low turnout and because I stole from her to get a Fluttershy button.
Dec 18th: 4-H Community club and Holiday Party. Potluck and White Elephant gift exchange. S finally got rid of her Superman mug (it even got stolen once - so as H said, who'd have thought the 4-H kids would be more nerdy than the Filkers) and ended up with a pot of candy. C ended up picking the gift he brought - a mug with cookies, candy, and English breakfast tea (he really likes mugs and tea). H ended up with some stuffie emojis that she brought, since the girl who ended up with them didn't want them, so H traded her a coupon for a sandwich place we never would have ended up going to anyway. C finally got to bounce on the trampoline, something he had been politely asking to do at every other 4-H meeting this year. The girls played with him, and as a result, H remembered lots of games they used to play at an unchoolers gamer day they participated in when H was around 7-8 years old.
Dec 20th: H, C, and my karate Christmas Party. Potluck. Demo. Door raffle - H and S won candy, C was feeling sad about not winning, so when my ticket got picked I got a mug and gave it to him. S then played a game of making her container of candy talk to finish cheering C up.
Done. Done. Done. Done. No more social gatherings for the rest of this Month. We get Christmas to ourselves. No extra family, just us. My favorite holiday, if only for the fact that it is just us.
Dec 2nd: Hubby's fancy pants work Christmas Party.
Dec 4th: 4-H Shooting Sports, normally wouldn't make the list, but this year they are having kids sign up to bring snacks, and C volunteered to bring oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. We baked them the day before, and the amount looked pathetic enough, I added orange slices to calm my worries of ending up with not enough food. Good thing I brought extra, we had another 4-H group there, and the leaders had not bothered to give the snack bringers (us) a heads up that there would be twice as many people as usual at the meeting. Also, new Shooting Sports rules dictated the kids not shooting would have to be collected on the porch and reasonably calm and quiet (I could see this going terribly, terribly wrong with C and his natural energies, especially since the only game they had handy was bananagrams). I ducked home and retrieved my Uno deck, and probably played over a dozen Uno rounds, and have become the official parent to keep the non shooting kids occupied at all future Shooting Sports meetings.
Dec 9th: EVHT (girls' homeschool teen group) Christmas party. Potluck with White Elephant gift exchange. S also participated in the ornament exchange like the year before and ended up with a cute owl ornament. I finally managed to evolve my Gyarados, and there were an unusually high number of Magicarps spawning at that park, on that particular day, so I got lots of extra Magicarp candy. A younger brother of one of S's friends was watching me play my game and got admonished by his older sister that he was not allowed to play video games at the park - H and I wandered off after that so she could rant about how people in general were so hard to understand.
Dec 10th: House Filk. Potluck, White Elephant gift exchange. S re-gifted the one she got from EVHT - a giant Superman Mug with hot chocolate - but ended up with it back by the end because of low turnout and because I stole from her to get a Fluttershy button.
Dec 18th: 4-H Community club and Holiday Party. Potluck and White Elephant gift exchange. S finally got rid of her Superman mug (it even got stolen once - so as H said, who'd have thought the 4-H kids would be more nerdy than the Filkers) and ended up with a pot of candy. C ended up picking the gift he brought - a mug with cookies, candy, and English breakfast tea (he really likes mugs and tea). H ended up with some stuffie emojis that she brought, since the girl who ended up with them didn't want them, so H traded her a coupon for a sandwich place we never would have ended up going to anyway. C finally got to bounce on the trampoline, something he had been politely asking to do at every other 4-H meeting this year. The girls played with him, and as a result, H remembered lots of games they used to play at an unchoolers gamer day they participated in when H was around 7-8 years old.
Dec 20th: H, C, and my karate Christmas Party. Potluck. Demo. Door raffle - H and S won candy, C was feeling sad about not winning, so when my ticket got picked I got a mug and gave it to him. S then played a game of making her container of candy talk to finish cheering C up.
Done. Done. Done. Done. No more social gatherings for the rest of this Month. We get Christmas to ourselves. No extra family, just us. My favorite holiday, if only for the fact that it is just us.
