This month has just flown by. Ben and I haven't had a moment to go Christmas shopping together, and I'm not sure when we will! We've had things going on every weekend since Thanksgiving. Ben was gone to Utah all last weekend. Tomorrow night I'd like to go get a Christmas tree (yeah, we haven't had a moment to do that either), Saturday night is the ward Christmas party for which I've been recruited to help. Week nights are too hard-- Ben doesn't get home till 6:45 or 7:00, and the boys have to get to bed and there's always so many things I need to finish up with at night.
So tonight I got on Amazon.com and I now have $690 worth of things in my shopping cart. I'm not buying them all!!! I basically just put in everything I was thinking about, and hopefully tomorrow during the day Ben can look at it all and we can collaborate and get things ordered. I don't think there's really going to be any time at all for us to go to actual stores before Christmas, so this will have to do.
I love Christmas time. I haven't really been stressed, just extremely busy! I wish I could somehow squeeze in another 2 weeks before Christmas. How can it really be in just one week?? Too bad the boys aren't a little younger. I might try to con them into thinking Christmas is really on the 31st. :-)
The Turners
Gabrielle and Ben
Joseph
Brigham
Mosey
About Me
- Gabrielle
- I am a Christian, a wife, mother, homeschool teacher, perfectionist, night-owl, reader, conservative, photographer, and a lot more. I have 3 boys-- 11 year old twins named Joseph and Brigham, and a 9-year-old named Moses. I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2005. I went from a 30-mile-a-week runner to being mostly wheelchair-bound in 2 years. In 2008 I was accepted into the HALT-MS study-- a clinical trial in which I underwent an autologous stem cell transplant (bone marrow transplant) in an attempt to put the disease into remission. So far, I have remained stable for more than four years! I am grateful every day for the new lease on life that God (and modern medicine and awesome doctors, but mostly God :-)) has granted to me, and the chance I have to teach and raise my boys, love my husband, and experience the joy, frustration, happiness, and heartache that life brings.
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I remember one year when I seriously considered postponing Christmas -- I think I may have even floated the idea to you kids -- nothing doing! But it turned out all the things I didn't get done didn't need to be done in order to have a beautiful, perfect Christmas. Hurray for Amazon.com!!
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