Last Minute Christmas Stuff

by Nick Coons
Dec 17, 2003

This is the final weekend to get all of your last-minute Christmas shopping completed. If you're buying gifts at the mall, have fun! The malls, and even non-mall stores, are going to be extremely crowded as the busiest shopping days of the year grow nearer. Even finding a parking space is going to be a task. The only real upside here is that the weather is great this time of year.

Our family likes to make gifts. It gives us the advantage of being able to customize each present, and seems much more personal than going to the store to buy some big expensive present to throw at the recipient. Not to say that a personal touch is not added when the giver is carefully choosing a present, I just don't think it's as fun.

I would very much like to write here about the types of gifts that we're making this year, but the recipients of those gifts are also avid readers of this site. So that being said, this weekend I'm going to be very busy buying all of the supplies to make , and then I'll be working on throughout this week. It's going to be great fun!

I'll be looking forward to Wednesday next week when our family along with my parents' entire block will be gathering for the traditional Christmas Eve block party. Each house has many luminarias laid around the driveways and sidewalks. We walk around, enjoying the lights, decorations, and hot chocolate or hot apple cider. This has been a much-anticipated tradition on our block for as long as I can remember.