without making a mess? My DH thinks I should. I was wrapping on the island in my kitchen, I had the large container of gift wrap in the hall. He came home about a half hour early and I said I was tired but thought I would wrap the presents for the 3 year old girl, his office adopted a family for Xmas. I said I didn't want the mess twice, we had talked earlier and I had said I would wrap her stuff on Friday. He said that's okay you can do it tomorrow since I know you'll have the mess gone by then. It just hit me the wrong way. Like I need his permission to leave the mess until tomorrow.
It was just the wrong thing to say, since I had been wrapping presents since 9 am. Then I had to pack three boxes and take them to the post office. I came home and had just finnished wrapping his presents when he got here at 4:30. The only ones I had left to do were for the little girl.
I used to love to wrap presents, but now I am usually rushing to get them done so I can clean up the mess. Same thing with putting up the tree and the other decorations. He thinks it should be done in one day and the mess gone. Sometimes he just drives me
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Just needed to get that out.
It was just the wrong thing to say, since I had been wrapping presents since 9 am. Then I had to pack three boxes and take them to the post office. I came home and had just finnished wrapping his presents when he got here at 4:30. The only ones I had left to do were for the little girl.
I used to love to wrap presents, but now I am usually rushing to get them done so I can clean up the mess. Same thing with putting up the tree and the other decorations. He thinks it should be done in one day and the mess gone. Sometimes he just drives me
. Just needed to get that out.
Oh, yeah. He kept bringing me little Ghiradelli chocolates and Diet Cokes and found Christmas movies on tv for me to watch. Seriously, I pick out most of the gifts for his family, anyway, because he's so clueless at gift giving. I wrapped them and he signed the cards, packed them in boxes and took them to the post office. I'm sure that he and his family knows if it wasn't for me, there'd be no gifts going overseas! 
He may not be good at doing that stuff--but he IS good at showing his appreciation that I do it for him.
Chaos and turmoil are just part of the whole Holiday bustle - tree messes, wrapping messes, baking messes, it's all part & parcel of the holidays. I have cut down on the leftover scrap wrapping paper thanks to another DISmember who got me into using my shredder to make confetti/paper for gift bags. Now any left over pieces of wrapping paper go into my shredder to be used in the bottoms of baskets and gift bags.
I was actually into wrapping this year...DW tends to keep me away from the presents I think.. 
