Well Christmas 2020 is turning into put on a happy face and fake it once again.
I wanted to put up most of the decorations the day after Thanksgiving. Still can't get 15 year old to help get the cleaning done and 90% of what I need done explained to 13 year old who will at least help by following simple directions. Bring me the broom and dust pan, take the dishes to the kitchen, ect.
I wanted to be able to do some holiday baking but have nothing done because still working on the cleaning.
I managed to overdue it so much yesterday that I am still in pain today and have to do some more because I am getting little to no help. DH is helping by getting dishes done but I can't even get a certain child of mine to put them away. It has turned into what is her excuse today for not helping. I feel that I could pay her a million dollars an hour and she still wouldn't help me because why should she help me especially since getting things clean means that I will put up the decorations that she thinks are ugly and stupid.
Honestly if it wasn't for 13 year old I would cancel Christmas in this house.
We would stil have Christmas eve with mother and father in law. This is going to be simple as I am picking up a meat, cheese, and cracker tray and Mother in law is going to do something to go with it in the snacks department. We plan on the girls opening their presents from DH side, a little visiting, and maybe playing some board games or watching a movie. The plan is to go look at lights after leaving their house including the illuminaries that are only out on Christmas Eve.
We would still have a Christmas Celebration with my parents and siblings and their families which this year is going to be the day after Christmas. Plan is to open gifts in the early afternoon and then have smoked brisket as the main dish in the early afternoon.
I thought that I was all done with Christmas shopping but the package for a great nephew which was supposed to arrive on Friday and was even on the truck for delivery was marked as delivered but never showed. At least the store I ordered from issued me a refund immediately and is marking it as lost. DH is going to need to stop and pick up some items in the price range we are spending on all the nieces and nephews inclduding the greats at the store tomorrow when he is out and about. He has to renew his driver's license by his birthday in the first part of January so has an appointment tomorrow. At least he wil be able to get a real ID so when it takes effect if we ever have the money he can fly. I will have to renew my passport from when I was in high school and was supposed to go to Europe with a group except I got removed at the last minute when a girl from a weathy family decided she wanted to go and since my family had the least amount of money and thus clout guess who lost her space-me.
The cost of a real ID is your license fees plus $25 if gotten within 6 months before your license expires or if you let it expire which means you can't drive legally 3 months after that date other wise it is $50 plus the cost of renewing your license if you don't have one because it expired or a replacement if you have yours. Natually they started issuing real IDs here in mid January of last year and I had to renew my license the end of May of 2019 so would have to pay the higher amount. It is cheaper for me to get another passport by the time I would have paid for my license, pay the real ID fees, and pay the license replacement fee. Not that I have money to travel anyways nor with the mask requirement that I want to I am staying close to home with the occasional trip to a resort town about an hour away which is just outside a wilderness area so lots of portapotties to use and places to go for walks and pretty drives and stuff. We pack a lunch in the cooler and put it in the bed of the truck and are set to go on a get out of the house and have a nice time socially distanced avoid people fun time adventure.
is the highlight of the winter for me. I make a big deal of all of the winter holidays to help me cope. 
in Kindergarten today!
