Good Morning Southwest Missouri!!

We are cold and cranking the up heat this morning as fall has decided to turn into winter. BLAH!! Break out the happy light and hunker down... no warm days in our immediate future. Boo. I hate the cold. I despise the winter. I can't hardly stand my arms trapped in all the layers!

But... there is a silver lining! Or a couple...

Sweaters

Boots

Scarves

Soups

And a big shout out to the inventor of heated car seats!!

That's it. That's all I got. But good news!! We have winter wear out and ready for you in both our stores!! I just bought the cutest scarf that I can't believe someone wanted to get rid of. Sucker, haha!

Well, Christmas is coming... Walmart tells me how close every time I go in. Isn't that nice? A shopping trip that reminds me of how I'm running out of time for my big debut as a fraud of a mom and wife and daughter and sister and friend and boss... AHHHHH!!! My eyes are huge thinking about how I've made VERY little progress on my Christmas shopping list!! And that was done online at midnight two days ago. WINNING! Not.

I read an article last week that inspired me to shorten that list just a tad. I wish I could remember where I read it and give the author some credit... of well. Maybe the perfect woman out there can point me in that direction later...

Gift giving for my kids has always been waaaaaay over done. We set a budget, decide on gifts, then it spirals out of control. Like into space spiraling. Geeze Louise. Parenting 101, don't buy your kids everything they want. They don't really even want it. You'll end up sweeping up and throwing away half those tiny legos. If you don't end up teaching your kids not to curse while you yourself are cursing after stepping on them. Little demon toys. I'm preaching to myself there by the way. Where was I? Oh right, back to the point!

So a 4 gift limit:

Want
Need
Wear
Read

And they'll love it. They'll raise you up and walk you all over the neighborhood proclaiming that you are the greatest parent in the universe! Hey, a mom can dream. I'm gonna give it a shot anyway! Who's with me?! Seriously, we CAN do this. We're smart and we control the checkbook, right?!

Well, I'm nervous. And looking for ideas!! Like really good ideas!

So bring it on!!

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Casey White

Christmas for the weary!