Bah, humbug

Any motivational speakers available?

Still need to wrap a few presents, and I can already predict I’m not going to feel particularly sociable tomorrow. Tomorrow is my birthday and it’s much more eclipsed by Christmas than it ever was in the Netherlands, even if my father-in-law has been kind enough the past few years to share his December 28 birthday with me.

The boys will be covered in toys again, a side-effect of having more grandparents than is really healthy and all of them giving gifts of course, and will flood the rest of the house with those for a few weeks unless we twist their arms rather painfully, in which case they’ll clutter up their rooms. Yay.

The only good thing is that one of the kids will be visiting relatives with his grandma, so next week, while M is working, I’ll only have the youngest at home (Christmas break, after all) and the past has shown that one kid in the house is much less than half the trouble of two.

*takes a deep breath* Ok, here we go, head-first… see you in a few days.