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Sunday, November 29, 2020

Christmas Shopping and Prep

We had gotten into a nice rotation for what we do visiting family for holiday. With the pandemic, that will be a bit different this year. We have not been able to visit my parents, except socially distanced outside since the pandemic started. It would be our turn for Walker Christmas, but Shantel and I discussed and she was kind enough to make it so we can do Christmas at my parents house this year. I am so grateful for Shantel. Doing this will be sacrificing time with her family and I appreciate the love she shows my family. My Mom loves Christmas and to not have her family with her on Christmas would be so hard. The plan is to do a full 2 week quarantine prior to going there which means that starting December 6, we will be fully quarantined. This also means we want to have almost all of our shopping done by then since if we are missing something we won't be able to get it at a physical store, it will all be online. So we got an early start on our Christmas shopping. We are super close to being completely done and should be able to wrap things up before the 6th. 

Shantel had to make a run for groceries to Sam's club and they found the toy section. It worked out awesome because they had some things that were really good for the kids that we are going to end up doing. 


We also have been doing a ton of online ordering. We have not been ready to open things up yet because we don't have a place to hide all the presents. This has meant we have just been collecting a huge pile of boxes. There is pretty good representation from Amazon, Wal-mart and Target in this pile. 

The kids have also been saving their money for sibling gifts. Austin got Lucy this year and has been so excited. As soon as he had his money saved up he wanted to wrap his present for her. He got her a little stroller and doll, but none of the boxes we had fit, so he and I had to take to boxes and build a bigger box. It was perfect for him since he loves that. Then we got it all wrapped together. 

The Christmas shopping and prep is coming along great. 

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