This week my Word of the Week is: Presents!! #WotW

This week my Word of the Week is:

I love this time of year, I have hit that magic point where I’m almost Christmas ready, not quite done but so close that that the panic has stopped and the fun bit can finally begin. It’s crazy to think that in a couple of weeks it’ll all be over and we will be heading into a new year.

Earlier this week my Dad took me shopping like he does every December, it's our little yearly tradition of trekking around the supermarket and filling the trolley with all the freezer bits for over Christmas. We had such a nice morning. Nothing fancy, just chatting, wandering and my Dad stopping every few minutes to speak to people he knows, how does one person know so many people! Of course I ended up buying more presents. I’d fully planned on giving a couple of people money in a card and then I spotted some lovely gifts and thought that's perfect and so much nicer than money. I couldn't help buying more for the girls and to be fair Ellie actually did need the thing I bought her. Something for her bedroom that she’s wanted ages, the only reason I’ve not bought it before is because the idea of dragging it home on the bus made me want to cry. I could’ve ordered it online but the price difference was crazy! Hooray for my dad and his car.

Every time I sat down this week and got comfy, without fail someone has knocked on the door with yet another parcel for Becky. She’s done nearly all her Christmas shopping online and had everything delivered, which is very organised of her except she works nights, sleeps during the day and I have become her unofficial parcel secretary. I feel like I've spoken to more delivery drivers than actual people this week. I had my own little moment of chaos with parcels this week. I got a text saying I had a DPD parcel arriving between something like 11am and 1pm. So there I was waiting but then I get the your parcel has been delivered message, I open the photo and it is not my house. I had a little panic and then it hit me, it wasn’t my parcel, it was one of the presents I’d ordered for someone else which was delivered to their house. They messaged me, thanked me for the gift and then I realised they had got their Christmas gift, I had sent them a birthday gift which was supposed to arrive before the Christmas one. It was all so confusing but they have their gifts so all is good.

I dedicated 2 days to wrapping presents this week as I do every year, plonked myself on the floor, legs going numb within about five minutes and just got on with it. I got everything wrapped and I am now laughing that the girls still haven’t started and Stu still has mine to do too. This is Ellie’s first year buying Christmas gifts with her own money and bless her she’s already learned an important life lesson: do not buy awkwardly shaped presents unless you’re prepared to suffer. Not one single thing she bought is in a normal square box, everything is round, lumpy, strange shaped or comes in packaging designed by a complete lunatic.

Present wise I’m pretty much done now. Everything’s bought, wrapped, organised and waiting to be delivered to family. This is the easy part, the fun bit. dropping things off and having a little catch up. I will of course get a telling off from my dad, saying we shouldn't have bought him anything. it's practically a tradition now. It isn't that he's not grateful, he just thinks we should spend our money on ourselves. It's just a joke now between my brother and I as to who can wind him up the most. hehehe

I am expecting a present of Sky today! Our internet went off yesterday so Stu rang up and the guy on the phone said our router was not working so he'd send a new one out. It was only after when I went on Facebook saw Sky Broadband was down in our area. Eesh. So if there is no blog post tomorrow you know our internet is still off and I have limited access.

How has your week been? I hope you have had a good week. I am of course linking up with Anne who blogs at Raisie Bay to join in with her Word of the Week linky!