Today’s Wisdom From the Alpacas is…“SINCE YOU GET MORE JOY OUT OF GIVING JOY TO OTHERS, YOU SHOULD PUT A GOOD DEAL OF THOUGHT INTO THE HAPPINESS THAT YOU ARE ABLE TO GIVE.” ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

The season of giving.

is also a season of rushing. I am not sure how it happens, exactly. I go into it with the best of intentions. I plan to be ready to put “a good deal of thought” into what I am able to give. Yet every year I find myself whirling around at the last minute trying to get things ready to give in time.

I have my lists. I have my plans. But life sort of gets in the way and I never get to the place of executing those plans until just a few days before. I know what I want to get for everyone. It’s the actual getting of things that seems to be the problem.

In the fall I actually planned to take a few days in November to do the Christmas shopping. That never happened. I ended up buying a grand total of one gift before Thanksgiving (oh and this year I did succeed in sending gifts off to The Netherlands in time for SInterklaus).

So here I am four days before Christmas just beginning the Christmas gifting process. Well it’s better than some years. I have four days not four hours….so let the shopping begin!