My original intent was to skip the entire gift buying ritual this year and go minimalistic for the boys. The whole moving ordeal was a good excuse to forgo a lot of the excessive Christmas shopping.
However, with plans to be in New York for Christmas, I quickly had to reevaluate my original gift giving plan. I have lots of family in NY and no good way to see them empty handed.
I was on a mad dash to get as much as I could with a only few days notice. This meant waking up early to drag my boys to the mall as early as possible and be gone before the afternoon mad mall rush.
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Incredibly, I did well avoiding crowds at 8am and feeding the boys before the lunchtime mad rush. I surprised myself at the ease in which I made it into as many stores as I did, in order to fulfill my gift giving needs. The boys were unusually well behaved and I was home in time to do more RV packing for the move.
My only perplexing issue this Christmas holiday in the RV was where do I put all the gifts? Especially, the ones for the boys?
Gifts for James were hidden in car trunk, and beneath gifts for other people. I had a huge pile of unwrapped presents on our RV couch. How do full-timers do it?
Maybe gifts cards would have been the way to go this year, I will have to keep that in mind for next year to avoid the mad mall dash.
Maybe gifts cards would have been the way to go this year, I will have to keep that in mind for next year to avoid the mad mall dash.
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