My son wants socks for Christmas

Does anyone else find this weird?  My mom called to talk to N tonight, to ask him what he wanted for Christmas, and he told her he wanted socks.  Socks.  I was unable to hold in my laughter, although I think I disguised it a little by snorting into the blanket I was using as a pillow while we watched "Field of Dreams" after our delightful dinner of homemade chili.

Wow, that was a whole lot of information in one sentence.  I'll try to settle it down.

Each year, I claim I'm going to follow certain guidelines for Christmas, and every year, I get caught up in things and do the exact opposite.  My goal is to not go overboard this year.  I want to give my boys four gifts this year:

"Something you want, something you need, something to wear, and something to read."

The problem that I'm having is that so many of the things that I could get them fall into multiple categories.  HOW DO I CHOOSE?!

I'm so excited about going to pick out a Christmas tree and setting it up.  It's been so long since I've had my own space to decorate.  I mean, don't get me wrong, I really loved decorating my mom's house for Christmas last year and the year before, but it's just different somehow. 

I've started decorating, and by decorating, I mean I switched the doormat from the red doormat with leaves to the blue one with a reindeer.

Have I really sunk to the level where I'm discussing doormats?  I think I've reached an all-time low.

My brain seems to be fried due to all of my creative genius (and I use that term loosely) being depleted by the reflective paper I had to write for my Mexican class.  Yep, you can read that as many times as you want, and it's not going to change.

On that note, I'm going to eat my frozen yogurt, spit out all of the raspberry seeds (because they didn't have strawberry or vanilla at my time of purchase), and go to bed.  Have you tried the Healthy Choice Greek Frozen Yogurt?  It's pretty tasty...and there are always entertaining messages on the lid, like this one:

                                       "If you are what you eat...then you must be delicious!"

Why does this make me laugh so so much?

Aubs