5 days til Chirstmas

5 days til what I hope will be another successful Christmas in my family.  We do live in a time where keeping up with the Jones is part of life.  Most of the time, we are the Jones.  This year, our next door neighbors went and bought 4 brand new BMW’s.  They have 2 kids one about 20 and one 15.  He can’t even drive yet.  Legally anyway.  So I have to get past that, cuz there’s no way we are keeping up with that.  I mean it’s just kinda ridiculous, but if that’s what they want, great.

My kids don’t ask for much.  I feel an obligation to them to buy them things, so that when all of the other kids open their gifts, my kids won’t be done before everyone else.  I don’t really know why this is important to me, but it is.  This year the big purchases for them were 2 digital cameras that I got on Black Friday at Best Buy at 5:45am.  A Nintendo Wii for my son which I camped out over night at Circuit City with my best friend on 12/16 and a cell phone for my daughter that she has asked for.  All the other things are things like video games, cd’s, clothes.  Things I know they will like and need anyway.