With Christmas fast approaching and my oldest son living so far away, I’m having a real difficult time deciding what to send him for Christmas this year. I’m not really sure what he needs or what he’s into so this is why this decision is becoming quite difficult. I guess I could always send him a gift card for a micro sd or a gift card for clothes but these ideas seem so impersonal. Last year I sent him money but I want to do something different this year. If I do in fact end up mailing him some gifts they have to be quite small as I really don’t want to pay a huge amount in shipping charges. Oh well I still have a month to think about things. Hopefully by then I’ll have something figured out.

This weekend is another long weekend for our kids.  They get to be home from school Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.  Monday is a holiday for the kids from school as the teachers have meetings and Tuesday is a holiday for the kids because it’s Remembrance day here in Canada.  Well my two kids actually had a longer weekend then was originally planned.  My son was home sick from school on Thursday and Friday and my daughter was home sick from school on Friday.  So I have already had them home for a few days.  But the good news is, is that when their sick, they don’t fight.  So even though they have been home for a few days, I haven’t had to put up with the excessive fighting that normally goes on when they are together.  Hopefully the rest of the weekend will pass by with this lack of fighting as well.  I can always hope now can’t I?