Christmas is to much work

I feel like I have ran a marathon in the last couple of days. I want to go back to the day when I watched the calendar waiting with anticipation for Santa's return, oh the smells coming from the kitchen where my mom was ALWAYS baking goodies, and the pretty decorations that were everywhere you looked in our house, even the bathroom was never without something resembling the holidays. During those times as a child never did it occur to me how much work was put into everything. All the shopping to get just the right gift, numerous trips to the grocery store for all the baking for all those smell good goodies, the unpacking of all the decorations, putting up the tree, placing the ornaments. I finally wised up last Christmas when a co-worker wanted to know if I wanted her pre-lit tree that she couldn't get to work. Anyone who knows me knows I will take anything so I loaded it in my car saying to myself that hubby can fix it, well sure enough we put it up and hub wiggled some wire and it has worked every since saving me a lot of time string all those lights..can you say PAIN IN THE A**! This year I have been some what not on it as usual, I got the tree up but no decorations outside, they are still sitting in the boxes in the garage, I waited until Christmas Eve to bag our gifts to the boys, yes I was even to lazy to wrap a box, even had to write the boys an I.O.U for their money because no one could make it to the bank. Yea, that's bad! Started cooking at 10 am this morning and did eat until 12:30. If it had been up to me we would have had ham sandwiches, but my mom in love wouldn't have it. We had to have the five course meal, ham, turkey, dressing you know...all the trimmings! So let me wrap it up by saying this has been a rough year and maybe that explains a lot of my laziness but I would love to go back to a time in my childhood when the only worry I had was whether I was going to get a Baby Alive Doll or the Inch Worm! Merry Christmas everyone, I am off to take a nap!