Trying to figure out what to buy my husband for Christmas this year has been a bit of a nightmare. He doesn't need one single thing I can afford to purchase for him. He doesn't even know if he wants any of the things he thought he might want that I can't afford to purchase for him. This was finally going to be the year I bought him nothing at all. Not really my style......
This morning we had some errands to run for his job, then we went to the car wash to peel off layer number one of a two week build up of road muck, then over to the oil change shop for new oil and other fluid top ups in the car, then for a fabulous Chinese vegetable lunch at Angkor (How can they be that much less expensive than so many other places and still provide a great meal??) and finally to Canadian Tire.
Turns out my husband wanted to go to Canadian Tire because he figured out what he wants for Christmas after all: a food dryer so he can make his own dried veggies for camping and canoeing stews, as well as making his own dried fruit for the granola he loves to make and that has slowly been breaking the bank over the cost of the dried fruit he adds to it. Voila! His Christmas gift!! YES, question answered, stress eliminated! Certainly this is the least expensive gift I have ever had to get him for the Christmas season and he is SO delighted with it I have to chuckle. Wow, that was the easiest choice ever for a gift. He knew exactly what he wanted and now the food dryer is sitting in our kitchen awaiting its first use. For the price, if he uses it three or four times it will have been worth the cost.
So, everyone in the family is now taken care of for Christmas gifts. My parents and son have theirs in the post waiting delivery, my husband is taken care of and we will enjoy buying some meals out and treats for the visiting family later this month. The ten or so Christmas cards I still send out are all in the process of arriving at their (mostly) overseas destinations and the suite is as decorated as it is going to get. Christmas prep: done and done!! YAY!!
Easiest Christmas ever....soon the whole secular part of this crazy season will be over with. January 2nd is always my happiest day of the year, apart from Christmas Eve church services. I am glad family are coming this year because that will make my rather painful annual Christmas holiday easier to bear. Wow, everything is working out wonderfully well, thank you Lord!
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