Christmas

My to do list is crazy long. I can't seem to make any headway on it.
The kids are both at tough ages. Jaxson is testing me on everything. Julianne us just plain into everything.  It seems that someone is always needing me for some sort of urgent request. Where's the legis!  I'm hungry!  More chocolate milk.
And it's alway seems like a public spectie going out in public. I really needed to finish my Christmas shopping this week and get everything mailed. I procrastinated a but only because I dreaded taking the kids. And u kept waiting for a better time that never actually came. So here I was shopping and it seemed if I got one kid to be occupied the other one needed.
Here's a snippet of our pleasant mall experience
Jax sees the stupid candy machine and needs candy. Usually we let him and he sticks it in his pocket and is quiet. However. This candy machine upped their prices 50# cause now it costs  2 quarters!  Highway robbery.   And i didn't have a second quarter because who would have guessed 4 m and m's cost 50 cents?  Jax wasn't happy but then quickly moved onto the idea of pushing Julie in her stroller with momma no helping. So he's pushing her down the mall and running into everything that's not even in his way.
Julie decides she's had enough and cries. I'm thinking the whiplash has gotten to her.
Anyways. Jax is mad cause he wants to push her. Julie is made because she doesn't like being a crash rest dummy. I'm annoyed because we haven't even made it to one store yet and already the kids have had enough of the mall.
That's when I start devising a plan of the most important stores and what I can buy on the internet

It is the happiest time of the year.

If you liked crowded malls, long lines, temper tantrums, and a partridge in a pear tree.