Today George and I headed out to drop Breanna off at her grandparents’ house so that we could go shopping, finally! The first place we hit was Toys R Us and for the first time ever in my time shopping there my jaw dropped open as I saw the lines. It was kind of nuts. In the end it wasn’t as bad as I thought, the lines did move pretty quickly, but it was still shocking. We had sort of figured that most people still have to work up to the 23rd, so we were expecting an emptier store. Yikes.

We also hit Wal-Fart and Zellers. I don’t like Wal-Fart on a good day, let alone a holiday shopping day so I nearly took George up on his offer for me to stay in the car (he knows how much I hate going in there) but I sucked it up and went on in. It wasn’t too bad.

We ended up going to two more on the other side of town as well, searching for just a few more things. Unfortunately we didn’t get it all finished yet (which is why I’m just grateful I wasn’t shopping on the 24th!), but we did get most of it. We need one more thing for Hayley, one joint gift for them, and possibly one more for each. We also have to get the gift for George’s sister and her husband, but it’s going to be easy to pick up. There are two kid gifts that are proving annoyingly difficult and it was ticking me off.

I also have to brave the dollar store and I’m hoping we can do all of that tomorrow. I’m not sure whether we can drop Breanna off again, it depends on everyone’s plans, but if we have to take her too then we’ll take turns at the different stores with one person shopping and the other walking around with her. Whew.

I’m looking forward to the 24th. I usually still have to do all the wrapping then, but at least I won’t have to go to the store!