[daniellaaarisen]

Originally Posted by Zombie

My boyfriend got me the new Stephen King, which made me kinda teary because I haven't had a new book in a long while, and I guess he's eagle-eyed enough to have noticed me making sad faces at said book every time we passed by it at a store since it came out.

But the best gift of all was the gift of a new work contract that came just in time for me to be able to get the kids some presents. Just in time, like, less than a week before Giftmas just-in-time. Whew.

It wasn't a lot, but it was enough to get them a few things, and I was able to get them each something that they really, really wanted. And then, since we did not have enough left over for a tree, we made one out of paper and taped it to the wall. It's actually turned out to be my favorite tree, because we spent a couple of hours coloring all over it with markers and that was fun.

I would've loved growing up in a house with someone who works so hard to make her kids happy. I'd take that over my privileged, yet completely insane and apathetic family any day.