Feeling hyper and having fun!

This is a photo of Downtown Baker City that I got from Facebook from Eastern Oregon Visitors Assoc.  It speaks to me of the magic and beauty of the downtown area, and I feel very peaceful when I look at it!  I am in the Christmas hyper-mode right now,  having fun but feeling drained of energy at times due to adrenaline rush/crash!  Have had so much fun with Cara, singing Christmas songs in the car on the way to Mt. Vernon or around town.  I have good memories of doing the same thing with Heather when she was small and we drove the VW beetle!  Yesterday on the way to see Buckwheat, and then to Kohl's for shopping Cara read to me "Green Eggs and Ham"  quite a moment, as she was so unwilling to even try to read last year, and would get frustrated and cry and shut down.  At koh's she was shopping for her mommy for Christmas, and also something for Sommer from her.  She took forever to make her choices, in the end, mommy is getting a very pretty sparkly dinner ring(costume jewelry) and Sommer is getting an angel ornament with LOVE spelled out in separate letters that the angel is holding.  Cara wanted a fleece blanket that was in a bin, so I told her if I got it, would have to wait til under the Christmas tree.  She was ok with that.  When we got home she wrapped the ring box, Sommers gift and the blanket, using yards of tape as usual, but had fun doing it.  She loves to wrap!  Just have to put tape on my shopping list for today!  We watched silly videos that I made on jibjab and she laughed hysterically over them and that entertained her for at least a half hour until Heather came.  Traffic must be bad now, Heather has not been getting here until 6:15-6:30 pm.    Lucky for me, besides the 50% off at Kohl's, I had a 30% coupon and also a $10 card to use, so got away with less that $40 for the haul of stuff!  gotta love that!    Tom's Mom is coming tonight, so she will be on planes all day, and then get the shuttle from Seattle.  We get her at Tulalip around 10:15 tonight.  so, yesterday was cleaning the bathroom, changing shower curtain liner, etc.  Doing what I could with the laundry room,  Tom needs to put up a shelf for me to get the soaps, etc off the floor.  today change the sheets, as she has to use our bed.  Washing the comforter, bed coverings, etc, remaking the bed and sweeping out the room.  she did fine in there last year, once she arrived, unloaded her travel bags and I didn't go in the room again until she went home.  She is kind of messy, like Tom, so chaos is the order for her. so I keep out of it, and just try to keep the living areas of the house tidy as I can.  Well, I better go now and get the flannel sheets on the bed.  First load of laundry is going!  12 more days until Christmas!