it's almost Christmas~

I've decorated & shopped & blogged, & today I realized that Christmas is NEXT WEEK!
tonight was the rescheduled Christmas program @ school--the program is one of the holiday highlights for me...but I seem to always block the painful memories of how difficult it is to get Katie ready to go...
I just knew she'd wear that expensive Candy's dress we bought her--(well, $45 isn't really expensive, I don't guess, but it's the most I've ever spent on a dress for her!) but she loved it. she wears it at home to play. has she ever worn it out in public? not even with all the accessories I got to go with it! she wanted to wear pants, but she doesn't have any dress up pants & I don't want to see her up on the stage in jeans when she has such amazing dress up clothes. she finally (after much badgering) consented to wear something---and she looked beautiful in the long blue velvet dress. we get to school---only one of her friends has on a long dress. she gives me the look.
made it to Princeton to Dollar General with 14 minutes to spare after Xmas program...she had bought her teacher a big tin of popcorn for Xmas---then she decided the popcorn looked good & ate it--I was going to go to Trenton over the weekend, but we had the snow & I just stayed home...thinking maybe she could bake some xmas cookies & we could curl up ribbons to put on the plate & fancy it up---and the girl who always wants to bake wasn't interested. so she found a recording key chain. ( I learned a lesson, she got one for her, one for Mr Eldridge!) so, all is well, & we have a teacher gift for tomorrows school party. I took the day off to work in the craft room, then we have a family afternoon planned with "Alvin & the Chipmunks" & the new Pizza Hut pizza.