Love Letters and Lace

Alright, so I'm officially stressing out. Every year for the holidays, I always bake a lot. However this year, I think my plans are a bit too ambitious for the amount of time I have left and the sheer amount of things I need to get done before the 24th. (Which is in 2 days by the way, in case anyone wasn't keeping track.) I figured that writing out this blog post will kind of serve as a bit of a reality check and planning guide for myself to get on track as to where I need to be. Because, I don't know about you guys, but I go all out for Christmas, but I don't usually wait until the very last minute to get started. Here's the situation: What needs to get done in the next 48 hours: -Finish Christmas shopping -Wrap said gifts -Bake gingerbread cookies -Bake a pumpkin pie -Bake a cake -Possibly bake a cheesecake Obstacles in my way: -I work every evening from 5pm-nearly midnight -I have to babysit every day from 11am-4pm and have no means to leave the

Hey everyone! I took a small break from Blogmas the past couple days just to relax and recharge post exams, but I am back now! Yesterday I had such a nice (although hectic) day of Christmas shopping with my boyfriend. The stores are so unbelievably busy, which I'm sure anyone reading this is like, duhhhh, but I'm used to getting my Christmas shopping done well before the last couple weeks of Christmas, so this is new territory for me. It was slightly disappointing to be honest, because besides the fact that the lines to pay (and sometimes even just to get into stores) were insanely long, but also because the stores just seemed so understocked. There were so many things that I expected to find at certain stores and they just didn't have any. I spend the entire day shopping and I'm still missing so much! So now I have to squeeze in shopping time between my work schedule and babysitting my sister who is now done school. Which likely means I'll be finishing my s