This morning my Mother's Helper Eryn came over and she and Syd and I headed out for a few hours of Christmas shopping. It felt very good to get a bunch of things crossed off my list after feeling so behind losing a few days to being sick last week!
I needed to get a bunch of gift bags, tissue etc. and was looking for a great dollar store. My friend Lori suggested I try Dollarama in the Arbutus Shopping Centre so we headed there first thing. Now, it's been a while since I've been to a dollar store, but this one is absolutely amazing! Aisle after aisle of great, practical items all for a buck! I gleefully wheeled my cart around the store piling things in with wild abandon while Eryn entertained Syd playing with various things on the shelves. I got everything on my list and then some, it was well worth the trip!
We headed to the liquor store to get a few bottles for gifts as well and then onto Safeway to grab some groceries. We rounded our morning off with a trip to Toys R Us to get all the toys for the kids on our list. They were having the most amazing sale at Toys R Us, I had to exercise great restraint to not buy a million things for Syd. I did end up picking her up one thing though, this Ken doll:
Sydney is so into her babies right now which includes all of her stuffed toys and Barbies as well as regular dolls. I had been mentioning to Paul that all of her dolls were girls, funny isn't it? He suggested that I get her a boy doll, so when I saw Mr. Nicholas with his dashing pink tie and pouty lips on sale for 70% off today I leapt at the chance to buy it for her! It will make a great addition to her ever-growing collection of Barbie dolls in her dollhouse!
This afternoon while Sydney was napping, I took some time to assemble the gift bags that I am putting together for some of my Mom friends. I printed an enlarged photo of each child at Sydney's birthday party and framed it for each Mom, they turned out so well:
Everyone will get a Christmas tin full of homemade baking as well:
And we had to throw in a little something for the kids as well, found these great Sesame Street pop-up Christmas books:
The bags are coming together nicely. Am looking forward to having a morning of baking next week to get all the treats made and the tins together and then Sydney and I will spend a fun afternoon delivering them all!
Am hoping to finish the last of my shopping tomorrow morning at Oakridge while Sydney's at preschool, can't wait!!
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