Living With Six Boys

Chapter 12

When we got home, I crashed on the couch. I looked around at all the Christmas decorations. The tree was up and decorated. The stockings were hung and mine was right next to Christina's.

Dylan came into the living room and he settled onto the recliner and grabbed the remote. He turned on the TV and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer was on. I fell asleep watching that movie.

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When I woke up I was still on the couch but I had a blanket over me. Dylan was sleeping on the recliner and he was nestled in a blanket too. I closed my eyes for a little more.

I woke up in about half an hour when Dylan started waking up. He looked at me and saw me up.

"morning sunshine," he said to me.

"good morning," I said to him.

I got up and I went to go change in my room. I was going Christmas shopping with Christina today. I picked out a white skirt and I paired it with a white t shirt and a jean jacket and white sandals.

I brought my clothes to the shower and I put them on when I finished showering. I already brushed my teeth in the shower so I just had to dry my hair. I walked to my room where the blow dryer was. I plugged it in and started brushing my hair while drying it.

I finished drying my hair and I braided a chunk of it and bobby pinned it to my hair. I skipped putting makeup on because I didn't feel like it. I walked down stairs and I grabbed a pop tart and started to eat that.

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It was six o'clock when Christina and I left the house to go shopping. She was Christmas shopping as well as I was. Tomorrow was Christmas and I was a late shopper.

I had money to buy everybody something. I planned on getting Christina a bracelet, David a fancy tool he wanted, Chris and Cody both wanted Lego sets, I thought I'd get Alex this humorous shirt that said chick magnet on it with a ton of chickens on it, Jack a new baseball bat, Adam guitar picks, and I'd get Dylan some sweethearts that I would put a note on and I was going to buy a jar that I could fill with a hundred reasons why I loved him.

When we got to Target I separated from Christina. I went straight to the Legos and picked out two different sets. I then went to the guys clothing and found the shirt for Alex. I went by the sports equipment and found the baseball bat he wanted. I picked out a package of guitar picks for Adam. I found a box of sweethearts for Dylan. I then went to the arts and crafts section and found a mason jar.

I then pushed my cart over to the hardware section and I found the special tool David wanted. I walked to the jewelry and I found a nice bracelet made of pretty jewels. I had to buy that from the lady right at the counter.

I strolled my cart over to the checkout and I ended up spending two hundred and sixteen dollars. I had all my stuff in bags and I texted Christina to check if she was done yet. She texted back saying she was already at the car. I strolled my cart over to the trunk and she popped it open for me. I shoved my stuff in there. I closed the now full trunk and I put my cart back with the others. I got into the car and Christina was sitting there with the car on ready to back out.

"so how was shopping?"

"great, I got everything I needed."

"good, you got a lot more than I expected."

"I got exactly what I wanted."

When we got home it was already eight o'clock. Chris and Cody were already in bed waiting for Santa. I took my gifts up to my room. I locked the door behind me.

The gift wrap and tape was already sitting on my desk. I wrapped the Legos first and I put the tags on the gifts. I wrapped the baseball bat and it was pretty obvious it was a baseball bat. I put the tag on it and set it down. I wrapped the small package of guitar picks and put the tag on it.

I had to put the shirt in a gift bag and I tagged that gift too. I wrapped David's fancy tool and tagged that too. I put Christina's necklace in a little box and I wrapped it and tagged it.

Now I had to work on Dylan's gift. I took a small piece of paper and wrote "because you're a sweetheart" on it and taped it on the box of sweethearts.

I took a package of post it notes and wrote reasons of why I love him on every post it. I finished it an hour later. It was ten o'clock and I was tired. I put all the reasons in the jar and I taped a card onto the jar reading a hundred and one reasons why I love you.

I brought all the gifts downstairs, making a couple trips but when I finished I changed into my reindeer fuzzy pajama pants and a red shirt and I passed out on my bed.

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