When I was 14 years old, the adults in my family decided that shopping for presents for the kids was too difficult and all together just too exhausting.<\/p>\n
Gift-shopping with my mom was a part of Christmas I looked forward to when I was a kid, but since then, I\u2019ve never taken up the habit of giving anybody gifts on Christmas.<\/p>\n
Not my parents, nor my brother and his wife.<\/p>\n
Not that Christmas should be about gifts and presents, but my Christmases were hardly exciting after that.<\/p>\n
I finally decided that this year, on my 20th Christmas, I\u2019ll be taking up this daunting task of gift-giving. Gifts for my family, gifts for my closest friends.<\/p>\n
One gift once a year shouldn\u2019t be so hard. A present that says thanks for being there, and hey, here\u2019s to all the laughs, and I hope you know that I appreciate you being there.<\/p>\n
This past week was tiring to say the least. Shopping is tough when you have a list and when you have less than enough money for yourself. Also, how do you decide if someone in your life deserves a gift or not?<\/p>\n
More shopping to be done..Gift-giving is hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When I was 14 years old, the adults in my family decided that shopping for presents for the kids was too difficult and all together just too exhausting. Gift-shopping with my mom was a part of Christmas I looked forward to when I was a kid, but since then, I\u2019ve never taken up the habit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","tag-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}