Since the holidays were so busy I thought I would save this post until after the festivities were over! I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year! I think the expectations of Back to the Future might not compare to the reality of 2015 but that is okay since there is much in store for the new year!
As I have touched upon numerous times, in about a month I am going to be on a plane to Spain for the semester and will not be back at Saint Mike's until I am a senior....WHERE DID THE TIME GO?! Time to embrace my inner grandma as I realize how old I am and how fast my college career has flown by. And yes even though 20 feels old, I feel better about 21 and even 22 since Taylor Swift was able to create a pretty awesome song out of the year. As finals are over, and I am finally home, typing this with my puppy Stella cuddling next to me on the couch, words cannot describe how great it is to be home for the holidays. But I can tell you myself that I put off a lot of presents until the last minute, which is awful because I was like "oh yea I am going to be crafty and Pintrest everyone's presents to make.", terrible idea on my end. The result has been a little bit of cramming and some small snafu's. For the perfect example of why a person should not procrastinate Christmas presents here is my first-day-home-from-junior-year-story.
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My freshman year of college my mom asked me to get her a coffee mug from the school store as a Christmas present. As I was browsing the school store mug selection, I found one that was purple having a "Saint Mike's Mom" design with a flower (my mom being a floriculture and agriculture vocational teacher, it was perfect with the flower too!) which I immediately bought and gave to her for that Christmas. A little while after I had returned from Christmas break, I got a phone call from my mom. She was telling me about home and asking how everything was, and then she added how she accidentally broke the "Saint Mike's Mom" floral mug. It got bumped off the table and shattered. Upset and wanting a new one she asked me to pick her up a new one, but the problem was it wasn't being sold anymore in the school store. I forgot about the coffee cup until this month when the school store came out with a new "Saint Mike's Mom" one! I was so excited, maybe a little too excited, because I could get it for her just in time for Christmas. Once I got home I went to take it out to wrap it but found the handle on the mug broke on the way home from Vermont to Rhode Island. This is why Candice can't have nice things and shouldn't get breakable Christmas gifts.
Christmas at the Kalil household was still great besides my present fiascoes as we spent the day with both sides of the family! Fun fact Pinterest has a great ideas for gifts which I don't think I could have gotten through the holidays without (When in doubt, go to Pinterest!). One of the gifts I made were these scrabble piece coasters for my parents. You can easily get the board game pieces off amazon in bulk and the rest of the materials are available at your local Michael's or craft stores. This idea and many more coaster ideas were on this link:
Coasters. Also BLANKETS, they make a great holiday gift! I went to the local fabric store, ordered 4 yards total of felt (2 yards for each or 2 colors) and made a large tied warm blanket that was the perfect present! For the instructions to make this follow on this link:
Felt Blanket. For those of you aren't the most crafty people on the planet, the felt blanket is easy to make and won't be super time consuming to make! Being able to spend the holidays with family and friends was wonderful since I have some time left at home before I make the big move to Spain! Take a lesson from me when I say don't stress or worry so much about presents because at the end of the day they are the least important part of the holidays, spending time with family and friends trumps any gift you can put under the tree!
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