Vlogmas Day 16: Wrapping CHRISTMAS GIFTS

Growing Up Herbal
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It's day 16 of Vlogmas, and today, I've locked myself in my room with some Harry and David's Moose Munch, a wee bit of red wine, and lots of Christmas gifts. Join me for a little chat, some holiday gift wrapping, and then the boy's excitement at seeing the gifts under the tree! Enjoy, friends!
Love and light,
Meagan
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Hey guys, welcome back to day 16 of vlogmas
Today I have tucked myself in my room. I'm sitting on the floor behind my bed
And the door is over here and I thought I would wrap christmas presents today and
Take you guys along with me as I do it
Um, I have told the boys
That they can watch a christmas movie and that i'm wrapping presents in here and not to open the door
If they need me they can knock on the door and let me know what they need
um
So yeah, i'm gonna spend some time
Wrapping a bunch of christmas gifts today. I've got my harry and david moose munch popcorn that my mother-in-law gave
Me and there are so many different varieties. There are like six different varieties in here
Hope you guys can see all the different ones in this box
Dean and I sat the other night watching a tv show and we ate the entire bag of the cinnabon popcorn
It was so good like so good. It is not sugar-free. It's not healthy. It's not like I
Wouldn't eat this if you're on a diet
It's really good and it is the perfect thing
to snack on while I wrap these christmas gifts, um, I also have poured myself
a healthy half glass of red wine because
It's the holidays and when you're doing festive holiday things like wrapping christmas gifts. You must have a sweet treat
And some wonderfully semi-healthy spirits to lift your spirits
At least that's my excuse. Um
so anyway
I
Think i'm not actually sure which one of these I want to try today
I have dark chocolate milk chocolate. No way. I let the boys have a milk chocolate one. I have dark chocolate
dark chocolate peppermint bark
Cranberry almond and s'mores
I think I'll snack on the dark chocolate because if it's dark chocolate and it's kind of rich. I don't think i'll overeat
I don't think i'll overeat on it. Um
We are having butternut squash and sage soup for supper and I have the butternut squash in the oven roasting so it's soft and
I spilled my wine
That's no good. Anyway, i've got that in the oven and I don't want to eat too much of this because I want to be hungry
for dinner
We're gonna have some sourdough bread with that
Okay, so push that aside
Thank you harry and david for the delicious holiday treats. I love them so much
All right, so i'm just gonna pour this is the dark chocolate
Yeah, yeah and i'm just gonna pour it in my little bowl here
Yum, so not all of it's covered in dark chocolate, but some of it
And whatever of this that I don't eat. I will surprise the boys and say hey guys, we can have some of this. Let's see
Some of them are coated in this little like sugary stuff
I'll try my best not to overdo it. Um
Okay, so i've got my bag that I keep all of my wrapping paper
Um gift tags ribbon bows. Um, actually the bows that are in here are squished so I don't have any fresh bows
so what i'm gonna do is just
wrap the gifts maybe put a little piece of ribbon on and
a gift tag
And then usually what I do is on christmas eve I add bows to everything because the bows end up falling off
They're real pain. So i'm not gonna put those on today. Um
I also have a ton of tissue paper like christmas tissue paper that I can use if I need to
I don't think anything that I have today will be like in a box and need tissue paper. Most everything
Is just going to be wrapped in wrapping paper
um
So i've got my tape
and scissors
um
Let me get my gift tags out
I'm just gonna pull all of these out and set them here on the floor
And I went into the garage where I keep all this stuff and because I had so many christmas
Like rolls of wrapping paper for christmas
Um, a lot of them wouldn't fit in here. And so they were just kind of like laying in the floor
So they were all dusty. So i've got like dust all over me
um
Actually, I think there's only one of these in here
It's christmasy
The rest are like for birthdays baby showers weddings things like that
Um
Okay, I think that's it. Let me pull the ribbon out as well
Just so that I have everything where I need it. So this like these are almost used up. I bought this after christmas sale
I don't even know how many years ago and it's just some colored ribbon that will match the paper
um
I've got
Thicker ribbon like this one that's coming undone and a lot of times i'll just cut this and pull these in half
And i'll have two really skinny ribbons. So these are more festive colors brighter colors, I guess I should say
um
Yeah, and the rest of the ribbon that I have it's just like more like colored birthday ribbon. So
I'm gonna get that stuff out. I do have
some bows that aren't squished but
I think i'm just gonna get the ribbon. All right, so i'm gonna push this
Back there and aside
This is actually the only area of my room that's kind of hidden from our door
And is cleared out because i'm supposed to have a side table here for our bed
But i'm trying to find antique furniture for our house and I found one table that's on dean's side of the bed
And i'm trying to find another one that matches it in
Size and shape obviously it's not with the same table and that's
The look that i'm going for but it'll sit right here
So anyway, because this is cleared out. I thought this would be like a perfect place to kind of like hunker down and wrap gifts
um
Okay, so wine popcorn
Two necessities when wrapping christmas gifts. Um
Tape scissors wrapping paper
Tags. Oh, I don't have oh wait. I have a pin pin somewhere somewhere. There's a pin in here
There's supposed to be a pin in here somewhere
I have a sharpie that doesn't work. Actually. I know where I have a pin
Okay, um and also
all of this christmas wrapping paper, I would love to have like
Craft wrapping paper and wrap them in twine and go clip like, um little pieces of like
Like conifer branches off the tree and stick them in there or whatever and I would love to decorate
and have all of my presents look like that, but
Like I said several years ago so far
So far back. I don't even remember how long it's been. I went after christmas shopping and I bought a ton of stuff. I mean
Things were just so cheap. I bought a ton of christmas wrapping paper a ton of ribbon
I think I bought a bunch of bows half of them. Like I said got squished and didn't survive
um tons of like tags like all of these things like just bags and packages of christmas tags, so
I am trying to use this stuff up so that I don't waste it before I do more natural style wrapping for christmas gifts
Which again, like I said, I would like to do so I have
This one that says merry christmas and let it snow. It's silver and red
And then I have this one
It just has christmas trees and it's gold and black
And then this one which obviously I've wrapped with a little bit because it's kind of falling apart
But these are silver and black little baubles and decorations
And then this last one right here is silver red and white and it just has snowflakes all over it
So these I try to do more for like my mom
um, my dad my
in-laws my
Um brothers and sisters-in-laws like more adults and then for the boys which I am running low on this
Um, it just says merry christmas happy holidays. It is craft paper colored
And it's green and white and red and some silver on there, too
So this is what I will wrap all of the boys christmas gifts in
So it's easy to kind of tell whose gifts are whose
um
Yeah, so i'm gonna set all of this stuff aside
And then i'll go grab some gifts and I will start wrapping
And I should actually quickly say if any of my family members are watching this video
you might want to not watch this one because you may see what you're gonna get and then
It's not as fun knowing what gift we got you. So
Turn it off now if you're watching this video and you're gonna get a gift from me for christmas
Okay
Um, yeah, so let me grab some presents and make a little bit more space and i'll show you guys
what i'm wrapping and we'll just have a little
christmas wrap party chit chat kind of video today for
Look at all those presents. Who's are those?
Uh, they're not all mine. Oh, yeah, let's say those are all those are all mommy's
So mama, hold on just a second. Raya and Ezra
Let's see Ezra two of those are yours and they're really big. I know and
He's got this giant one and this one and i've got those two I sat on the side so they didn't want anyone to touch them
Okay
All right, so we've got more to go
It is a big present, yeah, I think this one is gonna be good. No, that's that's
There is a big one for uncle josh, I think it's under ezra's other one
All right, boys
we still have
More presents to go to wrap and stick under there so you guys need to not touch them
No touching no shaking none of that stuff
Okay guys, so it's getting pretty late and I finished wrapping almost all of the christmas gifts that I have here
We should be getting a few more in the mail and we may have a couple shops to go to to grab
um a couple of things that we can't get online or
Just some little last minute gifts that we need to get from the store
And then I will have another day of finishing up and wrapping those gifts. So
This guy interrupted my videos anyway, um
I am finished up. So I hope you guys enjoyed this last day 16 of vlogmas and I will
Talk to you guys. Hopefully tomorrow. Bye
