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My very first 20 Something Bloggers Blog Swap!

I recently joined up with 20 Something Bloggers and decided to participate in my very first Blog Swap! After the sign ups are over, 20 Something Bloggers randomly assigns the partners. I was paired up with Kelsey, a newlywed living in Grenada in the Caribbean with her husband who is in medical school. You can read her blog here (watch for my guest post on her blog later today). This is a milestone for my blog as it will be the VERY first time in all of my five years of blogging that anyone else has ever written in it!

The topic of the blog swap is: “What will you do next year that you’ve been putting off for too long?” and here is what Kelsey wrote:
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I'm a grasshopper.

You know the story about the ants and the grasshopper? The ants work all summer long storing up food and preparing for winter, while the grasshoppers play and sing and enjoy the warm weather. Well when winter comes around the grasshoppers are starving and freezing to death and the ants are snug and full. I'm a grasshopper when it comes to Christmas gifts!! Especially when I want to do a homemade gift or a gift that takes a lot of work or effort. It's too easy to just go by someone a gift from the mall, or so I think, so I end up with these elaborate gifts and no time to finish them!
On Christmas eve I can usually be found painting, sewing, gluing, wrapping, and baking until all hours of the night. Luckily TNT never fails to have A Christmas Story marathon and I watch it over and over while I work.

Why don't I just get everyone a pair of comfy slippers instead?? Well then of course I'd have to sew an extra little something onto the toe or embroider their name on it!

And so here we are December 20th
My Christmas cards are sitting on the counter, unmailed.
I'm still trying to plan a menu for Christmas dinner.
and I have no gift for my husband whatsoever.

I put my Christmas tree up in early November, you'd think that would have spurred some action, yea? no.
Next year will be the year I get my act together! Next year I will plan ahead!
Next year I will become an ant!

Merry Christmas!!!

Comments

Holly said…
I wish I would have participated in this! Next year/time :)
12/20/2010 1:22 PM
-Kelsey Coghill said…
Hey Emily! your entry is up on my blog now! Sorry it's a day late... I've been really busy, my in-laws are here visiting!
as you can see, I always put stuff off!
12/21/2010 6:22 PM
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