5 days: shopping

Extra last minute shopping doesn't help with the wrapping problem, but it might provide comic relief.

6 days: wrapping

The problem with shopping online (which I did a lot of this year because people's lists required it), is that gifts trickle in, and the wrapping just never gets done. You wrap one gift, and the next day two more arrive, then a couple days later three more, then another and another, like a neverending Matryoshka. Or a really cute winter themed Matryoshka.

Like this one.

7 days: The Nutcracker

8 days: new ornaments on the tree

from Ireland

from Germany

9 days: Santa school