Christmas Decorating & Shopping

Today was spent with the grand-p's decorating for Christmas. We (Mom & big little brother Dan) put up their tree and helped decorate it. I left my phone there, but Gam and Papa promise to return it tomorrow when we go Christmas Shopping! Everything in the world will be alright ... if we go SHOPPING!

Oh yeah, speaking of shopping, I have been good and I have followed my plan of buying non-sweatshop clothes. I didn't buy a bunch of books at the mall yesterday because the shipping guy didn't know about their manufacturers. He did say that most of the books that this specific bookstore published were manufactured in India. I just don't know. But I got some of those wraps that you heat in the microwave and then put on your shoulders & neck; they were made in California.

I think for my nieces & nephews I am going to shop in a store called "Ten Thousand Villages." They have all kinds of learning toys and crafts. I don't think any of their stuff is made in America, but it is made in under-privileged villages and the proceeds go back to the specific village that made whatever you buy. So that makes me feel better.