Three Glorious Ways to Have Your Holiday Spirit Squashed....

1. Realize Sunday afternoon that your sewer line is plugged. Then have Roto Rooter tell you your line is broken. Then have a company tell you it's going to cost you thousands of dollars (literally) to even be able to brush your teeth again. And then have to pee and shower at other people's houses for days at a time.

2. Have your daughter find your gift stash under your bed while trying to entertain children while husband speaks with 5 contractors visiting the house all day long. "Why do you have my pink pony I wanted, mom?" Great....

3. Come home from showering the family at someone's house, only to walk into your family room and see dog diarrhea all over your carpet. Matt is on hour two of steam cleaning and it is almost 9 p.m.

Seriously...the holiday spirit has left me...