Description

Mom struggles through the shopping to find what is really important at Christmas, amid the buying, the giving, and getting.
Very well written by Brenda Tymecki.

Cast:    1

Bible Reference: 

Set:      bare

Lighting:        standard

  Sound:     wireless mics if available

Song:     none

SFX: none

Costumes:      standard

Props:      shopping bags

Special Instructions:   none

  Time:     3

Sample of script:

(comes in with shopping bags)

I can’t believe I did this, what was I thinking. Doing the 5 am shopping with my sister on Black Friday. Maybe it’s a good thing I don’t host Thanksgiving every year. I was on a high because the day was going so well I just did not think when I said sure I’ll go shopping with you. And out so early for what, these few things. Every year I tell myself I am going to get my shopping done before Thanksgiving to avoid the crowds and the pushing and shoving and the “holiday cheer”. And every year here I am, Thanksgiving weekend and no shopping has happened. I guess because each year it gets harder and harder to figure out what to get people. And it normally is the mom’s job to do all the gift shopping. It was so much easier to buy gifts years ago.

When the kids were little it was so easy. I bought outfits I liked and wanted to see them in. And the toys were the ones I wanted to play with. Steve and I would just buy little trinkets for each other since we did not have much money and as they say, Christmas is for the children, (at least that is what everyone says).

 Now as we get older and the kids get older it just gets harder to find gifts. The kids don’t like anything I buy for clothes (they may actually like it but it is not cool to say so). And I refuse to pay $40.00 for a video game they may play once or twice then move on to a new one. And our friends and ourselves, well if we want something during the year we just go and buy it, we don’t wait until Christmas and ask someone else to buy it for us. 

And now some of the gifts we get from friends just so they can give us something. How many times have you gotten gifts and just don’t know what to do with it. And what do you say to the friend if you open it in front of them. “Wow, who would have thought of giving this, but you did , wow”. And then you hope the kids don’t blurt out something rude about the gift if they are in the room.