Holidays, Gift Wrap and Santa Claus

The holidays never fail to remind me of the fact that I am a TERRIBLE gift wrapper. I don't know what it is I just  seem to be really bad at it. This year I somehow have gotten a little bit better so they don't look quite like complete disasters but the corners of gifts are something I can't seem to get right. As a result of my inept inability to properly wrap parcels, I'm a bit of a gift bag person because they are much more straight forward. If a gift bag came with steps it would be really simple like step 1: open bag, step 2: insert gift into bag, step 3: place tissue paper inside bag to prevent anyone from seeing what is inside. Where as actually wrapping a box is much more complicated. You have to cut a square of wrapping paper the correct size and then there is a lot of folding that I just haven't mastered. 

Speaking of the Holidays, something that always comes up is Santa Claus. There are two views on Santa the first (and the view point of most children) is that the jolly fat man is real. The second, (and view point of most "grown ups") is that he isn't. But on the topic of "grown-ups" I have one question, is anyone really ever completely "grown up"? Sure you can physically be completely grown up, but as far as mentally and emotionally aren't we always learning things? I don't think that there is just some age where it suddenly clicks and we know everything. Children and grown-ups alike all make mistakes. That last statement is speaking from personal experience as well as through the observation of others such as friends and family. My dad has made mistakes, I've even literally been "the forgotten middle child." (that one was a big mistake that I haven't let him live down.) But that is a story for another time.