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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Tuesday, November 21, 2006 - 7:40 am
WG...lol....too funny...we're warm too...we wil be swimming in my sister's pool on Thanksgiving
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, November 21, 2006 - 7:44 am
Yeah, we're supposed to cool down to 66 for Thanksgiving which is still warm for us this time of year.
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Tuesday, November 21, 2006 - 9:16 am
Hi War, please change the thread name as you suggested. Great idea! I still have not begun shopping - still mulling ideas over.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, November 21, 2006 - 9:47 am
How's that? LOL, call me lazy, I was having visions of several different Christmas threads and having to run all over the place to post.
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Tuesday, November 21, 2006 - 9:49 am
Good thinkig WG.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, November 21, 2006 - 10:44 am
I try not to think about it til the beginning of December! I find it offensive that the ads on tv, etc start mid-October. How commercial can you get? Soon they will start advertising January 2nd. Geez.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Tuesday, November 21, 2006 - 12:23 pm
I drop broad hints to my DH all year long on what I want for Christmas. He never listens. Come the Christmas season he whines he just doesn't know what to get me. Scheesh! I give up.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, November 21, 2006 - 8:55 pm
ROFL OG!
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Tuesday, November 21, 2006 - 9:13 pm
I am counting days til it will be "legal" to wear all those cute Christmas sweaters I got such great deals on 3 years ago.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, November 22, 2006 - 12:50 am
LOL OG, I'd give up the hints and give him a list. Maybe cut out pictures from sales ads of what you want and where it's at and tape them on the list (I did that one year for Darren when he was confused on something I wanted.) Supergranny, Kota pulled out her Christmas socks Saturday. I kinda laughed to myself and thought heck if she wants to wear them before Thanksgiving, have fun, lol. What are some of ya'lls holiday (or season) traditions? I have two favorites. The first is pulling out the Christmas book on Thanksgiving night. The book I have is great, it's got the Nativity story, it's got Christmas carols and stories about how the holiday is celebrated in different parts of the world, the story of St. Nicholas and my favorite (and what I read every night to them til New Years) Twas the Night Before Christmas. My other favorite holiday tradition is inviting all the neices and nephews over for an afternoon. We decorate Christmas cookies, then get down to the crafts. They make an ornament of some kind (I'm thinking this year maybe some kind of glass ball and glitter glue...this year most of them are old enough to do something like that and theres just the two little ones who will need help) and then we make a present for their parents. Caleb and Kota make one for grandma and my great aunt since I'm the one helping them, lol. Then we wrap the gifts up and they get to go home and stick something they made under the tree. It's so much fun to see how proud they are to do that. I think this year we'll do a group photo of all of them and then they can paint and decorate picture frames. It's been awhile since we've had a picture of all of them together and theres a new baby in the family. LOL, heck I love all the traditions! Going out to look at Christmas lights and taking the kids to pick out the toy they'll donate and watching them drop their change in the bucket with no prompting and talking about what the season means to us and more time with friends and family. The Christmas shopping is something I really don't enjoy other than to be done with it, lol. I'd rather focus on the rest of it.
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Wednesday, November 22, 2006 - 1:16 am
I love wearing my Christmas sweaters. It's hard to put them away when it's over.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Wednesday, November 22, 2006 - 2:39 pm
Holiday Edition of Getting to Know Your Friends! You know the drill. Highlight, copy, and paste into a new post. Enjoy!! Everyone has time for a few moments of fun! Don't be a scrooge!!! 1. Eggnog or Hot Chocolate? 2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? 3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? 4. Do you hang mistletoe? 5. When do you put your decorations up? 6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? 7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child: 8. Favorite Christmas movie. 9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve or Day? 10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree? 12. Can you ice skate? 13. Do you remember your favorite gift? 14.what's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? 15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? My mom's cookies 16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? 17. What tops your tree at home? 18. Which do you prefer -- giving or receiving? 19. What is your favorite Christmas Song? 20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Wednesday, November 22, 2006 - 2:45 pm
1. Eggnog or Hot Chocolate? Hot Chocolate 2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Wrap 3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? White on tree / colored on house 4. Do you hang mistletoe? No 5. When do you put your decorations up? Varies. 6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? Deviled eggs, stuffing, sweet potatoes & marshmallows. 7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child: Being with relatives that have since died... 8. Favorite Christmas movie. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer/Santa Claus is coming to town/Christmas Story--3 way tie. 9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve or Day? Christmas Day 10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree? Lights, ornaments, white snowflake garland 12. Can you ice skate? no 13. Do you remember your favorite gift? no 14. What is the most important thing about the Holidays for you? That Ryan knows the true meaning of Christmas. He loves Jesus and he likes nativity decorations better than santa/reindeer ones. 15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? I love those cornflake wreaths with red hots. 16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Driving around looking at lights. 17. What tops your tree at home? An angel 18. Which do you prefer -- giving or receiving? Giving 19. What is your favorite Christmas Song? David Bowie/Bing Crosby’s Drummer Boy 20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum? Yum
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Wednesday, November 22, 2006 - 2:55 pm
1. Eggnog or Hot Chocolate? Hot chocolate 2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? No wrapping from Santa 3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? Colored twinklies 4. Do you hang mistletoe? No 5. When do you put your decorations up? I live alone, so I don't decorate 6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? Mashed potatoes, with a bunch of Franks Red Hot Sauce on 'em! Favorite Holiday memory as a child: My father bought me a mini-bike the same year he bought my mother a new horse, both my sisters got horses, and my brother got a pony. When we arrived home from midnight services, he started it up in the living room and I got to drive it into the kitchen! 9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve or Day? If I'm at my friend's they open one on Christmas Eve. We never did that at our house though 10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree? I don't have one 12. Can you ice skate? Like a champ, I'm practically Michelle Kwan...o.k., I don't fall down 13. Do you remember your favorite gift? The mini bike, of course! 14.what's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Every year that my loved ones are still alive is good. I know that it is just a matter of time before my mother doesn't know us anymore. This year may be the last one she will be "with" us, as she has been diagnosed with Alzheimers. This year is probably also the last one for my best friend. She has cancer filling her liver and it is not cureable. I'm waiting for that "Christmas miracle" 15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? I'm not actually a dessert person 16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? My nieces and nephews and I yell out Christmas songs at the top of our lungs. I started that with them when they were little, because they were all too shy to sing. We also do that when we sing Happy Birthday. Everyone laughs, and it is still a lot of fun 17. What tops your tree at home? No tree 18. Which do you prefer -- giving or receiving? Giving 19. What is your favorite Christmas Song? This is horrible...there is one from the late 50's early 60's that I think is called Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree. When I was probably 8, my best friend made me come over to her house to hear that record. She said, "they say f**k!" It is during the part in the song when she sings, "...later we'll have some Pumpkin pie, and do some caroling." I don't hear Pumpkin anymore, I hear "f-in." I have ruined that song for everyone I know. It still makes me laugh every time I hear that part. I make everyone shut up when that part comes on. Try it, you'll see! 20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum? Pretty, but I would never, ever eat one...yuck!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, November 22, 2006 - 2:59 pm
LOL, where's your answers Julie? 1. Eggnog or Hot Chocolate? Eggnog, but only a little bit. 2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Both. Big gifts are under the tree but he also wraps some presents in special paper that has his picture all over it. 3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? Do I have to pick one? I like colored ones on the tree but can go either way on the house. 4. Do you hang mistletoe? Depends on if I run into some kid selling it in front of a store, lol. 5. When do you put your decorations up? Friday after Thanksgiving, sometimes it might take a week to get it all done but we do the majority then. 6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? Veggie tray! Favorite Holiday memory as a child: 9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve or Day? Yep. 10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree? Family event. We all have different jobs then hang the ornaments up. 12. Can you ice skate? Nope, I'd prefer to be home for Christmas and not stuck in the hospital with a few hundred stitches. 13. Do you remember your favorite gift? Blue bicycle. 14.what's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Family. 15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? Cheesecake, my bils mother always made a couple of them for holidays, after she died, my sis started doing it. 16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Reading with the kids and craft day with all the nieces/nephews and Caleb and Kota. 17. What tops your tree at home? This year an angel. 18. Which do you prefer -- giving or receiving? Giving 19. What is your favorite Christmas Song? Little Drummer Boy 20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum? Yum
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Native_texan
Member
08-24-2004
| Wednesday, November 22, 2006 - 3:09 pm
1. Eggnog or Hot Chocolate? Hot Chocolate 2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Wraps and wraps and wraps 3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? Colored on tree and white on house 4. Do you hang mistletoe? Fake mistletoe 5. When do you put your decorations up? I start on Thanksgiving weekend 6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? Dressing and giblet gravy 7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child: Santa Clause finding my sister and me at our grandparents' in Arkansas 8. Age you were when you found out the truth about Santa. 7 9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve or Day? Both 10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree? Lights, beads, red balls, ornaments I've made over the years, ornaments belonging to Travis and his siblings and a lighted angels 12. Can you ice skate? No 13. Do you remember your favorite gift? Stained glass nativity set my dad made a few years ago 14.what's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Remembering the true meaning of Christmas 15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? My mom's vanilla wafer cake 16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Taking Travis riding around to look at lights 17. What tops your tree at home? Lighted angel 18. Which do you prefer -- giving or receiving? Giving - but I don't mind receiving 19. What is your favorite Christmas Song? Traditional - I can't pick just one; Fun - 12 Day of a Redneck Christmas 20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum? Yum when crushed up and mix in white chocolate for the candy I make that everyone begs for
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Wednesday, November 22, 2006 - 3:20 pm
Oh this could get tricky while driving ...I may have to come back
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, November 22, 2006 - 3:25 pm
Ack, Julie your second post wasn't there when I started...did you change some of the questions?
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Wednesday, November 22, 2006 - 3:34 pm
1. Hot Chocolate? 2. wrap presents 3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? depends on year and theme 4. Do you hang mistletoe? NO 5. When do you put your decorations up? NOW 6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? Plum Pudding 7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child: none 8. Favorite Christmas movie. Meet me in St. Louis 9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve or Day? eve 10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree? different theme every year 12. Can you ice skate? yes 13. Do you remember your favorite gift? yes, sapphire bracelet from my husband 14.what's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? family dinner, son opening presents 15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? plum pudding 16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? grandpa lighting the plum pudding 17. What tops your tree at home? nothing 18. Which do you prefer -- giving or receiving? giving 19. What is your favorite Christmas Song? Little Drummer Boy 20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum? yuck
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Babyruth
Member
07-19-2001
| Wednesday, November 22, 2006 - 7:58 pm
1. Eggnog or Hot Chocolate? hot chocolate 2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? stuffs stockings only 3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? either 4. Do you hang mistletoe? Nope 5. When do you put your decorations up? soon 6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? No favorite 7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child: Believing in Santa 8. Favorite Christmas movie. The Homecoming (Patricia Neal, Richard Thomas) 9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve or Day? Day 10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree? Homemade family ornaments, lights 12. Can you ice skate? I used to. 13. Do you remember your favorite gift? Socks and underwear, of course!! LOL just kidding. Mickey Mouse record player. 14.what's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Family. Extra kindness towards strangers during the stressful holiday season. 15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? Holiday cookies!!!! 16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Staying up late by myself to look at the tree (with no house lights on except the tree lights)while listening to Christmas music. 17. What tops your tree at home? A Star of David made with six popsicle sticks glued together, spray painted silver with pink and green beads glued to it. Made by our niece Delaney when she was three. 18. Which do you prefer -- giving or receiving? giving 19. What is your favorite Christmas Song? I like too many to list, including traditional hymns and silly stuff. Love "Santa Baby"...lol 20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum? Yummm
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Thursday, November 23, 2006 - 12:21 am
1. Eggnog 2. Wrapped presents 3. Colored twinklers on tree, some white/some colored on house. 4. No mistletoe 5. Decorations go up when the mood strikes. 6. No favorite dish. 7. No favorite childhood memory. 8. Prancer 9. Open gifts only on Christmas Day. 10. First the star on top then special lights, then garland, then ornaments and finally lots of candy canes that somehow are usually all gone by Christmas Day. 12. Yes I can skate. I also know how to fall. 13. Gift cards to the spa. 14. Family and friends getting together. 15. Rum Cake. 16. I love it all. 17. Only a star goes on top. 18. Giving 19. Too many Christmas songs to choose. 20. Do not like peppermint. Are there margarita flavored candy canes?
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Thursday, November 23, 2006 - 12:23 am
I goofed. I meant hot chocolate not eggnog.
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Wapland
Member
08-01-2000
| Thursday, November 23, 2006 - 2:43 pm
1. Eggnog or Hot Chocolate? Eggnog 2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Santa sits his gifts unwrapped under the tree 3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? tree are white and house are red 4. Do you hang mistletoe? nope, get enough kisses 5. When do you put your decorations up? usually around November 20th 6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? stuffing 7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child: opening up my stocking with my younger brother on our beds, then racing into mom and dad's room, at around 5 am, keen to go see what Santa brought us 8. Favorite Christmas movie. Christmas Vacation 9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve or Day? Christmas Day 10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree? with coloured balls and bows (burgandy and gold) and sparkly gold ribbon 12. Can you ice skate? Absofrickinlutely 13. Do you remember your favorite gift? yes, a walking doll as a child....as and adult, my five heart silver necklace. 14.what's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? the magic and joy of a baby in a manger 15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? pecan pie with icecream, heated of course 16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Christmas Eve...we go to our church service, visit with friends and then go to my mom and dad's. We eat sandwiches and drink eggnog and watch Christmas Vacation, and laugh like we were seeing it for the first time. It is so well engrained that my children even know the kind of sandwiches Grandma will have. 17. What tops your tree at home? a beautiful angel 18. Which do you prefer -- giving or receiving? giving and watching the delight...hmmm then again, depends on what I am receiving lol. 19. What is your favorite Christmas Song? O Holy Night 20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum? Yum Happy Holidays friends, Fondly, Wappy
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Thursday, November 23, 2006 - 8:02 pm
1. Eggnog or Hot Chocolate? Hot Chocolate 2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Santa loves wrapping presents almost more than buying the gift 3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? Colored lights on the tree and white icicles on the house 4. Do you hang mistletoe? Absolutely...at my age you never pass up a kissing opportunity 5. When do you put your decorations up? Right after Thanksgiving and they don't get taken down til after New Years 6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? Fried Apples 7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child: Spending it with my Grandma and all my Aunts and Uncles in Oklahoma 8. Favorite Christmas movie. The latest one at the theater 9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve or Day? Both 10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree? with years of Hallmark ornaments gotten the day after Christmas 12. Can you ice skate? Absolutely not...I have other ways to break my bones 13. Do you remember your favorite gift? I was a teen ager and there was this gorgeous expensive white blazer at the dress shop. I would stop and try it on and then one day it was gone and the shop owner said it had been sold. I was heartbroken, never dreamed that my Dad was the one who bought it until I opened my presents. 14.what's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Getting all the cards and letters from old and dear friends and catching up on their lives 15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? Pecan Pie 16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? DH making a big pot of chili for Xmas Eve 17. What tops your tree at home? A Hallmark Angel 18. Which do you prefer -- giving or receiving? Giving 19. What is your favorite Christmas Song? Deck The Halls...especially the Falala part 20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum? Yum
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Melfie1222
Member
07-29-2002
| Friday, November 24, 2006 - 1:45 am
1. Eggnog or Hot Chocolate?... I like a really nice tea, I give them as stocking stuffers. 2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?... Santa puts them there. We have an understanding. I LOVE picking out wrapping paper and accessories, usually not even a traditional Christmas theme. SC lets me get away with it because they always look pretty, so he gets to look good and take the credit. 3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?... white 4. Do you hang mistletoe?... no 5. When do you put your decorations up?... I don't do a lot, but not until the week after Thanksgiving 6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?... stuffing, and there must be some crispy bits 7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child:... power outage, we had chili cooked on top of the woodstove, and played games 8. Favorite Christmas movie... It's a Wonderful Life 9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve or Day?... yes 10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree?... I don't, but if I did.. simply 12. Can you ice skate?... yes 13. Do you remember your favorite gift?... I don't remember receiving a gift I didn't like. Seriously. My friends know me. 14.what's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?... hanging out with friends 15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?... pumpkin cheesecake 16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?... opening stocking stuffers with my friends 17. What tops your tree at home?... no tree at home, but if I did it would be a star 18. Which do you prefer -- giving or receiving?... giving 19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?... I'm scared to say because now I am about to be bombarded with them for a whole month, and then I will get tired of them. The John Lennon Christmas song. The U2 Christmas song. 20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?... yum for about a minute or two.
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