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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - 11:56 pm
I thought it'd be fun to have a thread where we can chat about all the holiday stuff coming up. Food, decorations, shopping, parties, plans, etc. My mom and step dad were always the type who invited everyone over for the holidays and it's something my sister and I picked up. I have no idea how many people are going to be there for Thanksgiving, but at this point we have plans to cook a turkey, smoke another turkey and a ham, and cook a roast. Ok, sis and bil have plans to do that, I'm always given things that can't catch on fire (deviled eggs, veggie trays, cheese plates, lol.) My aunts very eager to have her house decorated for Christmas. She wants to see the kidlets having fun. We'll be starting that Monday since they are out of school all week. It'll be fun to have it done, or mostly done, by Thanksgiving too. I've been preparing for Christmas for a while. I'm a big kid at heart and love everything about Christmas. I've been making the girls beaded jewelry and have done book thongs for friends/neighbors/teachers, finished my aunts gift (a gazing globe with beaded chains) and came up with a new one (glass ornaments done the same way as the globe.) Today I picked up some prett little jewelry gift boxes and got most of the girls jewelry in them. I've also been shopping here and there. I try to pick up something, even if it's a small thing meant for a stocking stuffer everytime I go shopping. I don't really have much but I'm off to a decent start.
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 5:58 am
I have a good start on my Christmas shopping. I do not buy any thing big for my brothers and their wives, and their kids just want gift cards. I am one of the people that go out shopping the day after Thanksgiving and by then I plan to get another good hunk of it done. The gift cards can wait until the week before Christmas which is good.
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Merrysea
Moderator
08-13-2004
| Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 8:51 am
My mom, sister and nephew are coming out for Christmas, so I'll have Christmas Eve dinner with them and my three sons, then on Christmas Day my sons will go to their dad's and the rest of us will go to my brother's. I usually put up the tree and put out decorations about two weeks before Christmas; but I don't know how that's going to work with my son's dog. We waited until the last minute last year when he was a puppy; now he's big, bouncy, nosy and clumsy with a tail that will knock over everything in its path. Maybe we'll do decorations, maybe just the tree a few days before Christmas. I do all my shopping online, so I'm just waiting to get lists so I can get it done!
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 8:54 am
I just have to buy for the boys and a couple more things for my girls and I will be mostly done. Well, with the kids anyway. The girls were easy, they all wanted Hannah Montana dolls, and I found them for 7.99 each at Marshalls. Score. The rest I will do the day after TG, because if I can't get stuff on sale, I can't get it.
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 9:14 am
uuuggghhh!
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Csnog
Member
07-18-2002
| Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 9:21 am
Does Santa wrap toys in your house? We never did. We said Santa didn't have time to wrap because he had so many to deliver. Everything that came from us we wrapped and yes we did use the comics on some things.
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 9:22 am
No Santa doesn't have time to wrap.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 9:33 am
Last year we didn't put presents under the tree until christmas morning before the heathens woke up. This year, since I only have 2 kids, we will go to Grandma's first, then other Grandma's, then they will come home to their presents under the tree, a fire in the fireplace, apple cider and cookies. DD1's presents will be wrapped in Green and DD2's will be wrapped in red. I hope this works out like I have planned, lol. Trying to create traditions.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 9:47 am
Santa always wraps a couple things here. He even has his own wrapping paper, lol. You ladies who are going shopping next Friday are very, very brave! The only thing I can think of this year is both the kids want those Ipod mini's (I think that's what they're called) that are somewhere around $49, if I see those at a really really good price on Friday I might consider it. But, it'd have to be a really really good price, lol. Merry, when the kids were little and Harvey was a pup, we built a little fence to put around the tree. We used that white plastic lattice and zip strips to make it (very simple) and cut the lattice down just enough so they couldn't get over it. It was only three sides and we attached it to the wall for the fourth. Then I decorated it with garland and plastic candy canes.
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Tess
Member
04-13-2001
| Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 9:56 am
Santa (yes, at age 12 we still believe in Santa for real) brings the stockings but sometimes we also put in small personal items to help Santa out. Santa does not wrap the large Christmas gift. He has everything assembled and laid out on the floor as near to under the tree as he can get. Usually Santa and his elf don't get to bed until about 4AM Christmas morning. All the other gifts from Mom & Dad and the grandparents and Aunt Patty get opened after dinner on Christmas Eve. I'm about 95% done with my shopping and the rest is very easy. All online. 
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 9:57 am
War, it's called the shuffle. I think it's one of those items (like a wii) that never really goes on sale. At least not at this point. 'Course that is my guess and I could be wrong. But I did check out a lot of the black friday ads and did not see any shuffles at any lower price than $49...
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 10:19 am
I love Christmastime, (& Hanukkah) but it's just too early for me to be thinking about it til December 1st. I just heard my first Christmas carol on the radio last night and I was like, 'You've gotta be kidding me'! Mind you,last weekend we had our big Christmas Parade here in Toronto, so I guess that was like the starter's pistol going off. LOL.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 10:34 am
Shuffle, that's it, thanks Julie! I've been looking at them for a while and haven't seen the price change at all. Sucks too cuz that's the one thing both my kids really want. Tess, Kota's still a believer too, I love it! She's already working on her letter and reminded me the other day that sometimes soon we have to make the pouches of reindeer food.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 10:42 am
Speaking of still believing in Santa for real...I have a question I would like to pose to you all. But I do not want to clog this thread up with it, so I will direct you to my folder with it: http://www.tvclubhouse.com/cgi-bin/forum/board-post.cgi Thanks for any help!!!
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 10:48 am
My 5 year old is on the fence about santa, thanks to my mother. We told her Gramma is crazy and of course there is a santa, and he's real to those who believe in him. So she says she's gonna tell him what she wants this year. Keep your fingers crossed.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 10:51 am
What did your mom say?? I'd be more than a little ticked!!
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 11:05 am
well, my kids will be 19, 20 and 23 and they still believe in santa, lol. okay, they just tell me that they do because when they stop believing in him, they stop getting his presents, lol ...
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 11:06 am
Oh it's an ongoing fight. We were never allowed to believe in Santa. The first time we asked, we were told "Don't be ridiculous, of course he's fake" so we just never believed that I can remember. But we told her that she was NOT allowed to tell DD that he wasn't real, so instead she says "What do you think, do you think a man could really do all that" and it gets her thinking, then she asks us and we say 'he's magic and real for those who believe in him' and then she's happy with that, and we have to again tell my mom "Just tell her to ask us, and don't offer any information" and my mom starts in on how her kids didn't believe and we turned out just fine blah blah blah......I say well, some of us did....
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 11:10 am
ok, i do have a theory on the santa thing. we say 'didn't you see him at the mall' and that suffices her questions, but if she were to aske me if he was really, really real, I would tell her the truth. I have an issue with lying to kids. However, my mom is not allowed to tell her yet. Probably doesn't make any sense, but eh.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 11:21 am
Of course telling a kid that Grandma is crazy really isn't the right thing to say.
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Cinnamongirl
Member
01-10-2001
| Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 11:57 am
That link doesn't work for me Julie Can't wait for Christmas. My little guy is turning 3 soon and *fingers crossed* he takes a decent Santa picture. The last two were so... well, terrible. I love them but he was crying and screaming so much..they're actually kinda funny..poor little thing, so scared of Santa of all people! LOL I look forward to making new traditions too..and the old stand bys..just leaving cookies, milk and carrots out will be so much fun I'm almost done shopping..but should make a list just to make sure I'm not forgetting anyone...
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 11:58 am
i do not have children, so i may be out of line when i say this. But I believe that it is good for kids to believe in Santa. it teaches them to use their imagination. And I think kids need an imagination to be able to entertain themselves.
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Cinnamongirl
Member
01-10-2001
| Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 11:59 am
Gramma is crazy!!! hahahahahaha
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 12:01 pm
Oh cinnamon, don't get me wrong I love my mother, she does a lot for me, but she tends to be a bit eccentric and not the same woman who raised us. she went all "grandma" on me and I don't get it. Growing up my grandma was like a second mother, we didn't get 'grandma' treatment, so now I see them doing it to my kids and I am calling them on it saying "HEY NO FAIR"
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Taysmomcj
Member
03-24-2008
| Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 12:02 pm
While we probably won't finish shopping until a day or two before Christmas, my 5 year old and husband put the tree up last week. By then, I'll be ready to take it down after the last present is unrapped.
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