Is it Fall Yet?
**** CONGRATS! We have a winner. I asked Geoff to pick a number between 1 and 43 and he picked number 1. So congrats MarlaMom! Email me at JenIG@TOSMag.com and I will mail out your new art dvds straight away.
*******ORIGINAL POST******** I don't know about you, but I am ready to be cold again. Yuck, I haven't wanted to leave the house at all. I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving and Christmas and hot chocolate and Coie's famous Christmas Candy.
I think it's time for another contest. I have a set of three art dvds from www.GettingtoKnow.com. It covers Line in Art, Color in Art, and Shape and Form in Art. This is the company that puts Mike Venezia's brilliant art history lessons and drawing lessons on dvd and brings them to life. I highly recommend his art history series, and also his new Presidents series. They are tres' muey bien.
So, if you would like to win this set, please tell me either the worst, or the best, Christmas present you've ever gotten. Or just tell me that you want to win. It's too hot to think too hard.
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on August 18th, 2006 at 7:19 pm
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I wanna win! Pick me! Pick me!
Okay, best or worst Christmas present. Hmmm… I remember having Christmas at my aunt’s home. She was an avid bargain shopper and was always picking up these great gifts for her family. My parent’s were on a limited budget (missionaries) and typically picked out a few, modest gifts for me.
Well, that year my aunt had my uncle wrap some gifts because she was running short on time. There was some miscommunication about who a gift was for and when I opened up a gift from them, inside was this gorgeous blue sweater. I was so excited! Unfortunately, my aunt went really pale and then said, “Oops, that’s suppose to be for Christine (my cousin), I think your other gift is upstairs (even though there was, obviously, no second gift from them).” The situation was embarrassing for everyone and disappointing for me. The first gift from them was a pair of nice earrings, I think. The gift she “accidentally left upstairs” was some bath powder or body wash, oh well.
on August 18th, 2006 at 7:59 pm
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I really want to win these. Samantha would love it. I could use it as a Christmas presant. Wouldn’t that be planning ahead!
Great seeing you and your family last night. You are a blessing to our group. Thanks for the giveaways. Those were a nice surprise!
Stay cool – fall is coming I’m sure. i’m with you. I go nowhere when it is this hot. Even the garden is getting neglected.
Be blessed,
Maria
on August 18th, 2006 at 8:25 pm
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I want to win 🙂
~Kari
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on August 18th, 2006 at 8:27 pm
ooh! ooh!
I remember the Best Christmas EVER!
I got a red hair dryer AND THREE – yes, THREE – Shaun Cassiday Albums!
Woot! I was THE COOLEST KID ever with a red hair dryer and THREE Shaun Cassiday Albums.
Ah, be still my heart.
Just don’t ask what naturally curly hair + hair dryer equals.
on August 18th, 2006 at 8:58 pm
I'd love to win!
My worst Christmas presents were ones that were a birthday/Christmas present. My birthday is Christmas Eve so I always felt rather cheated.
on August 18th, 2006 at 9:39 pm
I Wanna Win!
I’m too tired to think of past Christmas presents. So, since you gave us permission, I’m just gonna be lazy and tell you I want to win! 😉
steve 🙂
on August 18th, 2006 at 9:52 pm
I want to win…
The best Christmas present I ever got is my first teddy bear. Mostly because of the story that goes with it. My parents didn’t have much money and Christmas was always a struggle at our house growing up because I was one of 7 children. I remember seeing the package under the tree. It was the biggest present, and it had my name on it. I was so excited. It wasn’t until years later that my mom told me about buying the bear and how a lady in the store told her how lucky she was to have someone to buy that for. My mom said it brought tears to her eyes.
on August 18th, 2006 at 9:58 pm
Worst Christmas Present
That would be the Christmas presents I didn’t get one year from my parents. Funny, Santa didn’t leave me any presents either that year. It seems that my parents got paid on Christmas Eve and intended to go shopping after they got off from work. Unbeknownst to them, the stores all closed early and they missed their chance. The only presents that I received that year were from my grandmother, who was staying with us at the time.
The best Christmas present was the bicycle that I had always wanted. (That was either the year before or after the above incident).
Wyndee
on August 18th, 2006 at 10:42 pm
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Me too, me too!!! I am ready for fall, cooler weather, for Thanksgiving, Christmas and chilly afternoons with hot chocolate!!!!
Oh and yes I want to win too!
on August 18th, 2006 at 10:52 pm
Breakin the rules
The best Christmas present that I ever gave was a cricker wrapped up in a little box with a little clear window. My sister Leah is deathly afraid of bugs and critters…as in so ridiculous you have to laugh, cry or get really mad at the ridiculousness of it all. So my siblings and I gave her the best present ever!
She has always been really good at guessing what her gift(s) would be…so she was definitely shocked. That was the only year that we had to “take a break from Christmas” and go to our rooms so everyone could calm down. We were dying laughing and she was SO MAD and my parents initially thought it was quite funny but then got angry because she was so upset. FOUR HOURS later, we resumed the opening of gifts!
Oh, and I really want to win!
It’s hot here too. Blech! I think we will have cold fruit smoothies for breakfast tomorrow.
Love,
Marshie
on August 18th, 2006 at 11:21 pm
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the first christmas we were married my husband got me the best and worst christmas present i’ve ever gotten. he got me a miniature schnauzer. she was the tiniest cutest little thing and i just loved her. but she was also a whirling devil of a dog. she was fast and yelped all night and chewed up one of every pair of shoes we owned, she chewed up my potted plants, my furniture, the garbage, anything in her path. she reminded me of that whirling devil on cartoons that ate everything. what was his name?
anyway, in spite of her horrible behavior she loved us dearly and she was like our child for the first several years of our marriage. she was sneaky, loving, cuddly, destructive and hard to control. once she ate an entire box of fudge that i had been given for christmas from my students. i accidentally left it on the coffee table that night. the next day she was bloated and miserable, groaning in pain. it was so funny. she was a mess.
on August 18th, 2006 at 11:50 pm
Worst Christmas Present
I was 23 and had just finished college. (I was a semester behind and finished in Dec.) I was the first person in my entire family on my dad’s side to earn a 4 year degree. We went to KY to my grandparents for Christmas and no one said a word about me finishing college. After all, girls were supposed to get married. Finishing high school was optional and going to college was…….?? I don’t know what they thought, they never said anything! But I was the oldest girl out of all the grandchildren and my younger cousins were already married and my grandmother and aunts were passing out gifts and the married girls were given nice homemade gifts – household decorations and such. My aunts didn’t give me anything and my grandmother gave me some footie socks and a kiddie girraffe pin. Later, one of my aunts said, “I didn’t mean to slight you on the gifts, but, you aren’t MARRIED!” So, not only were the socks and pin my worst gift ever, the whole day was my worst Christmas memory!
on August 19th, 2006 at 12:03 am
Amen, sistuh!
it IS too hot to think!
hmm. I wanna win, but I can’t think of a best or worst Christmas present right now.
on August 19th, 2006 at 6:39 am
My best Christmas present….
has to be the year we added a service project to our special Family Christmas Day (which is several days before the 25th.) When DS then about 14 learned we were going to the homeless shelter to serve lunch he nearly went ballistic…”We’re going where ?!?!?! This is supposed to be a FAMILY FUN day, not a work day…” and on and on it went. After leaving the Stew Pot, however, that same son was reflective and said, “Everyone needs to do that!” What a gift for both of us!
on August 19th, 2006 at 6:50 am
I'm drinking hot chocolate for breakfast…
because frankly, no matter how hot it is outside, it is always a cool 74 degrees in the house. I don’t know if that actually warrents hot chocolate, but I didn’t want coffee or tea. :o)
Best present ever for christmas was, well…the memories I have around decorating the tree when I was small. Mom would make egg nog and we would get our individual ornaments out and decorate it. Warm and comfortable is what I think of and togetherness. As we (the kids) got older, that special time fell away and I ended up decorating the tree all by myself…but those earlier years where very special. Thanks for helping me rethink about it right now.
Danielle
http://www.pithycraggle.blogspot.com
on August 19th, 2006 at 8:04 am
That's SOOOOOOOOOOOO easy!
The best Christmas present I ever received weighed exactly 10 lbs. and was kind enough to wait until after his siblings opened their gifts–our third child, Duncan James, born Dec. 25, 2000!
on August 19th, 2006 at 8:26 am
Our Best Christmas Gift
Last year we received the best Christmas gift! We moved into our home a year before. It is a 1920 historic home and like most historic homes, needs a lot of work! LOL It has 3 porches on it! We always dreamed of having a porch to sit together and enjoy the evenings. Now we had 3 of them! However, now that we had the porches we didn’t have any porch furniture. We couldn’t afford the prices esp. not with more pressing needs in the home. When we awoke on Christmas morning I pulled the drapes back to see a swing hanging from our porch! There was a card and it was from our neighbors. They had secretly come over and installed the porch for us the night before!! I literally yelled and woke the whole family in my surprise. It was the best gift and we love it!! We were so shocked by the generosity of our new neighbors. ((Hugs)) Jessie
on August 19th, 2006 at 8:52 am
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Well…as I just posted Thursday on my blog, my best Christmas present ever was when I found out that I was pregnant with my second daughter right before Christmas in 1998….after six years of praying and waiting. That’s why she is named Natalie, which means “Christmas gift”….even though she wasn’t born until the following August. :o)
Of course…my other equally wonderful Christmas gift came a bit early on November 30, 2000…but he was due on Christmas Eve, so my Jared came very close to being an ACTUAL Christmas present!
on August 19th, 2006 at 11:50 am
I'm with you ..
I'm totally ready for fall. I'm like that at the end of every season .. ready to move on to the next. My hubby and I lived in Florida several years back and I couldn't take it .. hot, less hot, more hot, occasionally cool. I needed my seasons back!!
ETA: I have no Christmas present story. We aren't big gift-people around here. I got way too much growing up so none of it really sticks out at me. I don't want the same to happen to my children. So we don't give much to each other anymore. We try to focus on THE GIFT that spurred the season in the first place – the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
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on August 19th, 2006 at 1:28 pm
My worst Christmas present EVER!
I was 12 years old and I had known my best friend for over 10 years. That year I spent a lot of time and effort selecting a gift that was perfect for her and paid for it out of my hard-earned allowance. Around mid-December, our families met up (they lived about 70 miles away) and we exchanged gifts. We promised each other that our gifts would be the first ones we opened on Christmas morning.
Those two-plus weeks were the longest of my life. Every day I would spend an hour or so laying under the Christmas tree and looking at that present. I knew that she had given me something just as special as what I got her and I couldn’t wait to see what it was. I would turn it over and over in my hands, shake it a little trying to discern the smallest clue from the sound. What could it be? She had known me practically my whole life and knew me better than anyone. I just knew that this would finally be the gift that would be perfect for me. How could it not be?
Finally, Christmas morning arrived. Her gift to me was buried under the abundance of gifts that had arrived in the last few days leading up to Christmas. I quickly moved everything else aside to find her gift to me. I couldn’t decide. Should I just rip the paper off and see or did I want to extend the delicious anticipation longer? I chose to go the slow route and carefully undid the tape on each end. Slid my finger under the tape on the bottom of the package. This was it! This was finally the moment that had consumed my thoughts for over half the month. I slowly opened the paper and turned over the gift inside to find . . .
SOAP! She had given me a bar of soap.
Ever since that day, no one is allowed to put any presents under the tree for me until Christmas Eve and I don’t even look at them. I just can’t go through that again. Thank goodness it really is “more blessed to give than receive”! LOL
on August 19th, 2006 at 1:29 pm
Santa Banana
My husband’s family is really funny. They always get together and open gifts the night before Christmas and attend a Lutheran evening service… and have a glass of Cold Duck after Christmas Dinner. Every year, it’s always the same.
They also have a really cute tradition called Santa Banana. They select a person or two to buy the Santa Banana gifts each year and that person will check their list off all year and buy a GAG gift (humor-related) for each person in the family. Usually it has to do with some strange thing you are known for, a personality trait you have, a funny story from your past, or a physical defect (hence my husband’s lovely BEANO and LACTOSE PILLS one year).
One year, when my husband and I were dating, we were driving across Texas to get to the gathering for his family and got lost and went through a WRONG town. We probably added an hour or so to the drive because of the way we took to get there. Everyone laughed at us. That next year, our joint Santa Banana gift was a COMPASS.
His mom got a necklace of Circus Peanuts candy one year because she had gotten sick eating them at a county fair as a girl.
The gifts are always cute. They make you smile. Not sure if that would qualify as “Worst”… but it was what I thought of!
My husband would say that “Foot Cream” was his worst gift. One year I actually bought him some foot lotion by Burt’s Bees. Hey – he said his feet were dry?!?! I was just being practical! I felt really bad when he got me earings, though.
on August 19th, 2006 at 1:54 pm
Typing fast, so modem will not be struck by huge lightening bolts outside
This is a great contest. Ok, the second year that my husband and I were married…pre kids…he got me a fishin pole. (We lived smack in the middle of a city at that time (no water, no fish) Anyway, we moved to Pike county Kentucky and on our 3rd anniversary (in June, around 90 degrees) we went to the Big Sandy river at noon to fish. If you have ever been fishing, you know that is thee most miserable time to go fishing!!! Anyway, I never went fishing again, and it is one of HIS favorite poles now. Go figure! We joke about that Christmas all the time…
Jeni
on August 19th, 2006 at 5:17 pm
My most favorite Christmas present ever was…
given to me a few years ago from my mother-in-law. We went shopping together and passed an olive wood nativity scene. Up to that point, I didn’t have a nativity scene and thought this was the most beautiful one I’d ever seen before. Anyway, I pointed to it and told her that I had told my husband (her son) to save up this year for it. We didn’t have a lot of money at the time b/c of my husband attending seminary, therefore, the need to save up all year. 🙂 Well, unbeknownst to me, I went into a different store than my mother-in-law and she rushed back to the vendor and told him to wrap it up quickly so I wouldn’t see it. I had no clue…the trip to the mall was forgotten…then Christmas morning. She handed me the package and when I opened the box and saw the nativity scene, I burst into tears. I couldn’t believe she had gotten that for me. She then yelled, “Get the camera, David! She’s crying!” 🙂 That lightened up the intense moment. 🙂 I’ll never forget that morning and the kindness and love of my mother-in-law.
And, like you, I am so ready for autumn…
on August 19th, 2006 at 7:26 pm
Hmmm………
Best present: Stereo ( with a 5 cd changer, FM radio, and 2 tape players/ recorders)
Worst present: Women’s size 8 pants whe I was a 6 in juniors (may I also say that these pants were UGLY.)
Great contest! I love art and would REALLY like this program. Thanks for latting me enter!
on August 19th, 2006 at 7:29 pm
Hi, Jen!
I am praying for your son.
Blessings,
Karen
on August 20th, 2006 at 1:46 am
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Well, a Christmas present I recieve one time by my husband before we were engaged was a rubbermaid under the bed wrapping paper container. I’ll let you decide if it was the best or worst. I am not saying a thing.
Susan
on August 20th, 2006 at 1:56 am
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First of all, I totally agree with you about the weather: ugh. I moved to Texas from California, and I haven’t left the house in days. Central air conditioning is a gift from the Lord!
Secondly, I would really like to win this contest. I have always meant to include art study in our homeschool, but haven’t gotten around to it. This would really help! 🙂
And here’s my story for what it’s worth:
When I was about seven years old, I received the worst and best Christmas present ever. You see, I was a HUGE Sesame Street fan, and my favorite character hands down was Cookie Monster. As I was opening my gifts, I was hoping I’d get the fuzzy blue Cookie Monster doll with the hard plastic eyes on top of his head. I eagerly opened a big box addressed to me, and after a moment of shock and bewilderment, burst into tears. It was a box of diapers. (diapers came in boxes back then!) I couldn’t believe my parents would make fun of me for being a bed-wetter! I was devasted by their cruelty. Finally through my sobs I heard my mom tell me to open the box, and sure enough, there was Cookie Monster! They assured me they only used the box so I wouldn’t be able to tell what it was before I opened it, and Cookie Monster was all the more precious to me because he comforted my bruised heart. And I still have him 25 years later!
Thanks Jen! Denise
on August 20th, 2006 at 1:59 am
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Um….correction: I wasn’t devasted, but DEVASTATED. Thanks…:0)
Denise again
on August 20th, 2006 at 6:25 am
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My son David was born Christmas day in 1989 so he’s the best Christmas gift ever, well other then Jesus who also was born that day and well really David is adopted so I didn’t technically get him on Christmas day but I do want to win so I’m basically using him to exploit your contest and he’s a.d.h.d so I’ll never let him touch any of the art stuff cuz he’d loose all the pieces in like 2 minutes but the rest of us would really love it. (and I will get a tutor for my kids for language arts)
on August 20th, 2006 at 6:41 am
since you haven't picked yet
I’ll just ramble on. Because I already entered. Although I didn’t say “pick me!” … maybe I should this time, because this I really would like to win! So pick me! pick me!
I was going to tell you that I don’t remember a BAD Christmas gift. But my dad’s family has this obnoxious tradition of having to GUESS your presents. My dad will carefully feel all around the package. Heft it thoughtfully in his hand. Shake it carefully in each direction. Tip it this way and that to ascertain how the weight does or does not shift, and how it is distributed. After all this analysis he will come up with a guess like, “I believe this is a pair of socks, with a cat-bell-ball toy stuffed in the toe of the left sock, crammed into a paper towel tube that has been wrapped in bubble wrap.” And he’ll be RIGHT! And we’ll be stomping mad because we tried so hard to trick him. “I think this is a t-shirt wrapped around a brick, placed in the corner of a huge cereal box that still has 1/3 of it’s cereal in it” ARGH! What is he, psychic?
So we started making him guess the color of the shirt or the name of the book. And he STILL gets them right half the time. It’s crazy.
on August 20th, 2006 at 1:07 pm
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I’m probably too late, but I’ll try anyway.
I’d really like this curriculum for my little siblings; some of them are budding artists.
As for the best/worst Christmas present, I think the present that got the most dramatic reaction out of me was a Tshirt. I hadn’t gotten much sleep the night of Christmas eve, and was awoken by over-eager little ones at about 6:00am, and, as a result, was rather grouchy. The Tshirt was one of the first gifts that I opened, and it boasted a photo of a gorgeous dappled horse in mid-air, jumping for no real reason but delight. The scripture beneath it was Luke 6:23, “…LEAP for joy, for great is your reward in Heaven.” Just what I needed. I bawled.
Well, classes start tomorrow. I’m going to sleep.
God Bless!
on August 20th, 2006 at 5:20 pm
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It was my first Christmas in California and I had just started dating my husband to be. I missed the white winter of Canada ,where I grew up. He went home to Colorado to be with his family for Christmas and when he came back he brought me 2 things -a raggedy Andy doll his mom made to go with my Raggedy Ann from whenI was a baby and he brought me a SNOWBALL! He had wrapped it all up and put it in tupperware and carried it on the plane all day. Wasn't that so thoughtful? It was first of many unique gifts he's given me over the years. This Christmas we will have been together half our lives– 18 years!
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on August 20th, 2006 at 5:24 pm
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that last post was me, i don’t know why it didn’t put my name
on August 21st, 2006 at 1:10 am
Green Underwear
It was over 100 degrees here today… you better believe I’m ready for Fall. It’s really all about fashion ya know. The cute sweaters start coming out in the stores, I start to miss my jeans, my Birkenstocks are ready to be retired for the winter. I’m looking forward to bulkier clothes! I so enjoy the eating process that results in my 10 pound gain each winter (it’s an annual tradition)… and dread the losing of it each Spring. It’s time now that I get to stop trying to look good in a swim suit, and go for the CHOCOLATE!!!
Bad Christmas gifts huh? You know, I love all presents, so I can’t answer that one. I can however tell you my poor daughter’s worst Christmas gift (I still feel bad for her after all these years). When my oldest daughter was 6 (she’s 10 now); she was told by a well meaning (although clueless) relative, that if she was a bad girl, she would only get underwear for Christmas. Well, Christmas morning we went to my hubby’s parents. The first gift she opened from my ever practical mother in law was a pair of bright green underwear. My daughter was so devastated she went and hid behind the couch and cried for an hour. Luckily, my husband and I brought our gifts for her too…. and we do have a tendency to overindulge on the Christmas gifts. She was well taken care of….but it was a touchy Christmas none the less. Blessings ~K
on August 21st, 2006 at 8:17 am
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I just want to win.
I don’t have a worst Christmas present. And I can’t think of what my best one would be. I can remember the worst Christmas food I ever made, but that would make for a sad comment because no one wants to screw up Christmas dinner…
….so I just want to win.
on August 21st, 2006 at 9:35 am
The best Christmas present…
I got was a couple years ago, I want this LOTR poster…I had been wanting it for some time. When I went to look to see if they still had some they were gone! The next week when we opened our present I was sure mom had gotten it but it wasn’t with the gifts! Mom had me do a couple things and run downstairs to get stuff. I was so angry…
Then Mom and SuperAngel were laughing and I got even more mad and went upstairs. When they called me down they told me to stand in the office and then shut the door. I could still hear them laughing…
As I was standing in the office I turned around to muffle the laughing and saw the POSTER!!!
Low and behold mom had rolled up the poster and put it in her coat sleeve and carried it to the car that same night I looked for it!
The first time they had me go downstairs to get somethig i had passed the poster a couple times! See what I got for being mad and spoiled rotten? LOL
Have a Blessed day!
Sincerely,
My latest post: Keeper at Home: Dreams Unlived?
on August 21st, 2006 at 9:41 am
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I love fall too and can hardly wait for that crisp feeling in the air and the leaves to begin to turn. And is it just me or is everything a little more vibrant in the fall?
It’s hard to pick a favorite Christmas gift, and I can’t really remember a terrible one, so I’ll have to try. The Christmas I spent in India one of the guys on our team bought me a blender. It was an Oooster I think, some Indian imitation of an Oster! But I did a lot of cooking there, and apart from the little kerosine stove we had it was my only kitchen appliance. And (when the power was on) it was a big help. It even had a little spice grinder attatchment and that saved about 15 minutes of grinding whole spices with a mortar and pestle!
Happy (almost) Fall!
Rebeca
on August 21st, 2006 at 3:27 pm
I might be to late to
win anything, but I am feeling well enough to post again so I am going to anyway!
I was wondering what you meant about wildlife in an earlier post and then last night it was cool enough to turn off the a/c and open windows and some weird insect decided to make the LOUDEST BUZZING I’d ever heard! And I thought it would go on forever! Yikes! I have never heard such a thing and hope to never hear it again!
Best gift? I do have a boy that was born 12/29/98. A little late but the hospital gave me a baby size stocking to put him in! lol This year, I just want it to be next year so this latest gift can come out!
on August 21st, 2006 at 4:12 pm
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When I was 9, I found all the christmas presents (already wrapped) in my parents closet. I thought I was being sneaky by carefully unwrapping just part of the package, to see what was inside, and then tapeing it back up. I did this to all the gifts and then blabbed to my little sister about what we got for christmas and that there was no such thing as santa clause. I thought my parents had no idea what I had done, but on Christmas morning, all I got was CHARCOAL IN MY STOCKING! No presents. No candy. NOTHING!! At first I thought my parents were just kidding but I had to sit and watch everyone else open presents and eat their candy. It wasn’t until everyone else was done that my parents finally brought out a few presents for me. I sure learned my lesson…..about blabbing secrets to my sister, she cannot be trusted!
on August 21st, 2006 at 5:37 pm
fall IS in the air…
how do I know you ask? because at the University of Tennessee everyone is talking about FOOTBALL! Go Vols!
Ok – I wanna win too, but here’s my Christmas story. It’s kind of a combo best / worst.
My birthday is the day after christmas, so by the time I was about 9 I started to realize just how ripped off I was getting. Lots of those “here’s your Christmas & birthday present” combos. Well, when I was 9, almost 10, my dad left for the last (but not the first) time, and clearly wasn’t coming back. This was late November or early December if I remember right. This was obviously quite a blow to an almost 10-year old, and coming so close to Christmas didn’t help. Well, I remember waking up that Christmas morning with my mom, brother, uncle and granparents in the house and rushing downstairs to see the tree. What to my wondering eyes should appear, but about 10 gazillion presents. I’d asked for Monopoly that year and got three of them. I got enough GI Joes to start my own army, and enough Tinker Toys to build a barracks, airport and loads of cool vehicles for the GI Joes. There were Lincoln Logs and more games, hot wheels and I don’t even remember what else. In terms of raking in the loot, it was the best Christmas ever. And I don’t remember any gifts of underwear or socks that year 😉
on August 22nd, 2006 at 6:46 am
OOH! Pick me, Pick ME!!!!
😉
Worst Christmas present I ever got was the flu. The whole family was sick. Our extended family just MAILED us our gifts, they didn’t want to be anywhere NEAR our stomach-flu ridden house! blech.
Best Christmas present was my oldest daughter FINALLY calling me “Mama”. She was about 14 months old and had been saying DaDa since she was about 5 or 6 months old. *I* was DaDa, too. Christmas Eve, she called me Mama. awwww….
(now pick me! I wanna win!)
on August 22nd, 2006 at 6:52 am
Christmas Present!
Pick me! 🙂 My best Christmas present, albeit a few days late, was marrying my husband (of now almost 7yrs!) We were both in the military in CA, and got married over Christmas break while back East. It was Christmas-themed, but tasteful-forest green and cranberry, lots of candles, a tree lightly dusted with “snow”, poinsettias of dark red and cream… It was lovely! Definitely better than socks for a gift! 😀
on August 22nd, 2006 at 7:09 am
I wanna win.
Too hot to think of something clever. Pretty please?
on August 22nd, 2006 at 1:28 pm
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1! Who picks the number one. What’s wrong with the number two. I’m a sore loser can’t you tell fdfahdkjhdk
Glad you all gots to get away. I’m with you on the city stuff – maybe that’s my problem – MAYBE. : )
See you soon!
Maria