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| Thu, 12-02-2004 - 4:32am |
What was the best christmas present you ever got?
What was the worst present?
What is the big present for your kids this year for xmas?
Do you buy for all family members or only immediate family?
Do you have a certain Xmas tradition? Or one as a child? If yes, what?
What xmas was the best and why? The worst and why?
What did you ask for christmas? (sorry, this must be materialistic)
Do you do any volunteer work or make any donation to a certain group? Which one?
When do you put your tree up?
Have you finished all your xmas shopping?

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LOVE it!!
MB:
Awesome story. I got tears in my eyes. It brings back such great memories for me. When I had my first ultrasound, they thought there were two, but they couldn't tell. Then about a week later, I started bleeding and went in for another ultrasound and they were able to tell at that time. But it wasn't a complete surprise for me. I was on heavy-duty fertility drugs (the same kind of drug that lady in Iowa who had 7 took). I always knew I could have more than 1, and actually we always wished for twins. Once I knew I was pregnant, I always prayed for only twins (not more). My exh used to say he hoped we had twins, a girl and a boy; the girl would look like me and the boy would look like him. Funny thing is, he got exactly what he wished for. Too bad he couldn't handle it.
Donna
What was the best christmas present you ever got?
Probably this gorgeous Ralph Lauren sweater that my mother bought me two years ago that is still my favorite sweater.
What was the worst present?
Oh, there's so many. haha. My sister and I joke every year about our aunt who always buys turtlenecks and socks. but now that we're older, she's stopped, thank God!
What is the big present for your kids this year for xmas?
For Connor, I got him all the stuff to re do his room with a military theme. For Catrice, honestly not sure still. She's very difficult this year!
Do you buy for all family members or only immediate family?
Well, my parents and his parents and my aunt and my cousin. My sister and I don't exchange gifts. And all my other relatives live too far away and I really don't talk to them. But then my honey's family is big and we buy for a lot of them. I'm really annoyed by the whole thing actually because these are people we rarely see but, I feel like we have to since they buy gifts for us and he always did it before me, so I do it.
Do you have a certain Xmas tradition? Or one as a child? If yes, what?
As a kid, it was the advent calendar. That was A HUGE DEAL. And of course, the cookies and milk for Santa and the carrots for the reindeer.
Now with my kids we still do the cookies and milk and all that but we're not religious so we don't do the Advent calendar.
And it's always a big breakfast on Christmas morning. Gotta have it.
(hmm, my traditions are all about food!)
What xmas was the best and why? The worst and why?
Couldn't even tell you the best. All the ones with my kids have been great, just watching them be kids. The worst is when I was about 13 and my grandmother (my dad's mom ) died two days before Christmas Eve and we had to fly down to WV for the funeral on Christmas Eve. That was a really tough one, because my dad was devastated and I had never seen him cry, I didn't really know my grandmother that well but it was the first person I really knew who died so it was tough.
What did you ask for christmas? (sorry, this must be materialistic)
I asked my mom just to give me money to spend in Vegas. ;)
Do you do any volunteer work or make any donation to a certain group? Which one?
I do volunteer work with Girl Scouts anyway and we do stuff all year anyway but this year for Christmas we're caroling for the residents of an assisted living home and making them crafts. Plus at work we all chip in to Toys for Tots and I always give $ for the baskets they make up for needy families.
When do you put your tree up?
Next Thursday.
Have you finished all your xmas shopping?
NOPE, ack, every year I wntn to be done early and I start early and then I stop and it comes down to the wire!!! And this year I even had a christmas club acct so it's not the $. I just hate shopping soooo much!
Tara
Edited 12/3/2004 9:05 pm ET ET by cl-tcranky1
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