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Granbonny

Granbonny

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Mine is wrapping presents..:eek: Love to go and buy them..bring them home..but wrapping them..hate it..I always cut the paper too short, ect..Always lose the tape, name tags..ect. just hate it..:mad: ...I finally got finished..:D ..Even loading the car and took my daughter's family down to them yesterday..and put them under their tree..:) Bonnie
 
Wow Bonnie, your more organized than me.
I really don't have much fun freezing my butt off to buy a tree then putting up the tree, decorating it then putting up with all the needles on the floor for weeks on end. We just don't have enough room in this house to store an artificial one. This would be about 3rd on my list, the top two are better off not mentioned.
 
I don't like taking down all the decorations and orneaments,(especially since Don is a little (fill in the blank lol) and insists we put every ornament in the proper box. I used to be like Bonnie and not like wrapping, but then I idiscoverred the joy of gift bags, I buy a huge set in QVC, every couple years that have teeny bags to bag that would fit a bike and life got so much better. oh the thing i really don't like about Christmas is not having enough money, :)
Sadly alot of Christmases, Justin was recoverring from surgeries or had caths coming up that had us nervous.
One of my favortie things is, Justin had surgery when he was 18 months old in Oct. He was still having problems and was in and out weekly for months, He was able to come home on Christmas Eve for a couple days since we lived 10 min from CHOP, and he made a "beautiful" star out of construction paper with his name in glitter (with help in the playroom) and they laminated it, so it is still the star on our tree every year. I love it because it reminds me how much he went thru and how really Blessed we are each year especially now that he is tall enough to put it om the tree.
 
I love everything about Christmas. Bonnie, I wish we lived closer and I would come wrap your presents. My daughter brings me all of hers to wrap. She hates to wrap also. When I retire in a few years I am thinking about starting a service to shop and wrap for people. My husband said me shopping with others people money would make him happy.
 
hey
Lyn, thats awesome!

I think I love it all, my birthday is 3 weeks before christmas, so I get to celebrate alot, I love shopping, wrapping, decorating, cooking, seeing family, everything, its the one time of year that I get to focus on family and friends, and I love giving! Its also the time of year I remember how lucky I've been, I'm another year older, celebrating with a (semi) normal family, and friends.

this is the time of year my parents were struggling with me, so its gotta be hard on them. dad was talking to the guy that he was working with when he got the call that my mother went into labor for me this weekend at the grocery store, and he usually mentions that I was the one that they had all the trouble with. I dont know what its like, never will!

I guess the one thing that I could do without is having to figure out who's christmas is when, and where, and what's going on, as it is, we have the two "extended family" christmases, then dad's christmas, and mom's christmas. this just started in 2005, the year after the divorce, and sometimes it feels like I am being stretched too thin. Luckily these "christmases" are all within a half an hour of each other, I guess it could be alot worse!

cool topic!

Later

Morgan, 20
 
Great topic, Bon

I think this year I'm going to miss.....and don't shoot the messenger.....SNOW!!! Moving down here we're told there isn't much snow and what we do get doesn't last too long. While we didn't get a whole lot before, I'm a thinking we'll get even less now.

The second thing I'll miss is family. Since we're not heading north for Christmas, we'll be celebrating early with my cousin and her son. It seems this year everyone is all over the place. Next year I've already volunteered our hourse for Christmas.....and Thanksgiving. We'll see.

Evelyn
 
Gee Bonnie, I wish I was as organized as you.

I have trouble deciding what to get for people, once I've decided the shopping is fun. I love decorating the house but don't like taking them down, the rooms always look so plain for a few days.

But the thing I hate most is how impatient people become, they fight over car parks in the shopping centres, complain about waiting in line to be served and are too busy to say "excuse me" "please" and "thank you".

Mary
 
I love Christmas!!! I am a power shopper so I get a great feeling of satisfaction when the last gift is purchased. I buy for my wife and she does the rest. My nieces have even done some shopping for me this year.:eek:

I also love the music, church and secular. We drove around last night and checked out the lights that were up!! Some are painstakingly put up and some are super tacky.....I love them all:D

We always have everyone here for Christmas dinner and it is a lot of fun. But I guess my favorite thing about it all is "the reason for the season":)

Merry Christmas.
 
Granbonny said:
Mine is wrapping presents..:eek: Love to go and buy them..bring them home..but wrapping them..hate it..I always cut the paper too short, ect..Always lose the tape, name tags..ect. just hate it..:mad: ...I finally got finished..:D ..Even loading the car and took my daughter's family down to them yesterday..and put them under their tree..:) Bonnie
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Solution: Don't buy anything too big to put in a gift bag. :p ;)

I don't like wrapping either.

I love the rest of Christmas though. However we didn't put up our tree because our cats are Christmas tree terrorists.
 
I can not get in the Christmas spirit this year. I've been really under the weather with the flu already and can't seem to knock it. It's been going on for three weeks and I've gone through several rounds of antibotics, and I even got the flu shot. I think having the leuemia causes my old body just to rebell against everything I get.

We do have our lights all up outside but what a job this year. As we get older it gets harder and harder to get my husband to climb up and down the ladder. We live back on a farm down on a hill down an long lane and have about 14 white wire trees coming down the lane and six around the house. You can see them from miles away because we sit up so high in the field. It looks like a winter wonderland. They are beautiful at night but a job to put up. Then we have white lights all around the top of the house. This may be the last year for those. It's getting really too high and dangerous for Eddie to climb up and put them on and there's no way I'm going to climb that high. We always wait until December 1st to turn everything on. When we do, it lights up the whole hill. Beautiful! ! Taking them down the first of January is another story! !

What I don't like about this time of the year. I don't like to shop! I don't like the commercialism of Christmas. Most of our grandchildren are older teen-agers that they don't want presents, they want money so they can go after Christmas and hit the sales and get twice as much. Besides my clothes taste is nothing like the teen-agers now days. We only have three little ones to buy for that likes toys. That's easy! Their parents just give me list and I go get it. My three married children are impossible to buy for. They already have everything they want. We try to have a limit on each present but it always goes over. Christmas is an expensive time of the year for us with 13 grandchildren. We also have two birthdays in December. For that each grandchild gets to spend the day with Grandma and we go out to dinner and to a show and they go with me to buy one small gift. Each grandchild, old or young look forward to this special day with Grandma. Grandpa spends a special day with them during the summer taking them to the lake and fishing. Man stuff.

I love what Christmas stands for. I love the Christmas carols and pageants that are put on by our church and the schools. I love the cantas's. I miss singing in them but I got sick this year and couldn't participate. I love the freedom we have in this country to celebrate Christmas. I love the shine and the excitment in children's eyes this time of the year. There's nothing like it.
We have a traditional "white reindeer" Smith family party every year. I sincerely love that time when the whole family (around 45) can get together. It's a good time for all, adults and kids. We have a silly gift exchange. Everyone tries to bring the ugliest, dumbest gift they can find laying around the house. Sometimes it's the gift we happen to get from the past years. What fun! !

I didn't mean to write a book. But, yes I really do love Christmas. It's one of my favorite times of the year.
 
I'm not nor have I been in the Christmas spirit for over 10 years now. It's too commercialized, too much crap to deal with and isn't even remotely the same as it once was. BAH HUMBUG!
 
My husband and I went to the mall alone Saturday and the most fun part for me was watching the little kids go sit on Santas lap. Some of them are scared at first but some of them jumped right up in his lap and gave him a hug and started telling him what they wanted for Christmas. It was just like watching my kids do the same thing over 30 years ago. I stood there for over 30 minutes and just watched them.
 
terryj said:
My husband and I went to the mall alone Saturday and the most fun part for me was watching the little kids go sit on Santas lap. Some of them are scared at first but some of them jumped right up in his lap and gave him a hug and started telling him what they wanted for Christmas. It was just like watching my kids do the same thing over 30 years ago. I stood there for over 30 minutes and just watched them.
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How many times did you hear, "You'll shoot your eye out kid".
 
I love that movie. I haven't seen it this year yet. I watched it about 10 times last year. I told my boys the same thing when they wanted a bb gun. But they got one anyway amd they never shot anyones eye out. One of them did get their toungue stuck on a metal ice tray once trying to lick the side of it.
 
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