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Tue Dec 19, 2006 11:37 am  |
Only six more sleeps and it is Christmas! I love christmas and will have poor hubby up at the crack of dawn. We normally get up ,showered and still make my sisters to see my nieces and nephew open their gifts.
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Tue Dec 19, 2006 11:45 am |
OMG..you just made me realize how really close Christmas is!!!! I still have half my shopping to do  |
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Tue Dec 19, 2006 11:53 am |
Omg is right cant imagine going shopping last minute like that aries. I have been done and wrapped literally for months. We have so many to buy for I like having it done and finding original ideas.
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Sherri |
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Tue Dec 19, 2006 1:11 pm |
I just haven't had the time this year. Last year was easier and I told myself I'd start right after Thanksgiving, but it's come down to crunch time for me!!!  |
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Tue Dec 19, 2006 1:19 pm |
6 more sleeps? Are you kidding me? That's IT???
I haven't even started by Christmas baking yet... and my week is crazy, full time job, final exam (class at Ottawa U), etc...
I just don't know how I'll manage!!! Eek! |
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Tue Dec 19, 2006 1:32 pm |
Hasn't it come around quick!
Hubbys just taken a phone call from his work, would he like to work on Christmas Day?! His answer, NO thank you! |
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Tue Dec 19, 2006 2:49 pm |
I love christmas too! 
no matter how far in advance I start thinking of gifts and planning - there's always a ton of last minute things to do.. all part of the fun! |
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Tue Dec 19, 2006 5:07 pm |
| That's so cute to think of the wait in terms of sleeps! Makes me look forward to sleeping more, too. |
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Tue Dec 19, 2006 5:58 pm |
Hee hee - I think this every Sunday night ... 5 more sleeps until the weekend!  |
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Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:03 pm |
| ariesxtreme wrote: |
| OMG..you just made me realize how really close Christmas is!!!! I still have half my shopping to do |
oh god, me too. I manage to procrastinate every year. |
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Tue Dec 19, 2006 7:34 pm |
I'm not ready either. Scarey, it seems every year goes by faster and faster.  |
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Tue Dec 19, 2006 11:00 pm |
| One more gift to buy... Hope there are still Dora things at WalMart!! |
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Wed Dec 20, 2006 1:09 am |
| marci65 wrote: |
| That's so cute to think of the wait in terms of sleeps! Makes me look forward to sleeping more, too. |
I thought the same thing. Very cute way to put it. Actually used it on the 5 yr old to get him to go to bed, he threw his head on the pillow, closed his eyes with a big smile on his face, then pretended to be snoring 
I have been SO busy I haven't shopped at all yet!!! And I'm normally done by Thanksgiving.... |
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Wed Dec 20, 2006 4:09 am |
Sherri, you're so cute!! My little nephew always counts down like that too, he has to know exactly how many "sleeps" there are before any major event .
Candy I'm amazed you can find time for any shopping at all with a job, family and your own business all going on at the same time! |
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Wed Dec 20, 2006 5:26 am |
Ha, I said it to my children too, and they loved it.
very cute! |
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Wed Dec 20, 2006 7:27 am |
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Sherri, you're so cute!! My little nephew always counts down like that too, he has to know exactly how many "sleeps" there are before any major event .
Candy I'm amazed you can find time for any shopping at all with a job, family and your own business all going on at the same time! |
We do countdowns - I meant the term 'sleeps' - it's just so adorable. I think it's a really sweet thing as a kid and wonderful to take into adulthood.
LOL - that's the point! I haven't finished. Luckily I had a little foresight and have picked up things here n there. My nieces and nephews are done just gotta do my little one and stocking stuffers for the whole gang.
Which may take this thread a bit OT but - how big of a deal is the stocking in your celebrations?
As kids it was more like the 'treat' stocking, but in hubbys it was a BIG deal. So much so I stressed for YEARS over what to include in it. It's now to the point in our house where the stocking is a far bigger deal than any gifts under the tree. 1 requirement, there must a freebie in it, 1 item must be handmade, 1 is to be worn, 1 is to be given to another, after that it's imagination. |
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Wed Dec 20, 2006 7:36 am |
| Candy8865 wrote: |
| fifi wrote: |
Sherri, you're so cute!! My little nephew always counts down like that too, he has to know exactly how many "sleeps" there are before any major event .
Candy I'm amazed you can find time for any shopping at all with a job, family and your own business all going on at the same time! |
We do countdowns - I meant the term 'sleeps' - it's just so adorable. I think it's a really sweet thing as a kid and wonderful to take into adulthood.
LOL - that's the point! I haven't finished. Luckily I had a little foresight and have picked up things here n there. My nieces and nephews are done just gotta do my little one and stocking stuffers for the whole gang.
Which may take this thread a bit OT but - how big of a deal is the stocking in your celebrations?
As kids it was more like the 'treat' stocking, but in hubbys it was a BIG deal. So much so I stressed for YEARS over what to include in it. It's now to the point in our house where the stocking is a far bigger deal than any gifts under the tree. 1 requirement, there must a freebie in it, 1 item must be handmade, 1 is to be worn, 1 is to be given to another, after that it's imagination. |
Wow, Candy! That's major league - I'd break down from the stress of it because a) I am a born procrastinator and b) I thrive in chaos.  Sounds cute, though! I love your "sleeps" use, as well, and am well in agreement on taking things into adulthood. It is "Le Fun" to be silly and sweet - keeps you young!
I only have one (!) more sleep left until I get my Christmas present - going to Montréal tomorrow afternoon to SEE MY HUSBAND! Merry Christmas to me!!!!!!! Wheeeee!!!!!
One more sleep, one more sleep!!! |
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Wed Dec 20, 2006 8:57 am |
Is it weird that I actually like to go shopping when the malls are full and have to stand in line for 40 min to checkout? Carrying 7+ bags while dragging your winter coat and bag around with your shopping bags, sweating in your turtleneck sweater while scrounging around the piles to find the size small sweater you're looking for in the color green. Anyone else like this?
Maybe that's why I always wait til the last 2 weeks to do my xmas shopping. For some reason I thrive on the mall being filled with shoppers and the loud noise that rumbles over the ceilings, it gives me a sense of the holidays . Everyone thinks I'm crazy. |
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Wed Dec 20, 2006 9:03 am |
| That loud rumbling noise could be the men in white coats coming over for you . I hate the last minute shopping madness, try to avoid it whenever possible - it makes me come over all humbug-ish. |
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Wed Dec 20, 2006 9:07 am |
Yes - it is weird....
I'll be out shopping today, so if you hear some ruckus and see a woman strangling some cashier....that'll be me
| ariesxtreme wrote: |
Is it weird that I actually like to go shopping when the malls are full and have to stand in line for 40 min to checkout? Carrying 7+ bags while dragging your winter coat and bag around with your shopping bags, sweating in your turtleneck sweater while scrounging around the piles to find the size small sweater you're looking for in the color green. Anyone else like this?
Maybe that's why I always wait til the last 2 weeks to do my xmas shopping. For some reason I thrive on the mall being filled with shoppers and the loud noise that rumbles over the ceilings, it gives me a sense of the holidays . Everyone thinks I'm crazy. |
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Wed Dec 20, 2006 9:15 am |
| ariesxtreme wrote: |
Is it weird that I actually like to go shopping when the malls are full and have to stand in line for 40 min to checkout? Carrying 7+ bags while dragging your winter coat and bag around with your shopping bags, sweating in your turtleneck sweater while scrounging around the piles to find the size small sweater you're looking for in the color green. Anyone else like this?
Maybe that's why I always wait til the last 2 weeks to do my xmas shopping. For some reason I thrive on the mall being filled with shoppers and the loud noise that rumbles over the ceilings, it gives me a sense of the holidays . Everyone thinks I'm crazy. |
Same here, aries! I actually think empty malls are emtremely depressing. When I'm done shopping, I make a point to go to the mall near my house alone this time of year and just wander around It's my yearly tradition. It makes me so happy... |
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Wed Dec 20, 2006 9:24 am |
| Candy8865 wrote: |
Which may take this thread a bit OT but - how big of a deal is the stocking in your celebrations?
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They're a pretty big deal in my house! My sibs and I each have these HUGE stockings with our names on them that were hand-knitted when we were born by my Grandmother's housekeeper (I think she was from Norway??). Anyway, once I got married my Mom couldn't abide the idea of DH not having a big stocking of his own (to say nothing of the little mer-babies that my Mom hopes will be coming in a few years^-^), so she taught herself how to knit stockings and made one for DH with his name on it. |
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Wed Dec 20, 2006 10:01 am |
Candy,
They (stockings) were a bigger deal when I was younger, but now not so much. I wish I bought stockings to hang this year at the house but I don't have a chimney to hang them from. |
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Wed Dec 20, 2006 10:44 am |
6 more sleeps? Those 3 words make me feel like a kid again. We use to start the countdown about 2 weeks before Christmas, and it always seemed to take forever to get here! Now it comes fast as lightening!
Thank God I've been done since Nov., can't stand the crowds. I really still love the holidays though and can't wait to get together with my family!  |
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Wed Dec 20, 2006 12:54 pm |
| So excited! |
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