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just Czech · Give Me Grand's!

RE: Christmas Preparations

Cheerios4606 · Guru

My first short term disability check did not come today. Ugh. Xmas will be tight! :\

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

just Czech wrote:
Lawyerlady wrote:
just Czech wrote:
Riding wrote:
I have all cards out, all gifts that need to be mailed, have been mailed, baking is done and gifts...ARE not wrapped at all, they are all over our guest room. I do daily go in there and organize the tape, scissors, paper and name tags, so I am all ready to go, but then after looking around I swoop right on out and shut the door. It really is not tons, but I AM JUST NOT IN THE MOOD!

We are under a Winter Storm Warning and tons of snow coming down and wind and dropping temps. I really need a snow day or two and I *promise* to get those presents wrapped...yes I will

You're sending all that wind, ice and snow my way, aren't you.
I forced myself to wrap what gifts we do have this afternoon. Only four left to get done!
On Thursday, (after the storm passes that you are send me) DH and I will finish our shopping. Hope to be done with the job over the weekend.
Not a single card has been mailed yet. I am so behind on cards..
I have a solution for this. Our church did it this year. The Lottie Moon fund is in a serious deficit, so our church decided that we are not sending Christmas cards to each other and instead we are adding the cost of the cards and postage we are saving to our Lottie Moon offerings. So, you could go on Facebook and announce that in lieu of Christmas cards this year, you will be donating money to Lottie Moon so that their missionaries can spread the word of Jesus to all the world.
Now that's a cool idea! Thanks, LL!
Our church has a missionary fund, I think I will donate that money to them.

Any mission will work! Bless the people that go!

Lindley · Guru

just Czech wrote:
Lawyerlady wrote:
just Czech wrote:
Riding wrote:
I have all cards out, all gifts that need to be mailed, have been mailed, baking is done and gifts...ARE not wrapped at all, they are all over our guest room. I do daily go in there and organize the tape, scissors, paper and name tags, so I am all ready to go, but then after looking around I swoop right on out and shut the door. It really is not tons, but I AM JUST NOT IN THE MOOD!

We are under a Winter Storm Warning and tons of snow coming down and wind and dropping temps. I really need a snow day or two and I *promise* to get those presents wrapped...yes I will

You're sending all that wind, ice and snow my way, aren't you.
I forced myself to wrap what gifts we do have this afternoon. Only four left to get done!
On Thursday, (after the storm passes that you are send me) DH and I will finish our shopping. Hope to be done with the job over the weekend.
Not a single card has been mailed yet. I am so behind on cards..
I have a solution for this. Our church did it this year. The Lottie Moon fund is in a serious deficit, so our church decided that we are not sending Christmas cards to each other and instead we are adding the cost of the cards and postage we are saving to our Lottie Moon offerings. So, you could go on Facebook and announce that in lieu of Christmas cards this year, you will be donating money to Lottie Moon so that their missionaries can spread the word of Jesus to all the world.
Now that's a cool idea! Thanks, LL!
Our church has a missionary fund, I think I will donate that money to them.

Lottie Moon Fund is dear to my heart. We give every year to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering. They are really good in supporting their Missionaries. My dd was one. ETA: I know a lot of other Mission Offerings do as well. I just know more about this one.

-- Edited by Lindley on Tuesday 15th of December 2015 04:29:41 PM

Lindley · Guru

Cheerios4606 wrote:
My first short term disability check did not come today. Ugh. Xmas will be tight! :\

I hope it comes soon. I know the mail is slow this time of year.

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

Lindley wrote:
Cheerios4606 wrote:
My first short term disability check did not come today. Ugh. Xmas will be tight! :\
I hope it comes soon. I know the mail is slow this time of year.

Ouch, sorry about that!

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
Lindley wrote:
Cheerios4606 wrote:
My first short term disability check did not come today. Ugh. Xmas will be tight! :\
I hope it comes soon. I know the mail is slow this time of year.
Ouch, sorry about that!

Will the rest be direct deposit?

flan

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

DH and I wrapped all the gifts tonight. I didn't bake any treats. I think I'm going to go through the stocking stuffers tonight.

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

Our den looks like the Whoville post office with all the gifts piling up.

And the "Santa" gifts aren't in there yet.

It's crazy.

weltschmerz · Guru

I have a small silk poinsettia wreath hanging on the wall in the living room.
Sushi the Destroyer does not want it there.
He'll either leap from the floor to try to knock it down, or go via the stairs and try to claw it off the wall.
It bugs him, for some reason.

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

weltschmerz wrote:
I have a small silk poinsettia wreath hanging on the wall in the living room.
Sushi the Destroyer does not want it there.
He'll either leap from the floor to try to knock it down, or go via the stairs and try to claw it off the wall.
It bugs him, for some reason.

Probably ruins the feng shui of the room!

flan

Fort Worth Mom · Mod/Penguin lover/Princess!

flan327 wrote:
weltschmerz wrote:
I have a small silk poinsettia wreath hanging on the wall in the living room.
Sushi the Destroyer does not want it there.
He'll either leap from the floor to try to knock it down, or go via the stairs and try to claw it off the wall.
It bugs him, for some reason.
Probably ruins the feng shui of the room!
flan

Or, he's just a cat.

Doing what comes natural, to cats. wink

I've got six of them.

They will attack, the silliest things...over nothing. confuse

It's just what they do. smile

(And yes, it can drive me nuts. But, they are part of the family, so, I accept it.)

weltschmerz · Guru

He doesn't want to play with it. He just smacks it off the wall.
All the other decorations don't bother him, the big bows, the hanging stars, the icicles...just this one thing.
He has issues with it.
Who knows what goes on in their little cat heads.

Southern_Belle · Nothing's Impossible

I wrapped a strand of lights around the deck railing a few weeks ago. Red, blue, green and yellow. The strand is those small lights, there's 15 different settings for whichever effect one wants. First the yellow lights stopped working. Now only two green lights work. It's so sad. Now I will need to go get new lights and pull down the old lights and put new ones up. Bah. Humbug!

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

I have more gifts to wrap tonight. chef gave me a yummy recipe to try so we're munching on that and watching the finale of Survivor. Then I'll wrap the few presents I have left. We don't have near as many presents as we normally do but we did high dollar items this year. And gift cards for the b/f. He couldn't decide what he wanted.

NAOW · Vette's SS

The storm last night blew all our outside lights off the house, and it's still to icy to fix them. By the time the snow clears I don't know if DH is going to want to put them back up just for a few days.

Fort Worth Mom · Mod/Penguin lover/Princess!

weltschmerz wrote:
He doesn't want to play with it. He just smacks it off the wall.
All the other decorations don't bother him, the big bows, the hanging stars, the icicles...just this one thing.
He has issues with it.
Who knows what goes on in their little cat heads.

Isn't that the truth! wink

I've got a bunch of them...and, I can't always figure out what is going on, in their cat minds. confuse

I guess, we just have to roll with it, welts.

Right? smile

weltschmerz · Guru

Fort Worth Mom wrote:
weltschmerz wrote:
He doesn't want to play with it. He just smacks it off the wall.
All the other decorations don't bother him, the big bows, the hanging stars, the icicles...just this one thing.
He has issues with it.
Who knows what goes on in their little cat heads.
Isn't that the truth!
I've got a bunch of them...and, I can't always figure out what is going on, in their cat minds.
I guess, we just have to roll with it, welts.
Right?

Right. It's all we CAN do.

chef · Guru

I can't wait to be done with wrapping. We're waiting on the rest of our order from Walmart's photo center to arrive. If I had known what a fubar'ed mess their photo center is, I wouldn't have bothered. I will be emailing a complaint once the order is safely in our hands. The part of the order that has arrived is done nicely, at least. The rest is supposed to be here by Saturday.

msrock · Guru

Wrapping is done. Tree is up. Outside is decorated! Merry Christmas Geeks!

just Czech · Give Me Grand's!

msrock, your home, tree and gifts are beautiful!

Thank you for sharing. :)

just Czech · Give Me Grand's!

NAOW wrote:
The storm last night blew all our outside lights off the house, and it's still to icy to fix them. By the time the snow clears I don't know if DH is going to want to put them back up just for a few days.

Oh my. IVY!

The poinsettia's blew out of the blue spruce last night. I'm not sure we will find all of them. The tree looks sad with only about half of it's red poinsettia's, but the lights work.

Maybe your DD's will talk him into putting the lights back up.

msrock · Guru

just Czech wrote:
msrock, your home, tree and gifts are beautiful!

Thank you for sharing. :)

Thank you! Merry Christmas Czech to you and your family (except Husker...lol!) I absolutely love this time of year. It's going to be the best Christmas EVER because my grandbaby is going to be here to share it with us! I wish each and every one of you the happiest of holidays. I really enjoy coming here and sometimes I don't participate in conversations but I'm a stalker... following you all! aww

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

I just spent 2 hours wrapping gifts. And I forgot I needed to make cookies tonight. Good thing I have a lovely box of Christmas Tree cookies from Belguim.

just Czech · Give Me Grand's!

msrock wrote:
just Czech wrote:
msrock, your home, tree and gifts are beautiful!

Thank you for sharing. :)
Thank you! Merry Christmas Czech to you and your family (except Husker...lol!) I absolutely love this time of year. It's going to be the best Christmas EVER because my grandbaby is going to be here to share it with us! I wish each and every one of you the happiest of holidays. I really enjoy coming here and sometimes I don't participate in conversations but I'm a stalker... following you all!

Merry Christmas to you and your family as well, msrock. So glad you get to enjoy that grandbaby over the holidays.

You are welcome to stalk anytime it pleases you. smile

just Czech · Give Me Grand's!

Lawyerlady wrote:
I just spent 2 hours wrapping gifts. And I forgot I needed to make cookies tonight. Good thing I have a lovely box of Christmas Tree cookies from Belguim.

I give up on baking.

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

I have tons more baking to do but we've been wrapping up loose ends.

msrock · Guru

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
I have tons more baking to do but we've been wrapping up loose ends.

I gave up on baking long ago. Now I only want meat. lol! I do appreciate your effort. It's amazing. smile

Merry Christmas NJN! I'm happy to know you. biggrin

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

msrock wrote:
Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
I have tons more baking to do but we've been wrapping up loose ends.
I gave up on baking long ago. Now I only want meat. lol! I do appreciate your effort. It's amazing.
Merry Christmas NJN! I'm happy to know you.

Thank you! I've loved getting to know you too. I really love cooking/baking. All of it. It's so fun to me. I want to make cranberry pound cake. And baklava. I don't know why. DH calls it experimenting. I call it having fun. If I get time I'll make banana bread for all my neighbors.

chef · Guru

msrock wrote:
just Czech wrote:
msrock, your home, tree and gifts are beautiful!

Thank you for sharing. :)
Thank you! Merry Christmas Czech to you and your family (except Husker...lol!) I absolutely love this time of year. It's going to be the best Christmas EVER because my grandbaby is going to be here to share it with us! I wish each and every one of you the happiest of holidays. I really enjoy coming here and sometimes I don't participate in conversations but I'm a stalker... following you all!

Did your DD have her baby or is the due date close?

msrock · Guru

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
msrock wrote:
Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
I have tons more baking to do but we've been wrapping up loose ends.
I gave up on baking long ago. Now I only want meat. lol! I do appreciate your effort. It's amazing.
Merry Christmas NJN! I'm happy to know you.
Thank you! I've loved getting to know you too. I really love cooking/baking. All of it. It's so fun to me. I want to make cranberry pound cake. And baklava. I don't know why. DH calls it experimenting. I call it having fun. If I get time I'll make banana bread for all my neighbors.

I love that about you. You've inspired me to do more. In my own way of course because i don't bake. lol. But with my own neighbors... I am going to be gold this Christmas season. I've got gifts.. for my neighbors from the most irritating critter around. Kiddie Rock will be out delivering gifts on Xmas Eve! aww

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

That's sweet Msrock. I just find it so fun to give a gift. I love taking stuff to my neighbors and their faces lighting up like "You remembered me?"

msrock · Guru

chef wrote:
msrock wrote:
just Czech wrote:
msrock, your home, tree and gifts are beautiful!

Thank you for sharing. :)
Thank you! Merry Christmas Czech to you and your family (except Husker...lol!) I absolutely love this time of year. It's going to be the best Christmas EVER because my grandbaby is going to be here to share it with us! I wish each and every one of you the happiest of holidays. I really enjoy coming here and sometimes I don't participate in conversations but I'm a stalker... following you all!
Did your DD have her baby or is the due date close?

She's due on Dec 21 but if baby doesn't come they will induce labor because she has gestational diabetes and they won't let it go past the due date. So I will be an official grandma by Dec 25th!

NAOW · Vette's SS

Wow! Any day now msrock! How exciting!

chef · Guru

msrock wrote:
chef wrote:
msrock wrote:
just Czech wrote:
msrock, your home, tree and gifts are beautiful!

Thank you for sharing. :)
Thank you! Merry Christmas Czech to you and your family (except Husker...lol!) I absolutely love this time of year. It's going to be the best Christmas EVER because my grandbaby is going to be here to share it with us! I wish each and every one of you the happiest of holidays. I really enjoy coming here and sometimes I don't participate in conversations but I'm a stalker... following you all!
Did your DD have her baby or is the due date close?
She's due on Dec 21 but if baby doesn't come they will induce labor because she has gestational diabetes and they won't let it go past the due date. So I will be an official grandma by Dec 25th!

Awww! I hope her labor/delivery is smooth and uneventful and that she has a healthy baby. You're going to have so much fun snuggling that precious newborn!

I have to say I love December babies. But DS is a December baby so I'm biased wink

msrock · Guru

NAOW wrote:
Wow! Any day now msrock! How exciting!

It is so exciting! Thank you NAOW! Merry Christmas to you and your family! How exciting for you too and your little ones. We all have so many things to be thankful for. aww

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

Congrats Msrock! Well congrats early!

msrock · Guru

chef wrote:
msrock wrote:
chef wrote:
msrock wrote:
just Czech wrote:
msrock, your home, tree and gifts are beautiful!

Thank you for sharing. :)
Thank you! Merry Christmas Czech to you and your family (except Husker...lol!) I absolutely love this time of year. It's going to be the best Christmas EVER because my grandbaby is going to be here to share it with us! I wish each and every one of you the happiest of holidays. I really enjoy coming here and sometimes I don't participate in conversations but I'm a stalker... following you all!
Did your DD have her baby or is the due date close?
She's due on Dec 21 but if baby doesn't come they will induce labor because she has gestational diabetes and they won't let it go past the due date. So I will be an official grandma by Dec 25th!
Awww! I hope her labor/delivery is smooth and uneventful and that she has a healthy baby. You're going to have so much fun snuggling that precious newborn!
I have to say I love December babies. But DS is a December baby so I'm biased

I love reading your posts about you and your little chef. Thank you for your good thoughts! Makes me smile. Merry Christmas! smile

msrock · Guru

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
Congrats Msrock! Well congrats early!

Thank you. aww

chef · Guru

msrock wrote:
chef wrote:
msrock wrote:
chef wrote:
msrock wrote:
just Czech wrote:
msrock, your home, tree and gifts are beautiful!

Thank you for sharing. :)
Thank you! Merry Christmas Czech to you and your family (except Husker...lol!) I absolutely love this time of year. It's going to be the best Christmas EVER because my grandbaby is going to be here to share it with us! I wish each and every one of you the happiest of holidays. I really enjoy coming here and sometimes I don't participate in conversations but I'm a stalker... following you all!
Did your DD have her baby or is the due date close?
She's due on Dec 21 but if baby doesn't come they will induce labor because she has gestational diabetes and they won't let it go past the due date. So I will be an official grandma by Dec 25th!
Awww! I hope her labor/delivery is smooth and uneventful and that she has a healthy baby. You're going to have so much fun snuggling that precious newborn!
I have to say I love December babies. But DS is a December baby so I'm biased
I love reading your posts about you and your little chef. Thank you for your good thoughts! Makes me smile. Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

NAOW · Vette's SS

msrock wrote:
NAOW wrote:
Wow! Any day now msrock! How exciting!
It is so exciting! Thank you NAOW! Merry Christmas to you and your family! How exciting for you too and your little ones. We all have so many things to be thankful for.

Thank you and Merry Christmas to you as well!