I somehow have managed to get a really good start on DD for Christmas. She's an only child and every year I say I'm going to rein it in, but that never works. She really doesn't ask for nor receive much throughout the year and I just LOVE Christmas and LOVE that at 9, she still believes, so I just go nuts at Christmas. I can't help myself!
Right now, she has NOTHING on her list for Santa, which is very odd for her, but I have managed to get started with ideas I have. So here it is so far:
A gift card tree. I have been picking up gift cards here and there to her favorite places....Justice, Aeropostle, the movies, Claire's, Itunes, the nail salon, Gather & Glaze...and I bought a little table top tree that I'm going to tie the gift cards too and leave under the tree.
She still plays with her AG dolls and has asked for a armoire for the clothes, so I found one on
Amazon that I bought and I found some cute outfits (not AG brand...she's not bothered by the accessories NOT being AG). I do have my eye on the ski outfit from AG because we are going skiing for the first time in January. Waiting for a free shipping code
I am also making up a Magician kit. She went to a magic themed birthday party recently and now is into that. I found a book of tricks at the 5 Below store and bought a cape & top hat cheap on Amazon, as well as a magic deck of cards and book to go with that. I am going to go through the book from 5 below and gather the "items" she needs to perform tricks (most are just stuff I have around here). I went to Garden Ridge yesterday and found a cute trunk (more like an old style square, hard suitcase) to put all of this stuff in.
Finally, I have a little spa kit started for her. I have picked up some things cheap throughout the year, including a nail dryer machine (from Justice) and am keeping a lookout for a spa wrap & slippers. I got a hair turbie thing (she likes to wrap up her hair after a shower while she primps and a regular towel is so heavy). I am going to get some kind of kaboodle to put some nail polish and other "spa" items in too I think.
Sounds like a ton now that I've written it all out, but it really isn't and I've gotten great deals of most of this stuff. Now I will just wait and see what she actually asks Santa for. I'm hoping the jewelry armoire idea will pop into her head, because that's what I'd like to get her. We redid her room last spring and she uses 1/2 of my armoire and I know she'd love her own in her room, but I want it to be her idea and that could be her big gift under the tree. She has hinted at some new outfits for her dance classes and a new dance bag too, so we'll see.
I have a few stocking stuffers too including a necklace with her name on it that she picked out at the beach this summer, a set of Mad Libs that I found at Marshalls and she wants a cover with "bling" for her iPod Touch.
I know my mom is gathering scrapbook stuff her for her. She loves to make scrapbooks and my MIL is good with getting her clothes so I get all my bases covered.
As for the rest of my family, for my niece(6) & nephew(4) I am making up a movie bucket kit that will include a microwave popcorn bucket and in that I will put a movie for each of them (something from the $5 Target bin on Black Friday), some candy and I bought the plastic popcorn holders in the dollar spot at Target. I also have gotten each of them a puzzle and will get them each a book at DD's school book fair.
For my nephew(13), probably just a gift card to Gamestop
For my parents & my in-laws....I have no clue!
For DH - I think we are going to not do anything other than stuff stockings this year. We had to replace our A/C this summer and I just bought a double bagger for our riding mower (I am the lawn girl and so I'm OK with this) and we are taking a ski trip in January and so we all need snow pants & coats, so that will be Cmas.
I love Cmas and can't WAIT to start decorating
I was actually listening to Christmas music the other day. My kids think I am crazy but hey, it makes me happy, why wait until December? (or in my case Nov. 1st) 
I can't complain though, dh lets me "shop" for myself for Christmas and I already got my gift for this year. I was going to going to get myself a Pandora charm and earrings during their free bracelet promo but I decided I would rather have a new DSLR camera. Looks like I can scratch another person off my list 
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