kadaten
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Evening all 
CANNONBALL!!! Hope I didn't get you wet Bartender (any of them will do...DH is out of town so a lonely girl is not picky!), I'll have whatever the lady on the floor is having 
Weren't there some QOTD:
Avatar: That's my current antennae ball. I use that one because I love Mickey and as a military wife am pretty patriotic
Christmas traditions: Oh my....LOTS of them...
--must bake and decorate Christmas cookies every year, with my mom if she comes, without her if she doesn't; give them for gifts, eat them ourselves, leave some for Santa, but we MUST have cookies....last year we were traveling and didn't do any
Year before that, we had 12 different varieties I love to bake
--we have lots of ornaments from childhood on up....while we take them out to decorate the tree we reminisce about where/why we got each one
--each child has their own mini-tree in his/her room with their ornaments on it....and some are on the big tree, too...
--stockings are a big deal in our house...almost just as aniticipated as the presents DH made all of ours....beautiful cross-stitched ones!! All four
--we open presents whenever everyone is there...Christmas Eve, Day, whatever....family are sometimes with us until the day before so we open when they're here.....with the amount the kids have been getting from the grandparents it usually takes 3 days to get through them all anyway
I'm putting my foot down this year....half of what's spent on them must go in their college account!! They have WAY too many toys, junk, etc....
--we always watch all the favorites....Charlie Brown Christmas, It's a Wonderful Life, Rudolph, The Grinch, etc....
--Christmas carols are wafting through the house....
--growing up we went to Christmas Eve mass....the early one as that's when the children't choir sang....but haven't been attending church regularly in awhile, but this will probably be back in our traditions soon....
I just love the holidays....we're already planning for this year's as we're having both families up...it's our last year in this house so we're going to do it up right
CANNONBALL!!! Hope I didn't get you wet
Bartender (any of them will do...DH is out of town so a lonely girl is not picky!), I'll have whatever the lady on the floor is having Weren't there some QOTD:
Avatar: That's my current antennae ball. I use that one because I love Mickey and as a military wife am pretty patriotic
Christmas traditions: Oh my....LOTS of them...
--must bake and decorate Christmas cookies every year, with my mom if she comes, without her if she doesn't; give them for gifts, eat them ourselves, leave some for Santa, but we MUST have cookies....last year we were traveling and didn't do any
Year before that, we had 12 different varieties I love to bake --we have lots of ornaments from childhood on up....while we take them out to decorate the tree we reminisce about where/why we got each one
--each child has their own mini-tree in his/her room with their ornaments on it....and some are on the big tree, too...
--stockings are a big deal in our house...almost just as aniticipated as the presents
DH made all of ours....beautiful cross-stitched ones!! All four --we open presents whenever everyone is there...Christmas Eve, Day, whatever....family are sometimes with us until the day before so we open when they're here.....with the amount the kids have been getting from the grandparents it usually takes 3 days to get through them all anyway
I'm putting my foot down this year....half of what's spent on them must go in their college account!! They have WAY too many toys, junk, etc....--we always watch all the favorites....Charlie Brown Christmas, It's a Wonderful Life, Rudolph, The Grinch, etc....
--Christmas carols are wafting through the house....
--growing up we went to Christmas Eve mass....the early one as that's when the children't choir sang....but haven't been attending church regularly in awhile, but this will probably be back in our traditions soon....
I just love the holidays....we're already planning for this year's as we're having both families up...it's our last year in this house so we're going to do it up right
iltink
