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[xthe10thdoctor]

Mama’s Holiday Wish List Meme

TodaysMama (link to: http://bit.ly/tmwishlist) and GameStop (link to: http://bit.ly/gamestop10) are giving away a sleighful of gifts this holiday season and to enter I’m sharing this meme with you.

1. What is your holiday wish for your family?
That everyone is happy and healthy.

2. What is your Christmas morning / Hanukkah Nightly tradition?
Swedish pancakes, watching A Charlie Brown Christmas, and playing with gifts

3. If you could ask Santa for one, completely decadent wish for yourself, what would it be?
To get everyone together in one place.

4. How do you make the holidays special without spending any money?
By spending as much time together as possible.

5. What games did you play with your family growing up?
Clue was a favorite.

6. What holiday tradition have you carried on from your own childhood?
Stockings for everyone, not just the children.

7. Where would you go for a Christmas/Hanukkah-away-from-home trip?
Essex, England, to visit my partner's family and friends.

8. Check out GameStop (link to: http://bit.ly/gamestop10) and tell us, what are the three top items on your GameStop Wish List this year? Xbox 360 250GB Holiday Points Card Bundle , Dead Space 2, Dragon Age

Comments

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Stockings for everyone, not just the children.

Okay, quick question: do you think gifts in stockings should be separately wrapped, or is the stocking itself wrapping enough? (Ours never were wrapped when we were kids, but we might've been outliers on the curve; and US customs might be different anyway; and I Need To Know...)

[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

Sometimes yes, sometimes no, sometimes a bit of both.

I think the best is when the nicest bits ARE wrapped, with little loose items not wrapped to pique the interest--with something perfect and whimsical in the toe of the sock. But there are always candies and fruit that wouldn't naturally be wrapped. Filling a holiday stocking is an art, I tell you.

This year nothing is wrapped in the stockings, because I have been a bit 'whelmed.

EDIT: It's important, when the kids still Believe in Santa, that any artifacts of Santa that are wrapped be in different paper. So if the stockings are wrapped, you see, it can't be in the same paper as any family gifts, which can present logistical difficulties.