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I won't have a dime left after BF.

Yikes! I thought my list was long. I have about 35 to buy for.

Jamie preordered one for Hayden today. He is gonna be one happy little boy on Christmas morning.

On Christmas Day at noon we go to my dh's grandomther's. There's about 25-30 people there. That's just one place we go though.

My dh's grandfather is hard to buy. He likes to tinker around with old lawn mowers and stuff so every year someone gets him a case of WD40. Sorry, just realized that probably didn't help you any.

Here's the recipe that I use: 2 heaping T. flour 2 heaping T. cocoa 1 cup sugar 1.5 cups milk 1 T. vanilla flavoring Mix the dry ingredients together. Bring milk to a boil. Stir in dry ingredients and vanilla, reduce heat and stir constantly until thick. I find that it's best to use a whisk for stirring to make it smooth and I always add a little butter to mine. Also, if it's thicker than you like it just add a little more milk before serving.

I think Land's End does matching pj's.

Thanks, here's another post just for you.

bacon, biscuits, and chocolate gravy

After. We always eat Christmas breakfast (bacon, biscuits, and chocolate gravy) at my parents house.

You shouldn't feel guilty at all! IMO BF is a religion of it's own that we can all be a part of.

I have some friends who have icicle lights up on their porch all year round. They even moved their doublewide mobile home a few months ago and didn't even take them down.

Did you check the store locator? I did and was pleasantly surprised to find 2 stores closer to me that I didn't even know existed. Now I'm just going to call them to find out the details.

No, one time we did leave our tree up until March because it's just a PITA to take down. I was waiting on Jamie to take it down and he was waiting on me to take it down. Anyway, I was out shopping one day and he called to see if I cared if he invited some friends over to play poker. I said sure as long as he took the tree down first. He took it down, we had a poker game that night and everyone was happy.

The only stores around here that offer a free early bird gift are Sears ($10 GC) and JCPenny (snowglobe) and IMO neither of those are worth missing our on better deals at other stores.

Gloey, can I just say that your granddaughter is one very lucky little girl.

I also got a L in the tee and I think I've decided to order a XL in the sweatshirt, I think.

Cookies and milk of course.

I do photo cards every year. Usually just a snapshot and I order the cards at Walmart.

I don't even care. The closest one to me is 1.5 hours away anyway.

On Christmas Eve we always have dinner at noon with my stepdad's family then in the evening we have dinner with my FIL's family. Then, we come home and the kids get to open one present. It's always new pj's and they know that but they still love it.

My daughter is 3 and would also LOVE that camera as she is constantly getting my cell phone off of the charger and taking pics with it (she can't reach my camera), but I'll have a hard time justifying the $70 also. The pics really aren't even very good but if they are on sale on BF I'll probably go ahead and get her one.

I think it looks great. For some reason your house and all the stuff reminds me of my grandma's. I like it. :)

So do you guys order a size up on hoodies? I can't decide what size to get.