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Happy new year! Y'all stay safe and warm .

OK, I'm home. Don't hate me. LOL Seriously, I went to my mom's today, and actually took the ipad with me so I could do this, but then never even got it out of the truck. So, here it is. The list of names you've all been waiting for. Drum roll please... Secret Santa: nafcmf gave to Sunni0913 cjdav gave to Reinholt1 Sunni0913 gave to Reinholt1sMom Coastiwife to Ilikefree LainieB to Tyreejames Kash to Pepper_Mint_Tea HanShotFirst to Atipton129 princez916 to HanShotFirst angelbabymommy to cjdav tyreejames to Colemandawn4904 BFAddict to Gatorburg Gatorburg to IllinoisMom ilikefree to Jenndeere WillandMel to LainieB SBaldasare to Princez916 HillbillysWife to SBaldasare JennA to WillAndMel Jstluvem to AngelBabyMommy WittenLover to HillbillysWife YTMomof4 to JesusLuvU Pepper_Mint_Tea to MsYves BoPeep to nafcmf JenDeere to StevieRocks BudgetsRSexy to Tracy0504 Tracy0504 to BoPeep ColemanDawn4904 to JennA MsYves to Coastiwife Reinholt1 to WittenLover JesusLuvU to BFAddict716 IllinoisMom to BudgetsRSexy Reinholt1sMom to YTMomof4 StevieRocks to Jstluvem ATipton to Kash ORNAMENTS: nafcmf to ColemanDawn4904 princez916 to nafcmf Sunni0913 to BoPeep HillBillysWife to Princez916 Coastiwife to Pepper_Mint_Tea BFAddict to Jstluvem Jstluvem to WillandMel Pepper_Mint_Tea to Sunni0913 BoPeep to Coastiwife ColemanDawn4904 to BFAddict716 JesusLuvU to HillbillysWife Thank you all so much for making this so much fun every year! I am so proud and happy to be a part of this community. Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Happy Kwanzaa! Happy Holidays, whatever they may be, may they bring you peace and happiness! Tracy0504 and Sunni0913, thank you so much for my gifts and ornaments! I LOVED THEM! To the one person that did not receive your package - Please let me know if the post office does not find it. One way or another, we will make it right.

I’m sorry I haven’t posted the list yet! I’m about to go to the movies, but I will get it posted as soon as I get home. Merry Christmas everyone!

Got everything wrapped yesterday and today. Phew. Now to relax and wait for the littles to come tear thru it all .

Everyone has received, but 1. I feel awful, but I don't know what to do to fix it. The package was shipped on time, but it seems to be hung up at the post office. Fingers crossed that it is delivered tomorrow or Tuesday!

One of our Secret Santa packages was shipped on the 7th, and the USPS tracking still shows it "In transit".

You are welcome! Thank you all for making it so much fun every year!

Everything has been delivered, with the exception of 2 SS packages. Both of them show "in transit" in USPS tracking. Hopefully they arrive in the next day or so. One of them was shipped on the 7th! I have PM'd both recipients to let them know what's going on. Almost everyone has let us know they've received their packages. Thank you so much for that! It makes my job so much easier .

I haven't started wrapping yet. I was going to go in the spare room last night and at least cull out my son's stuff so he could help me with the rest. It's so overwhelming in there I said "forget it. I'll just send everyone in this room and tell them to pick out what they want!"

Santa came today! I'm like a kid with a shiny new toy, don't ask ME to wait for Christmas! LOL Thank you Santa, I love it all! I can't wait to try this cocoa. At some point this weekend, I WILL get a chance to relax. I'm going to put on these fuzzy slippers, make me some cocoa in my new cool mug, put my feet up and read this book while munching on peanut clusters. Thank you again!

Don't worry about it . I only need the tracking #s if the packages aren't received, so everything is good.

I have updated the list on the first page. If you've let us know you received, I've changed your name to blue. Please take a second to check the list and make sure I didn't miss your post. Thanks y'all!

Not everyone has shipped just yet, but I have heard from all but 1. I do hope she is okay, and just busy. The good news is, once again it doesn't look like we will need any elves to step up this year . Just my nagging reminder - PLEASE let us know when you receive your package. Save me the time of tracking it, please .

I talked my son into going with me this year. He burns the candles as much as I do, and they get too heavy for me to carry. Yeah, I'm never getting him to do that again. We got there at 5:00am, and they were already super packed. After a few minutes of his grumbling, I found an out of the way corner and told him to just stand there and I would bring the candles to him. LOL. We left with 24 candles though, and that should do us until the sale next year . I always get there at what time they SAY they are opening (they obviously open earlier as people are leaving when I get there). I wonder if it's actually less crowded later in the day. If everyone thinks like me, and thinks they'll beat the crowd by going early, it might actually be less stressful to wait until 8:30 or 9:00 (after the initial rush, but before the out and about regular shoppers).

So, I sat down with my iPad Saturday evening and did all the updates on my exchange spreadsheet. I keep the spreadsheet in Dropbox, and when I got into it this morning at work (don't judge me ), none of the updates are there! UGH. I don't know if I didn't save, or if it's because I don't have "real" Microsoft Excel on the iPad. I'm glad I keep all the messages.

I've heard from almost everyone with tracking #s or plans to ship. Several of us will be shipping early this coming week. Please please please be sure to let us know when you receive, even if you don't open right away. I'm so sorry.

Congratulations winners!

I received my ornaments today. Thank you so much!! I LOVE them both, but especially the "HOPE" one.

Happy December! Bluebear reminded me, I still have to go get the candy for the grandkids’ Advent calendar! Darn, late again.

Had a ton of fun. Spent a ton of money. Must have been a success, because I am exhausted.

There is a printed ad. I'm happy to send you one if you still need it.

Just my luck, none of the things on my list are on the early sale. But looking through the sale, I've added more to my list. Funny how that works.

Our mets were talking tornadoes on Friday, but they're backing off of that for now. We should have yucky drizzly weather Friday morning, which will stabilize the atmosphere and not let big storms form.

Last year, we had one received the same day, 11/23. In 2017, though, we had one received 11/8, two on 11/14, one one 11/15, and one on 11/17. (I'm a digital hoarder, so I keep the spreadsheets, LOL).

Rain rain rain. and mid 40s. But it's supposed to be sunny and nice all weekend, of course.