Turtle Mommy

Nope. The joys of Florida!!:)

It depends on the teacher. This year Ds#1 finally got a full time teacher so I will have to wait and see. His discovery teacher(special therapy teacher) I normally do $20-$25. Ds#2's teacher I will most likely do $20-$25 too.

Exactly what my attorney told me!

Last year we had bacon, sauage and homemade waffles. I am not sure what we are going to do this year.

I agree.

I have never bought one. Ds class did a gift exchange and he got one last year. It just sat and sat and I had to throw it away.

We put some outside.

Ds was 7. Dh and him were on their way to Home Depot. Ds said, "Daddy I am going to ask you a qestion and I want you to tell me the TRUTH." My dh said "of course buddy what is it?" Then ds said "Is Santa real??? Remember you said you would tell me the truth." To dh's answer "No buddy he is not. It is Mommy and Daddy." OMG I cried and cried when he told me. It was about 2 hours later and he comes running into my room and says, "Well if Santa is you then the easter bunny and tooth fairy must be you too..right?" GRRRrrrr.. He loves helping us bring gifts out for ds#2(he is 5) and loves that he knows the secret. He is 12 now.

BF is all about my boys. If someone wants something they better get up as early as I do and get out and get it. I am focused on my boys and family that day.

Same here. :)

I bake cookies with my boys a few days before Christmas. On Christmas Eve we go look at nights and then go to the local park that is all lite up and let the boys play for a while. It usually is full of families so the boys have a blast.

I have the Sizzix and LOVE it!! I hope the Circut goes on sale for you! Maybe check your local SB store and see if they take the joann's or micheal coupons. I know my local one does. HTH!!

YUP!! Last year my Dad had to save the day! I went to 5 stores and they were ALL OUT! My Dad grabbed the last one at the corner store near him. THis year I got smart and ordered the paper. It should start coming every day next week! I am NOT making the same mistake twice!(Actually I will still get up and get one because we dont have a toys r us near us so I have to go into Orange county to get on there. Dumb I know)

Me too :)

I am not having them yet. 2 years ago however I was BIG time. As of December 23rd I had not bought 1 thing for ds's.(that year was on time I didnt get to do BF. very sad year. :lol )Dh owns his own business and we didnt know if we were going to get any extra christmas money. OMG talk about stress! My friend babysat and dh and I were off to shop all day the 23rd. I never want to do that again!!!

I leave my house at 430 to get to Walmart. I am about 10 minutes away. Target is right next store so I grab what I need at Walmart and head over to Target. (On a side note: Target was so organized that I had what I wanted and was out of there in less that 10 minutes!! I was amazed!)

This year I am only getting for my boys(and dh) on BF. I might get some Bday gifts(for school) for through out the year. My niece and nephew have bdays in Jan so I am going to get them done too.

I usually go out with my Mom. She does not do the bf but does go out either Sat or Sunday after.

We have one and my kids love it. It actually came with the house! My friend has one too and her dh was not liking the idea so they compromised and put it in the ground(put the legs in the dirt). So when the kids just on it if they fall off they are not going to fall that far.

Same here too!

We do cookies and a can of Pepsi. :lol This year it will have to be diet because "Santa" gave up regular Pepsi. We also do the reindeer food outside. (I will be doing reindeer "poop"(wet dry dog food!) this year outside thanks to someone's idea here! Thanks to who posted that!)

It is over 5 yrs but only the last 3 yrs have been back to back years.

I have a huge storage closet I hid it all in. I just bought a new lock for the door this past weekend. I always loose the key by the next Christmas because I only lock the door when there are gifts in there. I have to clean it out and get ready for presents. I think I am going to set a table up in there to make it easier to wrap this year.

I usually spread it out the first few weeks in December. One year I waited and had a ton of stuff to wrap 2 days before Christmas and I vowed NEVER to do that again!

Last year Walmart had the Noah's Ark and Zoo for $10.00 each. I thought that was a pretty good deal for FP toys. I got them both for my nephew.