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we do a sausage stuffing/dressing with one pkg pepperidge farm cornbread stuffing,celery,onion,sage/poultry seasoning 2 slices bread toasted and cubed,2 cans chicken broth,sage sausage(1lb) 1 egg 1&1/2 cup sharp cheddar cheese(reserve 1/2 cup for topping) cook sausage crumbled and mix with other ingrediants top with cheese bake 40 mins or so @350 A nice change of pace for green beans- 6 cans green beans(drained),2-3 TBSP butter,half of an onion chopped and 3-4 cloves garlic chopped/sliced melt butter with onions and garlic till translucent in a large deep skillet add green beans-sprinkle in some dried basil and let simmer-they are very good and very easy

I love this and do it every yr...saw some actual boo kits at the small mart this weekend(typically we do the photo copy and buy our own bags) but opted to do both this yr(kits from wal mart & use our photo copies) since we wanted to "boo" neighbors,2 parents on our football team(we do this at practice) and it is a service project for the pta at our childrens school where we "boo" 2 teachers.... what did you put in your sacks? we do candy,popcorn balls,erasers etc... this is such a blast!

Welcome to all the new members! Your gonna love it here...

I know i am getting excited too-I was at Tuesday Morning today and they have some really nice ornaments,I almost bought one but thought I would wait till I at least have a name lol...

Colleen last year it was set up on the grocery side of the wal-mart supercenter on 121st & Elm-

we hang ours on our front door which slowly becomes a beautiful holiday decoration-I always hate taking down the cards,the children even fight over who will hang the next card we get in the mail....ahhhh I love the holidays!

We do the salvation army's angel tree and the OU sooners tree-I feel like it's so important our children learn about giving, especially during the holidays-our soft spot is/are other children that are our childrens ages and seeing what they write down for gifts-our children are always amazed that they usually ask for the necesities,gloves,hat,scarves etc...we always try and find an age appropriate toy or game to go with what they asked for. Also there always seems to be a family at one of our childrens schools that need some help during the holidays-so we do a ding dong ditch santa with a basket of family goodies...it's not much but we do try and do our part to help others out...

when we did real trees we always put an aspirin in it to make it last which worked, also, trimming the trunk of a tree helps -to many alergies to pine needles has made us get a fake tree but I sure do miss the smell of a real tree, I just cant take it- aaaachhhooooo

We eat that on New Years Day plus fried pork fat LOL-it is a tradition in our family

Thats us Gottadealers! Bigger and better than the yr before! Thanks eve for taking this on again this yr, I am so happy I can be a part of it....

Glad I could help~it really is a lot of fun & something "everyone" can participate in.

This is what the Holidays are all about! I am sure no matter what you do they will appreciate it~I truly am humbled after reading this post...

I think my dh would divorce me IF he knew how much time I actually spend on GD! Eventho' we have found some GREAT bargains,Spectacular Freebies and I have made some good $$$ doing surveys and such-I dont think I wanna know....

What a GREAT idea! I always wanted to be like the Griswalds and drive out to the tree farm(minus the ummm accident & frost bite) and pick out a tree but I fell in love with the fake prelits-guess I will stick to the movie...but what a great way to get that fresh tree scent in your home!

I know this is the 1st place I check in the am & the last place I check b4 bed and lotsa times in between...I GD

our tree is prelit ith white lights and "if" we put up outside lights they would be white also. No blinking tree here either

I will be in the market for 3 digital cameras this yr dd-a very easy to use & inexspensive one but still nice in the $100range my mom- my sisters and I plan to go in together to get one myself- so I cant wait to see what kinda sales there will be

My sister bought it and I am not sure from where-it is really cute,I will try and call her tonight and see if she remembers where she got it from. after a quick search I found the one she has it is $8.95 on ebay http://cgi.ebay.com/CHRISTMAS-BINGO-FAMILY-BOARD-GAME-NEW_W0QQitemZ150061933630QQcmdZViewItem

we play Christmas Bingo-which is essintially Christmas themed bingo cards or 42 which is a dominoe game kinda like spades.

we put everything in the attic-the one place they refuse to go. My children are such snoops!

we typically give a gc of some sort to the teacher or if we know of special likes we will do a themed gift basket. As far as music,pe,art,nurse,principle-we always give a Christmas card and a small gift like cups decorated with their name and what they teach filled with candy or Like rockfordmom suggested an ornament. I can tell you those teachers are left out so we do try and get them a lil something.

Last Christmas I got my dd(at the time she has just turned 13) a ring watch-my other dd who is 9 wanted it, unfortunately I only bought one-thats all i have heard from my youngest dd is I want a ring watch....my dd got lots of compliments on hers and no one else had one so for her that made it extra special. Perfumes were a huge hit around here as well.

Kandy this is what we do also-I think our kiddos look forward to thier new ornament just as much as gifts-a couple yrs ago they started getting me ornaments so my tree wont be bare when they growup and move out.

Ditto on the PM~