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ohhhh i love looking at the lights, sitting in front of the fire watching Christmas Movies,wrapping presents,Putting up the tree, The smell of dressing/stuffing baking, oh shoot I LOVE everything about the Holidays

It's begining to feel a lot like Christmassss Congrats To you all!!!

Welcome to all the new members!

Welcome to all the New Members!

I just checked amazon (I didnt see the love puppy) but they do have quite a few others to choose from starting at $13-I just ordered the pug for my nefew-so cute

you might try posting your Q in the Technology part of the forum. to GD

i think that means it is a one time only entry vs where you can enter daily for some contests. Hope that helps and

I got an email with log in info for the site(after I sat there and the page timed out-so I guess they got the inital info )...so I logged in and there was the survey you might ceck your emails and see if they sent you login info

me either been sitting here 40mins and it is still on the first page yiyiyiyi

to all the new members

I get about 75%of what i sign up for(with that said I usually only sign up with well known companies)...sometimes it takes wayyy longer than the form actually says On your list of not recieved I have gotten the peterbuilt keychain-it is nice my son took it degree deoderant jergens lotion country bobs coupon so maybe give it some more time I also remember seeing on the "What I recieved" thread that someone did get the GM travel mug I know this is about what you didnt get...

Big Ol' Gotta Deal Welcome to all the new members!

Thanks for the tip. The HI express has a morning breakfast, indoor pool and a movie every nite out by the pool,so if there is bad weather the children will have something to do. I guess $90 isnt that bad however after you have been a part of this site the "Deal" part of you comes out and you keep trying to get a better "Deal" LOL Thanks again

wow what a bargain! unfortuantely I dont know anyone affiliated w/ HI express... Marcster I did that and they quoted me the same rate as I could get online. I even signed up for their "priority club" thinking that would offer me a better rate LOL no such luck. Thanks for the replies!

Does anyone know where/how I could get my hands on some discounts/coupons/promo codes for HI express? We are trying to plan a quick inexspensive spring break trip next week and this hotel has an indoor pool for the kiddos... The cheapest I found it was $90-I was hoping for the $50-65 range any ideas? TIA

my son wears Abercrombie & Hollister Cologne he also has a collection of the Tag body sprays as well as axe

I just bought my dd(13) the creative zen M 30gb mp3 player. The thing is loaded, however it was reg $250 but I paid $199 @ amazon so not exactly cheap. I did a ton of research on amazon reading others reviews of different mp3's you might check into the creative zen V 4gb is around $130 and 2gb around $120 & 1gb around $90 We only have expierence with creative zen products so thats all I can comment on.

For the past 9 yrs we have had a similar theme at dh's dads & smil- I think it bothered me more than my children and I have tried to tell myself it's ok, they didnt have to buy anything for mine, especially the older 2 because I am divorced and they have thier dad and his side of family that buy out the wazooooie for them. I have 3 children 2 from a previous marriage, the first couple yrs they gave lil $1 toys-while the cousins(there are 3 of them-they are around the same age as my children) got very nice gifts, mine were little and really didnt notice- I was new to the family with 2 children that werent actually blood relation. Things did get a lil better over the yrs the dollar store toys stopped and they started buying clothes which is a nice thought even if they were to small or to big Now that my children are older 13,11 & 9 they do notice and this year my son age 11 actually said something to dh and me, we just reminded him to be gracious & say thank you, sometimes we get things that we dont like,that doesnt fit or isnt our style. She never gives us a gift reciept nor will she tell me where she bought the clothes, so I can at the very least exchange for the right size. Where it really breaks my heart is with my youngest who is actually a blood relation grandchild, this year she sat there patiently waiting for her gift to open, watching everyone, when mil asked dd if she liked what she got her reply was "I didnt get anything" turns out my dd's gift was given to the cousin by mistake so she opened it...well once it was straightened out my dd got a very nice pair of pink levis and 2 shirts all size 6 my dd wears 9/10. It kills me that she watches her cousins open up no less than 10 gifts each and she gets one box. I dont mean to sound ungrateful I honestly dont and yanno she didnt say a word to us on the ride home but you could tell she was heartbroken and like comm402 said "it ticks me off to see my children hurt". Santa always leaves extra for my lil jess due to the fact her older bro & sis always come home Christmas day with 2 garbage sacks full of stuff. This yr on Christmas Eve my dh dropped us off and said he had an errand to run, needless to say Santa thought Jess had been a very good girl Even tho I am divorced we never raised our children as a step family(they were 6months and 1 1/2 when we started dating), my 2 older ones call dh dad and his side of the family are respectively Grandma,papa etc....I think next yr there will be some changes made for our holiday house visits, not to punish anyone but save everyone some heartache-(we already over compensate with dd b/c of the older 2 getting so much from ex's side of the family and I dont want her thinking this is how things work-it's unfair to her and us) We found out that mil bought the clothes at stage and went to exchange them but they didnt have the right size in stock so they gave us a store credit for the 3 items of $10.97. I do agree That it's the thought that counts BUT when your asked what size your children are then get stuff thats not even close well....It sure tests you as a parent,because i dont want my children seeing me acting ungrateful or saying anything, they are so impressionable and take their cues from their parents sometimes. anyways sorry for my long rant I agree with the original point of sometimes a gift reciept would be most helpful.

This is one of our Family & friends Favs Spiced Shortbread 1 1/4 cups flour 3 tablespoons brown sugar 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1/4teaspoon ginger 1/8teaspoon cloves 1/2 cup butter(softened) Preheat oven to 325 degrees. In a mixing bowl combine flour,sugar and spices. Cut in butter till mixture resembles fine crumbs and starts to cling. Form the mixture into a ball and knead until smooth. On an ungreased cookie sheet pat o roll the dough into an 8 inch circle.With a knife or pizza cutter , cut circle into 16 pie-shaped wedges. Bake for 25 to 30 mintuesCut circle into wedges again while warm. Cool on the cookie sheet for 5 mintues. Melt choclate(almond bark works best) and drizzle on top of the cookies. I use dark chocolate and white chocolate. Yummy!!!! Happy baking and eating!!!

too cute ~ thanks for sharing

That ROCKS! You just made someones day maybe their entire year~sometimes all it takes is "paying it forward"....The world needs more ppl like you! May God Bless you and Your Family

I too am still waiting on a few things to be delivered ,Keep the faith! Everything will work out~we still have 5 more days

cool,sunny in the 50's we have rain coming in 2nite but we are to warm for another storm like we got a few weeks back so more than likely rain sporatic

firemansgal, I Love snowmen and that lil star fish is so original! So cute Now I am wishing when we were at the beach this past summer I would have stocked up on starfish and made lil ornaments like this for family and friends to cute!

I so Love the wreath too! I posted about it in another thread before I saw this one... awesome