how was your christmas????

[mitcore]

mine was full on as always
i am thankful it is over for another year :19: :19:

my kids had a good time we were up at 7am and didnt stop until about 11pm

we had a christmas lunch with my family and today is with the in laws,

there was toys everywhere and stepping over them was the challenge for the day


other then that no one got drunk and everyone had a good time all round


tell us about your day


hope is was fun filled i wish i had something funny to tell but my family are fairly boring

[Lady Hobbs]

My Christmas was great. I got to pop about 50 snails and that's a lot more fun that popping those air pockets in bubblewrap around stupid Christmas presents. LOL

Enjoy those hetic Christmas with the kids. Before you know it, it's all over and you'll always wish you were right back to that time again.

[Rue]

We open gifts on Christmas Eve after a nice dinner...today we veg and I make a formal turkey dinner...

That's what I'm doing right now...cooking stuff! Turkey wasn't quite thawed as early as I usually try for, so we're eating a tad later than normal (7:30)...so we're still 'doing' Christmas!

I got a brown leather office chair (economy model, but still very nice) and a an art book - Horse Art Throught the Ages...

The 12 year old got an iPod Vidoe that he can't figure out (oh boy), the others mostly got clothes and some games and whatnot...

But the big household gift to everyone is Cable TV and hi-speed internet...

Should have the connection in 3 weeks (I hope).

[tropfish]

Well, i got the 55g! Also, i got a nice running watch, a running chain, some running clothes, regualr clothes, DVD's, etc it was a good christmas

[Lady Hobbs]

I was thinking, wouldn't you just die if that tank was a tank your dad got for your mom and wasn't for you at all. LOL

[tropfish]

haha, i think i would have a heart attack. well it took me a couple hours this morning but it's all set up. i kept all the rocks and sand wet so i didn't lose much bacteria. i was gonna use the 29g filter with the cartridge but the floss was all gunky and falling apart. my fish seem so small now lol. i'll get pics soon.

[Lady Hobbs]

Did you jump up and down and act surprised or was you standing there with the gravel in one hand and the water in the other.

[tropfish]

my mom said go downstairs and uncover the birds and i thought "here it comes" so i had went downstairs and went omg and ran back up. i was like i got a 55g! (this is all for my 9y ear old brother b/c my parents want him to believe in santa) and then i was like ok i'm setting it up! and 4 hours later... lol

oh btw duhh lol, we also got the wii, and my whole family came over for a party and we played it all day. and everyone thought the tank was huge! lol

[Rue]

LOL...boy...would THAT ever be funny...if the tank wasn't for him at all...:14:

[RichBowyer]

In a word, wonderful.

This is our first Christmas that has the family spread out all over. A slight bummer there. The earing$ I got my wife just didn't cut it. Nice earing$ and not cheap but just didn't look good on her. Back to the $tore for those. I ordered myself a laptop, and got me some of the usuals, spent too much on my wife and kid but I always do...

So my Mom and Dad moved an hour and a half away about five weeks ago and Mom has been ill ever since, refusing to see a doc. We think she just stressed out and shut down. She has agreed to see one this week and we visited today. Mom was in great spirits and was laughing for the first time in over a month. I can't ask for a better Christmas than that.

[tropfish]

it's good to hear that your mom will see a doctor. all in all sounds like a good christmas!

[Lady Hobbs]

She is lonely I bet and depressed. Hard sometimes to make adjustments and Christmas adds to it. She will be OK once she gets "used to it". At least I hope she does.

I lost my mother 2 years ago this week and my brother 3 months before her. Sucks.

[Algenco]

Got to spend the day with my kids and half the grandchildren, step-Daughter couldn't make it, thats 2 grandkids I missed.

All in all I was happy, my Son was here for 26 hrs.( Lives and works in Shanghai )

As Hobbs said, enjoy those kids while you can, one day they will be grown and having everyone together doesn't happen very often

My Daughter told us she is pregnant(#4)

[squirt_12]

my christmas was good...we unwraped presents at around 8 a.m. and then we had my grandparents over and they had brunch with us. Then we got ready and went to our other granparents house for dinner.

all in all it was a fun day...well i still have about 40 minutes left of the 2007 christmas day. lol.

and we are going to my one grandparents house tomorrow for boxing day...should be fun.

[cocoa_pleco]

awesome! along with all of the other stuff i got i just found a frozen beer in the snow

[A340]

Christmas was pretty good over here. Just glad it's over, now it's time to relax ... thumbs2:

We got another pretty good dumping of snow today, which should make boxing day rush quite a bit of fun.

[Rue]

I luv Boxing Day...we're heading out to do some 'traditional' Boxing Day shopping (yes, I know! ), I buy next year's Xmas cards and calendars...

...and this year I'm doing something new...visiting a couple of the people I volunteer with, but at their care homes...

[cocoa_pleco]

lol, im gonna run to aquagiant and get another light while its boxing day

[MeganL3985]

What is boxing day? (I know its a Canada thing, thats it)


My christmas....waking up at 9am, being shocked and running to my daughters bedroom to make sure she was still okay (she usually wakes up no later than 7-7:30am), she was just starting to wake up as I opened her door. lol Took her downstairs, got to look at her presents, then the opening started. She was funny. She would pull half the paper off just to see what it was and move on to the next one. lol She liked everything though and has been playing with all of it non stop since yesterday. She got a ton of stuff this year.
Then my parents, my sister, my husband and I exchanged our gifts together. That was really nice. I got an outfit with a couple pairs of socks, a new purse and wallet (rob calls it my luggage b/c its a big tote bag purse lol), a double circle pendant necklace, the newest harry potter dvd, and i'm getting my python today. All in all it was good day. This morning my dad took my sister back to Pennsylvania. I sure do miss her. She's thinking about moving down here in May though, once she saves up some money for an apartment and some other stuff. I really hope she moves down, but her interest in things change with the wind....so who knows if it'll really happen.

[cocoa_pleco]

boxing day is when almost every store sells last years stuff at cheap prices. i know bestbuy and futureshop have ipods for like $50 and plasma TV's are cheap. last year boxing day i got a 36" plasma HDTV for only a couple hundred. they also sell lots of videogames cheap.

people wait early morning to be the first ones in stores for boxing day and its worth it!

[MeganL3985]

So its not like anything to do with the sport of boxing? lol

[A340]

What is boxing day? (I know its a Canada thing, thats it)
They don't have Boxing Day in the US? I didn't know that. Guess it must just be a Commonwealth Nation tradition then.

A quick run down on Boxing Day, originally, in the middle ages, Boxing Day was a time when Employers or Lords would give gifts to their staff or the less fortunate.

It then evolved into the day when you would bring back or exchange the gifts you didn't need or care for.

However, as Cocoa mentioned, in recent times it's become the days of big sales and insane shopping spree's. The deals one can get can be pretty amazing.

[cocoa_pleco]

lol, nope, no boxing, just a bunch of cheap stuff

however, i thought the US had boxing day?

[tropfish]

no, this whole week is just really busy in stores b/c people get giftcards/ have to exchange things. there really isn't that many sales going on.

[cocoa_pleco]

that sucks. im off to run to aquagiant like a little girl now with money for a light! lol

[tropfish]

i can't wait to go to the lfs! i have 75$ worth of petsmart gift cards and a $75 visa card pluss like $200 in birthday/ christmas money. Half the money goes in the bank and the rest is going into the 55g lol.

[cocoa_pleco]

finished boxing day shopping and got a 90g $300 for $90

[Matt23]

My christmas was excellent! I got $250, a Nintendo DS Lite (I dunno why I got it) I got a candycane from OscarFan, and a lot more! Thank you a lot for asking!

[Incredulous_Ed]

Well, on chriastmas eve, I was at my grandmothers house until late, as all of the family goes over there and opens presents. On christmas, me and my dad visited my uncle who has MS, then I spent the rest of the day at my grandmother's house. It was cool.

[mitcore]

boxing day is also an aussie day too

we spend it with the other side of the family and shopping LOL

i thought boxing day was world wide LOL i guess the US has thanks giving and we have boxing day

[Futureboy]

mine was excellent

Got a Nintendo DS lite aswell, a new mobile, some clothes, one of those scrolling L.E.D belt buckels and belt to go with it some bits and peices dvds books etc shot glasses

and my cars being painted

started it out christmas eve did the present thing with my gf and family then went drinking at a pub later on (where i got a heap of free drinks due to some snappy thinking)

then christmas breakfast and played around in a pool for awhile then my parents went away friends came over and had a great party

then slept all day boxing day

was awesome