I should set that as a link on my favorite web sites so that I can stress every time I see it about what to buy!!

Yikes...how is it that something like that can cause such tension and my heart rate to race?

Thank goodness for the Christmas Club.

Just subtract 2 days from that....it'll be my birthday!

and less time than that for Thanksgiving
and less time than that for Halloween
and less time than that for Labor Day Weekend
and less time than that for first day of school

OMG!!!!! Where did the time go?

I was talking with my wife a couple of days ago and she mentioned something that she'd have to look into getting when the stores put out Christmas decorations. I told her I thought that would be sometime in August so she shouldn't have to wait too long.

And my daughter is getting married 5 days after that!
Oh, and my 3rd granchild is due 25 days BEFORE that!
STRESS!!!! Who me???!@!!:L@K#JK:OIU

But I've already started my Christmas shopping for this year - just got the big gift for my husband - the Steeler Fan - - now where to hid it for - How many days was that

I dont know how you can do that. I get so excited that I've bought a cool gift and I have to give it to them. I'm going to Seattle the week before Christmas to do my shopping.

I'm about a third done with my Christmas shopping. I don't like the pressure of doing it right before Christmas so I do it all year round. It's also easier on the wallet and sanity, plus people get nicer stuff if I do it year round because it's well thought out and I'm not running out of money.

I actually have a couple of gifts bought for this Christmas. I play mah jongg in Florida with 9 other ladies, and we exchange small gifts. Trying to find something small but nice (and cheap!) for 9 people has been a challenge, but I usually find it in those mail order catalogs. Last year, I gave them all little candles in ceramic Christmas cups. The year before, I went to Bath and Body works and got a selection of those small but potent air freshner sprays. (They have the most perfect scented lilac spray I have ever smelled! Just like the flowers.)

This year, I found small bottles of bath salts and fun note pads. So, each bag will have one of each in them. I got cat note pads for the cat lovers; flower note pads for the gardeners amoung us; and sunglasses note pads for the beach bums. I might also add a nice or funny pen or pencil if I can find them.

Gifts I have received from these ladies include candles, holiday themed paper plates and napkins, ornaments, and figurines. Cute, small, but fun to get and give.

The hard one is MOML. Don't get started on Christmas when I haven't even come up with his birthday gift yet! (Not til Sept. so I have time.)

Okay, so this isnt the first time I've asked this but I've never gotten an answer... what does MOML stand for?

-=ThePaul=-

MOML = Man of My Life

ahhh, thank you DQ

-=ThePaul=-

The question has been asked and answered numerous times, but, it all depends on which thread and where in the thread you are to see it.

I know I don't read every post in some of those very long threads!

It's a tradition in my family to spend a day Christmas shopping at Pike Place Market in Seattle.

I thought it meant My Old Man Larry....