I'm calling UPS and hope they can ship it out ASAP
ok Who messed up? I thought we all had an agreement to ship all our snow to @MinnieM123! Somebody messed up big time because I just looked out my window and saw an inch of unexpected white carp
UPS isn't open yet so I just turned on a fan and pointed it your way. You can have all of mine as I want none of it.I'm still waiting here . . . we're only supposed to get up to an inch at some point, starting this morning. I keep looking outside -- nothing . . .
I was about 7 years old when I figured out that my mother put the bags of gifts in her closet (she had a good-sized, walk-in closet). One day when she went out, I snuck up there and very carefully opened up the bags and put everything back exactly the same as she had it. It was so exciting to see what toys I'd get for Christmas! 
But then . . . I had guilt . . . 
And when Christmas morning came and I opened up my presents (and pretended to be surprised 
), I was kinda bummed that there were no surprises at all. After that, I didn't hunt for my gifts anymore 
. I preferred to be surprised on Christmas morning.
Now that's what I call a party!Wait a minute . . . ALL those people are not from both sides of the family??? That's just ONE side of your family??
So . . . if BOTH sides of your family were to get together, I guess you'd need this venue to host the gathering:
Everything ended up passing us. I'm okay with that. (Knocks on wood)ok Who messed up? I thought we all had an agreement to ship all our snow to @MinnieM123! Somebody messed up big time because I just looked out my window and saw an inch of unexpected white carp
This makes me think of Mater's quote. "He did what in his cup?" For the longest time that went right over my daughter's head until she finally realized what he meant. "Mom, did you hear what he said?
" Yes, we watched this a few hundred times.
Either my lasagna or curry recipe is going on mine
yes
Ugh....that's one of my pet peeves. If I'm in front of you, and I'm not done unloading, you shouldn't be putting things up there. You don't know how much space my stuff will take up. But I'm also a person who, if I have a bunch and the person behind me only has 2 or 3 things, I will ask if they want to go first. And I hate it when someone comes up with a hugely full cart when I've only got 1 or 2 items and rush to get ahead of me in the line. Like really? I'd get there before you and you'd have to wait for a whole 30 seconds for me to check out but you're in such a hurry that you have to cut me off so you can make me wait for 10 minutes? Charming.
Major sympathy like. I won't even eat pizza in Florida because we're so spoiled in the NYC metro area
Yeah, I was like that too. When I was in high school, we got a family of Mexicans who didn't speak a word of English. There was a woman who was brought in to help them because she spoke both spanish and English and her daughter was a few years behind me in school...I had been a DARE role model when she was in 6th grade and apparently she had told her mom about me, so the mother sought me out as someone who would be welcoming. They sat at our lunch table and we tried to include them, but most kids in our school made fun of them. One of the boys had a deformity...one leg was much longer than the other, so he had one special shoe that had a platform to make up the difference. The kids laughed at him...I felt so bad for those kids. No friends in a small school where everyone knew each other...they were outsiders. But I had no classes with them, so I couldn't really do much beyond sit with them at lunch or smile at them in the hallways.
Thanks! He was so excited about his new star wars tshirt from Opa and Oma. He LOVES Star Wars.
My brother would snoop not just with his own presents but with mine. He wanted to know what I was getting and he would say "I know what mom got you for Christmas, but I'm not going to tell you!" I remember hiding my present for my mom one year because my brother always snooped and would tell her what it was. But I hid it so well that I couldn't find it. I had a breakdown at Christmas when the present I got her was missing. I found it in June the next year.I love surprises and never peaked at my Christmas or birthday presents. It was no secret that Mom put the presents in her closet but I was never tempted to look. To me it was exciting that they were there and there would be fun things to see on Christmas morning or for my birthday. Once they were wrapped and put under the tree, they were fair game for a gentle shake or squeeze though.
When hubby and I got married we were talking about Christmas presents and he bragged about how he always peeked at his presents as a kid and said even when he was in college and beyond when he went home he snooped. He eluded to still thinking that he would snoop at his presents that he would get from me. That was when the conversation got serious, I turned to him and told him that if he snooped to see his presents from me ever and I found out I would return them or give them away. Until I gave them to him, it was my property and private and I didn't plan on snooping in his private property and I didn't expect him to invade mine. We were married, but we didn't have to share everything! In addition to being surprised for getting presents I have enjoyed more the surprise in giving gifts to people. To my knowledge he has never snooped, he must have realized that I would indeed return his presents or give them away. I actually booby-trap my bags so I will know if he has been in them.
