Well with little girl due here in March, my husband and I get to spend our last quiet and inexpensive Christmas together.....
Bon voyage to all that from here on out!!!!!
Anyone else?
Anyone else?
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Our last quiet (and cheap) Christmas....
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Awwww! I know its gonna be so much fun comming up. My husband is kinda bummed this year, he wishes she was already here!
Congrats on babys first!!!
Congrats on babys first!!!
Awwww, next christmas will be so special for you but enjoy a lovely day this christmas with your hubby and congrats on your impending birth, I have 3 children and it makes christmas that extra bit special. x
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Thank you! I can not wait to be a mom. I have wanted it from the day that I knew that women had babies. I have always said that having a family is the most important thing in my life. All of the other stuff is just extras!!!
Just a hint...
You can have an excellent Christmas with a child for not all that much money. When they get older, they're more materialistic, but I have very fond memories of Christmases that saw us getting very few presents, but presents that were handmade with a hearty dose of love.
And it's pretty common. My wife gave one of her nieces a small hand-made quilt for Christmas when she was less than one year old. The girl is grown up, now, but still takes that quilt, which she called "Guck," with her wherever she lives.
You can have an excellent Christmas with a child for not all that much money. When they get older, they're more materialistic, but I have very fond memories of Christmases that saw us getting very few presents, but presents that were handmade with a hearty dose of love.
And it's pretty common. My wife gave one of her nieces a small hand-made quilt for Christmas when she was less than one year old. The girl is grown up, now, but still takes that quilt, which she called "Guck," with her wherever she lives.
Me too, I had my daughter when I was 18, she is 8, I have been with my hubby 9 years, we have had one christmas without any children and thats it but the kids faces on christmas day is a picture. No matter whether you have children or not like you say spending time with your family is the greatest gift ever. Btw I love your name choice, so pretty. xOriginally Posted by NoRachelHere
Thank you! I can not wait to be a mom. I have wanted it from the day that I knew that women had babies. I have always said that having a family is the most important thing in my life. All of the other stuff is just extras!!!
#3 on it's way but I haven't had a cheap Christmas in 12 yearsOriginally Posted by NoRachelHere
Well with little girl due here in March, my husband and I get to spend our last quiet and inexpensive Christmas together.....
Bon voyage to all that from here on out!!!!!
Anyone else?
Trust me, next year will be a blast!
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Yeah, I dont like to buy junk gifts. I want her to know the meaning of gift giving is not the ammount of the STUFF but the through that it takes! Very cute about the blanket!!!
I also dont by crap toys for even our neices and nephews. I like things that make them think, or take a level of creativity to play with! I refuse to buy toys i know they will look at once and never touch again!
And thank you about the name! Our first pick was Teagan, but after a google images search for the name we quickly changed our minds!!!! There is an adult star who is named Teagan Presley and I refuse to have my child ask me why we named her after her!
I also dont by crap toys for even our neices and nephews. I like things that make them think, or take a level of creativity to play with! I refuse to buy toys i know they will look at once and never touch again!
And thank you about the name! Our first pick was Teagan, but after a google images search for the name we quickly changed our minds!!!! There is an adult star who is named Teagan Presley and I refuse to have my child ask me why we named her after her!
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Hi mommy!!!! lol I can imagine!!! We already cant wait!!!! I have so many fond memories of Christmas as a child, and I cant wait to share that with her!Originally Posted by Dixie_Darlin
#3 on it's way but I haven't had a cheap Christmas in 12 years
Trust me, next year will be a blast!
OMG, hahahahaha!Originally Posted by NoRachelHere
Yeah, I dont like to buy junk gifts. I want her to know the meaning of gift giving is not the ammount of the STUFF but the through that it takes! Very cute about the blanket!!!
I also dont by crap toys for even our neices and nephews. I like things that make them think, or take a level of creativity to play with! I refuse to buy toys i know they will look at once and never touch again!
And thank you about the name! Our first pick was Teagan, but after a google images search for the name we quickly changed our minds!!!! There is an adult star who is named Teagan Presley and I refuse to have my child ask me why we named her after her!
LOL @ me!
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buwahahahahahaha I did too at first and then I was like Ohh!! Her name is in the siggy!!!Originally Posted by kluchetta
OMG, hahahahaha!I thought she meant YOUR name, NoRachelHere. I was like, "well, it's a nice name, and funny, but...beautiful?"
LOL @ me!
Oh same here!! I'm actually more excited thinking of NEXT Christmas than this one! How awful is that!?!?!Originally Posted by NoRachelHere
Well with little girl due here in March, my husband and I get to spend our last quiet and inexpensive Christmas together.....
Bon voyage to all that from here on out!!!!!
Anyone else?
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EEEEK! I know! I keep walking throught he stores looking at all of the dresses and wanting to buy one NOW just to have it around the house! I can not WAIT to play dress up!Originally Posted by MoochNNoodles
Oh same here!! I'm actually more excited thinking of NEXT Christmas than this one! How awful is that!?!?!Our babies will be mobile by next Christmas...able to get into the presents and what not!Oh and don't get me started on buying her first Christmas dress...and Easter dress.... Unless I decide to make one....Makes all the uncomfortableness of late a little easier to forget!
Some items we got as children that really stayed with us:
1. A child-sized wooden rocking chair. We still had it when I graduated from high school.
2. A hand-made wooden doll house. My sister still has this today, almost 50 years later.
3. A simple marble race track. Couldn't have cost $10 to build. Again, I actually played with it until I graduated from high school. It and the doll house were projects built by my sister's grandfather, who was a great carpenter (and a Jewish refugee from Germany after WWI).
4. Hand-made quilts and clothing, such as the knitted hats my mother used to make.
I'll bet others could mention some things they had, too.
1. A child-sized wooden rocking chair. We still had it when I graduated from high school.
2. A hand-made wooden doll house. My sister still has this today, almost 50 years later.
3. A simple marble race track. Couldn't have cost $10 to build. Again, I actually played with it until I graduated from high school. It and the doll house were projects built by my sister's grandfather, who was a great carpenter (and a Jewish refugee from Germany after WWI).
4. Hand-made quilts and clothing, such as the knitted hats my mother used to make.
I'll bet others could mention some things they had, too.
Until a couple weeks ago I had a dress I received at my shower on display here in our study.
My favorite toys are the ones my Grandfather made in his woodshop. He made me a dollhouse which is at my parents for safe keeping for now. He also made me a cradle and various other toys (used to use the rubber band gun to play with the cats...they loved it!). Grandpa made lots of the furniture for the dollhouse and my Gram sewed the curtains and things too.
i still have my child sized wooden rocking chair as well, people were making fun of me the other day saying that in 20 years it will be an antique.
I love it, i had to leave it behind at my parents house when we moved away and it is finally back in my hands!
I've had it since i was two!
congratulations on you first baby!!
And everyone else too
I love it, i had to leave it behind at my parents house when we moved away and it is finally back in my hands!
I've had it since i was two!
congratulations on you first baby!!
And everyone else too
