I was cleaning up and threw them away or that really would have been a fun thing to do! My sis right below me has a twisted sense of humor but the youngest lost hers during puberty so that would have been fun! If I hadn't thrown them away that is the pair Jane would have gotten in her stocking!
I wasn't going to do stocking stuffers this year, but after reading all the posts here, I decided to go to Target today. I just got back - Lots of neat things there. Can't wait until Christmas - the kids are going to have so much fun
Jane is now 16 but still says that the stockings are one of the best parts of Christmas. She it is the fun of finding the little things in anticipation of the gifts. She just started a job yesterday and was so excited because she got paid for what she did and was able to pick up a fewthings to give from her.
I am planning to make Emma a new stocking this year. She has been using the same one since she was born. It has Babies First Christmas on it. She never has complained but I thought it would be a nice surprise on Christmas morning. It is going to look like a little girl with yarn hair. Her head will be at the top, the stocking part will be the dress, and she will have little black shoes coming out the bottom. I have to work on it when she is asleep, otherwise it will not be a surprise. Patty
I'm 38 and get upset if I don't have a stocking! LOL Poor hubby HATES shopping for stocking stuffers! When I was a kid, most of our best presents were in the stockings. My kids stockings are ALWAYS filled to overflowing. Now...we don't do the Santa CLaus tradition, we read the books on Sinter Klaus and such, so they know it's us filling them. But it's still fun.
I got stocking stuffers yesterday at wal-mart, yes I the hate wal-mart here, its way too crowded. But they had good candy at a good price, I found: tootsie roll banks filled with tootsie rolls plastic candy canes that have M&M's but the brand is Hershey small chocolates with foil looks like santas Reese trees Marshmallow chocolate covered snowman and a bag of assorted candy (my mom got the life savor candy books) I also got a pack of 12 candy canes that are not peppermint (ds, does not like mint) I am not sure If I'll just put them on the tree or in the stocking. I got coloring books they will all have the spin brush and a few littl toys Does any one have the store turesday mornings?? we went there yesterday and I found a few good deals, but its a lot simular to my mom's store and her prices are better and the store is always neater. I have to find all my little gifts so that the kids can wrap gifts to each other (any one with girls: they have the cutest lip gloss sets for $2.88)at wal-mart.
thanks Amy we don't have a Tuesday morning here. But, my girls still need to look for gifts for each other and daddy the person that's the hardest to get for. LOL
I really had thought about just going to the $1 store for their stuff to give each other, but the parking lot was crowded there too. My dad sent money for us to get the gifts for the kids so he wouldn't have to pay for shipping, (plus its so much fun to do extra shopping) and he can't wrap gifts any more after his stroke. We bought gifts, but then wanted to let the kids have a little bit of it to get something on their own, I went to Target they had the cutest gift cards!!! they have inflatable santas, light up christmas trees, and for the girls they have hello kitty ones that look like little purses (and about 2 dozen other kinds)--even air freshener ones! and they don't cost more. Also got some $5 gift cards for McDonald's and they have envelopes that you put ribbon in and they become something you hang on the tree, I can't wait to see who will be first to see them. also, I couldn't resist getting more ornaments for the kids yesterday, my mom gave me one that is an "angel cat" for dd (she is infatuated with cats right now) and we were at ACE hardware and they had the cutest star war M&M ornaments (the boys are big star war fans) and they were half price, just had to find one for other dd, she got a snow man icecycle. (but when we do our ornament exchange next year I know where to go they had some that really represented Arizona).
Took ds4 to the Dollar Tree and let him pick out 5 gifts for his brother. Fun! We'll wrap them, then put them in his stocking. Still need to take ds7 by himself to buy for his brother, as well. I also picked up several other things (toys, chocolates, blue rasberry candy canes, wall stickers, toothpaste, bubble baths, playdough, etc.) while ds4 wasn't looking, to put in both their stockings, and some things for dh's stocking. Plan to get movie money to put in everyone's stockings, then will surprise the boys and go as a family to see Charlotte's Web during the week after Christmas (dh is off!).
Wow, never thought of movie ones that is a great idea. Will go get some this week to put in stocking.
We do the usual candy, gum, little toys (tiny Breyer horses from Target) and lip gloss.....which dd8 has called "lip glop" from the time she was little...hee hee. Funny thing is...I was enjoying reading what everyone else puts in stockings and thinking of what I was going to share, when I realized "stickers" was one of the things I was going to include, but couldn't recall my dd8's reaction to the 2 rolls of cool Lisa Frank unicorn/leopard stickers. Well, turns out, stocking was so full, and I was SO tired when stuffing the stocking late Christmas Eve, I completely FORGOT that I had set the 2 rolls of unwrapped stickers front and center on the mantle right above dd8's stocking. I only noticed JUST NOW what I had done, explained the funny situation to dd8 sitting next to me on the couch, and she excitedly jumped up and grabbed the forgotten sticker rolls. NO ONE NOTICED all day yesterday!! Too much excitement.:lol:
One year after we had cleaned up everything at my Mama's house and were getting ready to go home she asked me if my new skirt she gave me fit. I said I didn't get a skirt Mama. She went and looked and it was still in her closet unwrapped. We have so many great memories of her mixing up our packages at Christmas because she would come up with a "system" to keep us from knowing whose presents were whose and then she would mess up the system when she handed out the gifts. One year I think my sisters opened every one of my gifts because she had numbered the gifts and kept getting mixed up. We were all grown so I just got a kick out of it. Beth
My mother would hide presents in weird places because some of us (not me! I like being surprised) were bad about peeking. So every year, sometime in the spring, she would find presents that had gotten missed from either Christmas or Easter or both. If she found it before Easter we would just get them then. For the ones that she found after Easter, she invented the "Easter Bird" who comes sometime after Easter and passes out the rediscovered presents. We were all old enough to know where the presents come from, so it was really fun.
With 3 boys in the house, I also used a "system" this year. It was really funny when one of the boys opened up a toy mixer - he immediately gave it over to my dgd and we all just laughed.
