I checked the delivery confirmation # for Michelle's package and it stated it was delivered. Hopefully she will confirm soon. Thanks Jeanne for an awesome swap. We are still looking for someone to take January. I hope Maryanne, Remy, Margaret and some others in our group are ok, haven't heard from them in awhile. Jan. Feb. hazelnutbunny Mar. Apr. micyrey May mellen June brittneysgran July veeja11 Aug. Sept. Oct. flowergirl34 Nov. Dec. Jeanne, Margaret, Margo, Jen, Faye, Annie, Remy & Maryanne....step up and take a month if you can. I know we have more members than this but can't think right now of everyone. Shirley

Are the wrappers printed from a website, then you just add the hat and poem? They sure are cute with those happy little faces. Would be a neat gift for GD to give to classmates for Christmas, or for me to give to my neighbors. Any additional info on making them myself would be appreciated. I don't sell any crafts--just like to make things for personal use. Luvs

My online shopping was all good: Kohl's, Best Buy, LL Bean, Land's End, Amazon and Ebay. I have my items sent to work as our neighborhood has sadly had things stolen from porches. There were some things I ordered late and they have not arrived yet - but I knew the dates were post-Christmas when I ordered. Only one is a semi-gift (a jacket for my husband who lost a lot of weight and needs one in a smaller size). The upside of those is that I'm shipping them to Son#1's place of work, as I won't be back to my own job for a couple of weeks. So we're going to meet him for dinner once he has both my orders. Katlan's rude checkout clerk reminded me of my rude clerk story from several years ago. I was buying Christmas ornaments to decorate a metal tree I'd gotten from a specialty store. The sum total was probably more than I'd spent for the tree itself. I was buying a couple of other things too. As the clerk was ringing the things up we realized that there was something wrong with one of the boxes I was buying. The clerk ended up being really rude about it. We finished the purchase with the plan that I would go way back to the seasonal section to get another box - even the cashier manager had come over to help because she heard the rude cashier. However, after starting to walk back to switch the boxes, instead I turned around and went over to customer service and told them I wanted to return everything. Everything?! Yes. I said that the clerk had been really rude and and that made me mentally step back and realize that I was overspending. Customer service wanted to know who the clerk had been, but I said that I understood that it's the stressful Christmas shopping season and I didn't want to point her out, but just wanted my money back. (I ended up getting the tree ornaments from Joanne Fabrics and used some JF Bucks I had to pay!) I guess a thank you to the rude clerk for helping me to spend less?

Apparently I wanted a robo vac, some books, a cervical pillow, an new winter coat, a raincoat, and an instant pot because that's what I bought for myself while I was shopping for others. Sounds like a lot but I haven't bought myself a Winter coat in maybe 8 years or more? I can't even remember. I was working at my old job, I know that. My kids asked me what I wanted and I told my daughter I wanted her to get a good paying job that isn't dependent on tips from cheap people. She applied yesterday to the post office!!! I told my son I wanted gardening related items if he wanted to get me something. I don't really care about gifts. I go a little overboard for my kids but don't really care if I get something back. I'd rather they take care of themselves and invest for retirement. I got both kids coats, my daughter needed hers now so I let her open it early. My son is in Nebraska now and I think he only has a fake leather coat and maybe thin jackets. He destroyed his gloves in SEER training in Washington state so asked for nice insulated gloves that he can text with and a gaming system. I did buy him a few other things he didn't ask for, like a gag gift of a model Tesla. He keeps saying he wants to buy one someday. So I got him one, it lights up, honks and the doors all open. I also bought him a Telsa lighter that looks really nice. He doesn't smoke (thank goodness) but he does like to camp and might come in handy someday. It has mixed reviews on Amazon so not sure that was a good idea. Unless it deters him from wanting a Tesla car in the future if it doesn't work. He also got a really nice, thick sweatshirt. I bought us all sushi making kits too. My daughter got a Star Wars Instant pot (if William Sonoma ever sends it to me), bras, a knife sharpener, a Star Wars waffle iron. They both got Scotland t-shirts because we were going to go there this summer, now going to be next summer. My daughter got a tie for work with dog paw prints on it, and socks also. The tie is really cute. I'm hoping she won't need it for work by the time we open them. She works at Cheesecake Factory and they have to wear ties. I also got some international chocolate coins I found somewhere. I have been buying the little bags of them for their stockings since they were little. I thought the international coins were cute. The last 10 years or so I've also put Lindt truffles in their stockings but not sure I'm going to do that this year. The coin bags are about 3 times the size of the regular ones, so it's already a lot of chocolate. I'm thinking of getting them nutcrackers, a mix of nuts and some nice looking fruit...like they got when they were small. I did get other nicer stocking stuffers but like the simpler fruit and nut idea thing too. Oh, I did buy myself a card game that I wrapped up for myself. I bought to play on the day we have our dinner and gift opening.