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June 2014 Moms
katekat8721
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GTKY: Holiday Edition
katekat8721
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Hi all! I'm sitting at home on my butt instead of doing the stuff I have to do and decided to make a GTKY. Chime in if you're bored too 
1) What holiday do you celebrate?
2) Do you buy your presents early or are you a last-minute kind of girl?
3) What is your favorite holiday drink? (alcoholic or non-alcoholic)
4) What's your favorite holiday food?
5) If you celebrate Christmas, do you open presents Christmas Eve or Christmas Day?
6) Do you see next year's holiday traditions changing much due to arrival of LO?
1) What holiday do you celebrate?
2) Do you buy your presents early or are you a last-minute kind of girl?
3) What is your favorite holiday drink? (alcoholic or non-alcoholic)
4) What's your favorite holiday food?
5) If you celebrate Christmas, do you open presents Christmas Eve or Christmas Day?
6) Do you see next year's holiday traditions changing much due to arrival of LO?
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Re: GTKY: Holiday Edition
2) Do you buy your presents early or are you a last-minute kind of girl? Too much of a last minute person. I really need to get better about that. I'm always so stressed out at the end.
3) What is your favorite holiday drink? (alcoholic or non-alcoholic). It doesn't really count, but Dunkin Donuts vanilla chai smells like Christmas to me, I love it.
4) What's your favorite holiday food? Cookies. And my aunt's pork.
5) If you celebrate Christmas, do you open presents Christmas Eve or Christmas Day? A couple at my aunt's house on Christmas Eve but the majority on Christmas morning.
6) Do you see next year's holiday traditions changing much due to arrival of LO? I don't know. After our first was born, we kept all traditions the same, even still sleeping at my parents' house on Christmas Eve. But next year, I might want to stay home and let my parents come over in the morning. I don't know.
Christmas here too.
2) Do you buy your presents early or are you a last-minute kind of girl?
I was good this year and got them done early. Now just need to wrap the final three or so.
3) What is your favorite holiday drink? (alcoholic or non-alcoholic)
I love hot buttered rum, mm. This year will probably just be Martinelli's sparkling apple cider.
4) What's your favorite holiday food?
I love German Chocolate Cake. I don't know if that's holiday-ish, but I make it for dessert.
5) If you celebrate Christmas, do you open presents Christmas Eve or Christmas Day?
We open on Christmas Eve.
6) Do you see next year's holiday traditions changing much due to arrival of LO?
We won't be rushing Christmas morning to my mom's, we'll spend the morning at home and go over later for Christmas.
2) Do you buy your presents early or are you a last-minute kind of girl? Way too last minute
3) What is your favorite holiday drink? (alcoholic or non-alcoholic) non-alcoholic egg
nog (ironically I'm usually a pretty big drinker (obviously not now) but have never tried alcoholic eggnog
4) What's your favorite holiday food? Hmmm chex mix
5) If you celebrate Christmas, do you open presents Christmas Eve or Christmas Day? Christmas Day
6) Do you see next year's holiday traditions changing much due to arrival of LO? We live in a tiny apartment far from family so we usually have a very low-key christmas with no tree and that probably won't change by next year BUT after that we hope to move into a house and be closer to family and get to have a much different christmas surrounded by family... And a tree
2) Do you buy your presents early or are you a last-minute kind of girl? A mix of both
3) What is your favorite holiday drink? (alcoholic or non-alcoholic) Don't really have one. Can I pick Hot Chocolate?
4) What's your favorite holiday food? I'm not a fan of holiday food either but I guess the cookies
5) If you celebrate Christmas, do you open presents Christmas Eve or Christmas Day? Christmas Day, Well actually we do some Christmas eve with my husband's aunt but nothing exciting
6) Do you see next year's holiday traditions changing much due to arrival of LO? Nope just more crowded!
2) I buy presents all year long! I am a couponer/bargain hunter. If I find a good deal, I buy it and hide it. I could not wait until the last minute. Way too stressful.
3) home are hot coco
4) broccoli and cheese casserole...yum!
5) Christmas day!
6) I'm sure next year and all the following will be so fun with our little one.
Christmas
2) Do you buy your presents early or are you a last-minute kind of girl?
Early December-ish usually but not really finishing until right before
3) What is your favorite holiday drink? (alcoholic or non-alcoholic)
Eggnog or sparkling apple cider
4) What's your favorite holiday food?
Cookies?
5) If you celebrate Christmas, do you open presents Christmas Eve or Christmas Day?
Pajamas on Christmas Eve, everything else on Christmas
6) Do you see next year's holiday traditions changing much due to arrival of LO?
Nope, this is #2 so anything we do now we will continue to do
2) Do you buy your presents early or are you a last-minute kind of girl?
I like to try to get it done early, we had most gifts bought before thanksgiving. We have one more person to buy for and I just need to grab bf's gift.
3) What is your favorite holiday drink? (alcoholic or non-alcoholic)
Peppermint mocha frappucinno from Starbucks.
4) What's your favorite holiday food?
Ham.
5) If you celebrate Christmas, do you open presents Christmas Eve or Christmas Day?
Christmas Day.
6) Do you see next year's holiday traditions changing much due to arrival of LO?
Nope! Since this is our third nothing will change. We are planning on buying a house in the next 2 months and I'm hoping to be able to host at our house to avoid running all over the nation, but that's not just because of the baby.
2) Do you buy your presents early or are you a last-minute kind of girl? Typically, I get them early. This year has been a different story. The holidays crept up on me.
3) What is your favorite holiday drink? (alcoholic or non-alcoholic) My BIL makes this warm spiced drink. It is so good.
4) Whats your favorite holiday food? My mom makes this yummy dip, I can't get enough!
5) If you celebrate Christmas, do you open presents Christmas Eve or Christmas Day? We open one present on Christmas Eve. Our Christmas PJs. Everything else on Christmas day.
6) Do you see next year's holiday traditions changing much due to arrival of LO? I see them staying the same.
2) Do you buy your presents early or are you a last-minute kind of girl? Both. I shop through the year, and finish in December. I am usually out a few days before picking up last minute items, like Pollyanna presents. This yer I have yet to do my mom, and I am just stumped. Every time I think of something, I think its stupid. Really getting nervous now.
3) What is your favorite holiday drink? (alcoholic or non-alcoholic) Champagne.
4) What's your favorite holiday food? We do a seven fish dinner on Christmas Eve. I can honestly say I look forward to it all year long.
5) If you celebrate Christmas, do you open presents Christmas Eve or Christmas Day? Christmas Eve with my fathers extended family (one aunt two cousins). Christmas day with both immediate families. We do Pollyanna parties with both my mothers side (shes one of 7) and his fathers side (he is one of 8). Normally they are the Saturday and Sunday before Christmas, respectively. This year they are the same day, same time. Lots of running around to be done, that is for sure!
6) Do you see next year's holiday traditions changing much due to arrival of LO? Already changing! We normally host Christmas Eve, but we are doing construction for the nursery, so my mom is hosting this year. Next year it should come back to us. Also, normally we spend Christmas early morning with his, Christmas late morning with mine, and the rest of the day on our own. This year we will spend the rest of the day at my aunts. Next year hope to go back to normal, but I think there will be even more pressure to host everyone. We shall see.
2) Do you buy your presents early or are you a last-minute kind of girl? Early! I love to be prepared!
3) What is your favorite holiday drink? (alcoholic or non-alcoholic) Red, red wine!
4) What's your favorite holiday food? Christmas cookies!
5) If you celebrate Christmas, do you open presents Christmas Eve or Christmas Day? Christmas Eve with my family, the weekend before with DH's family and Christmas morning with just our little family
6) Do you see next year's holiday traditions changing much due to arrival of LO? No change for us! We laid down the law before getting married so we wouldn't have to deal with the hassle of splitting time when kids were involved.
2) Do you buy your presents early or are you a last-minute kind of girl? I start in November & finish in Early December. Does that count as last minute? Lol
3) What is your favorite holiday drink? (alcoholic or non-alcoholic) alcoholic-Bacardi 151 & coke. Non-alcoholic- Coffee with caramel mochiatto creamer. (Btw, no way in hell do I drink Bacardi 151 while pregnant)
4) What's your favorite holiday food? My homemade cheesecake. I only make it on holidays because I'm lazy lol.
5) If you celebrate Christmas, do you open presents Christmas Eve or Christmas Day? Christmas morning. Around 6:30/7.
6) Do you see next year's holiday traditions changing much due to arrival of LO? No, this is LO#3 and its been the same since LO #1
2) Do you buy your presents early or are you a last-minute kind of girl?-have been dealing with getting my fiances vehicle for months now!! And just did everything else yesterday. Wrapped and hidden, literally everyone that comes over snoops for Xmas gifts lol.
3) What is your favorite holiday drink? (alcoholic or non-alcoholic)-wine, vodka and cranberry juice, cranberry juice and gingerale.
4) What's your favorite holiday food?-usually just the stuffing and veggies, right now I'm craving Brussel sprouts in ANY form lol.
5) If you celebrate Christmas, do you open presents Christmas Eve or Christmas Day? - Christmas Day, around 9am
6) Do you see next year's holiday traditions changing much due to arrival of LO?- I hope not. I would love my family to stay at my house, along with my fiances family, we have TONNES of room and it will be so much easier
2. Do you buy presents your early or are you a last-minute kind of girl? Normally I start buying gifts after thanksgiving but this year I started and finished my shopping this past week! Super late for me!
3. What is your favorite holiday drink? (alcoholic or non-alcoholic) My usual drink of choice is Captain and diet no matter what the season!! I'd love just to have a sip of one right now!
4. What's your favorite holiday food? I love the dinner we have every year at my aunts house on Christmas Eve. My two must haves at the dinner is my aunts homemade coleslaw and my moms homemade pierogis!!
5. If you celebrate Christmas, do you open presents Christmas Eve or Christmas Day? Christmas Day, as silly as it sounds we have gifts for our dog and cat that we open as soon as we're up then we go to my parents for breakfast along with my bro, sil, and nephew, then we open presents!
6. Do you see next year's holiday traditions changing much due to arrival of LO? I don't think it will. We will have our normal morning routine expect next year not just the dog and cat will have presents to open!!
Merry Christmas everyone!!!!
Lol I am still buying presents.
My mom's homemade hot chocolate!
My mom's French toast!
Christmas Day! We sometimes do one gift on Christmas Eve.
Not a significant amount. We don't have a specific schedule so we'll just go with the flow!
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Christmas
2) Do you buy your presents early or are you a last-minute kind of girl?
Very much a last minute type of girl
3) What is your favorite holiday drink? (alcoholic or non-alcoholic)
Mulled juice
4) What's your favorite holiday food?
Stuffing/dressing, yum
5) If you celebrate Christmas, do you open presents Christmas Eve or Christmas Day?
Christmas Day, though as children we were allowed to open one gift Christmas Eve, took us many years to figure out that gift was always PJs for cute pictures in the morning.
6) Do you see next year's holiday traditions changing much due to arrival of LO?
It's DDs first Christmas this year, but we haven't changed much. Morning with our little family, dinner with my side, and Boxing Day with DHs side.
We will do this once this kids old enough to understand.
2. Mostly early but I feel like I'm always running around the last week before Christmas.
3. Crock pot hot chocolate
4. My dad makes gumbo on Christmas Eve, we all look forward to it every year!
5. Both. We open a couple gifts on CE at my husband's grandparent's house.
6. I would really love Christmas Day traditions to change. Right now my in-laws (mil, fil, 2 sils and bil) all come over Christmas morning and then we head to my husband's other grandparent's house and then to my family the rest of the day. Next year my daughter will be almost 2 1/2 and I just want to relax at home in the morning by ourselves and let my daughter just enjoy Christmas morning. We really hate running around to so many places in one day...I'm dreading Christmas this year.
Married 6/28/08, TTC 7/10, BFP 11/30/11! Charlotte Rose born on 8/4/12! TFAS 8/13, BFP 10/14/13! Lori Anne Catherine born on 6/13/14!
2. Usually, last minute. This year I started early, but finished yesterday. I guess the procrastinator in me was dying to come out.
3. Red wine
4. Hmmm, I don't know. As of Friday, cake balls.
5. Christmas Day.
6. Nope. The year after my daughter turned one we decided to split holidays to every other year because it just got to be too much with a little one. So, we will keep that theme when the new one arrives.
2) Do you buy your presents early or are you a last-minute kind of girl? I am in the middle. I started earlier this year because I was shopping on yard sale sites, but I was still buying stocking stuffers and DH gifts yesterday.
3) What is your favorite holiday drink? (alcoholic or non-alcoholic) Starbucks Peppermint Mocha.
4) What's your favorite holiday food? Stuffing, gravy, and mashed potatoes. I know that is a Thanksgiving thing, but my MIL is a home-cooking kind of person, and will totally break them out for Christmas *fingers crossed*.
5) If you celebrate Christmas, do you open presents Christmas Eve or Christmas Day? Christmas Day. We may open at Grandma's on Christmas Eve depending on where holidays fall.
6) Do you see next year's holiday traditions changing much due to arrival of LO? We already have two, so I can't imagine them changing TOO much. I am hoping we run around a bit less (like only one house per day, rather than two).
2) I'm a middle of December kind of girl, but usually end up finishing a few days before Christmas
3) WINE! Or Starbucks eggnog lattes (soooo delicious but sooooo bad for you!)
4) Christmas cookies! Especially my aunt's cookies that only come out once a year...
5) We usually end up opening presents both days - the last few years our Christmas schedule has been turned upside down since I have to work either Christmas Day or Eve. It really just depends on when we can get together with our families (last year was the weekend before Christmas...)
6) I don't see next year changing as much due to LO- it'll be more based on wherever we end up moving and what my work schedule looks like. Eventually as this LO gets older and we add more to the mix, we'd love to have Christmas morning in our own house...
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Yay, I love GTKY posts!
1) What holiday do you celebrate? We celebrate Christmas
2) Do you buy your presents early or are you a last-minute kind of girl? Ugh, I always start early around October but I am still scrambling at the end regardless
3) What is your favorite holiday drink? (alcoholic or non-alcoholic) Probably anything cranberry. This year it's cranberry sparkling cider mixed with Fresca
4) What's your favorite holiday food? We don't have "traditional" holiday meals every year but I do love all the desserts - pumpkin pie, especially.
5) If you celebrate Christmas, do you open presents Christmas Eve or Christmas Day? Christmas day
6) Do you see next year's holiday traditions changing much due to arrival of LO? Well of course! I like the idea of opening Christmas PJ's on Christmas Eve so we may start doing that tradition.
2) Do you buy your presents early or are you a last-minute kind of girl? I usually start early, but then get too busy with work and end up finishing last minute (I will be shopping on Monday)
3) What is your favorite holiday drink? (alcoholic or non-alcoholic) Usually just wine, but this year, Martinelli's
4) What's your favorite holiday food? Christmas cookies and mashed potatoes
5) If you celebrate Christmas, do you open presents Christmas Eve or Christmas Day? We do Christmas Eve with DH's family and Christmas Day with mine, so both!
6) Do you see next year's holiday traditions changing much due to arrival of LO? The main thing that will change is Christmas morning. We usually go over to my mom's but I imagine next year we will stay home with baby in the morning.
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2) Do you buy your presents early or are you a last-minute kind of girl? We intend to start early but always end up last minute.
3) What is your favorite holiday drink? (alcoholic or non-alcoholic) Hot chocolate all winter!
4) What's your favorite holiday food? Cookies, peppermint bark and brownies topped with melted Andes candies
5) If you celebrate Christmas, do you open presents Christmas Eve or Christmas Day? Both, Christmas Eve with my family, Christmas Day with my husband's family
6) Do you see next year's holiday traditions changing much due to arrival of LO? Yes and I am looking forward to it! Starting next year everyone can come to us rather than us making 5+ visits. We love our families but it is far too stressful even without a LO.
2) Do you buy your presents early or are you a last-minute kind of girl? Totally last-minute and regret it every time. *sigh*
3) What is your favorite holiday drink? (alcoholic or non-alcoholic) Coconut milk nog- amazing!
4) What's your favorite holiday food? All the cookies!
5) If you celebrate Christmas, do you open presents Christmas Eve or Christmas Day? Christmas Day.
6) Do you see next year's holiday traditions changing much due to arrival of LO? No, not really.
1) Christmas
2) I try to get presents bought early, but it never works out. I officially finished today so does that still count for early since it's not Christmas Eve?
3) Champagne and wine
4) Cookies and any creamy dip
5) Christmas Day
6) No. My DD is 4 so Christmas revolves around her. The new baby will be 6 months old next Christmas, so I'm guessing he/she'll be into the gift wrap and boxes more than toys.
2) Do you buy your presents early or are you a last-minute kind of girl? Usually early kind of girl, but slacking this year as DH and I are getting each other practical gifts (bed and new sheets) and we won't see his parents until the end of January
3) What is your favorite holiday drink? (alcoholic or non-alcoholic) egg nog
4) What's your favorite holiday food? stuffing
5) If you celebrate Christmas, do you open presents Christmas Eve or Christmas Day? we open one on xmas eve and the rest in the morning along with the stockings
6) Do you see next year's holiday traditions changing much due to arrival of LO? i don't imagine so. we will likely be obligated to do more travelling next year so everyone can see LO, but we can always 'compromise'
1. Christmas!
2. We start first week in December- my hubby hates shopping so we try to be done and enjoy the holiday season.
3. Red wine, which I'm greatly missing!
4. Corn casserole and ham with a pineapple sauce!
5. We open our gifts to each other on Christmas Eve at home after midnight. Christmas day we have three stops with family and friends and watch our nieces and nephews open theirs.
6. I don't know if we'll make so many rounds Christmas day... I have to play it by ear since I know everyone will want to see the baby, but that's a lot traveling for the little one.
2) Do you buy your presents early or are you a last-minute kind of girl? Eh, depends on if I know what to get people or not!!
3) What is your favorite holiday drink? (alcoholic or non-alcoholic) Egg Nog!
4) What's your favorite holiday food? Mashed potatoes and dinner rolls
5) If you celebrate Christmas, do you open presents Christmas Eve or Christmas Day? Usually Christmas day.
6) Do you see next year's holiday traditions changing much due to arrival of LO? Yes!!!!!! My husband and I are excited to start new traditions with our first baby!!