Shorten your gift list, just buy them a car.
Apparently we're not going vacationing to sunny California again this Christmas. Because...you know... when it's my husband's idea, we go and when it's mine, we don't go. No, I'm not bitter.
It just leaves me with five days to plan some sort of holiday cheer around here and maybe a Christmas gift or two for the kids would be nice. Since I can't seem to think of anything I've resorted to bribery. It went from bribing them with a trip, "Would you give up getting any Christmas presents this year if we go on a fun vacation?" to, "If we promise to buy you a car when you're sixteen will you be fine with not getting any presents this year or for the next 6-8 years including birthdays?"
They were fine with that and it will really make the holidays go much smoother from now on. Hey, at least I didn't tell them there won't be any presents because they were naughty.
They were fine with that and it will really make the holidays go much smoother from now on. Hey, at least I didn't tell them there won't be any presents because they were naughty.
posted by The Lazy Organizer @ 10:00 PM
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you are so funny!
~Amy
I think we need a TJEd Disney Christmas Forum, because then we'd have to go - you know for the kid's education and all.
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Too, funny, my husband is already starting to bribe for next year. My son loves snow and we hardly get any. Hubby is trying to get me to go to Colorado or somewhere really cold. He is trying to get the kids to out vote me.
The Dutch have a very nice sistem to celebrate St Nicholas (december 5th), from which Santa Claus is derived.
Every member of the family gets to give a gift to one other person (this is done in secret, you get the name from a bunch of folded papers).
The gift is wrapped in a creative, fun way: you can put it inside a bucket full of mud, spaghetti, whatever, so there are many laughs when the recipient of the gift tries to get at it. You can place directions on where to find your hidden present inside a balloon that has to be popped.
Or you can make something nice out of cardboard or paper maché, for instance: a huge telephone for someone who talks too much, a large doll resembling the recipient made of rags, whatever.
You also have to make a little verse for the one you´re making the present for, and this verse has to be read aloud before opening the package (this is when you can give instructions on how to get to the gift, for instance, or tease about the recipient´s talking too much).
At the end, everyone has to have a guess at who gave him/her the present.
I spend many of these celebrations as a kid in Holland, and will resort to this method once my own kids don´t believe in Santa anymore. It is really a lot of fun!
regards
They play similar gift games in Sweden as Cristina describes from Holland. Usually there is a riddle that must be solved before the gift can be opened.
Once again you're showing off your genius. ~sigh~ Why didn't I think of that?
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