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Merry Christmas Joyeux Noel Feliz Navidad (I hope I got those right, it's been a long time since high school foreign language class)

I just had my first taste of this cookie at a Christmas show at a friends church this year. I plan to make them throughout the year but definitely at Christmas. Not sure if you would consider this a Christmas recipe but they could probably be shaped into Christmas shapes. I consider them an easy dessert recipe for my family Christmas dinner. Ingredients 2 cups sugar 1 stick margarine 1/2 milk 3 tbsp cocoa 1 tsp vanilla 2 tbsp peanut butter 2 1/2 cups quick oats (not old fashioned) Melt the margarine. Add sugar, milk and cocoa powder. Bring to a boil and boil for 1.5 minutes (stirring constantly to avoid burning). Remove from heat. Add vanilla. Stir in peanut butter. Once peanut butter is melted in add oats. Stir together. Drop by spoonful onto waxed paper and let set for 20 minutes. You could always add a cherry to the top or shape it into something Christmas-y but they will definitely be part of my family Christmas

December 20th 8 lbs 3.75 ounces 20.75 inches long Congratulations

We finally got a Baskin Robbins/Dunkin Donuts about 7 miles from my house. I stop by and get a cherries jubilee whenever they have it. Merry Christmas everyone and thanks again mousekakat for the cointest. It was a great diversion from work today. Congrats QuigleyJones.

Wow, thanks. That would be a great job but I could see getting sick of ice cream. Thanks for the cointest.

Baskin Robbins

Huddle House

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Thanks. There have been some really good pics this year. And while I would like to win, I just enjoy the fun of trying to come up with ideas and taking the pics. Of course, some months are pretty difficult for ideas. I am still working on an adventure idea.

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This is one of my mom's favorite Christmas stories. My brother and I were both very heavy sleepers when we were kids. We also slept a long time even on Christmas Day. Our mom usually came and woke us up to see what Santa brought. Well when I was about 9 or so, my brother was 18 and my cousin who was also 18 was staying with us. My room was on one side of the living room and my brothers room was on the other side. My cousin was asleep on the sofa. I woke up around 5 in the morning and decided to check out what we had gotten. I quietly went in to the living room and saw all the gifts that Santa had left me and my brother. One of the gifts I got was this really cute pair of houseshoes that looked like monkeys. I tried them on and was looking at all my other stuff when my cousin moved on the sofa. Of course, I now know he was just rolling over and was still asleep but I got up and ran back to bed. I got back in my bed and fell asleep. A few hours later, mom came in and woke me to see what Santa had brought. I tried to play it off and pretended I hadn't already been up. Of course, when I pulled the covers back, she knew. In my haste to get back in bed, I failed to realize that I still had the monkey houseshoes on. She just looked at them and smiled. I still tried to play it off and told her that Santa must have thought my feet were cold and put them on me before he left. I really don't think she bought it though.

Traditional tree - 176 Artifical tree - 124 Total - 300 Lights - 650 Beautiful trees.

Freedom Submission I have a strange sense of humor but at least I got to keep the Jeep.

Babies Don't Keep Mother, oh Mother, come shake out your cloth, empty the dustpan, poison the moth, hang out the washing and butter the bread, sew on a button and make up a bed. Where is the mother whose house is so shocking? She's up in the nursery, blissfully rocking. Oh, I've grown shiftless as Little Boy Blue (lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo). Dishes are waiting and bills are past due (pat-a-cake, darling, and peek, peekaboo). The shopping's not done and there's nothing for stew and out in the yard there's a hullabaloo but I'm playing Kanga and this is my Roo. Look! Aren't her eyes the most wonderful hue? (lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo). The cleaning and scrubbing will wait till tomorrow, for children grow up, as I've learned to my sorrow. So quiet down, cobwebs. Dust go to sleep. I'm rocking my baby and babies don't keep - Ruth Hulbert Hamilton Found it on ebay while searching cross stitch Delivered by UPS at 9:03. Xander was asleep.

Here's one of my mom's favorite snow day stories. Back when I was around 13 I was babysitting a neighbor and one of my mom's coworkers daughters. We had been out playing in the snow and our pants had gotten wet from the melted snow. We decided to go in for a while, eat lunch and dry our clothes before going out in the snow again. Well, my neighbor and the coworkers daughter went to my neighbors house two houses down the street (they were 12 and 11 years old so I though they would be okay). I went to my house. I had my clothes in the dryer and I was eating some soup for lunch when the phone rang. It was the neighbor. She asked what I was doing and I told her watching tv, drying my clothes and eating some soup. I asked what they had eaten and she said sandwiches and we chatted for another minute or two. Then she says oh yeah, I called you because our pants are on fire in the hallway. I hang up the phone and run down there losing a shoe in the snow on the way. I get inside and they are in the hallway with hairspray spraying on the fire. I yell for them to stop and get out of the hallway. I pour a pitcher of water on the pants and put the fire out. Instead of putting their pants in the dryer they thought laying them on the floor heater would be a better choice. They also didn't understand that hairspray would not put out the fire. We gather up the remnants of the pants and I put them in the trash at my house. I have no sense of smell so I didn't know that my mom would smell them when she got home. When our moms got home, my mom smelled it immediately. After I explained the whole thing to her she called our neighbor and told her what had happened. The neighbor hadn't even noticed the smell in her house, the scorch marks on the floor or the fact that part of her hallway wall was burnt. From that day on whenever I babysat these two, they were not allowed to be by themselves.

I think this is post #2. Good luck everyone. And I think it's going until 5 p.m. forum time.

My other guess would be Date: December 16, 2007 Length: 21.5 inches Weight: 8 lbs 5 oz

Congratulations to you and your family. Date: December 4, 2007 Length: 20.5 inches Weight: 8 lbs 3.25 oz

Good luck everyone. Post #1 for me.

Not sure how far in the upload process you are getting this message but the other night I went to upload my photo for this month and it had the not eligible message across the top. I entered the tag number and hit verify and that took the message off. I then uploaded my pic and title and it said it was received. Not sure if this helps any.

Here's my story. I used to be in a not so healthy marriage and I got depressed (although I didn't realize it). During this time, my then husband and I were at an astronomy star party in Florida and some of the folks there were talking about geocaching. He thought it would be fun to check out. When we got home we looked up the website and pretty much forgot about it from there. One day near Christmas, I was sitting at work and decided to look at the website again. I looked at the caches in our area and looked at the map for each. I found one within 2/10's of a mile from our house in a park we passed everyday. Christmas Eve we decided that we would look for that cache. After some mishaps with not setting the coordinates right, we found it and were hooked from there. And even with the mishaps, we had a great time looking for it. We didn't even have an account at the time we found it and wound up signing our first names to the log. We started Christmas Eve 2004 and have met some great people. My now ex and another geocacher started having an affair which led to our divorce and I really considered giving it up then. But I was hooked. Plus, some of the people we had met through geocaching were very supportive when I needed it and I decided that it wasn't geocachings fault. There will always be one or two bad apples everywhere you go. I have continued caching and seen so many wonderful places that I never would have gone to without caching. I have also made some great friends and look forward to events where I can interact with them again. I have also gotten a few other people hooked to the addiction that is geocaching. So I guess the reasons that I continue are the wonderful people you meet, the great outdoor sites you see, the exercise you get, the ability to interact with nature and just the fun that I have whether I look for an ammo can or a micro.

Played cribbage

Watched a movie

Feeding the homeless/hungry

Quick game of pickup basketball