New on The Spence Family--So what if the Mistletoe is droopy?

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New On The Spence Family--Conversations: Christmas Edition

J, dressed as Santa, asked me for some orange juice. "No, you already had orange juice at breakfast. You need to choose something else." So he said, "If you argue with me, I'll give you a lump of coal for Christmas!"

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New on The Spence Family--Christmas Sewing

And another post...Christmas 2009 too.

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I'll pick the lucky winner at 4:00 today. Come on. I know you want it.

A Last Minute Holiday Giveaway..on The Spence Family

I know, private blog, who's gonna enter a giveaway...

But, I figured I'd give it a try anyway.

A while ago, I was at Target, asking about putting a toy on hold, when I was told that "the ONLY toy that we can't possibly hold is a Zhu Zhu Pet." Who cares? I thought. Didn't even know what that was. But then I had to SEE what it was. I looked online and thought the pet hampsters looked really fun. Then I saw that a Zhu Zhu pet was the most wanted toy of the season, and pretty much impossible to come by unless you were willing to pay a pretty penny on amazon, ebay, or otherwise. Today, I see the prices are way down, with the manufacturers flooding the US with last minute Christmas shipments.

I tried to team up with friends and find these much desired fake pets, but finally had given up to just getting a pet rock. But after a tip, I happened to buy a few of these Zhu Zhu's at Toys R Us last week. Some for my friend Emily, one for my friend Jayne, one extra one, and one each for my boys (even though it is ME that wants one). Last night I learned that someone got one for each of my kids as a gift, and after telling someone else I had an extra and ship that one out today....

I have one left.

Instead of bothering with EBay (especially now that the prices will have dropped from the 70 dollar range), or calling friends to see who was looking for one, I decided it might be fun to just give him away. Num Nums is his name (the gray one). If you would like it, it's already wrapped up for Christmas! Just leave me a comment (either here or on The Spence Family) telling me your favorite Christmas tradition. Tomorrow I will pick a winner randomly (of the 3 or so comments I will get). If you live in the Provo area, I will drop it by if you like. Or if you live far away, I will ship it, but if you want 2 day shipping, well, you are gonna have to pay for that. :)

Ready, go.

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New on The Spence Family--Let it Snow

It's been snowy here for days. At first, it was great fun...the first big snow of the year is always magical. After clearing the snow around our yard several times with a shovel on my own for the most part, knowing there is a brand new snowblower in the garage (still with the plastic around it), I was feeling glum about the snow yesterday. Was that a run-on sentence if you ever saw one? Yes, yes it was. Anyway, I was shoveling the driveway yesterday morning, with a bad sinus headache (sinus infection won't you please go away??), my back was aching, and for some reason I was in a very grouchy mood. J and T were playing with a sled and some shovels in the snow, with J even helping to shovel for a minute. After a while of throwing the wet and heavy snow I thought, hmm... I don't really need to be clearing this. So I am not going to. We are going to go sledding instead. I told the kids that snow clean up was cancelled and we were going sledding...

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new on the spence family...decorations

Christmas decorations are kind of funny.

They go through fads and phases just like everything. When I was little I thought my grandmother's decorations were horrible. Embarassing. They always got shoved to the back of the boxes when I was helping and replaced by more "traditional" and "modern" decor. No aqua and teal felt ornaments for me. No weird little felt and plastic elves. Pretty much no felt at all. No shiny turqouise color balls or any sequins for sure.

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