tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19009080.post2889916533282330850..comments2023-10-19T12:33:56.380-04:00Comments on Copious Chatter: The Eve of New Years EveNellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06927983874624510031noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19009080.post-32566248631174571302010-01-02T21:58:29.751-05:002010-01-02T21:58:29.751-05:00Here's to a healthy, happy and peaceful 2010! ...Here's to a healthy, happy and peaceful 2010! I've never done it, but I've heard both kinds of gift exchanges are fun: the one where you trade and the one where you pick names from a hat.Ronni Gordonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00036024135497392070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19009080.post-11008030677179560382010-01-01T02:21:45.000-05:002010-01-01T02:21:45.000-05:00Happy New Year to you and your family. May better ...Happy New Year to you and your family. May better health prevail in 2010. Glad to hear your medical leave will be extended to the end of the month. You need that time to improve your circumstances. We still give presents to adult children in our family... None are over twenty-five. It might change in the next few years, though... since we never get a thank-you note in return. Needless to say, that irritates me.TARYTERREhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14620999913159718018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19009080.post-50206442489909975402009-12-31T20:41:37.877-05:002009-12-31T20:41:37.877-05:00My maternal grandparents has 27 grandchildren. It...My maternal grandparents has 27 grandchildren. It wasn't practical to get everyone presents. We put all the names in a hat that wanted to participate in a gift exchange and each family drew out the same number of names as they put it. That was resonable and fair.<br /><br />Happy New Year!<br /><br />VirginiaVirginiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04451139904242764009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19009080.post-84441201010582679162009-12-31T15:17:57.054-05:002009-12-31T15:17:57.054-05:00Nice surprise for Rob. Nice way to end the year a...Nice surprise for Rob. Nice way to end the year and begin the new one. Glad you got your sick leave extended; mine ends Jan. 11, but I only go in three days per week.<br /><br />When my family started to expand in abundance and trying to buy for everyone got expensive and crazy (not to mention the ones without kids - me - feeling compelled to buy for all of the kids) and then the kids got older (and their gifts more expensive, ahem) we went to an exchange. Everybody brings one gift. No names. Then we draw numbers and each person gets to unwrap one gift or steal a gift already unwrapped. We set a price limit, everybody gets a gift, nobody goes bankrupt and it's kinda fun to shop around, trying to find the most creative gift that will appeal to the most people. This year the gifts ranged from a collection of fast food gift cards to a popcorn popper to one idiot bringing a bottle of windshield de-icer. <br /><br />Happy New Year Nelle!! Hopefully the next one is better than the current one - for both of us.jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06495025947391158651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19009080.post-1484473823075748972009-12-30T20:43:19.416-05:002009-12-30T20:43:19.416-05:00Wishing you and Rob and your entire family a happy...Wishing you and Rob and your entire family a happy and HEALTHY New Year. <br /><br />I'm so relieved that your medical leave has been extended. You need time to heal.Susan Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12178330935523896363noreply@blogger.com