Quite a while ago, I saw a picture of these grinches on facebook and after several people asked me to make them for ladies meeting, I decided to. I was especially glad my mom could come over and help EJ and me make them. We cut up some strawberries and bananas (after a quick trip to the local grocery store to buy bananas) and washed some green grapes.
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When I made stockings for my parents, EJ asked me if I would make him a monster one. (Last year I made him an apron out of the same monster material.)
This is his stocking at our house. I used it as a template. Last year after I wrote my stocking stuffers post, my mom lamented that she and my dad really missed out--and miss out--by not having stockings. So guess what I did? I made them stockings! Merry Christmas, parents!
Last year, I saw this genius idea, probably on Pinterest, to make a portable wrapping station. They took it farther than I did, but I am happy with what I made.
My husband had this rolly-thing he probably got off the side of the road somewhere. Today EJ and I spent the day at DHR helping sort and catalog angel tree presents for the foster kids in my county. When we first walked in (just after 9 am) one of the workers who saw us (told me later that) she got very angry and was about to tell us we needed to get lost because we were NOT welcome here--with an angry, distorted face.
She thought we were foster kids, coming to claim our presents. I'll let that sink in a minute...All day long, as we received the gifts bought for these kids who will spend Christmas away from their parents, this lady oohed and ahhed over each expensive toy and gadget, claiming how happy it made her to know these kids would be looked after this holiday season. Yet, when she saw (what she thought were) two of those same foster kids, she became emotionally violent. Sigh. Last year, EJ got all decked out in some sparkly lights: This year I draped him with garland.
I've seen other people's blog posts, where they list 150 stocking stuffer ideas. I see the title and think, "Oh good! I need good ideas!" Because, you know as well as I do that stockings are usually the hardest thing to buy for for Christmas, especially if you are buying for an adult. {Growing up, my parents didn't have stockings of their own because they didn't have them when they were growing up. My siblings and I did, and we still do. I mean, when do you stop having a stocking? The obvious answer would be "when you're a grown-up", but our first Christmas together, we didn't have any kids to buy toys for their stockings (and I would imagine most other people don't either). So, we had stockings. And then, the kid is too little to understand what a stocking is, and then the daddy takes the kid shopping and buys little presents for mommy's stocking so you can't really not do stockings after that. Okay, I feel justified being 28 and still having a stocking.}
So back to the point. I click on these other links, anticipating a flood of super ideas that I just won't know which ones to pick, there will be so many good ideas. And normally, I am sorely disappointed. Like the most recent list I found. #143: Kindle. Seriously?! Who gives Kindles in stockings?? If you are like me, you are about to give up clicking on stocking-stuffer-idea links. But I hope you will click on mine before you completely give up. Well, if you are reading this, you've clicked, so before you decide I'm just going to rant about bad stocking stuffer lists, here is my list, compiled from random ones floating around in cyberspace, with only the truly cheap and not-stupid ideas included. There are not very many good things about winter, in my opinion. It's cold, sickness abounds, it's cold, you have to be bundled up all the time, did I mention it's cold?! Can you tell I'm not a fan of winter?
But the season does have some perks. Christmas, for one. Christmas music, for another (or at least, being able to listen to it without half the world thinking you're crazy). Ice skating. Sledding and/or skiing if you live in the north or go on vacation. Hands down, though, this has to be the greatest winter perk of all: egg nog. After racking my brain trying to figure this one out...I did the other ornaments that came from the same verse so that they matched. By the time I got to this verse (with 5 descriptions) I didn't have 5 ornaments that matched. So I decided to do them all different. When we bought the ornaments at Michael's, we got two packages of small glass ones, one package of big glass ones, a cookie cutter in the shape of a candy cane, two ceramic ornaments, and 6 little wood ones. So, one of each.
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