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This is the best thing ever!!! You must post every one!!

I liked this....as a total validation for how you are feeling.  My dh sucks at gifts.  We just bought a new house, I dealt with all the financing, 95% of the packing, 95% of orchestrating the movers, and now 95% of the unpacking. We do Hannukah and Christmas.  I have bought 8 night of Hannukah gifts for 3 kids and him, I am 99% sure he hasn't gotten me anything. And I have bought 95% of the kid's Christmas presents. He'll probably end up getting some of the random house stuff on my Amazon wishlist (that is there for everyone other than him). I tend to buy myself something after the holidays if he fails as my Christmas present - at least that way I get something I want.  Rather than the random thing that he decides I might like, but he ends up using more than me (the cold press juicer, sous vide...).

This is fitting as my paternal grandmother passed away last night. As a child, she was my favorite. They lived less than a mile away and we spent a lot of time with them. She would make pizza crust from Bisquick and shape it like a heart and put cut up hot dogs on it. She would let us make cookie dough and keep it in the fridge and let us eat it raw. She had tons of dolls and loved playing with them with us. It wasn't till I was an adult that I realized that it was a little creepy. Up until the last year or two she still would change out the scenes in her doll houses for the seasons. She had an alcoholic father and a mean, mean mother and as a result, I think reverted to a very childlike existence as soon as she could. We had a bit of a falling out 12 years ago right before I got married and it was never the same for me after that. She said some things that I just couldn't move past, which makes me sad. They live in the middle of nowhere Vermont and we live in California and they haven't been able to travel out here for at least 4 years and I have 3 little kids. So it was really only once a year or so for the last bit.

My maternal grandmother, I adore. Up until age 10, I wasn't a huge fan of her, because compared to my other grandma she wasn't as much "fun." But around 10 for some reason things changed and she became my favorite. She was diagnosed with breast cancer my senior year of high school and it really shook me up. It came back in the other side a couple years later - but that was over 15 years ago and she is still here! I transferred colleges after 3 years and ended up in the same town they lived in. I would see her and my grandpa at least once a week. Loved them to death. My grandpa died 3 years ago and we were really worried about her, but she is still going pretty strong. We do think about moving her up closer to us (my parents, my sister, and I all live in the same area 5 hours away from her) so that she can be more a part of our lives.

Slight highjack....I can't believe it has been 12 years.  I remember when this happened back on the old boards and the work that you have been doing since.  

So cute!!!  Would you be willing to share the pattern names?

I use purpose face wash. Almost everything (except Purpose) makes my face burn/sting.  I can't use face moisturizers either, but my face doesn't get dry with the purpose. 

Here is a vegan paleo version that is supposed to be amazing! Paleo Cranberry Bliss Bars (Vegan Cranberry Bliss Bars) [Grain & Gluten-Free]

We just bought a new house and this will be the first year we get to do 2 trees. The one in the family/playroom is going to have all the kid ornaments on it and what not. The one in the formal living room will have all my blue, white, and silver stuff on it. Once I get them all set up I will have a better idea of what i can get rid of. I know I have way more ornaments than I need, but I want to get it all set up before I start purging.

I would shop around. Unless it needs to be in color that seems really expensive!

$48,800,000  5 beds, 7 full, 1 half baths, 6,305 sq ft, 7.02 acres lot

Then there are a couple in the $20-40,000,000 range, 9 in the $10-15,000,000 range. 

Population 5,500, town is 11.73 mi² 

Lots of large properties for horses. 

We are in the process of packing to move to a new home. It was very sudden - we put on offer in on the 9th, it was accepted the 10th, I just got a phone call from our realtor that we have closed and it is ours! They move out the 29th and we have movers scheduled to come pack what we can't the 30th and 1st and move us the 2nd. And of course, we'll be out of town the 21-28th. So we have been madly packing everything we can and trying to do some purging. But at this point, we are out of time. So the plan is that 90% of our stuff will go in boxes into the garage (thankfully it is a 3 car attached. And we will unpack from there. If it doesn't have a home while we are unpacking it gets donated or thrown out. I am really, really looking forward to it!

I thought our current situation was crazy, but yours is worse. We made an offer Thursday, they excepted Friday. We close November 20th with a lease back till November 29th. Cash offer no contingencies. They need the cash to buy their new place and have somewhere they can live starting the 29th. We are out of town the 21-28th so it works fine for us. Plus our current house isn't on the market and the houses are only a couple miles apart so we are going to do a slow move in. So I can purge half our house.

But they keep adding things they are leaving (in a good way). My 6 year old dd wrote them the sweetest letter about what she liked about the house and now they want to leave her the furniture in the room she said she wants for her bedroom - 2 twin beds,a cute toy box and a dresser. We also mentioned something about the very nice wine fridge they had hanging out in the garage and they are leaving that too.

I think they are asking way too much of you!

We love flannel sheets, they are on the bed as soon as it starts to cool off and they are on until it warms up again.  I do get warm generally speaking, but I don't have issues with flannel sheets.  I love how cosey they are!