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Ever think of something to yourself that would be so grand, but don't know how to get it started?
Well, I am using this site, hoping that this could be an outlet.
I know I haven't posted for a while, I got a new job, and trying to reformulate my whole routine.
This has absolutely nothing to do with weightloss (unless you believe that relieving stress contributes to weightloss, and giving relieves stress for me).
My thought includes a prelude of a story.
Every Christmas Eve me, my husband, my son, my brother , and my neice spend the night at my dad and stepmom's house. We wake up at 6:00 am and open gifts, then everyone passes back out. My dad and I wake up at 10 and start the steak for steak sandwitches and we drink wine (maybe weird to some, but it has been a tradition for 7 years now). We then wake everyone, hang out, get stuffed and enjoy the afternoon before we wonder out to each of our other branches of family events. This is Christmas to me. I don't remember the gifts over the seven years, but I do remember the laughter, and the hugs and kisses of my most favorite people in the world on this special day that we all have off and preassigned to one another.
Well, this year my father and stepmother (who both have jobs in the construction industry, which in Michigan kinda stinks right now) are not able to spend what they normally would on Christmas. Basically buying for the grandkids only. You could sense when they told us this on Halloween, that it bothered them to tell us this. Right away we all piped up with "We can still come over Christmas Eve, right?". And that is what led to the idea I want to spread.
I WANT THE THOUGHT BEHIND THE GIFT FOR CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't know about you, but I think the thing I wan't the most is knowing that I mean something to someone else. Like posting on here, My first thought is does someone think of me as an inspiration, or feel what I'm going through.
When I look through sale ads or shop on websites I always see things that make me say "wow I wish I had the money to get that for my dad, he would love that". But when you think that, there's a reason. There is something that you know that person loves to do, or a memory that an item brings to mind, that makes you think that person.
THAT THOUGHT IS WHAT I'M ASKING FOR FOR CHRISTMAS.
I don't care if its written on a corner of ripped paper, all I want is what someone would get me, and why.
I think that if I had these little thoughts, whatever bad day I was having, I could look at those and know that someone else that means more to me than my current problem, was thinking of me.
Just a thought that I hope someone else might share.
Mandilyn
Well, I am using this site, hoping that this could be an outlet.
I know I haven't posted for a while, I got a new job, and trying to reformulate my whole routine.
This has absolutely nothing to do with weightloss (unless you believe that relieving stress contributes to weightloss, and giving relieves stress for me).
My thought includes a prelude of a story.
Every Christmas Eve me, my husband, my son, my brother , and my neice spend the night at my dad and stepmom's house. We wake up at 6:00 am and open gifts, then everyone passes back out. My dad and I wake up at 10 and start the steak for steak sandwitches and we drink wine (maybe weird to some, but it has been a tradition for 7 years now). We then wake everyone, hang out, get stuffed and enjoy the afternoon before we wonder out to each of our other branches of family events. This is Christmas to me. I don't remember the gifts over the seven years, but I do remember the laughter, and the hugs and kisses of my most favorite people in the world on this special day that we all have off and preassigned to one another.
Well, this year my father and stepmother (who both have jobs in the construction industry, which in Michigan kinda stinks right now) are not able to spend what they normally would on Christmas. Basically buying for the grandkids only. You could sense when they told us this on Halloween, that it bothered them to tell us this. Right away we all piped up with "We can still come over Christmas Eve, right?". And that is what led to the idea I want to spread.
I WANT THE THOUGHT BEHIND THE GIFT FOR CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't know about you, but I think the thing I wan't the most is knowing that I mean something to someone else. Like posting on here, My first thought is does someone think of me as an inspiration, or feel what I'm going through.
When I look through sale ads or shop on websites I always see things that make me say "wow I wish I had the money to get that for my dad, he would love that". But when you think that, there's a reason. There is something that you know that person loves to do, or a memory that an item brings to mind, that makes you think that person.
THAT THOUGHT IS WHAT I'M ASKING FOR FOR CHRISTMAS.
I don't care if its written on a corner of ripped paper, all I want is what someone would get me, and why.
I think that if I had these little thoughts, whatever bad day I was having, I could look at those and know that someone else that means more to me than my current problem, was thinking of me.
Just a thought that I hope someone else might share.
Mandilyn
RE-START - 8/27/07
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