kids and Christmas.....How many of you have been "caught" in what gifts your giving away?...ever Peek?

Well, I got up this morning and facing three little kids lined up...hear....."I know what your giving "logan" for Chirstmas"..our youngest,..." Hum..somebody tell you?"...."No, we saw some glittery gold paint on the counter, (must of taken an magnifying glass).... and the word "Lady" was near it...littliest one smiles sweetly and says, "Lady and the magice Golden tracks Grandma..that's what you got for me, isn't it"..I didn't commit to an answer, reminds me of feelign over packages, and I knew anlady use to on purpose put an small hole in the corner of her packages..just of rfeelign aorund inside of them.

I can honestly say that I have never tried to sneak a peak at my gifts. I enjoy the anticipation and the joy on the faces of the person who gave me the gift when they see me open it on Christmas day.

Merlin, however,  was another story. Every Christmas I used to buy him a new scratching post (an enlogated box with cat nip in it). Every year I'd rap it and put it under the tree, only to come in and find him laying on the wrapped box sleeping! I also hanged a Christmas stocking for him and I used to have to hang it up high because he would entertain us for hours jumping up the side of the wall trying to get to the little toy mice and cat nip inside!

It's my first Christmas without my little guy, I miss him.

Diana,

Are you ready to share the love again?

sounds to me like you are !!!

Yeah, Rhett, I am seriously thinking about a new fur baby now. LOL! Maybe in the summer.

We used to shake packages and try to guess what was inside.  I was never very good at it, unless it was something I'd already asked for.  I would challenge anybody to box something up and give it to my DH and try to stump him.  Sometimes I think he has X-ray vision. He always ruins his own surprises.  lol

Yes, sounds like Diane needs another little kitty cat to keep her company..my "pets" have been many times my best friends around this house. would you name one after me, call it "Surely" for me. Because surely I know you'd love it and take good care of it...it would never disappoint you either. I have tried so hard trying to tak ean picuture, even my daughter in-law go tinto trying to helpme and took three picutres of her finger in every which a way..LOL. I have in my downstairs, my own tabletop tree, it's beside my rocker, beside my end table beside the TV set with an sofa and windows to the outside. When your standing up you see an reflection of this tree outside, It looks like it's at the end of the porch railing lights outside, and there's an huge snow covered bush behind it,but when you stand up and look at it outside, you see the tree "floating" in mid air, all lightened up...the bush and then another set of railing lights with no railing behind the snow covered bush...just more lights. Naturally living here you knwo that'snto the way it is. So you sit back down in the rocking chair, and look toward the fire in the woodstove and nextto it in the corner is an huge stuffed Santa, sitting on the base of an articifal tree with mirrors in the corner on both walls, and what' sin the mirror, this same littledecorated Christmas tree...it's beginning to be quite an "magical" Chirstmas with this little tree and most unexpected at that.  but wait, I have an L-shaped bar at the end of my bed, you can see the tree form there in the mirrors also. It's like no matter where you look, here's this little tree of mine to remind you of Christmas.  Now, as for you other people haven't you just once, decorated an box inside of an box, inside of an box for the present? Have you not at least once in your lifetime, put an fully battery operated "ON" walkie talkie in an box under the tree and talked into whose ever near the tree...something to the tune,,,"Hey, you...psst...come here, they wrapped me up in this box thingy...get me out of here!!! ...Nice kitty kitty, here kitty kitty"....then sing "an line or two of Jingle Bells or something. You can do this if you decdie to put an hankie up to your nose that's huge while your talking into your walkie talkie... I'm afraid after doing once though and they find out whose doing it, the game is over, but it can be an lot of fun until they do.