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What Kids Really Want for Christmas
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| 12-15-06
| Tom Purcell
Posted on 12/15/2006 10:55:07 AM PST by Cavalcabo
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posted on
12/15/2006 10:55:09 AM PST
by
Cavalcabo
To: Cavalcabo
All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth.
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posted on
12/15/2006 10:57:33 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(That's the spirit.)
To: Cavalcabo
Good article!
Memories instead of things.
TIME with your children!
Forget this crap about "quality time". It's bull!
Kids don't schedule their emotions or needs - it's all about QUANITY TIME.
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posted on
12/15/2006 10:59:14 AM PST
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
To: Cavalcabo
The best gift you can give your kids is another brother and/or sister.
To: Cavalcabo
Making memories is what we parents do at Christmas.
I remember my dad, going outside on Christmas Eve right after bedtime. Then we'd hear a gunshot. He'd rush back into the house and tell us that Santa killed himself just before he got to our house. Those were the days. We must live on a difficult street because the Easter Bunny did the sme dang thing.
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posted on
12/15/2006 11:00:15 AM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: Cavalcabo
I am still waiting for my 40 megawatt plasma rifle.
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posted on
12/15/2006 11:00:32 AM PST
by
beltfed308
(Democrats :Tough on Taxpayers, Soft on Terrorism)
To: Cavalcabo
The thing of it is...
you don't KNOW that you want the memories UNTIL you're 44...
when you're a kid you want the stuff.
To: Cavalcabo
I remember on my daughter's second Christmas, she pulled a pair of Thomas the Tank slippers out of her stocking, and she would have been ecstatic to stop right there. Then the grandparents proceeded to overwhelm her with a mountain of stuff. She was measurably disappointed when she had to stop enjoying herself fawning over the slippers, and get to work unwrapping stuff.
If I had been a few years wiser, I would have stood my ground and held the rest of the gifts in abeyance...
To: Cavalcabo
Thanks for posting.
Good reminder that in the end, all we can take with us is
what we have done,
what we are and
the love of those we have shared our lives with over the years.
Tho I have seen folks working on travelers checks.....
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posted on
12/15/2006 11:03:45 AM PST
by
ASOC
(The phrase "What if" or "If only" are for children.)
To: Cavalcabo
Really cute story, but when this kid was six it was 1968 or 1969--the 1970 car wouldn't have been around, neither would the blow dryers or the Farrah Fawcett hair do. I know because he's my age and I had the Farrah do--but not when I was six. At that time it was Shag hair cuts, pixie cuts or long hair wound up in orange juice cans . . .I'm just saying
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posted on
12/15/2006 11:07:37 AM PST
by
adgirl
To: Cavalcabo
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posted on
12/15/2006 11:09:09 AM PST
by
The_Victor
(If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
To: beltfed308
you'll shoot your eye out.
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posted on
12/15/2006 11:09:59 AM PST
by
Rakkasan1
((Illegal immigrants are just undocumented friends you haven't met yet!))
To: Lazamataz
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posted on
12/15/2006 11:12:55 AM PST
by
JRios1968
(Tagline wanted...inquire within)
To: Cavalcabo
We were sooooooooo poor when I was a kid. If I didn't awake 12/25 morning with a .... , I didn't have anything to play with.
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posted on
12/15/2006 11:13:27 AM PST
by
moonman
(`)
To: AppyPappy
That's funny! I laughed out loud here in my cubicle!
To: Bushwacker777
Working on that...#3 seems to be on track for a July birth
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posted on
12/15/2006 11:13:32 AM PST
by
JRios1968
(Tagline wanted...inquire within)
To: Lazamataz
thats all we want as well
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posted on
12/15/2006 11:13:41 AM PST
by
Rightly Biased
(Courage is not the lack of fear it is acting in spite of it<><)
To: Cavalcabo
Great!
Thanks for the post.
Merry Christmas,
Jon
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posted on
12/15/2006 11:14:15 AM PST
by
jonno
(...it almost seems as if the Universe must in some sense have known that we were coming...)
To: adgirl
Read it again. The memories are a jumble from multiple years.
To: adgirl
Funny how the memory works...
8^)
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posted on
12/15/2006 11:16:26 AM PST
by
jonno
(...it almost seems as if the Universe must in some sense have known that we were coming...)
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