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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Poll: Holiday favorites
1. What is your favorite holiday song?
2. What is your favorite holiday cookie/dessert?
3. Favorite childhood holiday memory?
4. Any New Year's resolutions yet? If so (and you feel like sharing), what are they?
Re: Poll: Holiday favorites
1. What is your favorite holiday song? Mary did you know? and The Little Drummer Boy
2. What is your favorite holiday cookie/dessert? I don't understand this question? How can I have just one favorite??
3. Favorite childhood holiday memory? Christmas Eve we used to have a BIG holiday dinner with us and my extended family and neighbors. Santa would show up (he drove a 67 Ford truck), and listen to all the kids. Then my mom would send him home with treats. Later we would go to the White Gift Service at Church, see the Navitity story and leave nonparishable food items for the food bank.
4. Any New Year's resolutions yet? If so (and you feel like sharing), what are they? Not yet, hopefully to not be so anxious or stressed about not being pregnant and hopefully become pregnant.
1. Rockin around the Christmas Tree
2. Russian Tea cakes
3. Santa would visit our house every year when I was young (it was a neighbor from across the street).
4. Not sure yet.
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1. O Holy NIght
2. My mom's oatmeal cookies (they're wonderful all year 'round!)
3. Falling asleep on the couch with the Christmas lights on and a fire in the wood burning stove.
4. I resolve to make no resolutions
1. What is your favorite holiday song? It depends on my mood, but Jingle Bell Rock and the original version of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer are always great to listen to.
2. What is your favorite holiday cookie/dessert? I love good creamy fudge. My dad used to make the best fudge and I hope to duplicate it someday.
3. Favorite childhood holiday memory? Visiting my extended family on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
4. Any New Year's resolutions yet? If so (and you feel like sharing), what are they? Right now my main goal for the new year is to organize our spare bedroom (this should have been done when we moved into our place in 2008). If we don't get this room together, we will have no where to put LO's crib. Of course, I will also have the traditional lose weight resolution, but I can't begin working on this until after LO is here.
1. What is your favorite holiday song? This is Christmas
2. What is your favorite holiday cookie/dessert? Peanut Butter Buckeyes
3. Favorite childhood holiday memory? Decorating the tree. It was always a special night were my Mom would make wonderful appatizers and we would have so much fun unwrapping the ornaments.
4. Any New Year's resolutions yet? If so (and you feel like sharing), what are they? I haven't even thought about this. Way too much going on right now.
1. What is your favorite holiday song? The First Noel and Hark the Herald Angels Sing. After working retail for 5 yrs I HATE pop Christmas songs even ones I used to like.
2. What is your favorite holiday cookie/dessert? Gingerbread cookies that I love to frost. My grandma always made peppernuts that have a brown sugar/molasses flavor and those are a favorite, too. Gingerbread cake with whipped cream is also excellent.
3. Favorite childhood holiday memory? Probably putting on Christmas plays with my bros
4. Any New Year's resolutions yet? If so (and you feel like sharing), what are they? No
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1. What is your favorite holiday song? Anything Charlie Brown related
2. What is your favorite holiday cookie/dessert? Everything!
. Actually, I have two-one is Dh's famous mexican chocolate chunk & pb cookies and candy cane cookies. the candy cane cookies are a PITA to make so we when we do make them, they are a treat!
3. Favorite childhood holiday memory? When we (my sister, my brother and I) were little, I was always "nominated" to wake up mom and dad on Christmas morning. We were always up early and we wanted to see the gifts from Santa (even though later we found out it was my dad's writing). I just loved it. Then we would have some pastries, while we passed out and my mom and dad made dinner. It was glorious!
4. Any New Year's resolutions yet? If so (and you feel like sharing), what are they? What are those? I could list the typical resolutions but I am going to continue with my vow of being surrounded by positive people and get rid of the negativity. I have been very fortunate to have such positive people in my life and I think that is what has helped me get through the difficult times this year.
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1. What is your favorite holiday song? White Christmas and Deck the Halls
2. What is your favorite holiday cookie/dessert? Umm pecan pie and bread pudding? Do those count? For me, Christmas is about honey-baked ham more than dessert!
3. Favorite childhood holiday memory? Going to Newport Fashion Island in So Cal for the tree-lighting ceremony and listening to Christmas songs, and for New Years Day... my mom would bring pillows and comforters to the couch New Year's morning so we could snuggle up and watch the Rose Parade/floats and drink hot cocoa
4. Any New Year's resolutions yet? If so (and you feel like sharing), what are they? Thin and tone for my trip to Kauai
But watching what I eat is more like an ongoing resolution
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1. What is your favorite holiday song? O Come All Ye Faithful and Feliz Navidad
2. What is your favorite holiday cookie/dessert? Peanut Blossoms...oh so yummy
3. Favorite childhood holiday memory? We would all pile into the car on Christmas Eve and drive around to look at people's houses all lit up. We can't do that anymore since my mom and Grandma are confined to walkers right now.
4. Any New Year's resolutions yet? If so (and you feel like sharing), what are they? Be the best Mom I can and make it through my first year as a parent alive.
J/K. I would like to lose my baby weight healthfully and get more exercise since my endurance sucks right now. Oh, and to be smarter with money.
1. What is your favorite holiday song? I'm guilty of loving *NSYNC's 'Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays' and Mariah Carey 'All I Want for Christmas is You'
2. What is your favorite holiday cookie/dessert? Mexican Wedding Cookies aka Russian Tea Cakes
3. Favorite childhood holiday memory? Waking up with my brother all throughout the night and going to look at the tree and counting down the minutes until the time our parents said we could wake them up.
4. Any New Year's resolutions yet? If so (and you feel like sharing), what are they? I haven't thought about it yet.
1. What is your favorite holiday song? Christmas in Killarney. It makes me think of John Wayne singing it while skipping through the Irish countryside. Probably because of The Quiet Man (my fave John Wayne movie)
2. What is your favorite holiday cookie/dessert? MIL Gingerbread with lemon sauce. I can make it, but hers is always better.
3. Favorite childhood holiday memory? Spending hours every morning unwrapping gifts and eating pumpkin pie with my parents.
4. Any New Year's resolutions yet? If so (and you feel like sharing), what are they? Not a resolution, per se, but a goal: to get pregnant. And I'm looking forward to trying really hard
1. What is your favorite Christmas song? O Holy Night amd The Little Drummer Boy are my favorites.
2. What is your favorite holiday cookie/dessert? I love gingerbread cookies! But I'll take my grandma's tamales over desserts any day!
3. Favorite childhood holiday memory? Every year growing up, my dad would read the story of Jesus' birth from the Bible before we opened presents. I love that. Now, Huz does it in our house. It's a tradition I'm glad we carry on.
Another favorite one is when we were little, we'd bring all of our pillows and blankets to the living room and get a bunch of junk food and my mom, dad, sisters, and brother and I would watch the Twilight Zone Marathon on New Year's Eve.
4. Any New Year's resolutions yet? If so (and you feel like sharing), what are they? I am going to organize my craft room and learn to sew for sure this year. I also want to read my Bible and journal every day.